Learn How to Play the Two Finger "A" Chord on the Mandolin

We are back to working on AcousticMusicTV.com and are coming out with a line of 2 Finger Mandolin Chord video. These are our favorite mandolin chords to play, easy to learn and easy to move around the fret board with. Along with the videos is a new 2 finger chord chart that you can download.

Learn how to play a two finger A chord on the Mandolin. Learn to use the 1 string, the E string and place your ring finger on the 5th fret, or the A note. Place your middle finger on the 4th fret on the 2nd string or the A string, this note is C#. Play those two strings and you will have a two finger A chord on the Mandolin Two finger mandolin chords are easy to play and allow you to move around the fret board a lot easier Download a free Two Finger Chord Chart for the Mandolin, includes the major, minor and seventh chords. http://acousticmusictv.com/html/Mandolin%20Pages/2FingerAChordMandolin.html

Time for Stats on Marketing Essential Chords, April

Ok I have been working hard on the marketing of my new Essential Chords Book for Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo, sales are up on Amazon.com, page rank is up, progress all around. I have also been very busy putting together the different materials I will need such as images and videos. I have loaded up some author videos on my Amazon author page, and I need to finish the text for the YouTube video and I will get them up.

Ok Stats on Essential Chords and the older book Notebook Music Chords,
Amazon sales of Essential Chords for March, 3 copies
Amazon sales of Notebook Music Chords for March 4 copies, marketing one book has sparked the other, sales are about 1 a week, the goal is to get them to 1 a day.

Sales rank on Amazon for Essential Chords went from 1,175,775 to 1,273,564 on March 31, and then today to 300,000, in the last two weeks it jumped as high as 185,000, I guess these move around a lot
Notebook Music Chords went from 871,112 to 713,168
Sales on Lulu.com for Notebook Music is 6 books and 1 pdf sold, little confused but I think it is for the year. Need to move Essential Chords to Lulu.com also

CafePress sold 5 music items, increasing the traffic on AcousticMusicTV increases sales on all the items.
Traffic on AcousticMusicTV.com our main site has jumped from 95 a day to 159 a day
on this blog, it has gone down a little 43 down to 35, bounce rates are in the 50s%

Tasks complete, videos shot and edited, need to be put up on YouTube, page images made and loaded on the Facebook page, Flickr and Google Picassa, weblinks on all, keyworded captions on all.

To do: write video copy and upload book videos, then cross link to all sites, update email list graphics and fix the AWeber account and the autoresponder emails, add graphics and more post to blog, get new sheet music books on AcousticMusicTV.com and the blog, make graphics for sheet music books.

Carolyn Waters CD Release Party, Great Experience

Carolyn Waters CD Release Party earlier this year

Marketing with Video, Mike Delaney

In following up with our Marketing Your Music 101 articles on of my singer song writer friends, Mike Delaney, took the info and applied it to his video on Youtube, "Drill Baby Drill"

Note all the things he did:
• Good title with web address in it back to his site.
• He recorded the song with enough vocal volume so that the CC transcription feature of YouTube could get a clear Close Caption, watch it scroll by, very good
• A link first in the description, with a copyright, and then the lyrics of the song, he even went one step further and added in the chords so that others can play. Very cool
• Lots of keyworded relevant text, and then good keywords

Follow up:
What else could Mike do, he could put in the links to his store page, or a link to CDBaby so people could buy, Here is the store link, http://www.mikedelaney.org/CD.html
You can also put links to the his other videos in the descriptions or use the annotation feature of YouTube and drop a link in there.  Next steps would be to put this video on a Hubpage or a Squidoo page with some oil drilling related info. He could also put in contact info, but you can do that through YouTube.

What else, post your video on a blog or website using the embed code from YouTube. I just wrote a post about this and dropped the video into my AcousticMusicTV.com blog, this create a backlink for Mikes video and helps promote it. Also now my readers will see it and maybe come on over. Remember viewing off the YouTube platform counts just as much as watching it on the YouTube platform, Huge amounts of traffic are generated off of these video links. You can create a series of these blogs or have friends with blogs and cross promote each others videos, it really helps

All of this is important in promoting your music.

Great job Mike

Acoustic Music TV Notebook Chord and Music Chart, Second Edition

News Release

Today we are please to announce the release of the second edition of our Notebook Chord and Music Chart book. Updated for 2010 and doubled in size this is the essential Guitar, Mandolin, Ukulele and Banjo chord and music charts book.  Simple, clean fingering charts for all players showing the 7 basic guitar chords, A-G for major, minor and seventh chords.

Also includes the I, IV, V chord progression for each key.  Plus movable guitar fingerings for Barre Chords, Arpeggio scales, and soloing scales for folk, country, rock and blues.  Basic Mandolin full and 2 finger chords and the I, IV, V progression for each key and movable arpeggio scales.

The charts are designed for taking with you when you go jamming with your friends.  We have also added in Ukulele chord charts, and Banjo chord charts for G and D tuning. Along with blank sheet music pages with chord boxes for guitar, mandolin, ukulele and banjo. Bound with coil binding so the book can open and lie flat, easy to read, or in pdf format that you can print out for your jam or practice book.  A great reference guide for every beginning player.

Book is available at Lulu.com

and Amazon.com

Chuck Williams at the Narrows

Back from shooting a new Acoustic Music TV show with Chuck Williams at the Narrows in Fall River, MA. A cold night outside but great music inside. This is my first visit to the Narrows, what a great performance center. I had no idea how big the place is, combinded with a gallery just a great place. We will be editing this show and hope to have it up soon. Big thanks to Chuck and all the great music.

You can learn more about Chuck's music at www.chuckwilliamsmusic.com
Check out the Narrows Center for the Arts at www.ncfta.org

Acoustic Music Web Promo

Carolyn Waters-Obin, You've Got to Change

Singer/Songwriter Carolyn Waters-Obin with her song You've Got to Change.