Weekly Facebook Group Recap - 4/1 thru 4/7

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!

The Triple Threat Artist

Listen up! Enrollment for the Producer Course and Community is now open! Discount available for students of any of Cathy Heller’s courses, but this won't last for much longer! Just private message Zion for coupon code!

A new student came on board. Welcome to the tribe, Emma McClughan!
Ashley Riley shared a song she's been working on and we all pitched in some thoughts and feedback for her.
Zion shared a video by Brendon Burchard about how to stay focused through all the noise, and stay on task to finish production and songs we've been working on.
Osie shared a great little affordable software synth that's on sale this week.
Office Hours were on Thursday, Zion connected in with students on topics about mic placement techniques and compression settings
More steps were taken by students to listen to lectures and apply their new knowledge in exercises and groove making strategies.
Announcement made about our first Guest Producer Q&A for students of this class. Josh Doyle is going to be sharing what he's learned in producing for sync and take questions from other students.
This week's office hours will be held on Thursday at 4p, where we will deconstruct famous production of hit songs, as well as get questions resolved for any production projects students are working on.

Making Money in Music

Students discuss computer backups, hard drives and data/file storage
Students post their BIOs and music for feedback
Victoria shares the Monday Music Breakdown
Students share their playlists and ask for feedback
Cherie shared a cool podcast: And The Writer Is
Ari shared a blog and great video interview with Co-Founder and General Manager of SONGTRUST, Joe Conyers… explaining exactly what they do.
Victoria shares the replay of Ari's webinar ..Yeah!
Cathy shared a song of hers with very motivating lyrics….which is now being used in a WALMART Spot
Victoria/ Catch The Moon shared a new license with us: "Bold“ by The Highfields for Kotex. Congratulations!
Students discussed the topic of music video promotion
Lizzie Brenkus shared a great episode of her podcast The Brink Of Midnight with an interview of John Ondrasik
Questions and discussions arose about Split Sheets concerning Publishers
Nykee discovered ARI Herstand watching episode 5 of The Fosters :-)
Victoria shares the replay of the OFFICE HOURS
The DIY Music conference is coming up this Sat (14th) in Spain, and we're excited to see posts and pictures from students who are going!
Office Hours with Sonnet are on Thurs

The Access Course

The April assignment was detailed – Father’s Day song
Lots of tunes were shared for feedback and lots of feedback was given
Sonnet broke down ‘Colors' by The Highfields on Monday Music Breakdown
Sonnet facilitated Office Hours
Rehya Stevens shared her new project which was spawned during Cathy’s original six figure Songwriting class – The Dang Kids
Shelley shared an article on composing music for TV shows
Whittney started a convo on AIFF vs WAV pros and cons and metadata
There was a lot of discussion around the Soundtoys bundle sale
Harriet asked for suggestions on how to collaborate remotely
Mat arranged a student discount with Soundtoys … he is looking into other similar opportunities
Jody asked for clarification re: TV mix
Mat suggested swapping stems with other members to re-mix each other’s work
CTM shared Cathy’s song, Colors, is being used in a Walmart spot
Osie share a link to a cool free synth
Mikey launched a Patreon page
Whittney asked for clarification on length specs for commercials
‘Bold’ by The Highfields got licensed by Kotex
The Sup session with Hunter Murtaugh was re-scheduled for April 10^th
Tobias started a convo about cover songs on Songtradr
Cathy went live for a little inspiration
Lizzie shared her podcast – Brink of Midnight
Darren started a convo re: pitching services
Jan started a convo about producing in GarageBand
Dree dropped a new music video ‘No Chill’
Colin started a convo about Audiosparx
Music Sup Hunter Murtaugh – April 10^th at 2pm
Office Hours – April 12^th at 6pm

(Special thanks to Cora Himmelsbach and Shelley Montreuil for their help in consolidating all of this information. :)

Weekly Facebook Group Recap - 4/1 - 4/7

The Triple Threat Artist

A new student came on board. Welcome to the tribe, Emma McClughan!
Ashley Riley shared a song she's been working on and we all pitched in some thoughts and feedback for her.
Zion shared a video by Brendon Burchard about how to stay focused through all the noise, and stay on task to finish production and songs we've been working on.
Osie shared a great little affordable software synth that's on sale this week.
Office Hours were on Thursday, Zion connected in with students on topics about mic placement techniques and compression settings
More steps were taken by students to listen to lectures and apply their new knowledge in exercises and groove making strategies.
Announcement made about our first Guest Producer Q&A for students of this class. Josh Doyle is going to be sharing what he's learned in producing for sync and take questions from other students.
This week's office hours will be held on Thursday at 4p, where we will deconstruct famous production of hit songs, as well as get questions resolved for any production projects students are working on.

