The Changing Music Scene

Aspiring artists, composers, musicians.**

what is the best way for them to exhibit themselves to the world?  close friends can easily hound in on a facebook/myspace/twitter page, but that only goes so far.

CD sales plummeting, singles available online are again creating those one-hit-wonders of the vinyl age.  But what does this mean for the classics? Not only Bach, Beethoven, Vivaldi - any those old-time pieces that can't be released again because they're everywhere already? 

My grandfather probably has 3000+ CDs of all his "favourite" classical, orchestral pieces ad composers - he has not been caught in the crazy technological advancements that the younger generations have.  How is his perception of the current music scene different than everyone else's?  How does his tiny use of the internet affect his sense of "pop culture"?

What affects how you buy music?  Do you still buy the entire physical CD?  I do - I like having the physical, it's a back up; I have the book that goes with the CD.  Although, I do like being able to load 1000ish songs on my iPod Nano and roam around the planet without all those CDs in tow.

What about music?  How much sheet music or music books have you got lately?  The internet has many many many sites that sell and will transpose pieces and songs for you before purchase.  Does this transposition tool help increase sheet music sales - your favourite song transposed to a range that you can perform it in, transposed to a key that's easier to play in.

**Here's one of the aspiring groups:
 AcMe RehD (a combination of their real & pen name initials) is a sibling duo - one the wordsmith and the other the composer - both musicians.  Influenced by the classical music (which they were exposed to while in the womb from the middle of the orchestra), country, celtic, pop, jazz - bascially everything except rap and heavy metal - they seem to be striving for a best of both worlds scenario.