Peggy

Nice one.. They are having fun and I just love Bela!! 🎶🎶🎶

Welcome to Songstuff GhostJax!

Cool cool. You can also put your finished works on our Showcase boards. We use these to help promote our member's music on our many platforms. It's explained on the Showcase board info at the top there. We have lots of ways to help reach new audiences for your music, should you be interested. Including but not limited to our fan facing YouTube channel, playlists, blogs, featured artist and artists interviews. Listening now.. great sound! https://forums.songstuff.com/forum/102-showcase/

Yes, I was a little disappointed in CDBaby but I guess I can understand their decision, others have done the same. Are you using your own website to sell your CD's and downloads? There's no problem if you want to post clips on Songstuff, but not sure if that is what you are talking about or maybe iy's something under your current agreement that would be an issue. Either way, by all means you can share your recording sessions here, if you would like.

Hi Peter, Welcome to the boards. Working on your 4th! That's great. Looking forward to hearing. Have you released your music? If you have, are you happy with how your releases have gone? Peggy

Hi sarcasticduck, Welcome to Songstuff! It would be great if you'd tell us abit about yourself and your music. That always helps us so we know what brings you to Songstuff and how we can help and engage with your interests. Peggy

Hi Norlin, Welcome to Songstuff! We have some good articles in the library on Lyric writing and songwriting, if you want to take a look. https://forums.songstuff.com/member/articles/song-writing_38/ Peggy

Hi Niklas, Welcome to Songstuff! Great that you joined us. We have members using Ableton and they might be able to share some information and experiences that could be helpful to you, and your experiences may be helpful to them. If you have any questions just ask! See you around the boards. Peggy

Well, that's pretty cool!

For sure...

Thanks, John! Bass is one of my favorite instruments and I love funk, big time. He's got tons of talent and his smile is killer when he's playing.

Yay, holiday songs aren't for everyone, but for those that have written songs or have wondered about it, I want to encourage them to plan ahead and get started early. There is definitely a market out there for quality Winter Holiday songs... year after year.

Good deal. I have some Twitter friends that like to remix each others music. It's interesting to hear the differences.

Hi Laura, Welcome to Songstuff! If your looking for collaborations you might want to check out the Collaboration board. Looking forward to listening this evening to your songs. If you have any questions just ask. Nice to have you join in with us. Peggy https://forums.songstuff.com/forum/119-collaboration-requests/

Kinda depends for me. With lyrics I like to focus on them til "first draft" . That could be hours or days. Generally, I have a pretty good idea of the melody when the lyric is at that point. Most of my draft lyrics I like to put out on the critique boards. Making some adjustments when I can see the issues. Sometimes I need a walk away to let a critique sink in. When I start on the music bed, I lay different tracks, sometimes different days, different instruments.. generally in order drums, piano/keyboards, strings or brass, etc. Then bass, guitar..Those take awhile because I don't play those instruments and have to work on a different timeline. I sometimes put these out for critique before moving forward. So I can work on multiple songs at a time during that period. When the bass and guitar are pretty solid, i work on the vocals. If it's a male vocal.. there's another wait period.. Once vocals are started, I don't work on much else but the one song. When i start on mixing the bass, guitar and vocals into the bed, I mostly only work on that song. I have many lyrics not set to music yet and several music beds without the guitar, bass and vocals. Probably not the most efficient but that's how it works, or not works, for me.

Hi Liz, Welcome to Songstuff! Nice to have you join in with us. Yep, keeping busy surely helps Looking forward to seeing and hearing your works... Cute and fun! Do you write lyrics/music, too..or mostly remixes? I'll be heading to Spotify to check out your music, but wanted to say hi first. If you have in questions, just ask. See you around the boards. Peggy

Perfoming, maybe not.. except choking myself up at home while singing. Sometimes it happens to me while writing and singing it to set the melody. I have a couple of mine that just reading them still brings out the original emotion that created the song..with tears streaming.

Very touching and wow, so sad .. brings to my heart all those that suffer during the holidays because someone they love is not there to share life and the season. 😪🙏💔

It's a tough one and hope you give it a try for the season ahead.

All true..and I glossed over some of the funnier points. The writer friend does mostly comtempary gospel and this was one of his songs. We vowed we would take another stab at it. This may be the year to do it. We started talking about the redo a month or so ago. It's time to make the decision...focus or let it pass until another year.

Hi Project Mainstream, I'm going to move this to our Covers and Remix on the critique boards. It won't be great if you'd want to tell us abit about yourselves and your music by starting a Topic on the Introduction board. Peggy

I, for one, and the friends I was working with, waited too long .. we were very inexperienced and delusional. It was Christmas eve when it was finally available and we did zero lead up. We just thought great song, great album art, people will love it. We rushed the recording of the vocals, rushed the mix. The poor guy that was mastering for me tried his best. He didn't have a good product to work with. Pretty much a failure. Our faults. We should have pulled it, done it right, prepated a plan for the next year. Lessons learned.

Hi Mary, Welcome to Songstuff! Nice to meet you, too. Congrats on getting your degree. 🎉🎉 On your music projects, are you and your BF writing lyrics and music? Performing, too, I guess. It's great that you want to share your projects around here. What are you you wanting to do with your songs? If you have any questions just ask. See you on the boards. Peggy

Hi Mike, How far along are you in your thinking? Have you decided on your song? What are your usual avenues and steps for promoting your music? Do you have your artist bio and pages or website, mailing lists, and the like? @john has a great marketing challenge for preparations if you want to take a look. https://forums.songstuff.com/forum/324-music-marketing-challenges/ As far as promo, we have a wide range of platforms, playlist and Showcase featuring that can help members with the reach of their new releases. In the near future, we will be launching Advertising for the members and their songs..and much more. (Ooops! that's a sneak preview) Peggy