O Que a Música Que Você Adora Diz Sobre Você E Como Pode Melhorar A Sua Vida

What the Music You Love Says About You and How It Can Improve Your Life

The Music You Love Tells Me Who You Are

Ever been a bit judgey when you hear someone’s taste in music? Of course you have.

And you were right — music tells you a lot about someone’s personality.

Research has learned a great deal about the power of music:

1. Your musical taste doesaccurately tell me about you, including your politics.
2. Your musical taste is influenced by your parents.
3. You love your favorite song because it’s associated with an intense emotional experience in your life.
4. The music you enjoyed when you were 20 you will probably love for the rest of your life.
5. And, yes, rockstars really do live fast and die young.

But enough trivia. It also turns out music affects your behavior — and much more than you might think.

Studies show music can lead you to drink more, spend more, be kind, or even act unethically.

No, rock and heavy metal don’t lead people to commit suicide — but it’s possible that country music might:

The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas show that the greater the airtime devoted to country music, the greater the white suicide rate.

Music is so powerful it’s even possible to become addicted to music.

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But can we really use scientific research on music to improve our lives? Absolutely.

Here are 9 ways:

1) Music Helps You Relax

Yes, research shows music is relaxing.

I know, I know, obvious, right? But what you might not know is the type of music that helps people relax best.

Need to chill out? Skip the pop and jazz and head for the classical.

Via Richard Wiseman’s excellent book 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute:

Blood pressure readings revealed that listening to pop or jazz music had the same restorative effect as total silence. In contrast, those who listened to Pachelbel and Vivaldi relaxed much more quickly, and so their blood pressure dropped back to the normal level in far less time.

(More things that relieve stress are here.)

2) Angry Music Improves Your Performance

We usually think of anger as something that’s just universally bad. But the emotion has positive uses too.

Anger focuses attention on rewards, increases persistence, makes us feel in control and more optimistic about achieving our goals.

When test subjects listened to angry music while playing video games, they got higher scores.

Via The Science of Sin: The Psychology of the Seven Deadlies (and Why They Are So Good For You):

What Tamir and her colleagues found was that people preferred to listen to the angry music before playing Soldier of Fortune. Faced with a task in which anger might serve a useful function, facilitating the shooting of enemies, participants opted for an anger boost. What’s more, listening to the angry music actually improved performance…

(More on how to boost productivity here.)

3) Music Reduces Pain

When ibuprofen isn’t doing the job, might be time to put on your favorite song.

Research shows it can reduce pain:

Preferred music was found to significantly increase tolerance and perceived control over the painful stimulus and to decrease anxiety compared with both the visual distraction and silence conditions.

(More research based tricks for reducing pain here.)

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4) Music Can Give You A Better Workout

What’s the best thing to have on your iPod at the gym?

The weight room is no place to try new genres. Playing your favorites can boost performance:

The performance under Preferred Music (9.8 +/- 4.6 km) was greater than under Nonpreferred Music (7.1 +/- 3.5 km) conditions. Therefore, listening to Preferred Music during continuous cycling exercise at high intensity can increase the exercise distance, and individuals listening to Nonpreferred Music can perceive more discomfort caused by the exercise.

(More ways to improve your health here.)

5) Music Can Help You Find Love

Want to get the interest of that special someone? Put on the romantic music.

Women were more likely to give their number to men afterhearing love songs:

…the male confederate asked the participant for her phone number. It was found that women previously exposed to romantic lyrics complied with the request more readily than women exposed to the neutral ones.

(More on how science can make you a better kisser here.)

6) Music Can Save A Life

Do you know the proper way to give CPR chest compressions? Turns out timing is key.

And how can you best remember that timing during an emergency?

Sing “Stayin’ Alive” by the BeeGees. Yes, I’m serious:

…Dr. John Hafner of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria had 15 physicians and med students perform the 100-compression procedure (on mannequins) while listening to the Bee Gees classic “Stayin’ Alive.” As Hafner reports in the Journal of Emergency Medicine, their mean compression rate was an excellent 109.1. Five weeks later, they repeated the exercise while singing the song to themselves as a “musical memory aid.” Their mean rate increased to 113.2. The medical professionals reported that the “mental metronome” improved both “their technical ability and confidence in providing CPR.”