Making Money in Music

Students discuss computer backups, hard drives and data/file storage
Students post their BIOs and music for feedback
Victoria shares the Monday Music Breakdown
Students share their playlists and ask for feedback
Cherie shared a cool podcast: And The Writer Is
Ari shared a blog and great video interview with Co-Founder and General Manager of SONGTRUST, Joe Conyers… explaining exactly what they do.
Victoria shares the replay of Ari's webinar ..Yeah!
Cathy shared a song of hers with very motivating lyrics….which is now being used in a WALMART Spot
Victoria/ Catch The Moon shared a new license with us: "Bold“ by The Highfields for Kotex. Congratulations!
Students discussed the topic of music video promotion
Lizzie Brenkus shared a great episode of her podcast The Brink Of Midnight with an interview of John Ondrasik
Questions and discussions arose about Split Sheets concerning Publishers
Nykee discovered ARI Herstand watching episode 5 of The Fosters :-)
Victoria shares the replay of the OFFICE HOURS
The DIY Music conference is coming up this Sat (14th) in Spain, and we're excited to see posts and pictures from students who are going!
Office Hours with Sonnet are on Thurs

The Access Course

The April assignment was detailed – Father’s Day song
Lots of tunes were shared for feedback and lots of feedback was given
Sonnet broke down ‘Colors' by The Highfields on Monday Music Breakdown
Sonnet facilitated Office Hours
Rehya Stevens shared her new project which was spawned during Cathy’s original six figure Songwriting class – The Dang Kids
Shelley shared an article on composing music for TV shows
Whittney started a convo on AIFF vs WAV pros and cons and metadata
There was a lot of discussion around the Soundtoys bundle sale
Harriet asked for suggestions on how to collaborate remotely
Mat arranged a student discount with Soundtoys … he is looking into other similar opportunities
Jody asked for clarification re: TV mix
Mat suggested swapping stems with other members to re-mix each other’s work
CTM shared Cathy’s song, Colors, is being used in a Walmart spot
Osie share a link to a cool free synth
Mikey launched a Patreon page
Whittney asked for clarification on length specs for commercials
‘Bold’ by The Highfields got licensed by Kotex
The Sup session with Hunter Murtaugh was re-scheduled for April 10^th
Tobias started a convo about cover songs on Songtradr
Cathy went live for a little inspiration
Lizzie shared her podcast – Brink of Midnight
Darren started a convo re: pitching services
Jan started a convo about producing in GarageBand
Dree dropped a new music video ‘No Chill’
Colin started a convo about Audiosparx
Music Sup Hunter Murtaugh – April 10^th at 2pm
Office Hours – April 12^th at 6pm

(Special thanks to Cora Himmelsbach and Shelley Montreuil for their help in consolidating all of this information. :)

Weekly Facebook Group Recap - 3/25 thru 3/31

The Triple Threat Artist

We celebrated Josh’s announcement of his sync placement
New members joined our tribe and launched into alignment with production techniques and guidance
Osie started a discussion about using handclaps and whistles still in sync music.
Students shared songs they worked on for the Spring assignment of the Access course
Great feedback on production and techniques for students in the middle writing for the Access class
Zion announced a work trip to Germany, and planned office hours from there.
Office Hours on Friday kicked ass. We walked through production techniques and gave real time examples of using VI for production hacks.
This week’s office hours will be on Thurs at 9am

