One of my responsibilities here at MXTabs.net is to license songs, which requires me to sit in front of a computer all day long performing music copyright research, then entering appropriate information into a database built to ensure that the correct percentage of our site’s ad revenue is being distributed to the correct music publishers. As you can probably imagine, I’ve never really considered this to be the highlight of my work day. After all, it’s detail-orientated, repetitive,... [Continue Reading]
Archive for November, 2008
Off-Stage: Got Photo? Free Photo Editing and Photo Storage Tools for Your Band
Here at MXTabs.net we’re all about free and legal. Get it? Free…legal… Okay, okay. Enough with the groans. Last week I had talked about your band’s image: timely or timeless? and gave some examples from bands across the decades. Then I opened up the door to you brave, brave souls out there, asking if you’d like a photo critique to see how it fits your band’s image. Yesterday, we featured a band called Plowing Mud Forever in our first-ever band photo commentary.... [Continue Reading]
Plowing Mud Forever Band Photos and Our Feedback
In last week’s edition of “Off-Stage,” I had mentioned how important your band image can be and talked about the difference between a “timely” and “timeless” image. As one commenter pointed out, for some music lovers a band’s image isn’t as important as the quality of their music. While I agree with that to some extent, I did forget to mention one very, important concept — if you want to get more gigs, you gotta think like a business. Image... [Continue Reading]
MXTabs.net Song Tab Submissions and Limbo
If you haven’t yet noticed, the process of submitting new guitar, bass, or drum tabs for inclusion in the MXTabs.net tab database is a bit different than making a submission to other guitar tab websites. In response to the numerous questions I’ve received on the MXTabs.net Forum regarding the matter, I thought I’d provide this short introduction on the subject. Hopefully, after reading this, you’ll see that not only is submitting a new guitar, bass, or drum tab to MXTabs.net... [Continue Reading]
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