7 Steps to Defining Your Sound and Direction on Your Next Record
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by Cari Cole
8M ago
This post helps you get started, but that’s only the beginning. My Artist Sanctuary Monthly Membership will take you step-by-step through the artist development process to build your sound, direction and career–the same process I’ve used to help my clients win Grammy Awards, get featured in Rolling Stone, secure major licensing deals, get signed to management and record labels, and live the dream. What would it feel like to be regularly performing to thousands of people singing the words to your songs and supporting your career by the end of this year? Come join our Artist Sanctuary and fin ..read more
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Quality Over Quantity: 6 Lessons in Releasing Music That Connects
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by Cari Cole
9M ago
This post helps you get started, but that’s only the beginning. My Artist Sanctuary Monthly Membership will take you step-by-step through the artist development process to build your artistry and career–the same process I’ve used to help my clients win Grammy Awards, get featured in Rolling Stone, secure major licensing deals, get signed to management and labels, and live the dream. What would it feel like to be regularly performing to thousands of people singing the words to your songs and supporting your career by the end of this year? Come join our Artist Sanctuary and find out how. Cli ..read more
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5 Secret Ways to Channel the Song Gods, Write at a Clip + Glean the Best Songs
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by Cari Cole
9M ago
This post helps you get started, but that’s only the beginning. My Artist Sanctuary Monthly Membership will take you step-by-step through the artist development process to weave your artistry into your songs and build music that grows your career–it’s the same process I’ve used to help my clients win Grammy Awards, get featured in Rolling Stone, chart on Billboard, secure major licensing deals, get signed to management and labels, and live the dream. What would it feel like to be regularly performing to thousands of people singing the words to your songs and supporting your career by the end ..read more
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3 Songwriting Secrets to Releasing Songs That Stream Like Crazy + Play on Repeat
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by Cari Cole
9M ago
This post helps you get started, but that’s only the beginning. My Artist Sanctuary Monthly Membership will take you step-by-step through the artist development process to build your artistry and career–the same process I’ve used to help my clients win Grammy Awards, get featured in Rolling Stone, secure major licensing deals, get signed to management and labels, and live the dream. What would it feel like to be regularly performing to thousands of people singing the words to your songs and supporting your career by the end of this year? Come join our Artist Sanctuary and find out how. Ther ..read more
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101 Songwriting Prompts to Channel the Song Gods and Break Writers Block
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by Cari Cole
1y ago
Want to keep song concepts flowing all the time? As creators, we usually have ideas constantly – but what happens when you get stuck? Writer’s block is not uncommon—there are always times when the ideas aren’t flowing. See my pinned Instagram post on the 4 Seasons of An Artist to see what season you are in.  To help stimulate song concepts, I put together a list of my FREE 101 songwriting prompts. You can download a copy of them here.  The thing is—in real life we are taught to hold back our emotions. It makes sense that we might want to hide the anger we’re experiencing, our rage ..read more
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5 Ways for Musicians to Improve Your Vision, Sound + Direction on Your Next Album
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by Cari Cole
1y ago
In the music business, tours are struggling with inflation and some artists like the Animal Collective have had to cancel their European tours as a result. I anticipate. The music industry announced 100,000 songs per day uploading onto DSP over-saturating the marketplace. I just got off the phone with a friend who has a music licensing house who talked about how challenging licensing is becoming with too much music flooding the marketplace. In PARTICULAR – music that is not ready to be released saturating the marketplace. I just got a major licensing deal for one of our artists whose record I ..read more
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5 Secrets to Writing Songs That Will Connect With Your Audience
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by Cari Cole
1y ago
There’s a delicate balance between your music, your artist persona, your songs and the artistic principles that make artists into superstars. What we’ve discovered over three decades in the music industry is that your music and your sound have to align with who you are. What’s amazing is the connection you make with your audience when that happens. There are 3 Keys to Success that turns artists into superstars. 1 – The song itself. 2 – A collection of songs that are connected together, and connected to your soul. 3 – The artistic principles we use to connect you, your songs and a body of musi ..read more
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Your Songs Are the Key to Your Success: The 3 Secrets of Writing Great Songs
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by Cari Cole
1y ago
There’s a delicate balance between your music, your artist persona, your songs and the artistic principles that make artists into superstars. What I’ve discovered over three decades in the music industry – as a music mentor and being an award winning artist myself – is that your music and your sound have to align with who you are. And what’s amazing is the connection you make with your audience when that happens. In fact, there are 3 Keys to transform an artist into a superstar. And we’ll get into the detail of these keys in a bit. But here there are. The 3 Keys to Success are: The song itse ..read more
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How to Free Yourself From Writer’s Block
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by Cari Cole
2y ago
Every now and then out of nowhere, our creativity comes to a hard stop, and often we are clueless as to why. And worse, we panic. But the fountain isn’t always flowing and there are some simple ways to tap it again. Sometimes it’s because we are trying to “force it”. Or because our well is dry – for the moment. This is when we need to set our sights on seeking inspiration. I call it this the “Gathering Season” from my “4 Seasons of An Artist” IG Post. Start by trying to “step into the flow.” Artist India Arie says that in her quest for ‘success’ — trying to make a hit — that she went so far o ..read more
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Writing Songs for Sync: Ways it Can Help or Hurt Your Artist Career
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by Cari Cole
2y ago
Finding licensing for your songs has become a popular pursuit, especially during our pandemic world. More and more artists, without the income from live stage have had to turn to other avenues to keep income flowing, and sync is one of them. Many songwriters and music artists want to submit their album (already written + recorded) for sync licensing. However most sync houses want writers to write for specific projects or “pitches”. In other words, they aren’t looking to fit a song already written to a project, they want the writer to write to the screen or visual episode. The other issue with ..read more
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