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Summary: Dr. Joseph Murphy is an expert on the topic of the subconscious mind. In this podcast episode, I explore what several valuable ideas I took away from reading his book, Believe in Yourself.

Believe in Yourself is a shorter volume containing great wisdom. Dr. Joseph Murphy, one of the foremost experts on the New Thought movement and accessing your subconscious mind succinctly explains how to achieve spiritual health and external success.

In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I look at one of Murphy's great works.

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Podcast Highlights:

00:14 – Believe in Yourself vs. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

00:40 – Feeling is the fountainhead of power

01:31 – Imagination controls the conceptive realm

02:37 – Your concept of God determines your attitude towards life

03:47 – If you are in rapport with your subconscious mind, you unlock your genius zone

04:22 – What your subconscious mind accepts is reality in the outer world

05:24 – You are the master of the circumstances you find yourself in

06:26 – Concluding thoughts

Transcription:

Compared to The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Believe in Yourself by Joseph Murphy is one of his shorter works.

But every sentence in Joseph Murphy's book contains valuable insights into spirituality and personal success. I have read this book from start to finish twice, and each time I've gotten something new from it. Readers should come away with fresh insights on every read as well.

There is no way for me to summarize the entirety of the wisdom contained within, but I did want to share with you what I learned from this book.

1. Feeling Is The Fountainhead Of Power (or Universal Power), According to Joseph Murphy

When personal development authors talk about goal-setting and visualization, they often add the phrase, “Add emotion to it!”

I think Murphy is essentially saying the same thing here. He's pointing out that feelings and emotions have power, and that we can learn to channel them into achieving and obtaining our desires. Mastering this ability is an important thing!

If you're setting goals that don't motivate you, you'll find it challenging to add feeling to them. But if you become obsessed with bringing about a result, you'll naturally take actions and move in the direction of your wishes and longings. Fear will reduce with each action you take, taking you closer to your dream.

You must become aware of what your true desires are. The only way to make that happen is to build rapport with your subconscious mind (also see point #4 on this list).

2. Imagination Controls The Whole Conceptive Realm

Life in the digital age is frantic. Few people take time to think, reflect, and ask questions.

“Visualization? I have no time for that!”

But you must make time for it, because most people don't. They aren't thinking about the desired result, the end goal, what their hearts yearn for. Many have forgotten the power of imagining. This is one of the reasons they struggle to create the desired conditions of life, whether money, body, love, or otherwise.

Disney came to be because it was first conceived in the mind of Walt Disney. There are endless examples of technological breakthroughs, attractions, movies, books, and other works that would not exist if they weren't first conceived in someone's mind.

If you want to control the conceptive realm, start imagining once again. If you don't know where to start, daydream. Remember what it was like to be a child sitting in a classroom thinking about what else you wanted to be doing, or what you were going to do when you got home.

3. Your Concept Of God Determines Your Attitude Towards Life

Maveen Kaura and I spent an entire episode of Using Your Power discussing this concept. As of this writing, the episode has yet to be released, but it will be out soon.

“But I don't believe in God,” you might say.

The surprising conclusion I came to was that whether you're an agnostic, atheist or Christian, you believe in something. And that something is your god, whether it's belief in self, belief in aliens, or belief in an autonomous divine being.

What I'm saying is that this statement is impossible to refute.

You could replace the word “God” with the word “you”, and it becomes “Your concept of you determines your attitude towards life.” You could replace the word “God” with “aliens”, and it becomes “Your concept of aliens determines your attitude towards life.”

Basically, Murphy shows that your beliefs affect your attitude. So, if you want to change your attitude, you need to examine what you believe in, regardless of what it is.

4. A Genius Is A Man In Rapport With His Subconscious Mind

What this means is that if you are well-acquainted with your subconscious mind and its inherent power, you are a genius.

Knowing how to unlock its power, and accessing God (which could be equated with building a rapport with your subconscious mind) leads to fresh inspiration, ideas, and insights. It can also help you achieve your dreams.

Murphy furnishes us with practical steps on how to tap into this capacity throughout the book (including prayer, sleep, focus, positivity, affirmations, motivation, and more). See points #1, 2, and 5 on this list for how this works.

5. According To The Image Impressed On The Subconscious Mind, So It Is On The Objective Screen Of Life

Again, what are you constantly thinking about? What are you regularly visualizing? What are you picturing in your mind's eye?

