Thedy B interviews Cappriccieo Scates from SESAC

Thedy B from interviewed.blogspot.com chats with Cappriccieo Scates, Assistant Director of Writer Relations, SESAC. In part 2, Cappriccieo explains why SESAC incorporates an interview process before signing a songwriter as a SESAC affiliate, how SESAC builds a relationship with its affiliates, how SESAC helps its songwriters with opportunities for placement, the differences between the performing rights organizations, and much more.

Cappriccieo Scates from SESAC interview Pt. 1

Thedy B from interviewed.blogspot.com chats with Cappriccieo Scates, Assistant Director of Writer Relations, SESAC. In part 1, Cappriccieo explains his role and how it helps SESAC writers, the importance of having a performing rights organization (PRO) on a songwriter's team, SESAC's dedication to helping its writers in every aspect of their lives and much more

Danjahand's Interview

In this video, Danja discusses working with various artists such as T.I., Britney Spears, how he creates music, his influences, how he comes up with ringtone music, how he perfects his mix, and much more

Melrose Interview Pt. 5

In Part 5, Melrose gives advice to young women who are interested in being involved in the music business.

Melrose Interview Pt. 2

Melrose is the next R & B/pop group that is about to explode onto the music scene. They've gotten production and writing help from Grammy-Award winning producers and/or multi-platinum-selling producers, such as Bryan-Michael Cox, Adonis Shropshire, Rodney Jerkins, Swizz Beatz, and Danja. They are sure to succeed on their road to national and international stardom. Thedy B, Attorney/Songwriter with Hits A Million, LLC and interviewed.blogspot.com, interviews Melrose in a multipe-part series of interviews to help new producers and songwriters learn to write for recording artists and in particular girl groups. If you missed the previous interviews I did with the singing sensation girls' group named Melrose, please check out those video interviews by clicking here! In Part 2, Melrose talks about song placement for artists, and why they call themselves swagger queens.

Thedy B, Attorney/Songwriter

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Vernon Reid's Video Interview on Songwriting

While on the John Lennon Educational Tour bus, Vernon Reid, a Grammy-award winning guitarist, gives writers some tips on overcoming writers' blocks, capturing your ideas, developing your song ideas, the key to success, the impact of the internet, and much more!

Norah Jones Interview on Songwriting

Norah Jones discusses how she captures her songwriting ideas while traveling and who she gets her inspiration from.

Chris Brown Interview on Songwriting!

Writing songs that have images in them helps singers come up with creative concepts for their videos! Here's Chris Brown talking about his work with other songwriters and the videos that he created based off the songs on his album.

Steve Schur's Video Interview Pt. 6

Steve Schnur is the Worldwide Executive for EA Games. In this clip, Steve explains EA’s approach of placing new artists in their video games and allowing gamers to discover new music in this format. He also goes on to compare music in video games to the amount of new music discovery in radio and entertainment.

Steve Schur's Video Interview Pt. 5

Steve Schnur is the Worldwide Executive for EA Games. In this clip, Steve talks about how music functions in different video games and how that relates to what music is selected to be featured in particular games. He also speaks about discovering new artists for video games and EA’s work with songwriters in the industry.

Steve Schur's Video Interview Pt. 4

Steve Schnur is the Worldwide Executive for EA Games. In this clip, dissects the expansive amount of exposure an artist receives when their song is placed in an EA video game. Schnur goes into detail about how listening to music while playing a video game is unlike any other music interactive experience. EA makes a point to go 10 steps further and exposure their artists in an impressive variety of promotional outlets.

Steve Schnur's Video Interview Pt. 3 on EA Games

Steve Schnur is the Worldwide Executive for EA Games. EA is the #1 video game producer in the world and is the creator of popular game series such as Madden Football, Need for Speed, Harry Potter, and more. In this clip, Schnur explains his role at EA Games and how he deals with all of the music that goes into the games and his role in the marketing of the games.

Video Interview with Steve Schnor, Worldwide Executive for EA Games Pt. 2

In this clip, Steve talks about the composers they pick to work on their games and how they treat musical rights in the video game world. He also discusses the exciting opportunities for composers to work with writing interactive scores in video games.

Interviewed.blogspot.com wants to interview you!

If you're a successful producer, writer, musician, lyricist, production team, engineer, DJ, and/or music industry professional, I would like to do a video interview of you for this blog, interviewed.blogspot.com! If your label or team has a new artist or group coming out, I'd like to interview them too! To see other video interviews I've done, check out my one-on-one video interviews on here with Adonis Shropshire, Cri$tyle, and Melrose. To set up your interview, please email at hitsamillion@gmail.com. Interviewed.blogspot.com is designed to help up and coming songwriters, producers, musicians, engineers, lyricists, DJs and music industry professionals learn about their craft and about the music business!

