WESLEYELLISMUSIC

Wesley Ellis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:09:30 +0000

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Wesley Ellis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:07:50 +0000

I am finishing on the final touches of the album and with that, I am upgrading the wesleyellismusic.com website once again. This is a test to make sure mobile posting works before I relaunch.

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A good artist knows when to stop, so do poor people…

Wesley Ellis — Sat, 14 May 2011 13:45:38 +0000

My first album, GROUNDWORK is coming to an end. I wanted my first album to be 14 songs, but it got cut to 12… Now it’s 10. But 10 very solid songs. I had a technical error on one of the 12 and another I wasn’t 100% about.

So with that, it will be 10 solid songs that I am proud of and hope you’ll like them.

I have 4 songs that need Electric Guitar and 2-3 that need keyboards, after that it’s just a general clean-up and mastering. Then I’ll release and finally start playing a few live shows. I’m already practicing my set.

For now I’m just hanging out downtown and writing up the final mixing notes for it… I can’t wait to finish it.

Help me finish “Groundwork” on Kickstarter!

Wesley Ellis — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:26:58 +0000

I’ve run into a bit of a bind, and I’m not able to finish my first album “Groundwork” without a hand… so I’m hoping that you can donate anything you can to help finish the CD! Kickstarter.com is a site where friends, family and fans can donate pledges for CDs, T-shirts or anything else. I have some good stuff on there! Please click on the link below to get to my Kickstarter site to help! Thank you everyone!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1504528160/help-finish-my-first-full-length-album-groundwork?ref=live

“Hello Music” News!

Wesley Ellis — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:48:36 +0000

Hellomusic.com has added to the Yahoo music stream for indie musicians! The song added, is “Ending of Innocence”.

I was also asked about lending this song to the TV show on NBC called “Chase”. We’ll see if that one pans out!

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The Shape of Things to Come

Wesley Ellis — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:42:08 +0000

From this point, life has stabilized enough for music again. I’m married now, and I’m back at work truckin’ along. Other than a big project or two staring me down, I’m ready to start working on music again. Currently, I’m close to being done. I have 3 songs at 90% completed, 5 at 70% and 4 at 50%. I also would like to add at least one more, but if I could just finish the eleven, I think I could live with that. I’m actually ready to move on as a musician and grow, but I don’t want the two CDs (or sounds) to merge into one and become a disjointed project. I just need to get the remaining instruments on the pieces, follow that up with finishing up on mixing and round it off in October (crosses fingers) for a mastering session. Ready for the next thing, but I want this to be the best I can make it. Wish me luck. Thanks, ~Wes – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Im in the Rock the Space 2 Contest!

Wesley Ellis — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:57:34 +0000

I’d love to dream and thing about how great it would be if I won. I believe they get you signed within the industry if you end up as the final choice. If you have any interest in seeing my music propel forward, I would love it if you went to the site posted in this post and voted me up.

All you need to know about Wesley Ellis

Wesley Ellis — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:05:04 +0000

Wesley Ellis, born from the trailer-park, swamplands of Florida, left home With $150 dollars of tips from work. With a 20 year old cheap guitar, grocery bag suitcases and a 87′ Buick he bought from someone at a Donut shop at 3am, he set off for a better life in the big lights of New York City. Fate had other plans, as his 87′ Buick overheated and broke-down many times, including one final time in Charlottesville, VA during a freak hail storm. Seeing this a foreboding sign, he chose to plant his musical roots there instead; bringing together influences of musicians such as Otis Redding, Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Ben Harper, Counting Crows as well as the local band Dave Matthews Band.

After many attempts to get off the ground through, he found it extremely hard to move up from the local scene without a finished Demo CD. So Wesley Ellis set out to make his first Demo, “The Shape of Things to Come”. Unfortunately, this too has issues from the start, the only studio that was not someone’s basement in Charlottesville closed down because of economic struggles prior to his first session, and without a solid permanent band it was impossible to play live as an ensemble.

“It just seemed that everything was either destined to fail, or make a great story when it succeeded. I was hoping for the later”, says Wesley Ellis.

It all came together at the end, with a new name “Broke is the New Black”; when a new recording studio took the place of the last. “The Sound” opened in Charlottesville, Va in August of 2009… and since then Wesley Ellis has been able to find session musicians and a bit of funding to record a full CD. Skipping the Demo CD altogether.

