Welcome to Makin'StuffUp.net

Makinstuffup.net is the site that gives you, the aspiring songwriter, immediate access to information, instruction, professional feedback and exclusive membership in an online community of tunesmiths – invaluable tools you can begin using today to sharpen your creative skills and accelerate your career development.

Created by journeyman tunesmith Rand Bishop, a 40-year music business veteran, Makinstuffup.net is based on the theories, techniques and experiences recounted in Rand’s latest book, Makin’ Stuff Up – secrets of song-craft and survival in the music-biz.

MakinStuffUp.net is now more than 100 Members Strong!

Check out Rand's new Random Thinking blog on networking. Also, go to http://indieconnectmagazine.com/self-pity-for-gratitude/ to read Rand's column, "Trading Self-pity for Gratitude," in the fantastic new Indie Connect E-mag.

Makinstuffup.net provides an immediate, hands-on, ongoing, collaborative relationship between you and our certified song coaches...

1) ...by offering its VIP members monthly song evaluation, constructive feedback and professional coaching (The Feedback Loop).

2) ...by providing access to phone and one-on-one song-craft coaching and career consultation (Please see the Feedback Loop page for VIP discounts on hourly fees).

3) ...by posting a chart of the highest-scoring song submissions and their composers—The Feedback Loop Top 10.

4) ...by facilitating connections (for members of the Feedback Loop Hall of Fame) with PROs, publishers, producers and other industry movers and shakers.

5) ...by featuring Rand Bishop’s monthly blogs, essays and stories on songwriting and the music-biz—Random Thinking.