Hey Scott,

I will try one more time. Your points are very insightful and very well taken and thank you. I have plenty of finger snap loops and clap loops to last until Jesus comes back (hope it's soon too) and I will use them when it is right.

However, I believe my first original question has not been answered by anyone but Floyd and I see it may be my fault for not articulating it clearly in the beginning.

I will try again.

Since I am working with some country writers--including great female lyricists--I am asking if anyone has any FAVORITE STYLES or FAVORITE INSTRUMENT COMBINATIONS they use for demo and pitching purposes.

If you have been involved in Nashville pitches--and people on this forum have, and will know what I am talking about, instantly--there are two types of pitches that work in the real world.

1. ) A very bare bones stripped down demo. Sometimes just a guitar and voice, maybe a little extra, but nothing too fancy.

2.) Something that sounds like it was produced and mixed at Big Machine.

There is no in between.

SO, with that in mind, again, does anyone have any favorite, simple, stripped down styles they use for song pitching???

It is just a simple, simple question and I do not believe we need another forum to accommodate it. Just asking.

Does anyone have any favorite, simple styles you personally use for demoing purposes, styles that you build upon???

I am not saying I want to sound like Luke Combs on every song. I am just saying that song I referenced is a good example--ONE--of what I would consider to be a good, solid, sturdy, strong construction for a modern country song. I cannot reference 10,000 songs so I picked one.

I will now begin the process of listening to all 7,725 styles one by one until I find what I am looking for.

In the meantime, thanks to everyone for their input, I have learned a lot and now I am putting my headphones on to go sample styles and keep writing songs.

If anyone besides Floyd comes up with an answer or suggestion to the original question, thanks so much in advance.

As for being "in it" myself and the people I am talking about ARE "in it" and that's why I asked the original question.

Back to work.

Thanks guys.

David Snyder
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