The first 3 songs of the new CD “Broke is the New Black” has been released online as Wesley Ellis is working with “The Sound” currently to finish the CD by June of 2010.

Reverbnation (Be a fan, buy music!) – http://www.reverbnation.com/wesleyellis
Facebook (Be a fan!) – http://tiny.cc/FacebookFanWesEllis
Facebook (Friend my Personal Profile!) – http://tiny.cc/FacebookWesEllis
Twitter (Follow Me!) – http://www.twitter.com/wesellis
Myspace (Friend me!) – http://www.myspace.com/wesleyellis
YouTube (watch my videos!) – http://www.youtube.com/user/wesleyellismusic
My Site – http://www.wesleyellismusic.com

“Ok, Sarah” Was played on the Radio!

Wesley Ellis — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:56:34 +0000

It was almost supernatural to finally hear “Ok, Sarah” on the radio yesterday. One major dream fulfilled on the road to realizing the full and final dream. I havent had much in the way of time recently, so my posts have been brief, but I wanted to give some props to the people that are helping me along my road. So thank you to all the amazing people I’ve met that helped me get a song made of acoustic guitar and samples in garageband… into a full-fledged real song, and then played on the radio!

“The Sound” – Where I recorded Ok, Sarah… a high-class studio that is extremely professional and really brought my music to a place I would of never possible. You can call them at 434-293-5948 if you’re ready to do some recording yourself. This whole experience was the best money I ever spent…

James McLaughlin [The Sound] – Drums, Arragements & Mixing – Insane drummer, with a distinct ear for detail. He hears things I dont even hear myself, its like a super-power. Not only that, he’is a human metronome. I’ve learned so much from him, in the past 6 months… and I’m still learning stuff everytime I walk in the door. I cant wait to push forward with the rest of the songs.

Mark Graham [The Sound] – Bass – Fantastic bassist and awesome engineer. He was the first one I spoke with on my road to a high class production CD. Glad you invited me to The Sound’s open house, buddy.

Brian Chenault – Guitars – Honestly, the best guitarist I’ve ever met, professional and solid.

Grove Miller – Keyboards – His ability to bring the songs to the next level, is amazing and crazy creative.

Emily Thomas – My girl who gave me so much support and time to help me do this, as well as helping me with inital arrangements and Midi work.

My friends – You know who you are, and if I didnt annoy you every 5 seconds with another rendition of the songs… I would of never finished them. I’ve got 6 more to go to finish this CD, please keep showing the patience you have already. A special thanks to Richard Fain and Abe Nelson!

Koli Cutler [WTJU 91.1] – for playing my song on the radio, it was such a surreal experience and I thank you for that.

Connect all your Social Sites into One [Guide for Ping.fm]

Wesley Ellis — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:56:23 +0000

This is just a simple guide, because I’m currently loving this and it makes it simple to branch out through the internet to all your friends… no matter their social site. In the beginning, honestly… I hated social sites. Back in the days of friendster and livejournal I always felt that it was a bit self-serving. But now, with half my family and friends on Myspace and the other half on Facebook… I got into it. I may not be as hardcore as others may be on it. But I did find a simple way to update all your twitter / facebook / AIM / myspace statuses all at once.

So, without wasting anymore time with idle chatter… here’s how you update all your social networking sites at once.

STEP ONE: Go to Ping.fm
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Type “www.ping.fm” in your web browser and setup an account. The button for a new account is at the bottom of the page.

STEP TWO: Enter your info
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It only asks two questions… whats your email and what password do you want. Then it signs you straight in.

STEP THREE: Add Networks
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Click “Add Network” to add the social networking site to your profile. If you dont have an account to that site, you can easily sign up there as well. If you do have an account, then just type in your username/password for that social networking site. This will then add this account to your profile.

STEP FOUR: How to use
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Now that you’ve added all your “networks” that you want. Now all thats left is to update!

Its easy, just type in your update in the message box and click “Ping it!”

STEP FIVE: Good Things to know
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In the “Ping My:” space in the message box area… you can create special groups, or you can use the defaults… like I do.

The defaults are:
Micro-Blogs – Small blogs with short character counts
Statuses – Simple status (like facebook status or twitter)
Blogs – Classic blog size. (I posted this tutorial via blog)

Want to learn extra info? Check this Information WIKI.

http://pingfm.pbworks.com/browse/#view=ViewAllPages