Whether you're aware of it or not, there are thoughts and images you are always meditating on. And in this context, I mean things you're repeating to yourself, not the act of meditating (which is beneficial).

And whether you're aware of it or not, your life is slowly but surely becoming what you're repeating in your mind. A person receives what they dwell on. It's a law.

Classic personal development writer, speaker, and author Earl Nightingale said:

We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret.

Nightingale's most significant discovery about life had to do with this statement. So, what images are you impressing on your subconscious mind? Your life will move in the direction of your thoughts. If you wish to reprogram and transform your subconscious mind, you must begin with the garden of your thoughts.

6. You Are A Master Of Conditions, Keep a Positive Attitude

You are where you are because of actions taken and not taken. Reality is because of what you have and haven't done.

This is a difficult idea for the mind to accept. Throughout our lives, most of us haven't been taught to take responsibility for everything that's happened. Instead, we play the blame game. We blame the world for our problems.

Taking full responsibility for who and where you are is empowering. Maybe we aren't encouraged to do so because of this fact. If we all “woke up” and freed ourselves from “The Matrix”, we'd be dangerous – maybe not to people, but to the system of control we're under.

You are a master of your conditions. But if you haven't taken ownership of yourself, you haven't mastered your conditions yet.

The reason taking ownership is powerful is because it means you can change your circumstances. The moment you realize you can change your situation is when you bestow yourself with the keys to life, happiness, and the abilities to succeed.

Final Thoughts, Believe in Yourself by Dr Joseph Murphy

I hope you enjoyed my insights into another Joseph Murphy book. I hope your understanding has grown.

The ideas I've shared with you here aren't necessarily what the author intended, but through my own filters, these are the conclusions I've come to.

Ultimately, each of us are a possessor of tremendous power. But many of us have also forgotten how to harness it. When we learn how to access our subconscious mind, it links us with God, the wellspring of all knowledge and wisdom.

Thanks for reading! If you feel inclined to check out Believe in Yourself, you can go to Amazon, where you can learn more about the book, and see what others have had to say about it. Should you choose to buy the book through the provided link, I will earn a commission at no additional cost to you.

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Summary: Dr. Joseph Murphy is an expert on the topic of the subconscious mind. In this podcast episode, I explore what several valuable ideas I took away from reading his book, Believe in Yourself. Believe in Yourself is a shorter volume containing great wisdom. Dr. Joseph Murphy, one of the foremost experts on the New […]

How is perfectionism holding you back in your artistic career? Are you still trying to measure up to the impossible standards of perfection?

In this episode of The New Music Industry podcast, I look at what perfectionism has meant to me over the years, how I’ve changed my approach, and some of the important realizations I’ve had along the way.

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Podcast Highlights:

00:14 – In today’s episode, I’m going to be reading from Flashes of Elation

00:20 – In my first book, I covered what the music industry is

00:30 – In my upcoming book, I wanted to delve into creativity

01:05 – The book is still a work in progress

01:37 – Pre-orders

01:55 – Today I’ll be reading from the chapter on perfectionism

02:07 – Is perfectionism a positive or negative quality?

02:38 – Three possible outcomes when you insist on perfectionism

03:55 – Complications with my solo debut album, Shipwrecked… My Sentiments

05:34 – Possible reasons why you’re a perfectionist

05:42 – How timelines and deadlines help you curtail perfectionism

06:27 – The more projects you finish, the less you feel the need to be perfect

06:42 – The goal of creativity and how our art reflects on us

07:42 – Perfection: An impossible ideal

07:57 – Selective blindness

Transcription:

In today’s episode, I’m going to be reading a segment from my upcoming book, Flashes of Elation.

My first book, The New Music Industry talked a lot about the “what” – what does the music industry look like, how is it shaped, how does it work?

And in this book, I wanted to cover more of the creative aspect, not only of music, but creativity in general. Whether you’re building a business, or you’re a painter or photographer, I wanted to cover a wider variety of topics. But it’s still just as applicable to musicians as The New Music Industry is, and it’s gets into a lot of things that are good to know as a creative. How to be productive, how to be motivated, how to stay inspired and find new sources of inspiration and input.

So, in today’s episode, I wanted to read a section from the book. This isn’t necessarily the finished product. This chapter could still change between now and its official release, but it does give you a good idea of what the book is going to be like, and so far, I’ve got some good feedback on it.

