TAXI TV

Watch this Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2cNQ2PVavAw How to Interpret TAXI Listings: https://youtu.be/jAS0395q_PQ TAXI's Forwards Blog: http://bit.ly/1UhZxFg TAXI member Henry Winckel was an unexpected and undeniable hit when he did a phone interview on TAXI TV a few weeks ago. He also has some very specific and incredibly valuable insights on how to get more music forwarded by TAXI, which...

Watch This Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FQ6sSXYbx2U Demystifying the Cue by Dean Krippaehne: https://amzn.to/2u640F4 Demystifying the Genre by Dean Krippaehne: https://amzn.to/2u7no4H Writing Production Music for TV by Steve Barden: https://amzn.to/2uac5Zi I’m excited to have Adriana Lycette join me on Monday’s show to take a deep dive into why men make up the larger percentage of Film/TV...

Watch This Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2CpDNG21WOw Check Out the TAXI Road Rally: http://bit.ly/2a9mwlp There are very few moments I enjoy more than when a skeptical TAXI member sees the light and discovers how to best use TAXI to become successful. Henry Winckel wasn’t happy with TAXI. He was frustrated, discouraged, and not enjoying any success. Henry is also a good listener, a determin...

Watch This Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VLYnrv3LtJU Check out the Forwards Blog: http://bit.ly/1UhZxFg There’s no better way to sharpen your own writing and production skills than trying to pick what made the grade and what didn’t for a really high-bar request for music! Do you think you can pick which songs our A&R Team thought were good enough that they should be considered for a $10,000...

Watch This Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XNzq9aCLfFs Ronan's Recording Boot Camp: http://bit.ly/2LKZyCe Modern Recording Techniques book: https://amzn.to/2JyC727 We’re extremely excited to have one of our favorite guests Ronan Chris Murphy back in the office for a brand new episode of TAXI TV! We’ll be taking a deep dive into everything you need to know about Engineering and Production––so...

Watch This Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UqH9B__FsBg I’m beyond excited to have one of my favorite people from the Film/TV Music Licensing world join me on the upcoming episode of TAXI TV. He’s incredibly smart, extremely hard working, highly successful, and on top of all that, he’s a great guy! His energy and intellect are contagious, and he doesn’t dish up B.S. He’s a straight-shooter of...

Watch the Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uLqN9Tx4bJM ------------------------------------ Buy "Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting": http://amzn.to/2gKyeI5 Buy "Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV": http://amzn.to/2ehZf0E Learn More About TAXI: http://bit.ly/2mPVGYh Rub Elbows with Music Industry Pros at Our FREE Yearly Convention: http://bit.ly/2a9mwlp View Our Current Music Industry Opportunit...

Watch the Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wb1pIc5YANw Get Ralph's Book, "Murphy’s Laws of Songwriting" here: https://amzn.to/2HPaTU9 ---------------------------------- Ralph Murphy has long been a favorite speaker, teacher, and mentor at the TAXI Road Rally. His insight into what makes a song a hit song is a deep dive into the art, craft, and maybe even a little bit of science thrown in for g...

Watch this Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Mf8TReBUdYY We love to see our members succeed using TAXI, so we like to give new members sort of a Quick Start Guide to make sure they get the most out their memberships! We know people don’t like to read, so our Quick Start Guide comes in the form of a fast-paced, informal video hangout on TAXI TV. We’ll turn you on to on some tips that could liter...

Watch this Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/axk8IJu0iWI Problem: Michael always feels badly when he sees questions flying by in the live show chat room and he doesn’t answer them if they aren’t relevant to the topic for that day’s show! Solution: Every so often, Michael does a show that’s dedicated to answering any and all questions about the music industry, TAXI, the screening process, film/T...

Watch This Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5fj8GhNicks We’re really excited that one of our successful members let us know he’s going to be in Los Angeles and available for a “pop-up,” special edition of TAXI TV, today! Long-time member, Bob Mete is going to join me for this special WEDNESDAY edition of the show, and I’ll be asking him questions that will help viewers learn how to best use TA...

Watch the Episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-53Tt1Wc0eo For the last 42 years, I’ve been heartbroken by watching musicians fail to achieve their dream of succeeding in the music business. My crusade to help each and every musician succeed is never-ending, and I’m always adding new failure-causing "sins" to my list. If you've been dreaming of a music business career for more than a decade, and y...