7) Music Can Improve Your Work — Sometimes

Does music at the office make you work better or just distract you? It’s a much debated issue and the answer is not black and white.

For the most part, it seems music decreases work performance – but makes you happier while you work:

…a comparison of studies that examined background music compared to no music indicates that background music disturbs the reading process, has some small detrimental effects on memory, but has a positive impact on emotional reactions…

That said, a little bit of music can make you more creative. If you have ADHD, noise helps you focus:

Noise exerted a positive effect on cognitive performance for the ADHD group and deteriorated performance for the control group, indicating that ADHD subjects need more noise than controls for optimal cognitive performance.

And music with positive lyrics makes you more helpful and collaborative.

(More on what will make you successful here.)

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8) Use Music To Make You Smarter

There is a ton of evidence that music lessons improve IQ.

But there’s even research that says listening to classical music might boost brainpower as well:

Within 15 minutes of hearing the lecture, all the students took a multiple-choice quiz featuring questions based on the lecture material. The results: the students who heard the music-enhanced lecture scored significantly higher on the quiz than those who heard the music-free version.

(More on the most powerful way to easily get smarter here.)

9) Music Can Make You A Better Person

Need to soften someone’s heart? Maybe even your own?

Playing music can make you more compassionate:

In a year-long program focused on group music-making, 8- to 11-year old children became markedly more compassionate, according to a just-published study from the University of Cambridge. The finding suggests kids who make music together aren’t just having fun: they’re absorbing a key component of emotional intelligence.

Venezuela made music lessons mandatory. What happened? Crime went down and fewer kids dropped out of school:

A simple cost-benefit framework is used to estimate substantive social benefits associated with a universal music training program in Venezuela (B/C ratio of 1.68). Those social benefits accrue from both reduced school drop-out and declining community victimization. This evidence of important social benefits adds to the abundant evidence of individual gains reported by the developmental psychology literature.

(More on how to be a better person here.)

Sum Up

So music not only says a lot about you, it provides a myriad of easy ways to make your life better:

1. Music Can Help You Relax
2. Angry Music Improves Your Performance
3. Music Reduces Pain
4. Music Can Give You A Better Workout
5. Music Can Help You Find Love
6. Music Can Save A Life
7. Music Can Improve Your Work — Sometimes
8. Use Music To Make You Smarter
9. Music Can Make You A Better Person

Most importantly: Music makes us feel good, and in the end, that’s worth a lot.

O Que Os Músicos Deveriam Ter Com Eles O Tempo Todo

What Musicians Should Carry at all Times

As a working indie musician, you’re frequently on the go. But even when you aren’t gigging and maybe enjoying some down time, you’re never really off the clock, because you never know who you’re going to run into. When you work for yourself doing what you love it means you should always be prepared to switch into networking mode at any time, be it in an airport lounge Bangkok, or hanging out in a club down the street. There are some things you should never leave home without.

An over-the-shoulder bag
You’ll need a comfortable, nice bag to sling over your shoulder, in order to carry all the things listed below.

Business cards
These aren’t to give out to fans but to exchange with music biz people that you’re networking with for gigs, etc. When someone hands you a business card, you should be able to hand yours back. It’s proper etiquette. The cards should have your full contact info, including a mailing address and a website. Vistaprint.com is a good website for picking designs and ordering affordable, decent-looking business cards.

Promo cards 
These are postcard-sized fliers to hand out to fans. Don’t put your phone number or a street address on these, just a promo pic, your website and social networking sites, along with any upcoming releases and/or gigs.

Press kit
When you run into a member of the press, a radio personality or promoter who may be interested in your act, you should have a press kit handy in your bag. You can just hand it off (ask permission first) instead of mailing it. If all you have is an electronic press kit (EPK), include a link to it on your business card. Or, ask for an email address to email them your EPK.

Thumb drives
It’s becoming more common for acts to put press kits and mp3s on thumbnail drives. These should be given to industry professionals, not the general public.

