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M57

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M57 last won the day on August 22 2019

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    I am a super nova
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    Too many to mention - as it should be. From early to contemporary classical music. Jazz Rock Folk Funk R&B Blues - even what the young folk are putting down. Good music is good music.

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  1. I'm seeing the suggestions that pop up as I type - Liking that part. Would be great if some pre-made tags were sitting there for the picking but this is an awesome addition.
  2. Great! For now, I'll just tag it like I normally would on SC.. mostly about style, genre, etc.
  3. Am I missing something? I'm noticing tags are all user defined. ..with no pre-made 'reminder/suggestive' tags? Heck, I don't even know what tags to create..
  4. I'll give it a try tonight and post a tune! ..with lyrics of course.
  5. I seem to remember that there was no consensus. I was surprised to find how may considered instrumental music to still be a "song." But I see no problem with a forum like this more narrowly defining things for purposes of making it easier for members to get the most out of the site.
  6. Hi Peggy, Thank you for your response. I certainly don't wish for you to change things if they're working for most people - They just haven't been working for me at all as of late, and I can even understand why some people would purposely NOT want to post their lyrics. But I agree - as general guideline for members who wish to get the most from the site, it should be highly recommended. . If the FAQ for everything is in one place, I'm not sure that's enough. I don't see any problem with duplicating relevant info at the top of each board on a sticky. Strange - I didn't even know about the Draft Song Critique Board! I think that's great! and tags might be perfect, especially if they are conspicuously set up so that posters feel obligated to use them. E.g. A "Lyrics Included" tag would not only be helpful to folks like me, but they would serve as a friendly reminder to the poster that this is a good idea. I know that I'm borderline rude about asking people to post - especially with my signature - but it is born of frustration. I look forward to removing it when things improve. Mark
  7. Hey Ken, Yes, it is my intent to respond to the ones that have music+lyrics - That's what's been so frustrating. Lately, it seems most (and I mean most) of the songs posted in the Song Critique category that actually have lyrics are posted here without lyrics! Bearing in mind that half of the posts in this 'Song' category are not really songs, they're instrumentals, my hands are tied.
  8. Sorry to be a noodge here - I'm a reasonably long-time member - and I seem to remember, only 4 or 5 years ago that when you went to the "Song Critique" forums, ~90% of the songs were actually 'songs.' You know - with lyrics ..and the lyrics were posted. The last few times I've come to this site, I've made a point of checking the first 10 or 15 posts. It seems around half are instrumental, and the majority that actually are "songs," don't have lyrics posted. In many cases, I have to read the first few posts just to see if it's an actual song. When it is, I often end up writing a request for the lyric to be posted, but a majority of the time the OP doesn't bother after the request has been made. I don't mind listening to a 1 minute instrumental intro if I know there's a song coming. I know the debate has been had and a decision has been made to classify instrumentals as songs, but with posters not posting their lyrics I've been ending up wasting too much of my time. Full disclosure: I'm an old codger whose idea of what constitutes a song is old-school, so my value to the community (whatever that means) diminishes over time. Bottom line: I'm coming to this site and participating less and less - and not feeling like I'm a part of the community any more. Maybe that's a good/natural thing. The site has to stay with the times and woo the younger members.
  9. Buy a Mac. 🤣 But seriously.. What do you want to do? Record just yourself? ..yourself and others? Are you looking for synth-heavy, drop in the beat-centric composing, or are you a 100% homegrown acoustic purist? What is your workflow like, or what do you think it will be like? Read up on the differences. Take a look at screen-shots and watch you-tube videos of them in action. OR just get a Mac and go with Logic and never look back. (that's my recommendation and I have no biases
  10. Just so that people aren't confused - Musescore is pretty much strictly notation software, and not a DAW at all. I have colleagues who are music educators that use it, but Finale and Sibelius are still the industry standards. No doubt MuseScore is a lot cheaper. F & S are pro, which means powerful and detail oriented - so you can imagine the learning curve is significant. Also the big two are obscenely expensive plus you can say goodbye to an extra $100+ every year if you want to keep it updated so that you can work with others who have theirs updated because they update theirs so they can work with ... 😖..you get the picture. For anyone who is interested in getting into entry level notation software, another option they should probably also look into is Noteflight. The advantage of NF is that's it's cloud based and runs on your browser anywhere - anytime - and from any computer. Me, I don't really have a horse in the entry level race; I'm a spoiled Finale user.
  11. "What other DAWs do you use?" is a required field - and "None" is not an option.
  12. Hey Tom, Nah, unless you count don't give up the moon I've been fighting a lingering cold/bronchitis for the last few months. Finally feeling like my old self - only just a tad older of course. I'm really torn about writing some new material or finishing a growing list of unfinished snippets that are accumulating on my hard drive. I'm somewhat ashamed to say that the political climate has me more inclined to hide in my shell rather than let it consume my psyche, drain the happiness out of me and replace it with frustration ..and worse, anger. Part of the problem is I'm not even sure where to direct my emotions - To those in power, or the people responsible for putting them there. As far as writing a song is concerned, the former is easy but the latter is probably more appropriate.
  13. I just received and e-mail from SC informing me of changes to their privacy policy, which leads me to the new policy - what is not included is a reference to what has changed - that's a red flag for me. Anyone know?
  14. Thanks Rob, I'm perfectly capable of putting my foot in my mouth with the best of them. But I knew the job was dangerous when I took it, and I can take the heat. Like I said, I'm still forming my opinion on this, but there's a part of me that just can't resist playing devil's advocate, even when I don't realize it. Stop it! -- No! You stop it! So on the social agenda thing (that's what this thread is about, right?). I get that people use music to raise awareness about issues they feel are important, and I have found myself doing it, but I would qualify that by saying that for me personally the three most important motivators of my music have been the music, the music and the music. People here that know me through my posts know that I hate writing lyrics. I would probably sing about anything if I could find my Bernie Taupin. I wouldn't care if (s)he's the Anti-Christ with an agenda to get governments to shoot babies and puppies into outer space. I'm sure I would write about 20X the music I'm writing now. Now as it happens, I have to write my own lyrics and so I write about what comes into my mind, and my political and ontological views can't help but creep in there - and It just so happens that I like puppies.
  15. Really? Did I say that people should do jobs for free? Nope - go back and read. I'm saying people shouldn't do whatever they want with the expectation that they should be paid for it, no matter what it is. If you don't want to perform for free, don't. Not unless you feel a great need to and people are unwilling to pay but you do it anyway. Let the market decide if they'll pay you. That's what's happening here. The writing of the song is not the valuable part. It's the performance that counts. Ask Vivaldi, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner - Oh and then we get to the 20th century.. And I'm not suggesting that song-writers can't make money in such a system. Not so. Did the engineers that sat behind the console during the recording of a massive hit get a piece of the action? Nope - they all negotiated and got their money up front. If in such a system, no one decides to write music because 'there's no money in it' I'd be shocked. If you are a good song-writer in the new system, whatever it may be, there should be people willing to pay you to write for them (especially if no one is willing to write HIGH QUALITY music for free as you seem to suggest). Just negotiate your contract upfront and wisely with the understanding that any money made as a result of your work will be because of their ability to disseminate it.
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