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If you were talking to me I play 4 hour gigs at bars /pubs / local joints. 45 min sets until people stop tipping and the crowd dies down.

I agree partly with you hobo but if spotify is paying the publishers, songwriters, artists and other people involved with the recording what they would make off an album sale how are they really getting hurt? I have no idea whether they are or not, but I must admit to using spotify although most of what I listen to I already have on my hd in Itunes from used cd sales, godowill cd, pawnshops, and other cheap cds.

I agree with you hobo , if you can hear whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want, by whoever you want, for free then WHY BUY ANYTHING??? The music industry is as good dead All my friends who pirated music now don't even do it anymore because they can can hear whatever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, by whoever they want, for free and it's Completely Legal thanks to spotify!!!!

I recently found out about spotify a couple of months ago. The internet has had the music industry with it's head the rope for a while, but it's seems like spotify is pulling the trap door to the gallows. With the ability to listen to what ever you want wherever you want from what ever artist you want ( although some are not on there?) as many times as want for free, must be having some determentel effect on the music industry. Will spotify kill the songwriting / music industry?

I use logic 9 and love it too. Logic pro and $400 used mac pro from craigslist and your set!!

Have you ever tried logic pro? or are you anti-mac?

even if they were born before 1970? who do the royalities go to if they have no living family?

Hello I am converting a chain link (fence will be removed) cat enclosure in to a new recording studio, my outside noise levels in dbs are, ambient readings for A is under 30db and for C is 45db This for just nature and wind. When the neighbors have there AC/ heat about 100ft away on the A jumps to 45db and C goes to 50db. But that is only by the long outer wall of the live room. The maximum DB readings (loudest when a Semi- Truck goes by this doesn't happen often as we are on back county road but there are still stores that need pepsi, Miller, and sysco; ). 50db for A and 75db for C. I have never actually gotten numbers this high they are rounded up from around 47-49 for A and 73-74 for C. I have included a cad drawing of the studio. Everything is to scale. and all dimensions are in inches if the number has more than digit after the decimal point round up to the nearest .5 inch. The square in the middle and the other two squares as well. is a filled concrete block and is one the pilings for our house that is 12 foot high in the air. I plan to rip all of the current celling and bring the studio to the bottom of our house which makes the ceilings about 9' 8" high. The concrete slab it sits on is at places slightly over 2ft thick. Every line in the wall is where a 2x4 is they are on 2ft centers but for the where the 1/2" durock will be installed on the outer walls of the live room Ithere will be 2x4's on 18 in centers. Where there is a double wall in the live room the inner 2x4's will be on 18" centers for the 3x5 durock sheets which will also be 1/2". I was going fill both walls with 3 1/2" thick r-13 fiberglass insulation that is 15" wide and seal all gaps with great stuff expanding foam. NO durock or anything else other than the insulation on the insides of the walls and they will be 1.5-2" apart from each other unless you think I would need more? I was only going to double the outer walls of the the live room as I don't have that many db's to cancel and I think that it would only needed there? Is it even worth it to just double the outer walls of the live room? i was think that since all of the double walls dead end into 12" x 16" filled concrete blocks that just doubling the walls of the live room would be effective and I would not need to double all of the other outer walls. Is this good logic? In the control room I plan to do all of the mixing and monitering with headphones as that is what I am used to and with weird way of hearing things that works best for me. ( I hear can't notes, octaves , keys or anything musically related All I hear is sounds and I can hear sounds no one else does. I hear people talking (most likely people in the control room) in old records from the 50's 60's and 70's that no one else can; But I can play ANY stringed instrument very good and by ear). I also Have another room that is much more acoustically treated that I can listen to tracks in. The walls of the control room are already covered with 3/8" plywood on both sides and filled with 3 1/2" fiberglass insulation (but it was old and some of the paper was rotten fiberglass was fine though). Would their be any added benefit to putting 1/2" durock on the outside over the plywood? Or on the inside aswell? The doors are homemade doors out of 2x4's that are 3 1/2" thick one side now is 3/8" ply wood and I will fill them with insulation and put durock or possibly more plywood if the weight limits won't let me use durock. They are hung by three heavy duty hinges and are 80" tall. To cool this the summer I was just going to put a window ac in the storage room and turn it off when I am recording. Sometimes in the summer the outside humidity is 100% and temps are 98+ would I need an additional de-humidifer and possibly a source of fresh air as well? attached is the cad drawing Any other tips advice or ideas would appreciated! Thanks Jesse Macmanmatty

