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Colin Thomson is a composer for media, music educator, and host of the podcast The Modern Musician Show. Colin writes music for a variety of media, including game, TV and film. He also runs the website sightreadingacademy.com, which provide music students with a steady stream of new sight-reading material, as well as innovative video exercises to help students read ahead. Colin also hosts the podcast The Modern Musician Show, where he interviews musicians as well as "outsiders" to the music industry, to find out what musicians can and should be doing to lead fulfilling and financially successful careers in music today.

Recommended Book: "Insanely Simply" by Ken Segall

Learn more about me:

SightReadingAcademy.com

ModernMusician.co

Twitter: @colinthomson

Instagram

Periscope (I 'scope' all the time): @colinthomon

Blab.im/ColinThomson

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David Hart is a guitar teacher based in Sydney, Australia. He sold his first music school (Learn2Play Music) in 2003, and walk away from that project with quite a bit of debt.  This was followed by a time of soul-searching and financial difficulties. He dug deep, wanting to know everything possible about business, coaching and success. The knowledge and experience all came together in 2005 when he launched G4 Guitar, and after 2 years he had enrolled over 3,000 students from scratch and with no initial money. By 2010 he had begun to franchise, and he now has 50+ teachers operating in Australia, Canada, US and the UK, impacting a total of over 10,000 students as of today.

Books Mentioned:

"The Learn Startup" by Eric Ries

"Great By Choice" by Jim Collins

"Mastery" by Robert Greene

"Teach Like a Champion" by Doug Lemov

Learn more about David Hart and G4:

G4GuitarMethod.com

Twitter: @g4guitar

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Learn more about Katie Lott:

KatieLott.com

FaceBook

Twitter: @katielottmusic

YouTube

SoundCloud

Instagram

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Mark Sommerville is an audio engineer, music producer, and sound designer currently based in Los Angeles, CA. He works with a wide variety of artists and composers around the world, providing high-quality mixing, mastering, and sound design for visual media. Mark is the co-creator and current owner of The Wave Shop. As an entrepreneur, Mark has been self-employed as a producer/engineer ever since graduating from college. Today he still is active in the music and audio world, but also has broadened his interests to filmmaking as a writer and creative producer for The Zach King Team.

Learn more about Mark Sommerville:

WaveShopAudio.com

FaceBook

Twitter: @TheWaveShop

YouTube

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Andy Fling is the owner of the website MakingMusicFun.net. In 1992 he began teaching music at a small Christian school, and an excitement for teaching kids and music education began. Offering instruction for general music, band and choir to thousands of elementary aged kids in School, his excitement for teaching music to kids is stronger than ever. He currently teaches to a studio full of private music students, offers weekly homeschool classes, and shares the fun though this website.

Learn more about Andy Fling

MakingMusicFun.net

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Shannon Curtis is an independent songwriter, singer, performer, recording artist, and author, based in Los Angeles. Curtis is currently on a 70-show nationwide house concert tour in support of Connections. Curtis’s groundbreaking use of the house concert touring format has taken her on extensive nationwide house concert tours, and she has become a popular speaker on the topic at music industry conferences. Curtis's how-to book on house concert touring was published in February 2014, debuted at #1 on Amazon’s Music Business Best Sellers list, and has been featured in major national publications like The Huffington Post and American Songwriter Magazine. Curtis’s music has been featured prominently in independent film & in TV shows such as ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars, ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and MTV’s The Hills.

Mentioned: 1,000 True Fans

Learn more about Shannon Curtis:

ShannonCurtis.net

FaceBook.com/ShannonCurtisMusic

Twitter: @ShannonCurtis

Instagram: @ShannonCurtisMusic

YouTube.com/ShannonCurtisMusic

Shannon's Book: No Booker, No Bouncer, No Bartender: How I Made $25K on a 2-Month House Concert Tour (And How You Can Too) 

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A long-time veteran of the music industry, Bobby Owsinski has worked as a producer, recording engineer, guitar and keyboard player, songwriter, and arranger for a variety of major and minor recording artists, motion pictures, and television shows. One of the first to delve into surround sound music mixing, he has worked on a range of surround sound projects and DVD productions for such diverse acts as Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, The Ramones, and Chicago, among many others. Bobby has penned several hundred audio-related articles for a variety of popular industry trade publications. He has also authored a number of books that are now staples in recording programs at colleges around the world, including “The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook,” “the Mastering Engineer’s Handbook,” and “The Recording Engineer's Handbook,” in addition to the “How to Set Up Your Surround Studio” DVD.

BobbyOwsinski.com

FaceBook

Twitter: @bobbyowsinski

YouTube

Google+

LinkedIn

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The Mastering Engineer's Handbook

Music 4.0: A Survival Guide for Making Music in the Internet Age

Social Media Promotions for Musicians

StudioLive Mixer Handbook

The Mixing Engineer's Handbook

The Recording Engineer's Handbook

How to Make Your Band Sound Great

The Studio Builder's Handbook

Audio Mixing Boot-Camp

The Ultimate Guitar Tone

The Musician's Video Handbook

The Studio Musician's Handbook

The Drum Recording Handbook

and more...

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Hours Tracker App

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Gail Fischler is an MTNA Nationally Certified Teacher, and a past president of both Arizona State Music Teachers Association and Tucson Music Teachers Association. Gail currently teaches private piano, a pedagog and piano literature seminar, and community class piano at Eastern Arizona College and maintains an independent studio in Tucson. She collaborated on, Latin America, a volume of music with Neeki Bey of Piano Accents. She continues to focus on creating arrangements of folk music and original compositions based on musical heritages from around the globe. She is a contributor to The Piano Bench Mag, an eMagazine by Karen Gibson. Gail also runs Piano Addict, a website for piano students, teachers, and avocational players and The Musical Adjectives Project, an interactive Wiki to aid pianists and musicians in describing and understanding the emotions and character within repertoire. She is the inventor of the popular board game Musical Words which is based on the descriptives found on the Musical Adjectives Project pages.

Recommended Book:

"Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life" by Anne Lamott

Learn more about Gail Fischler:

PianoAddict.com

The Musical Adjectives Project

FaceBook

Twitter: @pianoaddictblog

YouTube

Pinterest

Google+

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