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More people than ever before visit Laptop Sessions — daily view record is broken after more than a month!

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By Chris Moore:

I am thrilled to report that today, only two days after my birthday, I was graced with another surprise present…

…more people visited the blog today than ever before!  Our daily view record, which has been the same since mid-August, was broken today.  Jim and I were out at a party, and when we checked our iPhones, we were ecstatic.  I only hope that we continue to have many more record-breaking days.

Tell your friends!  Tell your families!  Tell your lovers, neighbors, third cousins twice removed, or even that stranger you see every morning at your local coffee shop…  Laptop Sessions is the best acoustic cover music blog in the universe and we’re committed to bringing you a session-a-day EVERY DAY of 2008.

And, as a brief side note, we’re already making plans for next year’s recording schedule.  As it stands now, even after session-a-day is over, there may be as many as five videos a week or more.  So, stay tuned for more great acoustic stuff from the Fusco-Moore blog, home of the Laptop Sessions!

A record number of visitors to the Laptop Sessions Covers Music Video Blog!

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By Chris Moore:

Even though it’s Jim’s day to post an acoustic rock cover song, it is with great pleasure that I make this official FMP announcement…

As of yesterday, the highest number of unique visitors we had in a day was 222, a record set back in April.  During that time, we were using a program that helped us invite YouTube friends and get more hits to our site.  We stopped using the program very shortly after hitting that record, but we always felt like it was a cheap way to make a record.  After all, we had the programs getting hits in addition to the actual viewers.

Well, we can feel guilty no more!

As of yesterday, our new record is 225 unique, in-the-flesh visitors to the Laptop Sessions music video blog in ONE day!  This is due in large part to two things that have never happened before in the history of the blog.  First, we have been gaining ground steadily in the search engines — Google, Yahoo, MSN — and now we’re actually coming up on the first page when people around the world search for terms such as “acoustic song” and even some songwriters and bands, such as “Ben Folds acoustic.”  A second benefit is that many people are curious about the Laptop Sessions based on various music forums that Jim, Jeff, and I belong to.  Hopefully, one day soon, those people will sign up for membership on this site as well, so they can leave comments!

That’s all for now.  Stay tuned for lots of great things to come in 2009, not only with the Fusco-Moore Productions Blog and the Laptop Sessions music blog series, but also with FMP Studios and the brand-new, redesigned WCJM site.

See you tomorrow for another all-new session!

It’s A New Record for Laptop Sessions Video Views- and an Original Song, at that!

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By Jim Fusco:

You read that right- clearly a new personal best for me and I’m pretty sure a new standard for the rest of the guys here, too.

Every once in a while, I send out a YouTube video to all of my contacts on the site. I’ve decided to stick with sending out an original song from now on. The cover songs kind of promote themselves, but I’m really trying to raise awareness for my original songs, too.

After sending out my video for “Happy Tears” less than 24 hours ago, I received an unprecedented number of views in a one-day span. And I’m talking a new record here: over 300 views on the first day! And, since it’s an original song, it makes me so happy. That means that over 300 great people decided to watch my original song video and take a chance on a song they’ve never heard before.

And that’s what the Laptop Sessions is all about: brining light to those “written-off” songs by doing quality acoustic covers and even originals.

Plus, I got 35 comments in the first 24 hours- a clear record for one day, and officially a new ALL TIME record, as well! That’s right- of all of my all-time videos, Chris’ all-time videos, and Jeff’s all-time videos, this song has the most comments EVER. And that record was broken in one day. And some of these songs have been online for over seven months. And this is an original song- not even a cover song!

Okay, enough boasting for one night- thank you to all who watched “Happy Tears” yesterday and I hope to make this my #1 original song, which I’m it’s close to being already.

How Songwriter Jim Fusco Writes a Song – Part 3

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By Jim Fusco:

A few years ago, I did a video documentary for my MySpace blog showing how I go through the songwriting process.

This particular video shows how I develop a chord progression, a tune, and lyrics for a song from scratch.

Of course, I don’t write many of my songs this way- this was a long and tedious process. But, it’s interesting to see how I began the writing process in Part 1, completed the writing in Part 2, and played live for the first time ever (a few days later) in Part 3.

I hope you enjoy my mini-documentary and will check out my other “How I” videos, like “How I Record A Song” and “How I Develop A Song”!

For all of my original music, check out my website at http://jimfusco.com .

Also, check out the Laptop Sessions YouTube video series, where we at Fusco-Moore Productions cover your favorite artists unlike any other YouTube covers—good! 🙂 Our complete video site is at https://guitarbucketlist.com .