Resources for Musicians

This mindmap is an attempt to catalog the best resources online for Musicians. At the same time, it lets you see in a nutshell all the various aspects of being a musician from beginner through professional.

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Resources for Musicians by Mind Map: Resources for Musicians

1. Site hosting

1.1. Dreamhost

1.2. Hostbaby

2. Distribution

2.1. Physical Distribution

2.1.1. CD Baby

2.1.2. Amazon

2.1.3. Best Buy

2.1.4. Barnes and Noble

2.1.5. Borders

2.2. Digital

2.2.1. Distributors

2.2.1.1. TuneCore

2.2.1.2. CD Baby

2.2.2. Pay-per-song

2.2.2.1. iTunes

2.2.2.2. eMusic

2.2.2.3. LaLa

2.2.2.4. Amazon

2.2.3. Subscription

2.2.3.1. Rhapsody

2.2.3.2. Napster

2.2.3.3. Classicalarchives.com

2.2.4. Streaming

2.2.4.1. Pandora

2.2.4.2. Live365

2.2.5. New-school

2.2.5.1. MagnaTune

2.3. Labels

2.3.1. Independent Collectives

2.3.1.1. Jeshimoth

2.3.1.2. United Musicians

2.3.2. Majors

2.3.2.1. Sony

2.3.2.1.1. Columbia

2.3.2.1.2. BMG

2.3.2.2. Time Warner

2.3.3. Indies

2.3.3.1. SubPop

2.3.3.2. Minty Fresh

2.3.4. Boutique

2.3.4.1. SuperEgo

2.3.4.2. Verve

3. Equipment

3.1. For Sale

3.1.1. Sweetwater

3.1.2. Musician's Friend

3.1.3. Guitar Center

3.1.4. Sam Ash

3.1.5. BPMmusic.com

3.1.6. zzounds

3.1.7. Craigslist

3.2. Information

3.2.1. Harmony Central

3.2.2. The Guitar Rig Database

3.2.3. KeyboardMuseum.org

3.3. Manufacturers

3.3.1. Recording

3.3.1.1. Computer Interfaces

3.3.1.1.1. M-Audio

3.3.1.1.2. Mackie

3.3.1.1.3. Mark of the Unicorn

3.3.1.1.4. PreSonus

3.3.1.1.5. Tascam

3.3.1.1.6. Tapco

3.3.1.2. Microphones

3.3.1.2.1. Rode

3.3.1.2.2. Shure

3.3.1.2.3. Blue

3.3.1.2.4. MXL

3.3.1.3. Signal Processing

3.3.1.3.1. Behringer

3.3.2. Instruments

3.3.2.1. Moog

3.3.2.2. Roland

3.3.2.3. Gibson

3.3.2.4. Yamaha

3.3.2.5. Martin

3.3.2.6. Korg

3.3.2.7. Epiphone

4. Communities

4.1. The Song Fight Forums

4.2. HomeRecording.com

4.3. The Collective Family

4.4. Musolist

5. Information

5.1. All Music Guide

5.2. classical.net

6. Production Services

6.1. Mixing

6.2. Mastering

6.3. CD Replication

6.3.1. Discmakers

6.3.2. OasisCD

6.3.3. DiskFaktory

6.3.4. CreateSpace

6.4. Recording

7. Business

7.1. Management

7.2. Taxes

7.3. Payroll

7.4. Employees

8. Web Presence

8.1. Content management

8.1.1. Movable Type

8.1.2. Wordpress

8.1.3. Spud's Amazing Website Generator

8.2. File hosting

8.2.1. SoundCloud

8.3. Widgets

8.3.1. Yahoo! Media Player

8.3.2. del.icio.us playtagger

8.3.3. XSPF Web Music Player

9. Plugins

9.1. Free

9.1.1. Song Fight! forum topic

9.2. Paid

9.2.1. Izotope Ozone

10. Recording/Composition

10.1. Client DAW Software

10.1.1. Cakewalk/Sonar

10.1.2. Cubase/Nuendo

10.1.3. FL Studio

10.1.4. Reason

10.1.5. Reaper

10.1.6. Logic

10.1.7. Audacity

10.2. Web-Based

10.2.1. Myna

10.2.2. SoundStation

10.2.3. Tone Matrix

10.2.4. Keyboard Museum's V Drum Machines

10.2.5. JamGlue

10.2.6. Hobnox Audiotool

10.2.7. Noteflight

10.2.8. Tune Rooms

11. Fake Books

11.1. Ukulele Tabs

11.2. Ultimate Guitar Tabs Archive

11.3. Sheet Music

11.3.1. 8notes.com

11.3.2. Sheet Music Plus

12. Promotion

12.1. Contests

12.1.1. Free

12.1.1.1. Voted

12.1.1.1.1. Song Fight!

12.1.1.1.2. The Sixty One

12.1.1.1.3. somesongs

12.1.1.1.4. Jamglue Remix Contests

12.1.1.2. Judged

12.1.1.2.1. Song Fu

12.1.1.3. Everyone's a Winner

12.1.1.3.1. Album-A-Day

12.1.1.3.2. February Album-Writing Month

12.1.2. Paid

12.1.2.1. International Songwriting Competition

12.1.2.2. John Lennon Songwriting Contest

12.1.3. Bullshit

12.1.3.1. TuneFlow

12.1.3.2. American Idol Songwriting Contest

12.2. News and Media

12.2.1. Old Media

12.2.1.1. pastemagazine.com

12.2.1.2. rollingstone.com

12.2.1.3. Billboard.com

12.2.1.4. mtv.com

12.2.2. New Media

12.2.2.1. Blogs

12.2.2.1.1. The Hype Machine

12.2.2.1.2. Stereogum

12.2.2.2. Sputnik Music

12.2.2.3. Sonic Garden

12.3. Taxi

12.4. ReverbNation

12.5. MySpace

12.6. Bandcamp

12.7. Facebook

12.8. Soundclick

13. Organization/Collaboration

13.1. Musician Linkup

13.1.1. BandMix

13.1.2. bandmaking.com

13.1.3. jamconnect

13.1.4. themusicianfinder

13.1.5. Ralph World

13.1.6. Music Mates

13.1.7. ccMixter

13.2. Online Music Making

13.2.1. Cocompose

13.2.2. Ninjam

13.2.3. Indaba

13.2.4. Kompoz

13.2.5. Songwriting Fever

13.2.6. Musistic

14. Instruction

14.1. Piano

14.1.1. Pianotricks.com

14.2. Guitar

14.2.1. GuitarMasterclass.com

14.3. General

14.3.1. YouTube

14.3.2. iTunes

14.4. Songwriting

14.4.1. UltimateSongwriting.com

14.4.2. The Muse's Muse

14.5. Schools

14.5.1. Full Sail

14.5.2. Berklee

14.5.3. Eastman

14.5.4. Julliard

14.6. Theory

14.6.1. method-behind-the-music.com

14.6.2. MusicTheory.net

14.6.3. Wikipedia

14.6.4. Teoria

15. Live Performance

15.1. Lighting

15.2. Sound

15.3. Booking