Rants and Ramblings – Allen’s Blog

Opinions are like …………….. noses.  Everybody has one.  This is where I’ll be sounding off on the things I feel to be important and I hope you’ll read and respond as time goes by.

August 19, 2009

New charts!  Some of them FREE!

Getting print rights to sell arrangements of existing compositions is next to impossible for an independent writer like myself, yet, some of my better charts are arrangements of the compositions of others.  I want my music PLAYED and HEARD so I’ve made a bold decision.  Since I can’t SELL these arrangements, I’m letting you HAVE them; YES, for FREE.  Download the zip files, print the parts and go for it.

I understand the publishers wanting to have a “corner on the market”, but frankly I find it a bit odd that we can’t find a way for all of us to come out ahead in distributing arrangements of great music.  Until we figure that out, there are FREE arrangements of several compositions here.  ENJOY!!!!!

July 24, 2009

So what’s with all this free stuff?  Didn’t you used to sell some of this?

Here’s the short story.  Yes the videos used to be for sale and, for a time, they did quite well.  Unfortunately, my basic trust in folks proved to be a problem and I began to increasingly find my videos being pirated/illegally copied all over the place.  When I did the big update on the site, I decided to stop selling them and just put them on the site for free as so many people were getting free copies anyway, only illegally.

I’m also getting ready to upload three arrangements that I can’t get print rights for to publish for sale.  A couple of these are exemplary of some of my better writing.  Since I can’t sell them and I want my music HEARD, I’m going to give them away in the hope that it will compel you to “maybe” purchase one of the other charts as well.  They’ll be up on the site soon and they’ll be easy to find.

Hope all is well with all of you.