Skyline Records

By Dustin Mcilwain

Music has always been a passion for quite a few of us, but there are very few who can actually develop their passion into a profession. Even if you are not an exceptional singer, composer or a musician there are numerous other options in the entertainment industry to opt for. Karaoke is one among them. You can either be a professional Karaoke jockey or a DJ.

Like any other business this one also needs to be marketed well. You can market yourself either by personally meeting the organizers in the clubs, pubs and Event organizers. Just drop your visiting card which shall have your contact numbers with address. Or you can also register your self with the local search engine. It will be matter of time till you receive the first invitation. As karaoke music is rapidly getting very popular many invitations will follow.

On the day of your first karaoke night make sure you prepare checklist which shall have all the required karaoke equipments, karaoke songs, karaoke machine and karaoke downloads (if required), along with a pen and paper to take down karaoke request.

Make sure the choice of music should according to the event. For example if it is wedding, carry karaoke tracks which shall suite the occasion. Similarly to charity shows, birthday parties, new year eve etc. Make sure you reach the venue much before time and set up the Karaoke machine and karaoke equipments. Get the feel of the place and the crowd and play karaoke music accordingly. Get involved with the crowd and break the ice. Many are hesitant to approach so you need to take the initiative and play their request. The Paper and pencil carried by you can come very handy at that time as you can take down their request one by one and let them enjoy the evening.

It is very important to dressed as per the occasion as it shall certainly make an impression on people’s mind. A well dressed person with an electrifying personality is hard to forget.

You should always start the show at a given time, even if the crowd gathered is not much as it will keep the crowd engaged and most importantly entertained. Circulate your business card to people who have appreciated your taste of music and drop a polite word for reference. This might be required in the first couple of events to make people know your whereabouts.

Once more and more invitations follow, there can be need to upgrade your karaoke equipments and your karaoke tracks. But this shall come in picture when your profits go high. You take your baby steps initially and then probably look at the higher end versions of karaoke equipments. There might be a need to maintain an organizer to accommodate the dates. So be an entrepreneur, make your dream a reality and your passion a successful profession. Very few have the opportunity or the will to do it. So go ahead everyone just loves good karaoke music and look forward a karaoke night.

Is Karaoke music your passion and want to make it as your business? Log on to Dustin Mcilwain’s http://www.yourkaraokestore.com to know more about karaoke music, karaoke equipments and karaoke machines.

By Tom Simpson

Tired of being booed by the crowd? A solo performance of a blues guitar lead does not have to be that difficult. You may scoff at taking blues guitar lessons, but you have to admit that you need it. You may need to practice on that guitar of yours for hours on end, but it will be worth it. This may not be like your ordinary blues guitar lessons but I will certainly try to make you the best performer that you can be!

Be like the masters! I’m not the one who will teach you. In fact, you will be taught by the masters of the blues like Eric Clapton, BB King or whoever may be your blues idol. Teaching you their individual styles will be easy thanks to the collection of blues backing tracks available in the archives online. These backing tracks are also a collection of blues licks that you can use to fill that guitar solo of yours.

Take lessons from the masters. Even if you will not be personally trained by Led Zeppelin, you can still take a few lessons from this legendary musician. You see, stored in the Internet are backing tracks that you can download and listen to. You can just type “blues backing tracks” on the search engine textbox and you’ll find hundreds of results. But when you do download them, what should you do afterwards?

You see, each track actually contains one or several blues licks. These licks are a segment of notes that you play during the solo. However, it doesn’t end there. Once you’ve downloaded these backing tracks, you’ll need to study them one by one. You have to be able to identify the different combinations that they employ during a performance. If you have to ask, what’s so important about learning blues licks, then clearly you need to take this blues guitar lesson seriously.

Learn by yourself. If you don’t want to shoulder the huge expense of having to enrol in a music school to get blues guitar lessons, you just need to be satisfied with learning by yourself. But don’t worry. This is one of the best ways to start learning the blues guitar style of playing. Alone you can play with emotion and that’s an advantage.

Every blues song is full of soul because each performance tells a different story. You probably sucked on stage the last time you performed because your crowd wasn’t able to get the story that you want to tell them through your music. Or even worse, you didn’t even have a story to tell now that is just sad! So what you do is study those blues licks I told you to download. Every lick is like a sentence in a story with the combination of notes making some sort of musical sense. So what you’re supposed to do is to combine those blues licks to form a coherent story and you’ve just made an excellent guitar solo piece!

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