Music Speciality Area Friday - Sunday 11am

Music Speciality Area Friday - Sunday 11am - 6 pm

Music Specialty Info Areas to visit! Friday-Sunday 10am-6pm. Held on the 1st & 2nd Floor of the Music Row Best Western 1407 Division Street Nashville, TN 37203

Bring your personal observations and what you perceive. We'll answer your perceptions about particular parts of the industry. We'll listen and give you possible work arounds. We'll help you find the info you're looking for in the categories listed below.

All festival badge holders are automatically registered to attend and participate in the various specialty needs areas, performance opportunities and all other activities of the Fest. Go to one or all at your own pace!

Specialty Music Areas

Register Here...

Come and go at your own leisure, interest & pace!

11am-6pmpm Friday, Saturday & Sunday

Career Critique

Here we conduct an in-depth consultation of aspirations, overall product analysis and resources. Based on your personal responses and input, we perform a Career Critique and needs assessment. We start at the grass roots level and move forward. We encourage Member/Clients to start fresh, seriously evaluate themselves, their products and their approach. The responsibility of the Career Critique is to evaluate your concepts and make them mentally visible and explainable for commercial analysis to the marketplace.

Products Critique

Here at the Music Critique Room we dig deeper into the physical products themselves. With your overall mental concepts flushed out at the Career Critique, we are now ready to begin analyzing your physical project/product in every detail. We'll ask, "What industry level are you currently at?" and "Where it needs to be according to your expressed interest." Thru a means of critical investigation we bring together many elements to stimulate thinking. Music Critique interprets, describes, evaluates, ask & answers questions while dissecting every element of your product/project.

Recording, Sound & Video

Music Recording Room is designed to help guide members thru the maze of turning your intangible ideas into a physical product that can be uniformly mass reproduced and heard or seen. From beginning to end, the result needs to be a completed product/project that members are confident in presenting to the general public and industry for review. Be it a single song, complete album collection, music video, spoken word or a business message, it is crucial to have a representation of your concepts acting on your behalf, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in today's marketplace. Instead of you speaking about yourself, these products speak for you at a time and place that is convenient for others. Music Recordings goal is to help you distill your communications into a form that is as as efficient as possible

Publisher Fest Songs (ASCAP), SongWriters Fest Music (BMI) & Song Fest Music (SESAC) among other publishers will be accepting unpublished and unsolicited submissions.

Once a physical product is created from your concept or from your existing products in accordance with your Action Plan, you may move to step/level Music Publishing. Here is the place where member product/project ownership rights are established on an industry wide recognized level. At Music Publishing we concern ourselves with developing, protecting and valuing your music. The business is diverse and demands a variety of skills. Music publishers play a vital role in the development of new music and in taking care of the business side, allowing composers and songwriters to concentrate on their creative work.

Plugger

Music Plugging is about how to develop and deploy a diverse network of relationships to get member projects/products accepted and distributed in their marketplace. Plugging approaches can vary. At Music Plugging we show you how to develop pitch packets, find prospective opportunities and how to present your product/project for consideration. Knowing who and when others that may be needing the appropriate types of material a producer is looking for are crucial keys to gaining acceptance.

Legal

Music is a business, as well as a creative process. The business aspects must be understood and managed to achieve success. The deeper you get into the music industry, the more intricate the business becomes and the more you need to know and comprehend. Music Legal walks you through all the major aspects of the music business to gain understanding and appreciation of what to do and how to do it. Music Legal offers insights and education in many legal areas you might encounter while pursuing your music craft and career. Music Legal will provide resources to develop knowledge and understanding of each segment of the music business.

Packaging & Duplication National Media Group

Once a product/project is finalized in a recorded form, it must achieve a shelf ready design that can be mass produced efficiently and uniformly for presentation to the marketplace. At Music Duplication we assist you along the way. We provide advice, consultations, resource information, How To's, referrals and guidance to help create an industry standard product for duplication.

Records, Shop & Distribution

At Music Records Room we help you understand the structure, responsibilities and inner workings of Record Labels. By grasping the concepts of how they run, we may begin to utilize that organization to our own benefit. Knowing what goes on inside and outside a Record Labels gives you the information they need to decide whether to start their own or join in or be attracted to and existing label. Shop room is a place where projects/products are displayed to promote member sales for online digital distribution, physical single sales & bulk warehousing distribution. Here at Distribution Room we focus on presenting and moving final shelf ready products into the public for display and sales by all means available. We help to develop networks for product dissemination, sales techniques & methods for member project/product distribution and dissemination.

Radio, Video & Broadcasting

A format where projects/products are presented to the general public and industry for listening or viewing pleasure. Here "On the Air", we show you how and where you can solicit for peer and fan review. An area where others are encouraged and promoted to visit, listen and/or view. At Music Radio we advise, consult and provide resource info to help get member projects/products out there and establish a place where members can reference their product for listners and viewers to express their satisfaction with your presentations.

Management, Promotions & Productions

Management Room is a full service help resource from your look to outward behaviors, Style, Fashion and other details to enhance image, appearances, behaviors, marketability and stability in the public arena. Management encompasses long term development aspects for member product/project, business continuation and accountability. At Music Promotions we demonstrate ways to get your message out in front of the public eye. We have designed, planned methods to raise visibility and create growth opportunities with awareness. From how to write a press release, poster designs and other basic out reach methods to the more not so basic approaches. We help generate new thinking which is a promoter "must have" to create new exposure opportunities. Music Productions we assist you in planning your public and private events to increase member success.

All festival badge holders are automatically registered to attend and participate in the various specialty needs rooms and all other happenings at the Fest. Go to one or all at your own pace!

Register Here...