Get Robin's Books: "Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting": http://amzn.to/2gKyeI5 "Shortcuts for Songwriting with Film & TV": http://amzn.to/2ehZf0E ____________________________ Want to know if your song is contemporary or dated? Would you like to know how to fix it, if need be? Truth be told, we've had a number of people tell us that we spend too much time on each song during past episodes. While Robin a...

Get Steve's Book: http://amzn.to/2CZgErX Are you a songwriter who’d like to create music for TV and Film, but you don’t know where to start? Do you think the word “composer” means you have to know write charts and program orchestral music? Would you like to find out how TAXI members are making tens of thousands of dollars a year extra income, when they have day jobs, families, and all kinds of “ad...

TAXI Member Craig Robart will be interviewing Michael in a no holds barred session on TAXI TV Today. Craig will be asking questions that he and many other TAXI Members would love to know the answers to. We look forward to seeing our boss squirm in the hot seat ;) and so should you! Watch Last Week's Episode: https://youtu.be/2pnutrx2hg4 Learn More About TAXI: http://bit.ly/2mPVGYh Rub Elbows with...

NOTE: We removed 2 song reviews because of Copyright claims! Brooke Ferri is one of the most highly regarded and often-complimented members of the TAXI A&R Team. She gets a lot of “fan mail” from our members, and she’s highly esteemed by industry colleagues and the TAXI staff as well. We’re very excited to have her join us to answer our questions, your questions, and give some feedback on viewer m...

If you ever get frustrated by not quite knowing how to interpret TAXI’s Industry Listings, don’t miss today’s episode of TAXI TV! Michael’s going to go through a bunch of examples, and think them through out loud so you can learn the “art and science” of reading the tea leaves. Want to hit the bullseye more often? Want to get more music sent to the people who requested it and sign more deals? Don’...

Long time TAXI member Steve Barden is pretty humble and unassuming, but he probably shouldn’t be! He’s racked up a ton of credits and learned a lot about several facets of creating music for media along the way. He’s a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar, piano, violin, and many other stringed instruments. Those skills have translated into him becoming a production music composer for film, tele...

Welcome to 2018! We’ve all made New Year’s resolutions like this: “I’m going to get serious and start writing and recording more music this year.” Seems simple enough… Yet 99% of the people who make that resolution probably won’t stick with it! Why? Procrastination! Personally, I’m a world-class expert on the subject of procrastination. I’d much rather sit on the couch watching TV than doing work....

Michael listens to viewer submissions as we determine "What's the genre?" This episode is really helpful for learning how to pitch your songs better!

TAXI Members, and mother-son duo, Marcus Cohen and Sherry Marcus Milano, aka, We Will Write You a Song, have had 300 of their songs and tracks signed to a bunch of film/TV Music publishers during the year between the 2016 and 2017 Road Rallies. Yes, you read that correctly. That's almost a song per day!! Want to know how they did that? That's exactly what we'll be uncovering, and so much more on t...

Songwriters sometimes overlook the most obvious “job” that a song is supposed to do – keep listeners engaged! One of the most powerful tools a songwriter can use to accomplish that goal is emotion. For records, the song’s “emotion quotient” keeps listeners from skipping to the next song or station. In the context of Film, TV, and Advertising placements, songs play a critical role in supporting the...

Have you ever wished that your recordings sounded more like what you hear on the radio? Are your instrument sounds stuck in the ‘70s and ‘80s? We’re going to help you fix that problem on today’s TAXI TV with special guest, Ronan Chris Murphy! There’s been a sea change in the way engineering is approached, and it ain’t your father’s paradigm from decades past. You can update your sound, and the fir...

What do you get when you cross somebody who’s got a Ph. D. in high-energy particle physics and an uncontrollable obsession with creating great sounding instrument samples? Yep, a nuclear sample library! Well, kind of… Dr. Jeffrey Steinman is a long-time TAXI member who is truly obsessed with perfection, especially when it comes to how the instruments in his sample libraries sound. He’s so obsessed...

Wow, what a show this is! Super informative on so many levels. The peeps who watched the live show LOVED it, and so will you! Want to know how you get paid when your music is on the Internet? Want to know how to market yourself as an artist or composer? Those and many, many more questions are answered in this power-packed episode with Michael Eames and Bobby Borg - BOTH world-class experts! • • • ...