Originally Posted By: musician17
In answer to your question: both! smile I need feedback, of course. As for the finished product: no, because my voice is not good enough - but I'd love some artist to hear them and want to record a song or even two of mine, themselves.

I'm not a pro, so take this with an appropriately large grain of salt. But...

Before you invest a lot of time and effort into this, it might be good to have reasonable expectations of success.

If your hope is truly that you'd like a song or two of yours to be recorded by an artist, I think there are two questions that need to be answered.

First, is your music commercial? Does it have broad appeal in a way that a large number of people will want to buy the song?

Music is a commercial venture, and the bottom line is that an artist will only pick a song if they feel it will be commercially successful. It costs money to make music, and people spend that money in the hopes that music sells and makes them a profit.

It's one thing to be writing deeply personal songs. It's quite another to write a song that will commercially successful. You'll be competing against people who have spent years honing their craft and studying the market.

Second, is posting your song publicly likely to get your song heard by an artist?

From what I've read, that might have worked once, but it's generally how things work now.

On top of that, there are many people competing in that space. So even if there were an artist looking for a song, how would they find you in the glut of other songwriters? The demos that you post are going to have to convince someone of the commercial potential of the song.

That's why people who are serious about trying to crack the commercial market will hire a professional singer on their demos. If the demo isn't top-notch, who's going to listen to it?

And I'm not saying to spend more money on the creating a demo - unless you're sure it's got commercial potential, and you've got an effective way to market that demo. I just don't see this route as likely to get you where you want to be.

Feel free to disagree, but I'd give a bit more thought about any likelihood of success before going down this path.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?