Multi Award Winning Female Saxophonist, Birmingham, UK, Jazz, Gospel, Reggae, Blues, Soul and Originals. 'Music for the soul'
Let’s continue with our re-listen of season 3 of my podcast, Success Beyond The Score. The next episodes focus a lot in the business side of music, which I understand if it’s a topic that many musicians dread. After all, we tend to thrive when we can be creative and express ourselves, not when we have to sort our taxes out or deal with spreadsheets.
Recently, I came across a YouTube post with a single image and a caption that just said “agreed”. Honestly, I could not have said it better myself. Some things never change!
A few weeks ago, I posted this blog entry telling you about a petition to the Government, asking for a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI. Not too long after, the petition reached 10,000 signatures. This meant that the Government had to formally respond to it, with they did on 27 August. Works is being done, but we need to exert more pressure.
Here is the first episode of the third season of the podcast Success Beyond The Score, in which I outlined the structure of the whole season, and talked about the seven stages every gigging musician goes through during their career.
To improve my songwriting skills, I enrolled in a course led by Keppie Coutts and Benny Romalis. They are fantastic teachers! We went beyond the basics of how to write lyrics and delved into how to make them memorable and impactful. The course allowed me to bring out a lot of ideas that were spinning in my mind for a while. I hope I can share some of the results with you soon.
Creators need clear rules and regulations that ensure that their work is used with consent, proper licensing and fair remuneration. We can’t allow the companies behind genAI technology to keep cannibalizing human knowledge and imagination, to then sell them back to us in a convenient package.
In preparation for the next big learning resource I want to offer, which will cover how to get gigs, I want to know how you learn best. For that, I have put together a two minutes survey, which will be open until Sunday 20th June.
‘You’re Still The One’ is arguably one of the best known songs of Shania Twain, which is a lot to say, given her extraordinary career as the best-selling female artist in country music history. Here is a sax version by The Millicent Stephenson Trio.
Music has been a vehicle to express love for thousands of years. As a result, we have an extraordinary musical vocabulary to convey, or attempt to convey, what newly-weds feel. A voice who added many words to this metaphorical dictionary was Whitney Houston, including ‘Run To You’, the fourth single of the now legendary ‘The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album’ (1992).
