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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 Always Pianos, The Boston Music Home Page, Piano Practice Methods Home Page and Cosmic Radio. Our featured article this month is "The Skinny on CD Compilations."
RainMusic Review - Issue #3 - 11/01/98
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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 Always Pianos, The Boston Music Home Page, the Piano Practive Methods Home Page and CosmicRadio.
Featured articles include The Skinny on CD Compilations
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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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TWO NEW CATEGORIES ADDED
After doing reviews for close to two years now, our "key indie site" section has become too large to
manage properly. In order to make finding what you need easier, we've added additional categories to RainMusic.com.
The new categories are:
The Business of Independent Music Promotion
Reviews of sites containing useful articles/guides on the music business, from music education to promoting your
music, touring, and getting the word out!
Musician Communities & Music Hosting Services
Reviews of independent music sites that host band/artist pages or sponsor musician communities. Many of these also
offer CD collaboration options.
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
Independent Music Resource Center: http://www.rainmusic.com/promotion/resources.htm
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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Always Pianos
There are a number of items of interest at Always Pianos but the service they offer that grabbed our attention
was their free piano dating service. If you want to
know how old your piano is, just send them your pianos manufacturer and serial number and they will email you with
the details. Of course, Always offers other services including an active classified adverting board for those looking
to buy or sell a piano. They also are willing to answer any questions you might have about your piano.
Piano Practive Methods Home Page
This keyboard study by professor Brent Hugh contains a vast collection practice ideas observed over many years
of piano playing, teaching, and learning. The object of this study is, of course, a discussion of how to improve
learning time and accuracy. One interesting idea pointed out in the article is that a practice technique useful
when learning Bach may not help you much with Debussy. So how do you know how best to approach a piece? This study
demonstrates some great ideas, in an easy to read and easy to do fashion. Techniques include Section Practice,
Whole-Part-Whole, Finger Groups, Metronome and many, many more. Very good reading. Piano teachers
and students will find the site very informative.
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INDIE RESOURCE REVIEWS
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Boston Music Home Page
If you're in the Boston, MA area you simply must check out Dick and Bert's Boston Music pages. You'll find
everything here, from Booking and Management organizations in the area to clubs, record labels, bands, studios,
zines, and of course radio stations. The Boston Music home page is one of the most complete guides to the music
community for any one city we've seen. If only every major city had such a site!
CosmicRadio
CosmicRadio (also known as Worldwide-Radio.com) is an internet based radio station offering music to
over a million listeners per week. For musicians, Cosmic-Radio offers a free opportunity to get your music heard.
Music submitted to the station not only get's airplay, but gets some promotion through their bi-weekly newsletter
and radio playlist. If you wish, you can also put your CD in their online record store. Though the fee for this
service is $99 for two years, this fee includes a number of other benefits, such as an 800 number where anyone
can call to order your music. Cosmic Radio will also back announce your song every time it's played (guaranteed
at least once every 5 hours) and provide you with your own page on their store. Check out CosmicRadio. At the very
least you might be able to get some airplay out of the deal.
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FEATURED ARTICLES
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The Skinny on CD Compilations
CD Compilations are everywhere and for a price, you can get your song on it. But is it worth it? How do you tell
a legit compilation effort from a scam? Article by Todd MacFarland
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
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The Ultimate Country Music Contacts Directory
L. A. Booth has announced the release of his new country music contacts directory. Featured 60 pages of
Nashville and Country Music Record Label Industry Insiders, A&R, Producers, Decision Makers, and Who's Who
Contacts.
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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