In recent months, as I’ve examined all the possibilities for the MyLiszt website, and what it could be, I’ve realized that in my excitement I’ve been planning to create too many different things all at the same time (the sheet music search engine, musician webpages, business cards for musicians, etc), before the website is even established.

I’ve therefore begun to refocus the site (for now) as purely a classical sheet music search engine. I know from Erica’s experience trying to find sheet music for the Piazzolla Grand Tango or music for the Penderecki 2nd violin sonata that finding music can present a very real problem. By searching a bunch of different online stores in one place I think our sheet music search engine can help people.

So for now, we’re going to focus on that. I’ll be gradually expanding the range of stores that we search, gradually improving the search algorithm to give better results, and working to promote the site so that more people use it.

Once we reach a point where the site is well used, then at that point it would make sense to expand into offering additional services. But for now, we’ll focus on searching for classical sheet music.

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It’s still very early days for the MyLiszt website, and as a result you have a great opportunity to shape it to fulfill your needs.Our aim is to create a website that provides the tools and information to help musicians develop their careers, but we need your help!

We’ve created a short survey about your career in music, which should help us to determine what features to include in the website when it launches early next year. We’d be very grateful if you would take the survey, and include any additional ideas (not covered by the survey questions) in the comment boxes (or as comments on this blog). We’d love to hear from you.

Click here to take the survey.

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I must admit that I stole the title of this blog (Tune In) from www.ericaward.com – but you can’t argue with genius.

My name’s Andrew Ward, and I’m the founder of MyLiszt, along with my lovely wife Erica. She’s a violinist, and I’m not. I’m a business/tech guy surrounded by musicians, and in seeing her juggle four or five different websites as she tried to keep track of her gigs, her contacts, her to-do list, her calendar, her own website I realized that maybe we could start a single portal that provided musicians with all the tools they need to organize and develop their careers.

MyLiszt is a very long way from achieving that goal right now – but I’m hopeful that one day we’ll get there. In the meantime, this blog won’t be so much about the website or development of the website, but it will be contain hopefully useful advice on how to develop and manage your career better – based on what we’ve learned from experience, what we’ve read, applying business principles to music, and some thoughts that just seem like common sense.

I hope you enjoy it.

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