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Anyone interested in covering one of my songs?(Preview) | Mooney Conspiracy | 3 | 553 | |
| I would love to hear a different slant to some of my songs(and I have a few !) wether it be punk, country,folk,hip hop, techno or anything you want to throw into the pile if anyone is interested contact me at mooneyconspiracy@yahoo.com . love to sta...
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How to do you write your songs(Preview) ( 1 2 ) | SteveHanlon | 33 | 964 | |
| I thought maybe instead of waiting for the "experts" to arrive, we could each share our various methods of writing songs.
OK, let's kick it off!
With your songs, how do you get started?
How do you capture the initial idea?
What co...
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Am I a sell out(Preview) | Eddie Gordon | 9 | 458 | |
| ... Do you ever fill torn between two are more kinds of music?
... Are you a Christion fighting with yourself about singing any kind of music other than gospel?
... Some time I fill kinda like a sell out far writing blues and country songs. Dose...
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Writer's Block(Preview) | Spidey11 | 11 | 426 | |
| I am going through a bad period lately where my muse is MIA. I can write some nice riffs and at times a good progression, but I am having trouble getting over the hump with melodies and hooks. I feel like my process is broken. What do you sugges...
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Song Sketches needing help(Preview) | SteveHanlon | 0 | 299 | |
| I have posted two song sketches in the Listening area. Criticism is welcome as usual and suggestions as to what you would do with the writing of them is also welcome. Specifics especially welcome.
But also just wanted to see if anyone would be i...
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When it all sounds the same(Preview) | SteveHanlon | 6 | 346 | |
| You ever get in those spaces where everything you hear on radio, TV, etc, sounds too similar.
Been waiting for the song(s) that doesn't grab a 'C' chord, and growl the vocal and squeal the lead solo or whack the 4/4 thing or whine about the suff...
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Record a Demo - The Facts(Preview) | see_the_landscape | 5 | 437 | |
| ... ... ... Hey, D ... ... Send shameless plugs through adsales@artistweekly.com and I'll give the rates. ... ... ... -- Edited by BC at 10:08, 2007-02-06...
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Curious(Preview) | SharonO | 12 | 449 | |
| ... Couple of things I'm curious about - no intention of being confrontational or contentious:
... 1. Who has gotten feedback here that was useful in improving a song? I mean, specific suggestions to which your reaction was, yeh, that's what it ne...
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Recording acoustic guitar(Preview) | TJW | 10 | 609 | |
| I own an inexpensive Roland 4 track recorder that I would like try to make some simple demo copies of my original songs. I am having a considerable amount of difficulty getting any kind of quality recording sound from my&nbs...
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Can You Produce a Hit Song(Preview) | SteveHanlon | 15 | 523 | |
| Great thread going on here and very relevant to this site.
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/showthread.php?t=73108
So, what do you think?...
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Plagiarism - Don't Say It Unless It's True(Preview) | Don | 22 | 575 | |
| ... I am a newer member of Artist Weekly and so far have enjoyed all
... aspects of the site. It is certainly a welcome change from the
... money grabbing masses and probably far more effective. There is
... one thing that bothe...
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Words from John Mayer about songwriting(Preview) | SteveHanlon | 2 | 461 | Jun 9, 2006by SteveHanlon |
| I have been reading the Pat Pattison book on 'Writing Better Lyrics'. For those that don't know, he teaches at Berkelee school of music.
His book has a lot of interesting things to say about lyric structure and development. But I'm not initially...
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The songwriter's curse(Preview) | AcousticSoul | 4 | 443 | |
| ... I think we can all agree that music is a form of therapy. Some emotion that defies words can be dismantled and reassembled into something melodic and pretty, regardless of what the emotion is. That is one of the delightful curiositie...
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Let's Get Political(Preview) | AcousticSoul | 2 | 371 | |
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I've never been a good political songwriter. My dad is awesome at it... must skip a generation or something. BUT, I've decided in these tumultuous times, I have no choice but to improve my poor skills because there's a lot that needs to be said.
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Radio songs and Well-liked songs(Preview) | SteveHanlon | 6 | 482 | |
| If I sold a 100,000 copies of my song at MP3 . com but it never made it on the radio is it still a good song?
What does it mean if something wouldn't make radio play?
Quality bad?
Not enough payola?
Are we, as judges, listening for radi...
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Why So Series(Preview) | Eddie Gordon | 8 | 670 | May 3, 2006by Eddie Gordon |
| What dose it mean, what is it about, who are you making fun of. This is some of the questions that I have been ask about my song this week. ( Surfing The Word ) I did this song for one reason only. To have fun Some one said it was almost childish, So...
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Whining(Preview) | Charlie | 24 | 539 | May 2, 2006by AcousticSoul |
| OK, I post a song do see what people are thinking. The comments I received back are pathetic. Of the raters, less than a third left a comment. Half of those where negative, but provided nothing to help and no way back to the commentator to ask, "What...
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Song writing forms(Preview) | nolnaHevetS | 11 | 449 | |
| A B A B ending
A B A B C A ending
What keeps us from writing C and D sections (E section?)?
Will we really stop listening to the music if there's more than we can chew off?
What about Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody - how did they get away wit...
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Under the Influences(Preview) | AcousticSoul | 7 | 410 | Apr 15, 2006by Jack in black |
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I am a chick with a guitar. (There, I said it) So for some reason, whenever I play shows or open mics, someone always instantly draws the "Jewel" parallel. Which I think is funny, because I sound nothing like Jewel. I used to be blonde like Jewel...
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