So, check it out at davidandrewwiebe.com/elation if you’re interested in learning about it. Pre-orders close on June 30. That is not the official release date, but that is the last day you’ll be able to pre-order and claim the pre-order bonuses for this book.

Flashes of Elation is a collection of essays about creativity, and today I wanted to read from the chapter called perfectionism.

Perfectionism

Perfectionism is sometimes seen as a positive quality, and sometimes as a negative quality.

To me, perfection is the enemy of completion, plain and simple.

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Nothing you create will ever be perfect. That’s a hard reality for us creatives to accept.

What we need to do is recognize when something is “good enough”. If you’re too lackadaisical in your work, you aren’t likely to create anything worthwhile. But the other extreme is the one most creatives lean towards – perfectionism.

If you insist on perfection, there are a limited number of possible outcomes:

You’ll finish your work too late. What may have been revolutionary in 2017 could be commonplace or entirely outdated and irrelevant by 2020. You kick yourself for not getting your work out sooner.

You’ll never finish your work. Nothing is more unfortunate – you die with your music still in you.

You’ll finish your work, but you’ll tear yourself apart. You obsess over details you see as being imperfect and berate yourself for it, even if it’s something insignificant no one else would ever notice. The font is too big. The web address on the back cover is incorrect. And on and on it goes.

As you can see, perfectionism doesn’t lead to a healthy outcome, virtually ever.

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I’m not saying that you should take heart in the fact that you can always re-master your album, release a second edition of your book, or add another brushstroke to your painting, though you should take some comfort in that.

What I’m saying is that you will inevitably reach a point of diminishing returns with every project. To keep working on it would be to beat a dead horse.

This is when you need to stop and call it “done.”

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My solo debut album was called Shipwrecked… My Sentiments and it came out in 2006. It was good, but it certainly wasn’t perfect.

For one thing, I was still early in my development as a musician. I had only started playing guitar when I was 17, and the music I wrote for the project was a deliberate move away from everything I had worked on to that point. It was new, even to me.

For another, the musicians I was working with didn’t really have a clear vision for the project. This was because even I didn’t know what I wanted. So how could I expect anyone else to lay down the perfect drum part or backing vocal part? In the end, they all did a great job, but to a critical ear, it’s apparent that the album has a lot of rough edges.

But there’s one mistake in particular that still sticks out in my mind. Originally, I thought I would be able to get the domain name www.dawmusic.com for my website. As it turns out, the domain had already been parked by someone else. Evidently, the owner was in the audio production industry, and saw “dawmusic” as a valuable keyword, because, in addition to being my initials, “DAW” stands for Digital Audio Workstation – computer software used in music and audio production.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get www.dawmusic.com, even though that’s the web address that went on my album artwork. I had to settle for www.daw-music.com.  And for someone that’s a recovering perfectionist, I have to admit that this drove me nuts, and it was even devastating at the time.

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If you’re still insisting on perfectionism, it could be that you haven’t completed many creative projects yet. And I don’t mean that as a slight.

Even outside the corporate world, projects and assignments are often subjected to timelines and deadlines. Project scopes sometimes need to be adapted, and quality might have to be sacrificed.

I do a lot of blog writing for a lot of different clients. Do I want to deliver a great article every single time? Absolutely. But I am also aware of the fact that I have deadlines to meet. I have to be realistic. All I can do is offer my best, and that – for better or for worse – means different things at different times.

Some days you’re tired. Some days you’re sick. Some days you’re distracted. Sometimes you just want to do something else. A professional knows they have to finish their work in spite of all of these things.

The more projects you complete, the less you feel the need to be perfect. This doesn’t mean you give up on high quality work. You give up on the idea that you are somehow able to draw more water from a well that has dried up long ago.

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What is the goal of creativity? That depends on who you ask.

I see creativity as a means for personal expression. Everything you put out into the world is a piece of who you are.  In light of that, it makes sense that we would want our body of work to represent us in a positive light. It makes sense that we would want everything we create to reflect our most attractive qualities as human beings.

That desire is understandable. But we also know, intuitively, that beauty can be found in the ugliest places. We know that the greatest victories come from the greatest tragedies. We know that some of the greatest art was created during times of difficulty, discouragement, devastation, and depression.

Perfection is an impossible ideal. It doesn’t exist in nature. All you can do as a creative is express yourself in perfectly imperfect ways.