CDs
Always keep a handful of your CDs on hand to give out to industry folks, sell to fans or drop off for consignment sales should you happen upon a cool, indie-friendly record store.

Earphones
You’re a musician, so you should always be checking out new music wherever you go. Having a good pair of earphones allows you to be polite and keep the music to yourself in public spaces and cramped quarters with others, such as in an airplane cabin.

A smartphone
If your phone is smart, it makes your professional life a lot easier. Having access to the world of apps, the internet and other features when you’re on the road is immensely helpful to musicians. For example, let’s say you’re onstage, the electronic tuner dies and you can’t tune by ear. There’s an app for that. In fact, there are many tuning apps for that.

A pen and notepad
Because sometimes your smartphone dies and you need to write something important down without powering something else up.

An extra cord/cable/guitar picks
It could be a power cord for a keyboard or a guitar cable. Or picks. These are things that often go bad or get lost and can easily fit in a knapsack.

Now, you’re ready to leave the house. But don’t forget your instrument!

Sua Banda Pode Arrecadar US$20.000 No Kickstarter Com Estes Dois Passos

Your Band Can Raise $20,000 On Kickstarter with These Two Easy Steps

This is a guest post by Ian Anderson, the co-author of 100 Music Kickstarters to Learn From, a blog series that helps artists maximize their fund raising potential and avoid the 45% failure rate of music crowdfunding.

The headline is true, if you are willing to pay the price and don’t have professional standards.

If you’re the type who likes to drive a brand new Audi so people think you’re cool but you can barely make the minimum payment on your school loans every month, this proven tactic for raising $20,000 on Kickstarter is TOTALLY for you.

Brought to you by Swimming With Bears from the middle of Texas.

VIEW PROJECT | GOAL $20,000 | 57 DAYS | EMAIL 0 | FB 619

STEP ONE: Raise $5,000 through your existing Circle of Influence

You might question whether this is possible for bands with no mailing list and little to no following.

We’ve seen time and time again that raising $5,000 is within reach for most bands and solo artists.

I am not saying that it is a gimmee or that it will be easy.

It takes several key elements coming together in your project and lots of work bringing your project to the people, but it is possible to raise $5,000 through your existing Circle of Influence.

Your Circle of Influence is simply a list of the people in your life that you can bring your project to. This would include family, friends, fans, and even people that don’t know you yet!

The trick lies in making sure that you leave no stone unturned.

Let’s take a look at Swimming With Bears’ CanHeKick.It graph.

They have no email list and a small number of FB fans and they made it all the way to about $5,000 without a problem.

Now, all there is to do is raise the rest!

STEP TWO: Self Pledge $15,000

If you’ve made it this far, hopefully you’ve figured out how tongue-in-cheek this post really is.

Yes, it is well within reason to raise $5,000 from your existing Circle of Influence even if you have no email list or fan base.

It is, however, highly unlikely that you can raise $20,000 without some shenanigans.

Swimming With Bears appears to have made an obvious self-pledge.

I advocate against this possibility for 3 reasons.

1. It’ll cost you 8% to Kickstarter and Amazon
2. You can avoid this necessity by defining an optimal goal strategy using a combination of your Minimum Viable Project and Flex Goals.
3. It seems disingenuous to your backers.

But that being said, Swimming With Bears DID raise close to $5,000 from about 60 backers. That is an average of $83 per backer.  These amounts ARE doable for a relatively inexperienced band IF you are smart and IF you are willing to work.

If you are considering your own crowdfunding project, know that you can do it. Keep studying projects, especially in our 100 Music Kickstarters To Learn From series, and sign up for our 5 part email lesson in the sidebar!

Tags: $10000-$20000, 60 days, indie rock

Google Esta Fazendo A Busca De Sua Letra De Música Favorita Muito Mais Fácil

Google is making it much easier to find your favourite song lyrics

Google has signed a multiyear licensing deal with Toronto-based company LyricFind to "display song lyrics in [Google] search results," according to a Billboard report. 

The partnership was announced on Monday, which on the same day resulted in a new Google feature: When you search for a song's lyrics, Google shows a large portion of those lyrics at the top of the results.