Making Money in Music

Many students share cathy’s homework to find out who their costumers are students share their bio and ask for feedback
Riki Carigan shares a playlist on Spotify
Victoria shares The Monday Music Breakdown: an end title spot featruring “Try everything“ by Shakira for the Zootopia Movie
Cathy shares her interview with Seth Godin where they talked about turning your passion into your career. Amazing!
Discussions about filmmaker recommendations in Mexico.
Nykee Millie and Whittney share their song Hold On To Me and ask for feedback on the mix
Ari shares his interview on MSNBC about social media
Cathy invites us to follow her on Instagram: @cathy.heller
Justin shares a very interesting article from CD Baby about live streaming on Facebook.
Discussions about Symphonic Distribution which is a service Ari recommended in his last newsletter of Ari’s Take….
Justin shares an interesting article about SPOTIFY
Ari was live on facebook: he talked about the importance of staying focused and following your authentic dreams, and how toxic it can be to always compare yourself with other more successful artists….
Victoria shares the office hour of the week
Juli shares an article about iTUNES
Students discuss insurance for musicians.
Lauren shared an article from distrokid about Getting more Spotify followers by HyperFollow
Ari´s class is on MONDAY Apr 2, 2018 6:00PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) !!!

The Access Course

Kim was having a tough time feeling quite low until she came home to find out that she got her very first placement on ‘Agents of SHIELD’ airing March 30th.
Lots of tunes were shared for feedback and lots of feedback was given
There was lots of helpful conversation about mastering plugins and services
Sam started a conversation looking for podcast resources that are sync-specific
Mikey suggests the Recording Studio Rockstars podcast
Rick asked for some guidance re: file formats and metadata
Sonnet broke down ‘Try Everything' by Shakira for the Zootopia movie on Monday Music Breakdown
Jody started a Disco users conversation re: organizational structure
Cathy released another podcast episode where she interviewed Seth Godin
Debbie shared an interesting article on a film composer round table with Hans Zimmer
Anna shared a supe cheat sheet on Brian Vickers
Victoria announced a new submission opportunity (cover songs)
There was quite a bit of discussion around iTunes and the end of downloads
Sonnet facilitated Office Hours
Randall let everyone know that he has a kick ass studio space he wishes to share
DiElle shared that she and her husband will be in LA in May … looking to connect
Music Sup Hunter Murtaugh – April 5th at 2pm
Office Hours – April 5th at 6pm

Zion

Weekly Facebook Group Recap - 3/18 thru 3/24

The Triple Threat Artist

Zion shared an example of using the Exhale software to make a new groove
Worked through challenges when making grooves in production
Students shared some of their songs for pitching to searches for feedback
Osie shared a new tool for recording music on an ipad
Zion shared a video of some thoughts about how to write toward a general theme
We shared a victory lap with Josh for getting a sync placement this week! woot woot!
Office hours on Friday involved disucussions about following industry trends and solving customer issues
Amazing strides were taken by students in completing video tutorials and exercises
Office hours this week will be on Thursday at 9am.
Only 2 weeks left to get access at discounted price!

Making Money in Music

Rachel shared an article about indie wire survey
Students shared new songs and releases
Kris Angelis asks about streaming royalties and splits and Ari gives a really detailed answer to this, and reminds to check out his book ( chapter 13 ) and puts a link in to Ari´s Take
Zion shared a link about creating grooves using Exhale
Victoria shared the replay of Cathy´s amazing class from the 18th of March
Zion broke down the Homework of Cathy´s class
Victoria shared all song feedback that was given during Cathy´s class
Many students shared their songs for Cathy´s Homework
Students shared their Bios to get feedback (Ari´s Homework)
Laurence shared a great interview with JONI MITCHELL where she talks about the 4 elements she thinks are essential for writing a great song!
Staci shared an article about Music and Social Media
Victoria shared the names of the people whose songs will be pitched and signed by CATCH THE MOON . Congratulations!! Also to those who almost made it!
Victoria shared the Monday Music Breakdown about a Coca Cola Ad
Arie Papernick gave a good example of how important a good BIO and STORY is for an artist and shares a link to the winner Canada´s CBC Searchlight contest.
Several discussions about using STUDIO ONE DAW
Sonnet announced that Timus Irvin´s song is being considered for a 30k ad through CTM. We are keeping our fingers crossed!
Victoria shared the office hours replay from march 22nd