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Any musician will tell you that there are times for heavy guitars, and there are times for a playful ukulele. Any author will tell you that there are times for an active voice, and there are also times for a passive voice. Any painter will tell you that there are times for certain colors, and there are times for certain brushes.

But don’t artificially prolong the distance between you and the finish line. Another word for “perfectionism” is “selective blindness”, because perfectionists can never see the forest for the trees.

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How is perfectionism holding you back in your artistic career? Are you still trying to measure up to the impossible standards of perfection? In this episode of The New Music Industry podcast, I look at what perfectionism has meant to me over the years, how I’ve changed my approach, and some of the important realizations […]

Do you feel organized or frazzled? How are you keeping track of everything you need to do from week to week? Are you prioritizing the right tasks, or are you just working on things as they come?

In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I look at how to use a paper-based system to manage your workload and stay on top of important tasks. This process has helped me manage my priorities and assignments for the last two years.

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Podcast Highlights:

00:14 – 6 office essentials for music entrepreneurs

00:21 – Electronic system vs. paper-based system

01:30 – #1 – pens

01:45 – #2 – 4x6 index cards

02:30 – #3 – notepad

03:17 – #4 – desk calendar

04:03 – #5 – black book

04:36 – #6 – whiteboards

05:31 – Bonus: note-taking device

06:07 – What tools are you using to stay organized?

Transcription:

Hi there. Today I wanted to talk about six office essentials for music entrepreneurs.

Now, if you already have a fully electronic system that you’re happy with, and it helps you manage your to-do lists, calendars, project management, I’m not asking you to radically alter the way you do things, but today I will be talking primarily about a paper-based system.

There is tremendous value in hard-copy backups. Earlier this year, my computer went haywire, so I lost the passwords I had stored in my browser, which meant that I had to go and restore my login information and go through the password recovery process in some cases to be able to log in to some of the apps and social media sites I use. So, that should speak to the value of hard-copy backups.

If you’d like to learn more about paper-based systems – this is primarily what I’ve based mine off – I’d encourage you to have a look at David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. There are a lot of great tips in there, and you don’t even have to apply all of it – he even tells you that in the book. It’s a great read.

So, the first item is something we all need – pens. It doesn’t matter what brand you choose. I like the 12-packs because they’re affordable and they’re going to last me the whole year. Pens are essential.

Number two is index cards. I prefer the 4x6 rather than the 3x5. I’ve been finding the 3x5 cards to be too small for what I was using them for. I’m not going to use up 250 in a year. But I use them for taking notes on the books I read. I read about a book per week, which is 52 books in a year. Every single one has an index card inside, and that’s where my notes are stored. Sometimes I will also use index cards to write down addresses and directions for where I’m going to.

Item number three is a yellow legal pad. Any note-taking device, notebook, or pad of paper will work just fine. This is for making your to-do lists. I used to make my to-do list on my index cards, and that worked for a while, but then my to-do list blew up and I had so many things to, and I couldn’t get it all down on one side of an index card. So, I ended up moving over to the yellow legal pad. You can use whatever works for you. Just remember to write down everything down everything you need to do, because your brain is a horrible storage system. It’s better to write it all down and then you will remember it.

Number four is a desk calendar. This tool is a life-saver. For anyone that has a busy schedule – I do many performances, I write a lot of blog posts for various clients and different companies – there are so many things on the go whether it’s social events or networking events. I put all of it in my calendar so I can see what’s coming up next. It’s easy to miss some of those things with digital calendars, especially if you have them in the weekly view instead of the monthly view. If you can see the full month, that’s fine. If you’re using Google Calendar or another digital calendar, that’s fine, but for me this works better.

Item number five is a black book. It does not have to be a literal black book, but this is where you would store all your sensitive login information for various sites. It’s best to keep it out of the way if people are coming to your office. If you want to put it in a safe, you can do that. In my case I use a Moleskine for my black book.

Finally, I have two whiteboards, one bigger one smaller. I don’t make the most effective use of this business tool, but it’s amazing what you can accomplish with them.  You can write out entire systems and procedure diagrams, take a picture, send them off to your employees or team to view. You can use them for conferences, talking head videos, presentations, brainstorming sessions. You can also use whiteboards to keep goals in front of you.