Google's move into the lyric business will generate a new and "significant" stream of revenue for music publishers and songwriters, according to LyricFinder chief executive and cofounder Darryl Ballantyne.

"It should be a significant revenue stream," Ballantyne told Billboard. "I can’t get into the rates, but we expect it to be millions of dollars generated for publishers and songwriters as a result of this. It’s all based on usage. Royalties are paid based on the number of times a lyric is viewed. The more it’s viewed, the more publishers get paid."

Founded in 2004, LyricFind has "amassed licensing from over 4,000 music publishers" and provides lyric licensing and online services across 100 countries, according to its website. 

As a result of Google's partnership with LyricFind, user searches for song lyrics on Google will now display several stanzas of lyric text at the top of the page, with a link out to the full lyrics as well as an option to purchase or stream the song on Google Play — as seen below in a search for the lyrics to Steely Dan's 1977 song "Peg."

A search for "steely dan peg lyrics" reveals a large portion of the song's lyrics. Google

As Billboard notes, the company's partnership with Google in this new feature will likely have a significant impact on users' click-through rates to licensed lyric sites like AZLyrics.com, as well as to the slew of unlicensed sites.

Google's move may also hurt Genius, which has been building up its community of users who annotate song lyrics.

O Serviço De Música Digital Que Você Gosta É Um Mau Negócio

That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business

Digital music appears to be dead as a standalone business, or at least on life support.

Every few months, the ongoing upheaval in the digital-music business forces its way into the public consciousness—Rdio goes bankrupt, Pandora hangs out a “For Sale” sign and then gets rid of its CEO, artists and labels ramp up their criticism of YouTube. Now we have Tidal in acquisition talks with Apple, while Spotify complains about Apple treating it unfairly.

The media and music community seem divided on whether an Apple-Tidal combination would be a good idea. Some say it would be a huge mistake for Apple  AAPL 0.30% , in part because Tidal hasn’t proven to be successful in either adding users or growing its business—although it has a number of popular features, including its access to artist exclusives.

Others, however, argue that buying Tidal may make sensefor a number of reasons, depending on the price.

From a macro perspective, there’s a common theme among all of these developments: Namely, that the digital music business is becoming an industry in which only a truly massive company with huge scale and deep pockets can hope to compete. And that spells trouble for Spotify and every other independent music service.

Rdio went bankrupt last year in large part because it couldn’t afford to make the licensing payments the record industry requires of streaming services. Deezer, a European service, postponed a planned initial public offering partly because its business is financially shaky for the same reason.

And within months of announcing that it was acquiring Rdio last year, Pandora was reported to be on the block (although co-founder Tim Westergren has downplayed that idea since he took over as the company’s CEO).

Tidal, meanwhile, has been shopping itself around almost since it premiered last year. It got a tidal wave of publicity because it was backed by hip-hop musician and producer Jay Z and a number of other artists, including his wife and fellow superstar Beyoncé. But the service has had trouble adding users, and is reportedly losing money at a fairly rapid pace.

Realistically speaking, Tidal must be acquired by someone, whether it’s Apple or Amazon (which is also trying to grow its music service) or even Rhapsody, another music service with which Tidal has also apparently had discussions. 

Rhapsody—which recently announced that it is renaming itself Napster, after the pioneering file-sharing network it acquired in 2011—has been around longer than almost any other streaming service, but is still racking up massive losses for parent RealNetworks.

Then there’s Spotify. Over the past couple of years, it has become one of the world’s most popular streaming services with 100 million subscribers, 30 million of whom pay a monthly fee. But like every other music service, Spotify has found it almost impossible to make money, primarily because of onerous licensing payments.

You can feel some of the tension coming through in the letter that Spotify sent to Apple, complaining that the company is using its control over the app ecosystem to harm a competitor. This behavior “continues a troubling pattern of behavior to exclude and diminish the competitiveness of Spotify,” the company said (Apple responded that Spotify’s latest software update was a clear breach of its developer rules, and that the company is “resorting to rumors and half-truths”).

