Social media has been a godsend for just about any industry that benefits from a marketing campaign, and one of those industries is music. Music and promotion go hand-in-hand, so much so that many believe the music industry is over saturated. Shameless promotions from bad musicians may get them seen, but if you’re like me […]
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Invaluable tips and insight for working cover bands There are many types of bands out there. You have original bands, cover bands, tribute bands, etc. Within those categories are subcategories like hobbyists, working musicians, etc. I’ve met plenty of different players. Some are young guys just trying to gain experience and have fun. Some are
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With the advent of Google’s March update and chargeable stats for Jetpack, how can you re-optimise your WordPress plugins? Google’s March update was a kick in the teeth for many bloggers, and to add insult to injury, along came a chargeable model for Jetpack stats. My initial reaction was to bin Jetpack altogether, it’s bloatware
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After 9 years as a WordPress and Jetpack user. Jetpack has now started to charge for stats. Bye, Jetpack! You read it right. It’s no longer free to view your website stats if your site is deemed ‘commercial’ (ie. running Google Adsense). It’s a tiered system starting at something £6.95 per month for 10k views
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If you are a lover of fine music you are indeed in good company with Albert Einstein who once declared, “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician.” Research proves that when you listen to music, your brain releases dopamine which is a feel-good neurotransmitter. Valorie Salimpoor, a neuroscientist at McGill University,
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On this Easter Sunday, my tribute to Jim Johnson. Who was Jim Johnson? Jim Johnson was born in 1926 and died in 2011. He was the founder of the North East Marine Karate Club in North Shields, England. I first met him in 2001, the day I first walked through the doors of the club
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I recently took the plunge to move my site https using a free SSL provided by my hosted company. Here’s 5 pitfalls I encountered in doing so. 1. Reduced Google AdSense revenue Yes, I got a boost in traffic, but what good is that when revenue is down? 2. A lower Google PageSpeed Insights score
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I was a child of the 80’s. Of the space shuttle and the real Star wars between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A., of technological leaps in computer technology and Concorde. What happened to the advancement of the Human Race? Where’s my hoverboard? You’ve heard it a thousand times. But back in the 80’s it all seemed
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One of the first things to do when you want to master the jazz language is to learn scales and modes. You have to memorise the fingerings, memorise their names, how they are built. You must be able to make the difference between different scales and modes as the major scale, the dorian mode, the
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