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Need to book gigs or otherwise advance your music career? Order this CD-ROM! It is packed with essential tools to save you time and money, and give you a competitive advantage in the business. Compiled by Suzanne Glass, author, speaker, and founder of Indie-Music.com, this CD-ROM will pay for itself the first time you use it. Not to mention enhance your long term chances of success in the music industry. Designed for musicians, indie record labels, studios, and more.

Musician's ToolKit - $9.95 + S&H - (Reg. $19.95)

OUTSIDE USA & CANADA. S&H - $10.00. Total $19.95.

• 50+ full length articles covering writing, recording, music marketing, radio, and more, written by a respected industry veteran.

• Fill out and print copyright forms right from your computer desktop.

• 90 easy-to-use templates for flyers, letterhead, business cards, special events, press releases, and more. Just edit and print!

• Music Fonts - use with any program on your computer!

• Print Music Papers - manuscript, tablature, and percussion paper easily printed from your computer.

• Cool Musician Software - a selection of freeware and shareware programs just for musicians.

• How to buy & sell musical gear at online auctions - complete 30+ page seller's guide.
  

Articles - Read on your computer, or print out. Large selection of articles covers a wide variety of important topics for musicians. Essential reading! Some Samples:

Creative

• 10 Useful Personality Characteristics for Musicians
• How Talking Music Can Hurt You
• Musician Ethics: What Defines Your Success?
• Dealing With Rejection in the Music Biz
• Pay to Play?
• Is Your Music Still "Yours"?
• Are You Professional?
• What You Can Learn From MTV
• Why Is Everyone Bitching About the Scene?
• 10 Ways to Break Through Writers Block

Promotion

• 10 Ways to Help Your Music Career
• 10 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Help Your Music Career
• How to Write & Send a Press Release
• How to Get Better Press - Do's & Don'ts
• Writing a Band Bio - Do's and Don'ts
• Top 10 Promo Pack Blunders
• Branding Your Band
• Why a Good Photo is Worth 1000 Words

Performing

• Improving Your Stage Presence
• Essential Skills For an Aspiring Star
• 10 Tips For Better Gigs
• Is Image Everything?
• 6 Mics Under $200
• Buying a PA
• What Kind of Monitors Do You Need?
• Getting the Gig

How to

• Starting an Indie Record Label - a Guide for Musicians & Producers
• How to Start a Band
• Keep the Band Together

Business

• Power Networking
• 15 People You Should Know in the Biz
• Who's Who in the Music Industry?
• PROs & Cons - Performing Rights Organizations
• Music Conferences: Should You Attend?

Recording

• Recording? Read This First
• Better Vocals in the Studio
• Getting Your Demo Played
• Demo Strategies

Releasing a CD

• How to Duplicate Your CD - From 10 - 10,000
• CD Release Timetable
• Releasing a CD - Graphics
• Barcodes: Do You Need One?

Misc

• How Radio Mergers Hurt Musicians
• The Digital Dilemma - To Copyright or Not to Copyright
• How Do I Manage All This Email?!?
• Carpal Tunnel & RSI in Musicians

All Articles © Suzanne Glass and Indie-Music.com

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Copyright Forms - Easily fill out, customize, and print your copyright registrations right from you computer. Plus helpful tips & tricks for copyrighting your songs.

• Forms & Instructions
• Print forms from your computer.
• Form PA (Performing Arts)
• Form SR (Sound Recordings)
• Form CA (Corrections)
• Which Form Do I Use?
• When to Use Form PA
• When to Use Form SR
• Examples of the Proper Use of Forms PA and SR
• When to Use Form CA
• "Musical Compositions" and "Sound Recordings"
• How Do I Print The Forms?
• How to Submit
• Tips & Tricks
  
  

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Templates - Print all sorts of useful items with our quick-and-easy templates. Just open, edit, and print. Most templates are in Microsoft Word format.

