Thanks Bob. Well I am a singer of Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin and all the rest that sing The Great American Songbook. This is what I have been focusing on in the last year. December of 2012 I started to sing shows in Second Life under the name Jerry Angel. But I recently created a Sly Ruby avatar. Anyway I like to sing on occasion in that Virtual World. There are venues in there to sing at and you get people going to listen to you sing then they dance. Even if it is a small crowd that is ok. One person might have a few people at there home in real life listening. So it is fun.

So I like the Standards. That is a great genre so if I can get a hold of truck-loads of them created by professionals that would be nice. I would like to learn from these files too. Take the very good ones and make them my own. Make some changes here and there. Then write some originals. They make it good for me just starting out with BiaB. They are like a template. Tomorrow I will get my hard drive from the post office. It has been stuck there over the weekend. Then finally I will install all the real tracks. I can't wait to listen to some of these songs that use these files. I think I could be surprised.

Good idea about changing the instruments. A song could be a diamond in the rough. One bad lead instrument and it sounds horrible. Change that and voila! It will sound like a masterpiece. Also I might do some online albums next year. Who knows it might take me at least a year to get something going that sounds good enough. Could take me 3 years all I know lol. But if I do want to license some real Standards on an album instead of writing originals I guess I would have the write to put someone else's track on my album as long as I paid the license on the song. I am not going to want to license anyone's all BiaB song production. I won't know the story on the song I find.

All I can say is BiaB makes for a great hobby even if you don't take your music to any high level in the music business. Just make your own music business. Sell some albums online with your own little record company. Who cares if you sell just one album a month lol. Or you have a fanbase of just a couple hundred around the world that bought your album over a couple years time. I am not worried about fame and fortune. As long as I appreciate my songs and a few more do too great. Keep the dream!!

Ok let me know about any BiaB song productions of the Great American Songbook. Pop and Jazz Standards. I think I have a big collection now. Maybe I will continue to unzip a few more folders tonight. Maybe I will put them all in one folder. They might be in alphabetical order anyway.

Thanks,
Sly