Weekly Facebook Group Recap - 3/11 thru 3/17

Here is a recap of facebook group information for one or more courses you're a part of. Disclaimer. This recap by no means replaces the information in the Facebook Groups. Always refer to them for the most current and accurate information. I do my best to relay what I think is the most important details, but it's very possible for me to overlook something or make a typo in the process. This is just to be used as a quick reference and outline. Enjoy!

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The Triple Threat Artist

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• Office Hours on Thursday involved an awesome discussion on simple acoustic treatment solutions with materials available. 
• Topic of compression and demystifying it is planned to be addressed more.
• Laura shared her homemade solutions for acoustic treatments
• Discussion about using Exhale, Zion will be releasing a video this coming week on how to use this amazing plugin.
• A free EQ plugin was shared for download.
• Zion shared a live stream of working with a mixer remotely, and talked about the dynamics of finding someone you work well with.
• A song was shared by Celia Rose and Zion that's a song the used for pitching for the women empowerment search.
• Shelly shared a 7day challenge of making beats
• Osie shared a new plugin for discussion for creating chord progressions, hooks and melodies.
• Zion will be producing live this coming week for students of the course. 
• Students actively pushed forward with class assignments and made huge strides in upping their production game.
• This coming Thursday will be another production "deconstruction" where we will listen to each other's songs and talk about what works and what doesn't.

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Making Money in Music

• Students shared album art for feedback
• Lyric Videos and new songs were shared
• Several new students shared Spotify playlist they'd been curating 
• Justin shared an article with the head of rock at Spotify
• Akira shared video of seeing Ari play live
• Discussion about bandzoogle, and suggestions for website creation
• Justin shared information about Apple Music trying to catch up with Spotify
• Reece started a discussion about twitter marketing
• Andrew shared a publication of his new video
• Great Monday Music breakdown by Sonnet about a song called Apple Pie
• Justin started a discussion about single vs albums
• Jeff started a discussion about Facebook advertising
• Zion reached out for sax player connections in our group
• Office hours were on the 15th, and replay provided.
• Kristina shared a link on artist profiles for spotify 
• Jeff shared a huge accomplishment with the Int. Film Music Competition
• Students began sharing their bios, according to Ari's homework
• Faris asked for advice on writing up agreements
• Andria asked for more podcast recommendations, and discussion followed
• Rachel shared a link about Standout Song Moments on TV
• Big discussion about splits with producer and using Distrokid, by Celestrialblue
• Reminder about Cathy's course on Monday 3/19, @11:30am, mark your calendars!

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 The Access Course

• Dennis started a discussion about Garageband techniques
• Students shared a few more cover songs they had been working on.
• Several discussion were had about the March assignment
• Samuel shared a cool link about the music in Black Panther movie
• Mikey Meiers shared a link to the music he and other students had placed in Teen Mom
• Several more students were asking about collaborating with a producer.
• Lots of women empowerment songs were shared this week, and discussed for feedback
• Great question about the use of the "B" words in sync music
• Sherry looking to meet up with other class members in Nashville Mar 15-21.
• Debbie shared a great link about what you can learn from cover songs
• Justin shared an article with the head of rock at Spotify, and an article about Apple Music trying to catch up to Spotify
• Tamara started a discussion about lullaby covers
• Kim shared a podcast on Spotify called Showstopper
• Victoria announced the submissions that almost made it for the Feb assignment
• Great Monday Music breakdown by Sonnet about a song called Apple Pie
• Debbie shared an article about facebook having licensing deals with all three major labels now
• Talk and collaborations happening with the March "spring" assignment
• Debbie shared news of Disney's new multi billion dollars investments 
• Tobias reaching out for a producer on a new song
• Victoria announced the first placement in Teen Mom with songwriters Mikey, Ashley, and Josh
• Students shared lots of creepy cover songs used in trailers and ads
• Cool new plugin shared by Samuel
• Kristina shared a link about sprucing up your Spotify artist profile
• Kim shared information about sharing multiple tracks on Disco
• Office Hours were on March 15 at 2, replay posted
• Ernest started a discussion about gear to purchase for his studio setup
• Several artists and songwriters were reaching out to the group for singers for work for hire.
• New student intro videos were posted
• Tuesday is webinar with Rob Nokes at Sound Dogs
• Saturday is the webinar with Brian Vickers from Disney

- Zion 🦆