• 22 Business Cards
• 15 Letterheads
• 6 Press Releases
• 3 Fax Cover Sheets
• Weekly Calendar
• Monthly Calendar
• Yearly Calendar
• Schedule
• 2 Gift Certificate
• Invoice
• Sales Invoice
• Services Invoice
• Packing Slip
• Receipt

• Submission Letter
• Telephone Tracker
• While You Were Out
• Flyer
• Tear Off Flyer
• Table Tents
• Tickets
• Mailer
• Newsletter w/ Order Form
• 5 Newsletters

• Auto Maintenance Record
• Business Plan for Start Ups
• Nutrition Log
• Weight Training Log
• Bookmarks
• Folded Booklets
• Postcards
• 2 Birthday Banner
• Formal Thank You
• Holiday Gift Certificates
• Holiday Postcards
• Christmas Peace Labels
• Merry Christmas Banner
• Christmas Note Card
• Folded Note Card

Musician Papers

• Manuscript Paper
• Tablature Paper
• Percussion Paper

Fonts - True Type

• Frets
• Composer
• Electronics
• Kiss My Font
  
  

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Music Software - Freeware & Shareware programs for musicians.

VSS Lyricist Develop your lyrics, set styles (Fonts, Colors, etc.) for Title, Verse, Chorus, Bridge, and Copyright, and save your styles for all future lyric sheet documents. Lyricist includes a spell checker, thesaurus and rhyming dictionary, which can be accessed from any song view. They are easy to use, but the rhyming dictionary is limited to perfect rhymes. Trial version, price to register is $49.95. Visit Website

VSS TrackNotes TrackNotes is a track management system used to document recording sessions studio information. The system has extensive reporting capabilities, including several different versions of track sheets. TrackNotes supports collaboration efforts, and can be a lifesaver if engineers (home and/or professional) ever need to return to a complex project at a later date. TrackNotes also provides a great way for users to understand and review their own and others' production techniques. Trial version, price to register is $49.95. Visit Website

Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to: Record live audio. Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together. Change the speed or pitch of a recording. And more!

Da Metronome

DA Metronome is a compact basic metronome program. It allows you to select between the built-in sound, the PC speaker, or your own WAV file. Additionally, it features a drop-down menu to let you select the priority of the program (for better timing accuracy).

Guitar Chords 1.2

Guitar Chords generates more than 3,000 guitar chords and displays them on the graphical guitar fingerboard. Guitar Chords uses standard guitar tuning. All of the chords are available in alternative finger positions.

AKoff Guitar Assistant

AKoff Guitar Assistant is designed to assist in visual tuning a guitar with microphone or an electrical guitar connected to PC’s sound card. It analyzes in real time a stream of audio signals from Wave input of your sound card and calculates the main frequency. This frequency is shown by a pointer on graphic guitar signature stamp (frets), comparing it to the proper frequency. Tuning a string now simply means centering the pointer on the appropriate graphic fret.

AKoff Composer

This software is designed for recognition of polyphonic music from audio source and its conversion to MIDI score. Now one can compose music without MIDI keyboard and even without knowledge of notes or how to play musical instruments. It is as easy as humming a tune into a microphone and Composer will do the rest. Composer will take into consideration individual performance style tracking note dynamics and pitch bends.

Power Tab

Power Tab is a full-featured guitar tablature-authoring tool. The program's user-friendly interface will have you composing in no time. Power Tab contains a large number of tab symbols, including bends, hammer-ons, pull-offs, tremolo picking, tremolo bar dips, legato and shift slides, rhythm slashes, and most of the common music symbols used in tab (coda, al coda, and so on). Use this program for guitar or bass tabs.

Online Auctions - Buy or sell gear at online auctions. Great way to find bargains or earn extra money.

• Complete Seller's Guide (30+ pages!)
• Seller Quick Tips
• Buying Tips
  

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System Requirements

• Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/Vista. Macintosh users cannot access the Musician Software (PC only), but everything else is accessible if you meet the other system requirements below.
• CD-ROM drive
• Microsoft Word, WordPad, or other program capable of opening MS Word templates & documents.
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Internet browser
• Internet connection to access external links (not required for other functions)
• Laser or inkjet printer is highly desirable.
  
  

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Order Musician's ToolKit - $9.95 + S&H - (Reg. $19.95) WITHIN USA & CANADA. S&H - $5.00. Total $14.95. OUTSIDE USA & CANADA. S&H - $10.00. Total $19.95.