Catrese West (Miss Mini) is a budding songwriter in Rocky Mount North Carolina. She was a professional singer for 20 years before she finally decided to begin a songwriting career. This career began only about two months ago. In those two months, she learned how to build a home studio, how to use songwriting software, wrote a couple of songs and has now received reviews for two of her songs from TAXI, her independent A&R Company. The first step in this journey was to build a studio. She researched the task on the net and found a blog called Ultimate Songwriting. This blog gave her step by step instructions to the equipment and set-up she would need to create a home studio. Her home studio consists of a laptop, studio software, an audio/midi interface, a condenser microphone, studio monitors. The musical equipment was purchased from Zzounds.com. This website has very competitive prices on musical equipment and price was a factor in the building of the studio. Specifically, the list of equipment is as follows: Gateway T3200 Laptop Sonar Home Studio 7 Software TASCAM US-144 Audio/MIDI Interface CAD GXL2200 Condenser Microphone Samson Studio Dock USB Monitors Next she needed to learn how to use songwriting software. After searching the web for a product that suited her needs, she purchased Sonar Home Studio 7. Since the only instrument Mini can play is her vocal cords, she needed software that had all the necessary instruments built in and would allow her to incorporate her vocals. The software is relatively easy to use and has very good online support. Although learning the software is an ongoing process, she is becoming a better engineer with each song she records. Her very first attempt at songwriting was a song called “Who She Is”. The song is about a woman who becomes suspicious when her significant other has secret cell phone conversations. Miss Mini has also written 3 other songs entitled “Slow”, “Can’t Stop” and “Compelled” all of which can be heard on Electronic Press Kit at Sonicbids.com. “Slow”, was the second effort with “Can’t Stop” being the third and “Compelled” the most recent. When listened to in that order, one can hear the technical improvements. After she wrote “Who She Is” and “Slow”, she submitted them to TAXI for review. It took about a month to receive the reviews. The review for “Who She Is” follows below. “GREAT CONCEPT!!!! I really like this song idea, but this song has so much room to be strengthened. You have a cool melody, but you need to add more rhythm and creative style to it. This song is very ruff, so you have plenty of time to build off of it. Lyrically your story develops well, your point definitely comes across, but you’re leaving too much space in your verses where that space would be filled in with lyrics. Your structure should be an 8 bar verse that progresses into an 8 bar chorus.” Here is the review for “Slow”. “Lyrically I like your story line. You want to work more on your melody on this song. I’m not hearing that addicting melody that will make come to hear more. That’s the affect you want to create melodically. Give the listener something that sticks in their heads for a while.” There was also an overall critique of which the results appear below. “Catrese, Thanks for your submission to Taxi. I can hear your song writing potential, you just need to be guided so that you understand the basics of song writing. Let me recommend a book, Shortcuts to Hit Song writing. This will give you an understanding of structure. As well if you were to use more melody styles in your songs that will give your song a sense of change. You don’t want to keep the same melody throughout the entire song. The listener will grow tired from hearing the repetitive rhythm”. With these reviews in mind, Miss Mini is in the process of re-working both songs. She is very appreciative of the constructive criticism and has already purchased the recommended text. What is most important to her is that this professional in the music industry heard her potential. For that she is extremely grateful. That statement alone confirms her raw talent and gets her excited about her future in the field. Miss Mini’s goal is to become one of the premier songwriters of our time and based on these reviews, she is on the right track. You may continue to follow Miss Mini’s progress by subscribing to her blog at WordPress.com.

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A healthy and long life of your iPod battery will give you more hours of entertainment. Follow these simple tips for enjoying a longer life Apple laptop battery. Put your iPod to sleep after listening Once you’ve finished listening, at the same time laptops-battery.co.uk suggest you put the iPod to sleep to save power.

Put your iPod to sleep after hearing

Once you’ve finished listening, put the Apple Macbook Pro battery iPod to sleep to save power.

Pause button can be used freely

We normally do not use this button, often after putting your Powerbook G4 battery iPod to sleep, slide the pause button to “on”. Wondering why? Because the click wheel is very sensitive, if you get a brush in your pocket or a blow to his case, start playing and all your battery will drain.

Control your iPod backlight

This is another Apple iBook G4 14 inch battery drainer, very big. Reducing the backlight to two seconds or five seconds, never leave it always on. Here are quick steps to do that, from the main menu, scroll down to the configuration. Press releases select the button, the list appears, select Backlight, then choose the time. In this way it will improve battery life for sure.

Check your screen brightness

You need really bright screen? Brightness adjustment can save a lot of Apple A1079 battery , Apple A1175 battery, so that the brightness you need more than the battery. If you drop a little, the battery life will be enhanced. Here is how you can do, to get to the settings menu, scroll down to the brightness and press the select button.

If you take care of the above factors, the laptop battery life of iPod is certainly going to improve. IPod Follow the tips and tricks here.

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Are you interested in downloading free videos, music files and other free stuff over the internet? While there are various websites which cater to peer to peer sharing of all sorts of files, you must remember to take caution in the things that you download from the internet. Aside from being careful about viruses you should check if the file that you are interested in is a legal download.

It is actually not surprising that a lot of downloading websites also carry illegal downloads. Why? Because the administrators of the website aren’t really able to spot the illegal downloads unless someone complains about it. With so many people uploading and downloading files online day in and day out, what does one have to do in order to make sure that what he or she is getting is a legal download? Here are some pointers.

In order for your download to be legal try to check if there are any information available on the file that you are downloading from the internet then try to check its source. Illegal downloads usually come from unreliable sources such as bootleg materials or those that have been stolen from production houses. If a certain movie hasn’t even been shown in cinemas yet and you have already spotted a downloadable file of it in the internet then it’s highly likely that it’s an illegal download.

As for what makes an illegal download on your part, it’s all about how you intend to make use of the file. If you are thinking of using it for commercial purposes but you haven’t even been granted permission by the production company then you have created an illegal download already. While there are loads of available stuff online for free, it does not mean that you can just abuse it by trying to make a profit out of it.

You can find free legal music downloads on Hilary Mujikwa’s site – www.freemp3musicdownloads.ca. Plus get access some of the best english mp3 download tracks through his music review site. His site also has info about where to find good free music download sites legally.