All Entries in the "eBooks" Category
What is Songster?
Photo from the blog, Record Fiend There’s not alot of information on the history of songster. Following is a link to my definition of Songster, a reference I make to myself, and definitions of songster by AllMusic.com and Wikipedia. AllMusic.com offers this definition: The songster tradition both pre-dated and co-existed with blues music, especially in [...]
Crossover: Song Creation in the 21st Century – Proposal
Crossover: Song Creation in the 21st Century Crossover: Song Creation in the 21st Century is a comprehensive manual (eMultimedia production in-progress) on songwriting from the technical, cultural and business perspectives. The proposal available for viewing was originally entitled, Bridge On Fire. Crossover: Song Creation in the 21st Century – Proposal – PDF Crossover: Song Creation in the [...]
True Self: Mindfulness Discussion – LinkedIn Group
The following discussion first appeared in the LinkedIn group: Mindfulness I discovered my true self or natural self. It was not created but it can be destroyed. How do I protect it? I discovered a part of my being that defies definition. It might be the “true self, although “true self” is clearly controversial as [...]
Entertainment Society – An eBook
Entertainment Society is soon-to-be-ePublished, exploring the convergence of technology and entertainment and redefines the question, “What is entertainment?”
What Songs Are
Songs can be as loud as a train wreck or as quiet as a butterfly’s soul. They can irritate like a rash or sooth like exotic oil. Songs are like children. They need to be nurtured, dressed up, and once they’re old enough, kicked out of the house. Songs have the potential to communicate in [...]
Songwriting Sources
Songwriting Sources Beware of sites that claim they can teach how to write a “Hit” song. To use a common quote: ”If it were that easy everyone would be doing it.” Ironically, the sheer volume of hit songs would indicate that just about anyone can, in fact, write a hit song. But numbers are deceiving. [...]
The Celestial Age
Alchemy Symbols (The Philosopher’s Stone) Celestial Age is an exploration into finding solutions for both global and personal change beyond the Digital Age. The 1st draft, included here, was originally titled, Global Strategic Thinking, born out of my Masters in Liberal Studies work at the Univ. of MN. At the time, the language of the Liberal [...]
Future Performer: Performance Requirements For Creating The Future
Future Performer: Performance Requirements for Creating the Future by Jerry Flattum Copyright 2012 Introduction We are all performers, not just those who sing, dance and act on stage or in front of a camera. Just about everything we do is about performance, from our jobs to our sex lives. There is the kind of [...]
eBooks-In-Progress – An Intro
NOTE: As of June 2011, dedicated domains are under construction for the following eBooks-In-Progress: eBooks-In-Progress Visualizing The Future Holistic Song Creation Personal Strategic Enterprise Convergence In Entertainment Global Strategic Thinking Global Strategic Thinking started out as a stand-alone exploration in solutions to both Global and Personal issues. It will now become a series with each [...]
“Too Many Notes” – Why Song Critique Services Fail
There is a new trend amidst the songwriting community to submit your songs for analysis, or the word they like to use is, “critique.” Actually, Taxi and other song evaluation services have been doing it for years, but now it’s becoming a cottage industry. If you’re a fledgling songwriter clueless about how to write songs, [...]