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Last year, Spotify lost $200 million and had to raise $1 billion in debt financing just to remain in business. More than 85% of the revenue it takes in goes to music licensing costs. And yet, various players in the recorded-music industry—record labels, publishing companies, music distributors and even individual artists—routinely argue that services like Spotify aren’t paying enough, and that advertising-supported services like YouTube are even worse.

Who is to blame for this state of affairs? That’s a difficult question to answer. The recording industry may want to blame YouTube and Napster, or even Apple, but the reality is that the way music is consumed has changed forever, and we are still figuring out how that works.

At this point, all the available evidence seems to show that the digital-music business, at least the way it is currently structured, simply isn’t economic. The only way for anyone to even come close to making it work is to make it part of a much larger company, like Apple or Amazon or Google. That way they can absorb the losses, they have the heft to negotiate with the record industry, and they can find synergies with their other businesses. 

In other words, music as a standalone business appears to be dead, or at least on life support.

Black Medal Band - Last Clip - Black Hat - Gravado no Power Field Studio

Black Medal Band - Last Clip - Black Hat - Recorded At

 Power Field Studio

Hi to All,

As my previous blog, this song has also two versions, that you guys will see in the clip below was the last one. 

Duda was in charge of doing the mixes and mastering, I took care more, as sound engineer, recording drums, vocals and bass.

We changed a little bit the drum set to get more powerful during the recording section as per pictures below.

This is other one from our EP "Bring Me The Medal"

If you want to know more about my studio and on my band check our page on Facebook - Black Medal and my studio page Power Field Studio.

Notícias Da Indústria da Música - Um Apanhado

Music Industry News Roundup

First of all thanks to my friend  Bobby Owsinski

for this article.

Today begins a new  series on the Music 3.0 blog. One day every week I’ll provide a post with links to a number of interesting music business-related stories. Some will be about social media, some about music distribution, some about royalties, and some about record labels, but all will be connected to the industry in some way (or at least you can take the information and use it for the music business). Let’s get started.

Does YouTube change your listening habits? The article thinks it does. In fact, it states that many listeners don’t even enjoy what they’re listening to and are just dialing up sounds for a particular situation. It says that we watch groups of videos clustered into categories, but I’m not so sure why that should surprise anyone.

Spotify lost more money in 2015. It’s making a bunch, but it’s paying out more than it’s taking in. How much longer can its investors stay in the game? Still, it’s the streaming service to beat as it has more paying subscribers than any other at the moment.

Spotify’s playlists are responsible for a billion streams a week. Speaking of Spotify, their playlists are killing it as they’re now responsible for about 4% of all streams on the service. Not only that, they’re paying out around $1 million per day in royalties!

7 digital advertising trends. This is an Adweek post, so it’s written mostly for brands instead of bands, but it still has some useful information. Like you see elsewhere, it predicts that mobile is the way to go and chat is the future, but it also looks at ad blocking and annoying online ads.

We’re spending less time on social media. Especially on Twitter and Instagram. People are spending less time on Facebook too, but still spend over 45 minutes on the service every day.

Facebook is preferred for video viewing. It didn’t take long for the service to catch up to and surpass YouTube, but it’s now the platform of choice for viewing. Only millennials prefer YouTube now, according to this survey.

A key part of digital copyright licensing law is being streamlined. Right now there are multiple lawsuits against Spotify and other services by songwriters because they weren’t notified that their songs were available on the service, which is required by law. The problem is, it’s not really an easy chore for a service as it’s set up right now, and it’s costly, so a new and improved way of doing it online can make a big difference going forward.

Rights that no one talks about. There’s a lot of money being made when an artist’s songs are publicly performed, but they’re not always discussed outside of an attorney’s office. These “neighboring rights” are important though, and are finally getting more attention.

Classic artists are more popular than ever. Even dead artists like Tupac, Prince, Michael Jackson and Elvis are making more money than ever, and superstar artists over 60 like Paul Simon and Bob Dylan are even having hit albums again. What does that mean for the health of the music industry?

Metal still sells. Attendance is still strong for metal concerts, and the earnings for superstars and newcomers alike are surprising.

Each of these posts contain some useful and interesting information that I hope you’ll enjoy. Let me know if you like this format, and I’ll do more in the future.