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Steve Schnur's Video Interview on getting your music into film and video games

Steve Schnur is Worldwide Executive, Music and Music Marketing for Electronic Arts (EA), the largest video game producer in the world and home to titles like Madden NFL 2006, The Sims and Medal of Honor. A longtime veteran of the music industry, Schnur held executive positions with the Arista, Elektra, Chrysalis and Capitol labels before moving to EA to become a leader in creating synergies between the video gaming and music worlds. Through Schnur, EA partners with major and independent labels to create opportunities to feature music in-game to enhance the gaming experience, and create channels through which gamers can then purchase music heard in the game.

Think outside the box: get your music into film or video games! Here's some tips from Steve Schnur, the Worldwide Executive for EA Games.

Songwriting from the Artist's Perspective: Danity Kane

Many of you may have seen Making the Band 4 where the groups Day 26 and Danity Kane were both working on their new albums. Though you may have just watched the MTB$ for pure entertainment, I selected this clip from MTB4 so that you could watch the show now from a songwriter's perspective. In the recent interviews I did with the girl group Melrose, we talked about the importance of writing songs that fit an artist's personality, vocal range, style, and album direction. Now watch this MTB4 clip and see if you can see some of the same themes:

John Kellogg talks about sampling music in this interview

John Kellogg is an entertainment attorney, performer, and Assistant Chair of the Music Business/Management Department at Berklee College of Music. He is also a practicing lawyer, who for many years represented the R&B group The O’Jays, and who currently represents singer Gerald Levert as well as emerging artists. Kellogg also performed and recorded with the R&B/funk group Cameo before attending law school.

J. Starr's Interview!

J. Starr, a producer and musician, talks about ways he gets inspired, such as seeing someone do something interesting. He also makes the claim that extremists are the best songwriters. Also in this segment, Starr shares what software he mostly uses. He creates most music in Reason, but also uses ProTools and Digital Performer.

Keri Hilson Interview!

In this interview, Keri talks about the songs she's written for other artists, her debut album, why she wrote the songs she wrote, her personality, her inspiration for her songs and much more!

Writing Rap Hooks - Interviews with Some of Today's Hottest Rappers

Check out these interviews where rappers such as Kanye West, Common, Nas, Alchemist, KRS-1, Talib Kweli, Rocafella, WuTang and many more reveal how they come up with hooks for their songs.

Production Secrets from Veteran Producer, David Kershenbaum

What's David Kershenbaum's secret? It's his ability to communicate emotion to listeners. He reveals why emotion is so critical to good music, and shares four concrete strategies for putting emotion, passion, emotional directness, etc into your songs and recordings that will draw listeners in.

For my Dj readers - here's some video interviews for you!

I got a request from an up and coming DJ to include some video clips from established DJs. So I want to honor that request and post some videos on this blog to help up and coming DJs learn their craft and promote themselves. Here's a whole page on techniques that DJs can learn to use: http://www.artistshousemusic.org/grammy%20camp

Here's a video with Angie Hunte, who has written for Brittney Spears and Danity Kane, who gives advice to up and coming songwriters about how to get your music heard and placed, what is the best approach to split sheets, what makes a hit song, what mistakes she's seen people make in the music business and a whole lot more.

Jack Knight's Interview

Songwriter/Producer Jack Knight gives advice on song placement to "stars" in the music business!

Thedy B, Attorney/Songwriter interviews Melrose, a new R & B/pop group Pt. 4

Melrose, the next hottest R & B/pop group with production help from Grammy-Award winning producers and/or multi-platinum-selling producers, such as Bryan-Michael Cox, Adonis Shropshire, Rodney Jerkins, Swizz Beatz, and Danja, helps new producers and songwriters learn to write for recording artists and in particular girl groups. In Part 4, Melrose shares the key elements to a track, the key element to attracting fans, the challenges they faced with song selection, and the sacrifices they made as a group.

Melrose's Interview Pt. 3

*** sorry guys, I've been having technical difficulties with part #2 of the Melrose interview, so instead of waiting for it to get fixed, here's part 3 of the Melrose interview***

In Part 3, Melrose talks about their upcoming single, "Trade Up," we talked about how Trade Up is a different message from Upgrade U by Beyonce, why they decided to record Trade Up, and much more!

Thedy B, Attorney/Songwriter
Hits A Million, LLC
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