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Beauty of the Month Chanel Coates

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Music Business Understanding a Split Sheet

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Brent Garrod The Definition of Success

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Live the Life You Want

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Why @Werd_Customs is Winning

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Dj Samore’s Top 5 Countdown

Beauty of the month

Chanel Coates

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Understanding A Split Sheet

Written by: Mark Smilow I can not explain the importance of filling out publishing split sheets. I am going to break this down to the most basics levels so please forgive me if you feel like I am treating you like idiots, but again I can not express how important this actually is in making money in the publishing business.

What happens is that everyone gets in a studio and creates a hit record and it is not released for several months after it was recorded. The label will not start sending publishing statements for an estimated 9months after the commercial release of the song so it could be as many as 18 months since the songs was recorded. At this point everyone involved will not really remember who did what that night in the studio cause everybody was throwing out ideas and maybe even drinking or smoking. So it is hard to go back and complete songs sheets, hence the reason I say complete them during the recording session so everyone agrees.

A song is broken down into a 100%.

This one hundred percent represents the percentage that is going to be split between all writers of lyrics and often melodies and a composer/producer or group of composers who created the music whether it is original or sampled.

Then the publisher’s share is also equal

to 100% which is broken down between all the writers and composer/producers’ publishing companies.

So let’s look at the first basic split of 200% which would be one writer and one composer with no samples.

You would divide the song evenly down the middle 50/50. Now the percentage would be further broken down between writers and publishers but still equaling 100% for the writers and composers/producers and 100% for the publishers.

Lets assume in this case that neither writers (lyrics and music) have a publishing deal and have created there own publishing company.

Example#1: Tom Williams wrote the lyrics and has his own publishing company (Williams Publishing Group) Steve Jones wrote the music and has his own publishing company (Jones Music Group) This is what the splits would look like: Song Title: TBD Writers: Tom Williams -50% Steve Jones -50% Publishers: Williams Publishing Group -50% Jones Music Group -50% Total of 200%

Example #2 Tom Williams wrote the lyrics and has his own publishing company (Williams Publishing Group) Steve Jones wrote the music with his partner Mike Jones, but they have joint ownership in the publishing company (Jones Music Group) This is what the splits would look like: Song Title: TBD Writers: Tom Williams – 50% Steve Jones – 25% Mike Jones – 25% Publishers: Williams Publishing Group – 50% Jones Music Group – 50% Total of 200% Example #3 Tom Williams wrote the lyrics for the verses of the song and has his own publishing company (Williams Publishing Group) but the hook was written by David Frost who has his own publishing company (Frost Bite Music) Steve Jones wrote the music with his partner Mike Jones, but they have joint ownership in the publishing company (Jones Music Group) This is what the splits would look like: Song Title: TBD Writers: Tom Williams – 37.5% David Frost – 12.5%

Steve Jones – 25% Mike Jones – 25% Publishers: Williams Publishing Group – 37.5% Frost Bite Music – 12.5% Jones Music Group – 50% Total of 200% Some people break the songs percentage down by how many bars you wrote; others split per-centages equally no matter what. Some writers feel that he hook is the main part of the song and want a larger percentage. This can also be true with the composer/producers because depending on who did what instrumentation on the song.

Maybe one of the composers only did a horn section and would mean a lesser percent if any at all cause they could be a work for hire. So again this is something that needs to be determined while everyone involved in the song crea-tion is present cause as I mentioned above it gets re-ally difficult to remember 18 months later.

Publishing can be very difficult but made simple by taking a few extra minutes to fill out the proper paper work making sure everyone involved in the creation of the songs gets the co-rect percentages based on there participation on the song. expert@newindustrytips.com

The Definition Of Success

Brent Garrod

The key to success?

“You’re only as good as the people around you.”

Tell us about your busi- What is the key to being No. I have Parkinson’s ness and what it is that successful as a business disease and a neurologiyou do: owner? cal disease called Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever I work in construction, You’re only as good as (RMSF).

