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The Manuel Seal Music Seminars
Manuel Seal speaks
about his upcoming Music Seminar Series for Songwriters & Producers 
The seminars are for educating talent...to
let them know, "Yo, this is how you gotta do it!" I run into these situations where people are paying money through
these various outlets to get their stuff heard, and that hurts our industry too. Man, that's about the dumbest thing I've
ever heard; they charge a $1,000 fee, but you can put your $250 down! People are getting cheated like that, and that doesn't
have anything to do with the music industry! Either you have something going on, or you don't! It's like one of the first
things you learn, "You don't pay the publisher, the publisher is suppose to pay you!" So are you going to go pay
somebody else to "hear" your song... to get your song placed or whatever? It doesn't work like that! There are just
a lot of problems plaguing our industry right now, and there are a lot of people that are feeding off of it too. And they
make a living off of that kind of thing. But to me though, that just further says that the ones who "do know," are
not doing their job. Or, we all got to come together and start saying, "These problems are plaguing us." Because
that's what part of business is too, "solving problems." So first we have to identify and define the problems, so
we can deal with them. If we never identify and define the problems, then become responsible, we won't have anything to pass
down. My point in doing the music seminars is
to also raise the "art" factor in production and songwriting. Whatever you're doing musically is an art... like
sampling. "Sampling is an art!" And learning how to put all of those things together is an art form. "That"
process of creativity is a beautiful thing. But a lot of people don't understand that...if they don't develop that process.
For example, when you can understand the process, you can do things like take someone else's humming, and then know "how"
to make it work. Or just take someone else's guitar idea, and then "you" understand how to make that work. When
you understand the creative process, you will know how to hear it, and know how to put what you hear into perspective and
how to use it. That's the skill and ear training that I learned from Church. In the Church, someone might be singing, and
then holler at the musicians, "Catch me!" ...And that developed my ear. And then once you get it to a point where
you start hearing melodies in your head, and you start learning the "how to" in the creative process; putting the
harmonics with the melodic, you then put those two things together, and it all becomes easy. So once you learn this, when
you do the music production, you can "build" from any piece; a drumbeat, a guitar line, a vocal part, a bass line,
or even a string line. We can then put together the "whole song," from just one little thing. And that's what the
seminars are all about... learning.
“We should forever
be learning!”
To
Invest in your future , your career & getting paid;
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