The Access Course

Students shared songs they’d been working on throughout the week
Tobias shared a new mic, and led a conversation about affordable mics
Students reached out for collaborations and demonstrated resourcefulness
Zion shared an example of using the Exhale software to make a new groove
Victoria annouced the students who will be signing their Female Empowerment songs with Catch the Moon Music. Congrats everyone!
Victoria announced the songs that almost made it to the Female Empowerment
search, with feedback
Debbie shared a great interview article about cutting through the noise
Students shared their playlists on Spotify
Interview webinar with Rob Nokes from from SoundDogs, replay was posted
Matt shared news about how new laws for getting artists paid
Monday music breakdown was shared with song by the Knocks, really good stuff
David shared a great new EQ plugin that was free for a couple days
Austin started a conversation about cold emailing music sups
Keith shared a really cool article on Industry Insights for 2018
Lisa shared the SondExploder podcast
Samuel gave us insights into channel strip insights
Jamila shared the Tune Core podcast of Music Made Me
Tobias started a discussion about new
Office hours were on 3/22, and replay shared
Sonnet announced that Timus Irvin’s track is up for a 30k ad spot! Congrats man!!!!
Serge started a discussion about Fervor Records
Samuel announced some hiphop tunes that were signed with Crucial
Great discussion about Studio One DAW
Debbie shared a cool article about a female composer’s score
Josh announced his new 40k license for a song he did with Brittany!!! So bad ass…
Debbie shared a sync license info article
Zion shared a video of some thoughts about how to write toward a general themes
Brian Vickers from Disney webinar was on Sat, replay available
This Thursday is a webinar call with Hunter Murtaugh at 10am

- Zion & Cora

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

The Triple Threat Artist

Enrollment for the Producer Course and Community is now open! Discount available for students of any of Cathy Heller’s courses. Just private message Zion for coupon code.

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.

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!

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

Weekly Facebook Group Recap - 3/4 thru 3/11

The Triple Threat Artist

Enrollment for the Producer Course and Community is now open! Discount available for students of any of Cathy Heller’s courses. Just private message Zion for coupon code.

Two new students joined our tribe. Woot!
Zion streamed some production work live, and made it available on youtube
Office Hours on Thursday involved an awesome discussion on background vocals and tips and tricks for creating group and gang vocals.
Lots of questions were answered this week involving production techniques in conjunction with the assignments from the Access 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.

Making Money in Music

Great Monday Music breakdown by Sonnet about a song called Dare To Wonder on an Oreo ad.
Tamara started a discussion about Distrokid.
Hope discussed using Ozone for mastering
Aaron shared a cool article on why pursuing music
Students shared songs and their journey in getting them promoted.
Cool article shared by Justin about Quitting your 9to5 to pursue music full time
Students began sharing their Bio's in accordance with Ari's assignment
Ari had an online class on 3/5, replay shared in the facebook group
Ari shared an article about 150+ Female Producers you need to know
Students shared their new and update websites
Sonnet had office hours on 3/8, replay shared in group
Discussion about Facebook advertising started by Jeff.
Shelley shared a lyric video.
Dree shared a song release
Victoria talked about the spring bonus and congratulating the winners
Next Cathy class coming up on Monday 3/19, 11am PST

The Access Course

Cool article shared on whether your song is 'too smart'
Keith started a discussion about registering cover songs with PRO is necessary
More students shared their cover song submissions for Feb
New writing assignment for March was discussed and shared by Sonnet
Discussion on metadata for cover songs
Discussion by Sarah about splits for cover songs
Discussion by Sal about using Taxi
Cool article about Doner Ad agency shared by Debbie
Students reaching out for co-writers, rappers, collaborations
Great Monday Music breakdown by Sonnet about a song called Dare To Wonder on an Oreo ad.
Serge shared his success with different sync sites
Sonnet updated the calendar with lots of more upcoming webinars
Cool article share about Indie Bands becoming more popular on Netflix and other original shows
The new Apple ad was shared and discussed by Emma
Office Hours with Sonnet was on 3/8 and replay made available
Discussion about Bulletproof Musician
Links for Access Course was updated by Victoria, check Files area
Submission Opportunities doc was updated with a new female empowerment opportunity, make sure you check it.
Debbie shared a link to 26 songs that'll empower you
Katie shared a spreadsheet to share songs that have been accepted by CTM
Link shared by Mark to Universal Productions playlist on Spring
Kat Quinn shared a spreadsheet with contact info of past Access course guests.
Ernest started a great discussion about producer plugin and tool advice for home studio producers
Victoria shared Bonus Info instructions, due Friday 3/16
Next webinar session is on March 24 at 10am PST, with Brian Vickers from Disney

- Zion

Weekly Facebook Group Recap - 2/25 thru 3/3