Originally Posted By: David Snyder
HTL,

I don't think I agree with much of what you have said, and I hope you are not offended by that. I am politely disagreeing, in fact, with about 90% of what you have said.


LOL, so you're telling me there's 10%? I'll take it! No offense taken my friend.

I do think you might be misunderstanding what I am saying though. I will try to clarify.

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I think there has been an incredible amount of ingenuity by various people who are on the forum and I have really enjoyed listening to their experimentation. Some of the talent on here is phenomenal. The material available in the program lends itself to every genre on the planet.


100% agree! My point wasn't questioning the ingenuity of the people here. That speaks for itself. TONS of talent here!

I also completely agree that the PROGRAM lends itself to every genre of on planet.

The people not so much. WE as a forum lean pretty heavily in a very few directions. It's not bad; but that doesn't change that it is what it is. It's not chart sounding material. We can tell ourselves it is. But if you put it in with the top 10 of most charts and ask someone who isn't biased which one sounds out of place, I feel they would nail it.

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But there is talking, you know, and then there is songwriting. Personally, I would love for you to use the program and show me something that you think sounds really cool or awesome...or better than what you have been been hearing around here. If you want to raise the bar, then raise it dude. Write and Post.


It's not about hearing something cool. I think what I hear here is REALLY cool. I'm going to repeat that because I don't want it to get lost. I think what I hear here is REALLY cool! My God, the work and creativity of You, Floyd, Tom, Bud and Janice...and I could go ON AND ON...is without question. Please don't in ANY way take that I am questioning the talent and creativity here. Not. At. All.

The point was, it doesn't sound like chart material. Charts aren't what make something cool or not. However, there really isn't anything on here that sounds like current charted music in most popular genres. This may sound harsh, but I think some writers here are too good to write what's on the charts right now. That's not a joke either.

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I would love to see what you can do so I can try and learn from it because I am here to learn something too.

Teach me something HTL.

Call me HTL2.

smile


LOL, I highly doubt I would teach you anything. I think you are doing just fine on your own. You know I'm a fan of your music...you do, right? There is more creativity in one of your songs than all of the charts combined right now.

TOTAL respect for you and the forum. I'm going to bow out for the sake of I don't want my comments to be taken wrong. Very cool question all the way around. Great discussion too.

Peace out. smile

Chad (Hope that makes it easier)

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