Need To Know

How To Understand Mastering

Don't Try This At Home

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Writing about mastering may well be the least DIY "How To" article yet to grace Music School. This essential yet mysterious element of the...

How To Get Federal Grant Money

Money to Earn

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Canadian musicians are very fortunate when it comes to money. With the Canada Council for the Arts, the Foundation to Assist Canadian Talen...

How To Understand Contracts

The Dotted Line

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

As an aesthete breed, musicians are often reluctant to sully their art with commerce. But on a Sudbury Saturday night, as you get stiffed o...

How to Get Your Song in Film or TV

Every Montage Needs a Tune

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Every filmmaker knows that running just the right song in the background can really boost the emotion in an otherwise blank scene. And you...

How To Understand Royalties

Cash Flow

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Copyright is the Ganges, the holy river from which all royalty streams flow. To carry on the riparian metaphor, some of them are wee rivule...

The Write Stuff

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Once upon a time, there were songwriters, and there were performers. As a songwriter in the pre-radio dancehall days, you sold your songs t...

How (and When) to Get a Manager

Where Organisers and Enthusiasm Meet

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Truthfully, everything you need to know about band management — the good, the bad, and the bad-blues-jam ugly — can be divined from a timel...

How to Get Your Band Out of Canada

Get in the Van

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

As an up-and-coming Canadian band, you can only drive across Northern Ontario so many times (I’d argue just the once) before feeling the ne...