Those are six office essentials for music entrepreneurs. Another great thing to have is a note-taking device. But Evernote is great, and you can take it with you if you have your smartphone or tablet with you. You can also use a notebook if you prefer.

I hope you enjoyed this, and let me know what you’re using to stay organized.

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Do you feel organized or frazzled? How are you keeping track of everything you need to do from week to week? Are you prioritizing the right tasks, or are you just working on things as they come? In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I look at how to use a paper-based system […]

Who are you – butterfly or tornado?

Albert Einstein is the father of modern theoretical physics – master of light and gravity, splitter of atoms, bender of space… Generations have been influenced and altered by the overwhelming power of his scientific discoveries. Einstein was inarguably a force of nature – a tornado.

Steve Jobs was a visionary inventor, pioneering tech designer, master of complex simplicity, mystical creator of needs we didn’t even know we had. It would be difficult to identify someone who has influenced this generation’s image of itself than Steve Jobs.

Last month, we discussed the inevitable uploading of our digital existence to the cloud. Almost single-handedly, Steve Jobs created the tech-device revolution that’s driving our digital relocation into the cloud. Even more, Jobs’ dominance over our tech landscape is so powerful that regardless of whether we believe that this path is towards salvation or destruction, either way we can’t seem to escape it any more than Einstein’s physics. Steve Jobs was inarguably a force of nature – a tornado.

In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on “Butterfly or Tornado”, as well as the music of Hello Moth.

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Who are you – butterfly or tornado?

In 1963, Edward Lorenz was a meteorologist, a mathematician, and a recognized father of Chaos Theory. The scientific definition of “chaos” is when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.

Chaos Theory, which was of Lorenz’ invention, seeks to articulate the mathematical relationship of the approximate present to the approximate future.

A classic Chaos Theory predictive exercise is around the throwing of dice. Every time you throw the dice, there will be a different outcome. Chaos Theory seeks to measure and analyze the different conditions under which a different outcome for dice-throwing takes place.

Even if a person stands in exactly the same spot and thinks they’re throwing the dice in exactly the same way, with exactly the same hand position, arm position, force, they can never get the same outcome. They always come up with different numbers.

Chaos Theory contemplates the fact that there are minute small changes – even ones we cannot see and detect – that determine multiple outcomes.

Dr. Lorenz introduced a new mathematical model that has forever changed the way we look at everything, from climate science, to social science, to quantum mechanics.

The scientific foundation of this new model was articulated in a revolutionary academic paper that Lorenz entitled Deterministic Non-Periodic Flow.

The mathematical foundation of the new model was a system of underlying equations called The Lorenz Attractor, which he developed to analyze and plot the possible future impact of minute changes to conditions in the present. Lorenz invented a method to plot how the approximate present might impact the approximate future.

By 1972, Lorenz had further developed his chaos base mathematical system and presented an even more famous academic paper to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This paper was entitled Does The Flap Of A Butterfly’s Wings In Brazil Set Off A Tornado In Texas?

Lorenz proposed that the tiny atmospheric changes caused by a single butterfly flapping its wings could prompt a chain-reaction of multiple and exponential atmospheric changes, that taken together, could ultimately determine the creation and position of a major tornado event.

In this historic academic paper, Lorenz illustrated the possible implications of what became known as The Butterfly Effect.

In this episode of The Question podcast, you will hear highlights from Frederick Tamagi’s presentation on “Butterfly or Tornado”, as well as the music of Hello Moth.

Thank you for listening!

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What are some of the most read and viewed posts on The Music Entrepreneur website? What keeps readers coming back for more?

In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I look at the top 10 posts from 2016.

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Podcast Highlights:

00:14 – The results are in

00:35 – The most popular posts

00:40 – 10 Books Every Musician Should Read in Their Lifetime

01:14 – Put Your Dreams to the Test

01:54 –  How to Start & Run a Record Label

02:20 – The Importance of Reading Books in Personal Development

02:50 – Is Pro Tools the Unspoken Industry Standard?

03:12 – How to Determine the Track Sequence or Playlist of An Album

03:43 – How to Build Your Guitar Calluses

04:06 – Facebook Marketing for Musicians

04:31 – 5 Common Mistakes Made by Independent Musicians

04:59 – 5 Warning Signs of Burnout

05:22 – Conclusion

Transcription:

The tribe has spoken.

2016 is over, and the results are in. I’ve been keeping an eye on the stats, and have watched certain trends emerge.

