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    It's about damn time! you've got talent! you know i know cause i tell you all the time. I'll help in anyway i can.

    the marketing of your music is key. don't recreate the wheel. there have been tests and you can learn from other's people's mistakes. Don't rush be patient. let's get a plan going and set up specific time structured releases.

    ok now i'm excited!!

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    Hi @Michan,

    I found him on a Facebook group. He and I messaged on fb then exchanged emails. I sent him three lyrics and he came up with a melody for this one. We worked on it for about a month via email. we had a written understanding of credits and now I'm waiting for the opportunity to pitch it.

    If you have melodies for most of your songs you just need someone to produce some music for it. I know there are many software packages that create music. You should look into that! Then you wouldn't have to pay someone to put music to it.

    It's not magic. Just be honest with yourself and your collaborator. The music business needs honest people!

    Lisa

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    John, I totally agree. How does he come up with such a cool guitar lic just from reading my lyrics?!! I don't know! but was so pleased! He actually has fixed the Silver mistake but I had already had 60 listens on my soundcloud so I didn'd upload the corrected one. maybe i should...

    L

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    On 3/4/2018 at 12:17 PM, Samuellambertmasteraudio said:

     

    Hey Samuel, great advice! You really were in the thick of it if you were getting this advice.

    I figure I am a nice person and have no intention of walking on anyone. But I notice when I'm walked on and have a good memory.

    I always try to have good titles/hooks.

    One thing that's not on your list that I do all the time is have recordings and lyrics with me at all times because (like you say above) You never know who you're talking to.

    I see on Reverb you have a show tonight? Hope you knock em dead! Also sent a friend request on Facebook. :-)

    :turned:

     

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    "So if you hear someone speaking a foreign language it always sounds as if they are speaking really fast. The reason being you do not know the agreed stress patterns and tunes of that language, so you are hearing it as separate syllables. They are not speaking fast at all."

    Gary, this is a great way to explain that. thank you. you know this was my weakness in Pat's class. I still suffer with it...

    I will re read this again and start absorbing it. :-) thanx!!

    This is an old blog post but I'm glad it bubbled up again.

     

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    On 2/19/2018 at 4:56 PM, fasstrack said:

    Mind you, this was '89!

    I do know one person there: singer Annie Sellick. Does that name ring a bell? She's a good singer who was smart to base herself as probably Nashville's only jazz singer.

     

    Smart is when you zag when everyone else zigs...

    no, I don't recognize her name. I've not been able to do the rounds. the day job pay was barely enough to pay rent for a while... things are looking better though. Prayers being answered. I'll look her up! Thanks!

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    4 hours ago, fasstrack said:

    The Nashville of everyone's dreams, alas, was not to be---at least for me, stopping off for r and r on a wacky 1989 Greyhound Bus trip (destination: Tucson, AZ). In those days you could keep your ticket and get off and on and stay overnight anywhere along the route. That led to some adventure, not to mention getting away from the chain-smoking yahoos I was forced to ride with.

     

    We hit Nashville at night, and I was dying to see this legendary burg. But instead of the Opry, Country Hall of Fame or (I'd have settled for) a songwriting hopeful pumping gas the following dark and forgettable tragi-comic episode occurred:

     

    Got off in the center of town. Asked a cabbie about a cheap, safe room.

     

    'You'd better not be stayin' HERE! Guy got shot and killed in the grocery last night'.

     

    I ended up in a Motel 6---with a camera hidden in the shower ceiling, and falling asleep to the Morton Downey, Jr. show---in GREEN---another lovely Motel 6 amenity.

     

    'Nashville Cats'----I hardly knew ye---LITERALLY.

     

    But 'I WILL return----I will return.  I'll come back for the honey and you'...

    Hi Joel,

    what a crazy ride you had! yeah, the city can be rough here. i almost didn't move here due to the crime rate but i choose a town just outside of town and it's not been too bad.

    Lisa

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    On 2/16/2018 at 1:40 PM, The S said:

    Ahhh, cool, I'm envious! I'd love to go there someday, not to live, but to see it, just to hang out and let the atmosphere of decades of music making sink in. I mean, it's a classic metropol of everything music, who wouldn't wanna go/be there?!!!

     

    I'd love to hear more on it. Keep us posted!

     

    All the best,

     

    Peter

    Hi ya Peter! Nashville has an amazing amount of country just outside the city. I'm happy to live out in the country close to the city...(oh I think that's my next song title...) I've been to the Opry at the Ryman theater and the timelessness of it made me cry. the main strip is too much to drive on. Next time I have a visitor, I'll go walk it! fun fun fun!

    Lisa

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    On 2/16/2018 at 1:09 PM, DonnaMarilyn said:

    Good for you, Lisa! :) 0nce upon a time I daydreamed vaguely about at least visiting there for a wee while. However...

    It's not likely to come to fruition. Goals change over the years, especially when one is non-instrument-playing lyricist. ;)

    Well Donna, it just happened I needed to relocate and I decided on this area. All things fell into place well so I'm really looking forward to this time in my life. The words are still pouring out of me so I'm going for it! If you ever get to visit here I'd love to meet up with you! Lisa

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    On 2/13/2018 at 2:19 PM, Samuellambertmasteraudio said:

    You are right. If you want to make it in the music business then you have to be there and make all the contact that you can.

    I have been down that road before and enjoyed that ride. I wish you all the luck in the world

    Thanks so much! Hope you had a good ride!

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    On 2/7/2018 at 11:05 AM, robash said:

    Congratulations!

    Thanks Rob, It's kind of bittersweet. I left Florida due to a life changing event for me. So I'm adjusting and everyone keeps calling me brave for just picking up and going. I did some planning but I don't know anyone here so it was pretty big jump. I knew i'd get a day job quickly. So things are in motion. :-)

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