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RainMusic Review is a bi-weekly newsletter featuring reviews of the best independent music and pianist resources on the Internet. This is an archive of past editions.
Reviews this issue include the Joe Garguilo Music Studio, The PianoForte Tuners Association, Absolute Computer Paper (CD Folder and Booklet Stock), and Soundclick. Featured articles include Classical Music and Math Scores, and Writing a Music Business Plan that Works.
RainMusic Review - Issue #2 - 10/15/98
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Welcome to the second issue of RainMusic Review!
RainMusic Review is a bi-weekly newsletter featuring reviews of the best independent music and pianist resources on the Internet. These sites are reviewed weekly at RainMusic.com, and then archived via this newsletter.
Reviews this issue include the Joe Garguilo Music Studio, The PianoForte Tuners Association, Absolute Computer Paper (CD Folder and Booklet Stock), and Soundclick. Featured articles include Classical Music and Math Scores, and Writing a Music Business Plan that Works.
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CONTENT OVERVIEW
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- RainMusic Site News & Info
- Pianist Resource Reviews
- Indie Resource Reviews
- Featured Articles
- Special Announcements
- Submitting Your Site, News, or Announcement to RainMusic.com
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RAINMUSIC NEWS & INFO
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NEW LOGO IN THE WORKS
We're working on a new logo for the RainMusic.com site. Although we're not sure how we're going to integrate it
quite yet, you can see a sample at http://www.rainmusic.com/about.htm
HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC ON THE INTERNET - FALL 1998 EDITION
Hot off the press is our Fall 1998 guide to music promotion on the Internet. If you're trying to sell music on
the net, don't be without this guide. Learn what promotion techniques work for musicians and what doesn't. It'll
save you money in the long run. Get full details at http://www.rainmusic.com/promotion/promote.htm .
RAINMUSIC.COM SITE DETAILS
RainMusic: Indie Resource News & Reviews: http://www.rainmusic.com
Pianist Resource Center: http://www.rainmusic.com/pianomusic/piano.htm
Free Sheet Music Resources: http://www.rainmusic.com/pianomusic/free.htm
Feedback: email management@rainmusic.com
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PIANIST RESOURCE REVIEWS
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Joe Gargiulo Music Studio
We review a lot of sheet music sources here at RainMusic.com, and while that's fine and dandy after awhile one
sheet music publisher starts looking like any other. After all, most offer the same popular sheet music sets. At
the Joe Gargiulo Music Studio however, you'll find piano music and books designed for the piano student interested
in trying something a little different. For example, check out Keyspace, "new age sounds for early
grades", Thrashing the Classics, containing Jazz solos for intermediate grades, Christmas Jazz Melodies,
For Kids by Kids and more. Each of these piano study books can also be purchased along with tapes demostrating
the music. If you're tired of playing the same old songs, check out your other option at Joe's place.
The Pianoforte Tuners' Association
The Pianoforte Tuners Association (U.K. based), is dedicated to improving standards within the piano industry.
PTA was founded in 1913, and since that time their membership has continued to grow steadily. The PTA site features
a couple of articles on purchasing and caring for a piano, as well as a searchable database of PTA approved piano
tuners and technicans in the U.K.
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INDIE RESOURCE REVIEWS
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Absolute Computer Paper
If you're playing around with a layout idea for your new CD release, you may wish you had the ability to
design the layout on your computer AND print it out on a pre-formatted, ready to insert paper. ACP provides you
with exactly that; perferated paper for the printing of your CD folders and booklets. Single sheet and double sheet
versions of these papers are available. Templates for the inserts are available in *.doc (MS Word) format for immediate
download.
SoundClick
SoundClick is an internet radio station geared toward independent music. The site features MusicMix,
a totally cool, uninterrupted internet music radio program featuring independent artists who've submitted their
music to SoundClick. The music is all a RealAudio stream, but the sound quality is superb. Another feature is the
HitZone, where station listeners get to vote on their favorites bands. These votes are "charted",
giving the winners a bit more exposure. SoundClick has received kudos from CNNinteractive, RealAudio Guide, MSN
France, ABC Australia, Infoseek. The service is entirely free for musicians, so artists, send in your CDs. Don't
miss this free opportunity.
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FEATURED ARTICLES
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Classical Music and Math Scores
A study of the effects of popular and classical background music on the math test scores
of undergraduate students.
Writing a Music Business Plan that Works
A good music business plan is the map to the fulfillment of your goals. Whether you're a band, soloist, production
house or some other business, a plan can turn foggy notions into operational strategies, hunches into actions,
dreams into reality. By Peter Spellman.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Who Does Your CD Artwork?
RainMusic.com is looking for artists online who have experience designing CD cover art. If you have someone
you can recommend, let us know and we'll review their site for our visitors!
Attention Pianists!
We want to hear about your favorite piano related web sites! If you know of a site we should review here, don't
be shy. Let us know about it! Let us know what you're interested in. Are
you wanting to find more sheet music? More piano related graphics? What grabs your fancy? Help us serve you better!
Got a Music Business Article?
RainMusic.com is looking for original music business related articles to feature on this web site. If you
have an article you'd like to submit for review, please contact us.
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SUBMITTING YOUR SITE, NEWS or ANNOUNCEMENT
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If you have a musician resource you'd like us to review, just send us a note at management@rainmusic.com. Note, we're
specifically looking for items relating to musician resources, music promotion tools, articles, and opportunities.
We're not interested in band pages. Thanks!
That's it for this week. Thanks for joining us. Please send any comments or questions to management@rainmusic.com.
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