I’m a general contrac- the people around you. tor. Specifically work in People are created as How do you find the drywall. I’ve built 16,000 who they are created strength to not give up? new homes since 1987. to be. I hire very easily. It takes me about 4/5 I can’t quit, I’m a driven How did you get started? minutes to determine if individual. When life someone is ambitious or throws you challenges, Well, I dropped out not. It’s all about ambi- you’re not to question it. in the 10th grade and tion, personality and You have to work with it. started working in the work ethic.

And I decided to roll with construction industry You also gotta have it. My grandkids are my and worked my way up. someone you can trust reward for it. I’m a better I wanted to do for my- to watch your money. I grandparent than I was a self what I was doing for had someone embezzle parent. I didn’t have that others. I spent 16 years from me. But I didn’t let balance that I have now. traveling and learning that tarnish my outlook People who are driven the trade. It takes a lot of on people. You never are always looking for heartache to start your know what people are challenges but you have own business, entrepre- going through. to take time to smell the neurs don’t get enough roses. credit.

Once you achieve a level of success, does things get easier to manage as far as life etc..?

How do you deal with competition?

Anyone who makes it, anyone who succeeds, it makes a statement about them. Competition is my friend. Anyone who succeeds I take my hat off to them. I admire them for that. Be open minded and listen. You never know where you’ll get your next lesson. My skills and my talents are gifts that I was given.

There’s nobody that’s self made. We’re made by the

one above with our gifts.

If you’re a broom sweeper, be the best sweeper there is.

Any last words?

Work hard, be ambitious, and give it your best. If you don’t have that as your basis you’re not going far.

Brent Garrod is the owner of Garrod Designs located in Port Charlotte, Fl.

When life throws you challenges, you’re not to question it.

You have to work with it.

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LIVE THE LIFE YOU WANT Written by Rachelle Ford Couple years ago, 2 Octobers to be exact, my friend Niki and I took a trip to Miami to a “Live the Life You Want” weekend hosted by Oprah. Yes, THE Oprah.

Ms Winfrey if you’re nasty (maybe not). The weekend was filled with posititivity and motivational gems to propel us to start our journey to success. Besides Oprah, THE Oprah, we also got to listen to Deepak Chopra, Iyanla Vanzant, THE Iyanla, Rob Bell, Elizabeth Gilbert and many more. We left that weekend feeling refreshed. Like the thousands of others in attendance, I took plenty of notes. And to this day, I refer to my little pink notebook full of memories when I need a reminder of what mindframe I need to in to “Live the Life I Want.” This month I decided to share some of my favorite quotes with you all.

“The Challenge is remaining greatful when you’re going through the cloud.” -Oprah

“Begin everything in life with the awareness that you have been given a gift (life).” - Rob Bell

labor pains it takes to birth it.”-Rob Bell

“Live in such a way that “It’s better to live your you are aware of how version of your life im- much life matters.” -Rob perfectly than to live a Bell perfect version of someone else’s life.”-Elizabeth “Suffering raises quesGilbert tions. But so does grace, blessings, generosity and “Are you planning on breath.”- Rob Bell eventually being the hero of your own story “The only thing life or are you waiting on requires of us is that we someone else to show up breathe.”-Rob Bell and save the day?”-Elizabeth Gilbert “The life you want is on the other side of the

“Don’t be wasting precious tears crying for no reason with no agenda.”Rob Bell

“Everything you are going through is helping you to the get through.”Oprah “When your intentions are aligned with your purpose, you have flow in your life.”-Oprah “No matter what, TIME is moving on.”-Elizabeth Gilbert

“Do not allow dysfunction to become famil“Despair is a belief that iar.”-Rob Bell tomorrow will just be another version of to- “Life doesn’t play tricks day.” -Rob Bell on you, your mind does!”-Rib Bell “The life you want begins by embracing the “When someone is in life that you have. And and out of your life, it is the life that you have the sign you need that right here, right now, you need to change the is miraculous and it all locks and lose the key.”matters.” - Rob Bell Rob Bell

“The life you want begins when you start appreciating the life you have.”- Rob Bell

Why @Werd_Customs

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