Internet band

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The term virtual band is also used for animated musical groups

An Internet band (also sometimes called a virtual band) is a musical group whose members collaborate online through broadband by utilizing a content management system and local digital audio workstations. The work is sometimes released under a Creative Commons license, so musicians can share their 'samples' to create collaborative musical expressions for noncommercial purposes without ever meeting face to face.

1 The Rise Of Internet Bands
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[edit] The Rise Of Internet Bands

[edit] The Virtual Groups

Internet bands, also known as virtual bands, came into commonplace around the internet in the early 2000's, as emailing systems, computer software and audio files became easier, better quality, and more accessible. There are two notable types of virtual groups, one being an internet band comprising of 2+ people, the members meeting over the internet. They also allow their music available for free download. Other internet bands demand payment for their songs.

[edit] The Solo Artists & Teachers

With the development of 'internet musicians' come internet teachers and session artists. There are numerous people over the internet that offer teaching services for a fee. Others, often very talented musicians in high demand or people with an instrument that is expensive to gear up to record properly, charge fees for their high quality tracks. Two examples of this are J "Drums" and Michael Lewis.

[edit] Music Hosting & netlabels

Due to all of this music floating around on the internet, websites have been established by a variety of organisations to host and distribute this music. There is a large range of different policies, examples being SoundClick and AcidPlanet.

[edit] Collaboration

For online music collaboration a server based system helps to coordinate the work for music projects with more than two musicians involved. Most platforms provide a virtual space to upload recorded music files and link them in an additional community formed website.

Each musician needs to record and upload the instrument or vocals for one song, share them with other artists and mix all instruments together to get a complete song out of single tracks.