The top three elements of a commercial song:

1) Good recording
2) Good production
3) Good mix

Don’t skip over these three items, because if you underestimate them; then you deny yourself a great deal of power that you have at your disposal. When you go to industry conferences, they spend a lot of time talking about the business side of things contracts, how to get your music in the hands of executives, copyrights, how to sell your music, how to use the internet properly, but before you can do that– you need to do this.

Step #1 more…