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As an independent musician, financial support, buying downloads and merchandise always helps. One simple gesture, would be telling your friends and sharing a link to the music or musicians. Finally, just telling the musician, “Hey, I like this song” goes a long way.

Thank you and hang in there!

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As a songwriter, who has earned some minor (I mean minor!) income through synchronization. I am always looking for more information to help me along the way. Luckily, I live in city like Seattle that offers some excellent resources for musicians. One of those resources is the amazing KEXP. It’s a radio station that offers so much more. (Just check out their webpage and their live performance videos.)

A resource they offer to musicians is Mastering the Hustle. These are live panel discussions with a wealth of information for musicians trying to understand the landscape of the modern music industry. Which brings us back to Synchronization Rights. KEXP recently had a very informative Mastering the Hustle panel discussion on the topic. If this is something you’re interested in, please check out this video.

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Home – A new release by Marwood Williams coming soon!

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With that, I post a video of one of my favorite 1960’s songs: ” Itchycoo Park” by the Small Faces. Enjoy!

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Have you ever worked on a project where you need a music sample or sound effect? There’s an excellent resource where musicians, filmmakers and sound artists can  access an amazing collection of free sounds and samples. The website is freesound.org.  It describes itself as  a “collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds.”

I have been using freesound.org for several years. Mostly, I use it to get field recordings sounds to enhance my music and and to create different moods and atmospheres. A good example of this can be found in my recent song ‘Trying to Do Right.”

I also have my own page on Freesound, named after my favorite guitar, where I have uploaded some field recording sound clips. I hope to upload more sound files in the future.

Please note, there are a variety of Creative Commons licenses types. When using sounds, some licenses require attribution to the author. Other sounds are public domain, which means you can use the sound however you like. Please be sure to understand the Creative Commons license each work offers. Here is a link describing the various Creative Commons licenses:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

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From January of 2010:

Due to a New Year’s Computer virus, I am a little behind schedule in mixing a new song for the site. I hope to do that shortly. In the meantime, I spent my weekend building some new bass traps/sound panels.

For building the bass traps and panels. I used these simple PDF plans I found on the web.

In the next week or so, I plan on doing some more recording and mixing, which means I should have some new material up shortly.

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