But I thought you would also like to know which posts you’ve voted for with your attention. So, I’m going to share which content pieces you’ve played a part in elevating to the top of the following list.

Here are the most popular posts from The Music Entrepreneur for 2016.

1.10 Books Every Musician Should Read in Their Lifetime

Guest contributor Hobbes S Sujith saw something that others may not have seen – that book reviews do well on my site. One of my most popular posts overall is in fact a book review I did of Joseph Murphy’s The Power of Your Subconscious Mind.

In 10 Books Every Musician Should Read in Their Lifetime, you can learn about the books Sujith boldly states “every musician should read”. I have never read any of these titles myself, but there are a few that interest me, and I will likely explore.

2. My Thoughts on Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It by John C. Maxwell

Are we seeing a theme here? This is one of my own quick book reviews, and I do have a theory as to why it became one of the most popular posts of the year.

On the TME website, towards the bottom of every post, you’ll see links to “related” posts, and since my review of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind has become my most visited post, it’s quite likely that many of you found this post on John Maxwell’s book through the “related post” links.

Maxwell’s book, by the way, is a good one to start the year with.

3. How to Start & Run a Record Label

Contributed by the cool folks at Ditto Music, this post explains how you can get a record label off the ground with minimal effort.

I love tools that make starting and running a business more efficient, and here’s one that can help you make your dreams of building a record label a reality. This post also fits nicely with the topics often discussed here at TME.

4. 011 – The Importance of Reading Books in Personal Development

This podcast episode obviously hit a note with you. I have sometimes thought that personal development as a topic has been all but exhausted, but that’s clearly not the case. People are still discovering self-improvement every day, and they seem to resonate with the idea of reading books to grow themselves.

And, again, this is a popular post for obvious reasons – you guys love anything to do with books it seems. Keep checking back at the site for more book recommendations.

5. Is Pro Tools the Unspoken Industry Standard?

Some say, “yes, obviously”, and use it daily, while others wonder whether it’s a good time to purchase a Pro Tools system for their home studio.

Personally, I prefer using software that makes my life easier, which by default means I don’t use Pro Tools at home. But you will find that most studios are equipped with Pro Tools.

6. Recording An Album, Part 8: How to Determine the Track Sequence or Playlist of An Album

Know it or not, my friend Goemon5 contributed some epic posts to the blog this last year, and I am eternally grateful to him for sharing what he did.

This all began when I asked him to write about the process of recording his album. But I wasn’t expecting a nine-part essay, discussing in detail how he made decisions, and what the overall process of recording was like. This is a great series for anyone that’s never recorded an album.

7. How to Build Your Guitar Calluses

This appears to be a subject many people wonder about. My biggest tip is to play lots of guitar, because it seems many people give up before even getting started, but this post contains some other ideas that might help you get your calluses sooner as opposed to later.

There are some other great resources on the subject, but I thought I would offer my own perspective.

8. Facebook Marketing for Musicians

This post was originally written in the TuneCity days, and was updated and re-posted to TME in 2016.

If you’re looking to learn the basics of how to get started on Facebook as a musician, have a read. This post will walk you through setting up a page, getting the word out about your Facebook page, and third-party applications you can use to build your email list and sell music.

9. 5 Common Mistakes Made by Independent Musicians

This guest post was submitted by Nick Rubright of Dozmia.

Every musician should take the time to understand the basic principles outlined in this post, because you could end up wasting a lot of time doing things that don’t work. I think Nick really hit it on the head with the points covered in this post – becoming a better marketer, prioritizing email, building a following, and so on.

10. Are You Hustling & Grinding in Your Music Career? 5 Warning Signs of Burnout

Burnout should be avoided when and where possible. I’ve burned out at least once since beginning my career as a freelance writer, and I can’t say that it was pleasant.

In this post, I explain why your constant hustling and grinding might not be the best strategy for accomplishing your goals and getting what you want out of your music career.

Conclusion

Was your favorite post on this list? If it’s not on this list, what was it, and why?

What content would you like to see more of in 2017?

Let me know in the comments.

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What are some of the most read and viewed posts on The Music Entrepreneur website? What keeps readers coming back for more? In this episode of The New Music Industry Podcast, I look at the top 10 posts from 2016. Podcast Highlights: 00:14 – The results are in 00:35 – The most popular posts 00:40 […]