Name: Episode 23 — What It Takes To Get Signed | Industry Executive: Jake Ottmann
Released: 2017-06-13

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In this video I interviewed Jake Ottmann, who is Senior Vice President of A&R at RCA Records about the state of the record business and what he looks for in new talent.

Episodes

Episode 1
Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - Music of "The Dark Knight"
2017-01-02

Episode 2
Even Beethoven Had Licks! How To Make Other Peoples Licks Your Own
2017-01-20

Episode 3
How To Develop a Musical Idea From Scratch - Recording and Arranging
2017-01-23

Episode 4
Fortunes of Hard Work: Why You Should Never Give Up
2017-01-27

Episode 5
How Rediscovering Rock Music Led Me Here - A 24 Year Overnight Success
2017-02-23

Episode 6
What Bach and Charlie Parker Had In Common
2017-02-25

Episode 7
The Steve Vai Interview
2017-03-30

Episode 8
Major Label Record Deal?
2017-04-04

Episode 9
AYDIN ESEN Interview on Sounding Off with Rick Beato
2017-04-13

Episode 10
The Mark Isham Interview - Film Scoring and Solo Career
2017-04-17

Episode 11
The Dennis Chambers Interview
2017-04-18

Episode 12
Rick Beato - SOUNDING OFF with Music YouTuber ADAM NEELY
2017-04-24

Episode 13
Mark Lettieri of Snarky Puppy interview on Sounding Off - Rick Beato
2017-04-27

Episode 14
Victor Wooten Interview on Sounding Off with Rick Beato
2017-04-30

Episode 15
The John Petrucci Interview
2017-05-04

Episode 16
The Jeff Berlin Interview
2017-05-12

Episode 17
The Jordan Rudess Interview
2017-05-16

Episode 18
The Rudy Sarzo Interview
2017-05-25

Episode 19
The Scott Henderson Interview
2017-05-26

Episode 20
The Steve Hunt Interview - Playing With Allan Holdsworth
2017-06-04

Episode 21
A Day In the Life of Rick Beato 2017
2017-06-07

Episode 22
How To Program Drum Grooves
2017-06-09

Episode 23
What It Takes To Get Signed | Industry Executive: Jake Ottmann
2017-06-13

Episode 24
Basics of Music Theory: Part I
2017-06-16

Episode 25
How To Play Radiohead Songs | Why I Love Radiohead
2017-06-21

Episode 26
HAVE NO REGRETS
2017-06-22

Episode 27
The Beatles Secrets Revealed | How to Play Songs of the Beatles
2017-06-26

Episode 28
Rick Beato and Aimee Nolte Sounding Off
2017-06-27

Episode 29
50's Hollywood Style Orchestral Arranging
2017-07-03

Episode 30
Gary Husband - Drummer and Keyboardist Sounding Off Interview
2017-07-14

Episode 31
Music Composition: Dissonance = Emotion
2017-07-16

Episode 32
Chester Bennington Passing | My Thoughts on Linkin Park
2017-07-21

Episode 33
Apple: It's Good If You Like CRAP
2017-08-15

Episode 34
Reading Comments from my Apple Rant
2017-08-22

Episode 35
Do You Djent?
2017-08-29

Episode 36
The Mother of All Chords (really)
2017-08-31

Episode 37
The Light and Dark Colors of Minor
2017-09-02

Episode 38
The Synyster Gates Interview
2017-09-09

Episode 39
The Greg Wells Interview | Grammy Nominated Producer
2017-09-29

Episode 40
Why I Love Tom Petty
2017-10-06

Episode 41
Composing For Video Games | All You Need To Know
2017-10-10

Episode 42
Introduction To Post-Tonal Theory | Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berg
2017-10-11

Episode 43
Audiophile or Audio-Fooled? How Good Are Your Ears?
2017-10-13

Episode 44
Why Record Labels STILL Suck!
2017-10-20

Episode 45
How To Beat Apple At Their Own Game
2017-11-04

Episode 46
Marty Friedman Sounding Off with Rick Beato
2017-11-13

Episode 47
Introduction to Fugue
2017-12-12

Episode 48
The Four Chords That Killed POP Music!
2017-12-15

Episode 49
Is The 10,000 Hour Rule Myth or Reality?
2018-01-01

Information

Episode air date	13.06.2017
Episode runtime	—
Episode rating	0.00
Genres	Drama
TMDB series rating	—
IMDb series rating	7.8
Series status	Returning series
Age rating	—
Country	US