What if you record your version of song written by some who is deceased? Or deceased and born after 1970? or written by two people only one of whom is dead?

great thread I am in the process of turning a 20x20 four room cat enclosure into a studio!! I can post plans if you'd like. The work will start once I rehome the last of the cats. Anyone want a 12 year old female SPAYED F1 savannah and is located near northwest FL (I won't ship her)?

I believe there is no originality there was really only ever one song written and everyone just stole that one as best they could. Joking!!! There is lots originality still, and this should prove it

here are some of my originals just me and my guitar I have MANY MANY MANY more. http://www.soundcloud.com/ipflsongs

todays country is not country Or anything I would call even close to country. Russell Moore and IIIrd tyme out, Lynyrd Skynrd, John Prine, and Jimmy Buffet some artists who people say are not country are 1000x more country than todays artists. Todays country artists are basically just pop artists who sing about supposed country / red neck themed things. Or the ones who rap to a banjo. Which a whole new genre of country music + rap called country rap or crap for short !! Bring back the jones, haggard, jennings, owens, and other classic artists. the only artist of today who is doing this, gets major radio air time , and didn't record in the 80's is Jamey Johnson.

Wrong there buddy a C#m is composed of a C#, E, G# C#, E, G make a C#dim

Actually That was A joke I haven't drank any alochol in 11 years. But really most of my songs come from people places and things AKA other drunks I take what they say and turn into a song on the spot. Sometimes it doesn't work sometimes it needs major work sometimes it needs polishing, But sometimes I have percieved hit right from the get go and it need nothing.

since he is brass band player How about some john coltrane?

Yes, But noone ever knows I just make up some stuff on the spot that sounds just as good (or sometimes better) than the original lyrics.

My steps for writing a real good song are similar Step 1 gather my friends Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, and I.W. Harper to help as co writers Step 2 Talk real good to them and inhale their C2H5OH goodness Step 3 Either write the next top 10 hit or pass out which ever comes first.

Something is waaaaaaaaay off in this song and it sounds like your singing but you could be merely doing what I used to do when I was playing a song. When I was supposed to play a d7th in a song in key of GMaj and I played a C instead my singing was waaaaaaaaay off as the guitar was not playing the notes i was supposed to sing. So You either need A find a new guitarist who can play your melodies as you write them, or B rewrite your melodies to suit him

check out Chet Atkins he does some of best beatles instrumentals I've heard also his partner lester (from chester and lester) AKA Les Paul was another great rock guitar player. Also look at jerry reed, Joe wallsh, roy buchanan, Glen campbell, wes montgomery,

That's the problem it really has no clear melody Kinda like the talkin blues

Hello, I am working on a new song called "free beer" but it uses almost the same melody to charlie daniels' uneasy riders songs . Words are entirley different but the melody (if you wish to call it one it almost just talking) is the same. For those who have heard those songs do you think I would be in trouble if it became a hit and I didn't put him in the credits?

I get inspired by anything everything from the weather, my mood, drunks who screw up ECT. . Like the great Phil Ochs once said there is a song everywhere you just have to find it.

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Sorry But I don't think you can be in key of Am a without at least one Am chord (or any minor chord for that matter you have none) Also the notes G# F# C# (you have one on the A chord unless you mistyped and your A is minor not major) are not allowable (but they can be used in certain ways) in the key of Am which is ( A B C D E F G) and the relative minor to the Key of C. Again I say key of D all the notes fit and a flat 7th is a very common note in lot of songs in any key. Also keys of D and A are hard to disgunish from because they key signatures are only off by one shrap.