Vocal Mecca 2005 (TBD)

• Improve performance and confidence on stage
• Increase your range, build strength, and stay on pitch
• Learn how to get booked for studio work
• Discover how to sing in any style without damaging your voice
• Rehabilitate, repair and protect your voice
• Get the most emotional impact out of your music and your performance

Recording Mecca 2005 (TBD)

Learn from top producers and engineers the best way to record your music in your home studio.

• Get a list of essential gear to make your home studio ROCK!
• Learn what makes a recording "radio ready"
• Get professional advice on the entire recording process, including tracking, mixing, and mastering
• Troubleshoot different recording challenges

Indie Artists Make Industry Connections
at L*A*M*P Events  G-Man, Immedia

With an ongoing series of seminars, workshops, and music business events, Los Angeles Music Productions (L*A*M*P) is providing information and interaction for artists, managers, producers, indie labels, publishers, and music marketing professionals. Three successful career connections took place as a direct result of L*A*M*P's "Top Producers and Engineers Reveal All!" event held at the Knitting Factory last year.

L*A*M*P Hosts "Top Producers Reveal All" 2004
 "Absolutely electric!!!" -- Lauri Shaw, MusicDish

photo by Jim Steinfeldt, Rolling Stone

How to Approach a Music Supervisor:
Transitioning from Freelance Artist
to Hired Gun!
by Leslie Waller,
L*A*M*P Founder & Executive Director
At a recent seminar this month, a guest was telling me about how difficult it is to get people to listen to his music. It's difficult to get heard; it's difficult getting through; it's difficult getting a response even if you get someone to agree to listen. Well, listen up, folks…I'm going to let you in on a little secret. It's the first immutable law of marketing...

Using Peer-to-Peer to Launch a Career
How The G-Man Got Played, Got Signed, Got a Publisher, & Got on iTunes. . . All by Giving His Music Away For Free.
The G-Man is a musician who knows how to "work the Web," perhaps because he's also deeply involved in the worlds of advertising and marketing. Some of his marketing savvy was put to use in launching his music career. What did he do that was so extraordinary? Defying the wishes of the RIAA and the major record labels, he offered all the music on his first album for free. In fact, he went even farther than that: he contacted thousands of DJs and remixers, established peer-to-peer file sharing relationships with them, then offered to send them individual tracks (bass, synth, vocals, drums, guitar, etc.) if they wanted to mix new versions of his songs.