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The fact is, is that if a handsome young man, with a really good voice, like Kip Moore or Tim McGraw, for instance, sang my song, it would be a big hit (imho).


I just used this point in another thread! It is true, but it doesn't matter.

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...So do those limitations automatically dis-qualify ... In my opinion, they shouldn't matter. The song should matter.


Well, the songs do matter ... and so do the relationships, the timing, the "luck"... Just Consider how many songs are written every day. No one can listen to them all. How do you cut through -- relationships.

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...I feel like all the adequate to excellent instrumentalists and vocalists out there have all agreed to some unwritten law that they will all collude to ignore home-made music, if it is created by some unknown who cannot perform it very well.


Again, go back to how many songs are written everyday. The saying I have heard is that it is not "Who you know", it is "Who knows you and how do they know you?"

Enough of that, what to do:

1.) Do you have a writer's group in your area? join or start one.
2.) Do you go to open mics, writer's nights and listen to the up and coming talent that might be out there
3.) Do you support those "...people I've known for a long time..." by showing up at their performances?
4.) Post music and learn to vocalize better. I can't sing either, but since there is no one else, I do it anyway!
5.) Realize that music is not a money making operation for 99.99% of the songwriters/performers out there. Who makes money in Golf? A handful of touring pros -- the rest is by the manufacturers, the instructors, the golf courses, the 19th hole, etc.... Can you be a touring pro by buying some clubs and practicing? I think Music and Golf (and any other hobby) have much in common.

Last edited by Kemmrich; 05/16/12 04:48 AM.
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