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Ringing Into the New Year

chartzog — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:40:19 +0000

Today is The End….The end of 2010 that is. Many interesting and exciting things have happened this year, including this unexpected bonus. My songs have been made into ringtones. By simply putting a few songs “out there” on the internet with no advertising or other marketing I have been getting consistent, daily downloads [...]

MySpace to Shut Down?

chartzog — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:43:20 +0000

If you are a musician and rely on someplace such as MySpace for your web presence you should consider starting your own web site that you own and control. Here is one good reason. As reported in the British press, MySpace’s parent, News Corp, is growing impatient with MySpace’s hemmoraging of money and MySpace [...]

Free Music Players For Your Site

chartzog — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:17:51 +0000

I updated my Free Stuff For Musicians page. If you are looking for free, easy to use music players and much more you are in luck:

Are you a Musician? I use ReverbNation widgets and you should too! Click below:

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New Facebook Page

chartzog — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:34:04 +0000

This is just a mini post to let you know about my New Facebook Fan Page for my music in support of autism and disabilities: Here is the link – Kilika Music Facebook Page

Free Culture in a Thrift Store

chartzog — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:36:08 +0000

There are frequently stories about someone who found a great treasure in a thrift shop or pawn shop like maybe a rare pre-war Martin D-28 or some other cool thing. Finally, I can join the ranks of the thrift shop story tellers, only my find was not a guitar or piece of jewelry, but [...]

Adios Tables

chartzog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:07:41 +0000

Well, heck in my continuing effort to spend more time on my own web site and less time on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, I discovered the most important page on my web site, Download Music, was screwed up when you view it in Internet Explorer. Thanks again Microsoft! The table that I was using [...]

Moving Furniture Around

chartzog — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:41:59 +0000

I suppose we all inherit various traits from our parents. Me? Every now and then I get the urge to rearrange things. Mom loved to rearrange the furniture in the house, which could make it interesting if you came home after dark and didn’t turn on the lights. Today though, I am just moving [...]

Guitarists: Are You on a Tone Quest?

chartzog — Mon, 25 May 2009 17:53:30 +0000

Guitar players – There is a cool site for you to check out if you would like a convenient resource to sample the tone of a variety of axes, amps and effects pedals. Cruise on over to TonePedia.com and take a listen or even upload your own samples. When I get the time I [...]

Lance is Tweeting

chartzog — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:14:12 +0000

Holy macaroni! I just discovered that Lance Armstrong is on Twitter. (http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong) It looks like I am his 737,306th follower. Can you believe that?! The guy is out there. Anyway, that also reminds me I need to get back with our Lance Armstrong book study. Stay tuned. More tunes are in the works too. [...]

TwitPic

chartzog — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:50:15 +0000

Twitter is taking off like wild fire with new aps available to leverage off it all the time. The latest one I discovered to use is “TwitPic”. It’s as easy to post pictures now as it is to tweet. You can find my TwitPic’s here. Someday I will add a permanent ink to it [...]

Little Known Ways to Prevent Musician Back Strain

chartzog — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:14:10 +0000

I think when you find a great product that fills a need for a good price you should tell other people about it. It’s the great American, capitalist way.

Guitar players, and I am sure musicians in general, tend to have a lot of “stuff” we accumulate that needs to be carried around and [...]

Rockin' & Ridin' For Autism

chartzog — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:10:23 +0000

Hi everyone — This is a shameless plug for a great autism charity: Rockin’ & Ridin’ for Autism. I added the link to RRFA’s web site along with a picture of their cool banner to my page, Autism Support. Won’t you please stop by their site and support autism awareness?

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One Year Already?

chartzog — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:43:44 +0000

Hi everyone and Aloha!

I can hardly believe it has been a whole year since I became an on-line Troubadour and launched www.chrishartzog.net and the Kilika Music songwriting project, Musing Mana. Happy Birthday!

I have learned a lot and done a lot these past twelve months, which some of you have followed along via [...]

Tips For Musicians: The Lance Armstrong Method – Ch. 4 Positive Attitude

chartzog — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:36:33 +0000

This episode is on Chapter 4 – Success Factor 1: Positive Attitude.

What have I been doing with all of my time?! It has been months since I posted last on our Lance Armstrong book study. I hope you haven’t given up either and have been reading along. In case [...]

Lance Armstrong Book Study

chartzog — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:33:07 +0000

Just a note to let you know that I have not totally forgotten about our Lance Armstrong book study….I just fell off my bike temporarily! Anyway, dust off your books because I am finishing up anohter chapter and should have a new post on it soon. I hope you have all been reading along. [...]

Jonathan Coulton @ The Moore – Seattle

chartzog — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:11:17 +0000

OK folks, we are getting ready to go into Seattle on Friday and see Jonathan Coulton in concert with Paul and Storm. Jonathan, aka JoCo, is my creative commons demigod and guru that I have been following and listening to for at least the past year, and probably even a bit longer than [...]

Blues Rock Goodness – Galaxy 7

chartzog — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:33:10 +0000

There are a lot of good, unknown or underknown artists on ReverbNation. I recently listened to some music by a RN artist Galaxy 7 who is an example of this. G7 has a song called “Two Step Boogie” that is an awesome amalgamation of SRV blueness with threads of Clapton and a hint of [...]

WordPress 2.7

chartzog — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:20:47 +0000

I recently upgraded my site’s database to WordPress version 2.7. Besides including some needed security enhancements it includes a completely new administration interface and most important and exciting to me is the automatic upgrade feature. I love WordPress as a content management application, however I kind of dread the version upgrade process. But now [...]

Happy New Year

chartzog — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:37:59 +0000

In the spirit of leaving no stone unturned, just in case you are not on my newsletter email distribution list, here is a web posted copy of my end of year newsletter. I am not sure why the table border and the background color did not line up properly. Better luck next time! Have [...]