tonyb300

Of course.

Interesting thread, and it makes me look at my own view of how I'm going about things. Some of the other replies mention having other questions as opposed to keeping your survey short, which is a good argument, but I can already think of other questions also. (Mainly because it pertains to me) -How marketable is your music? -Is there even a market for that type of music? -How large and how open is that market? I've given reviews, received some, got a lot of compliments on my tunes, and hey.... we all do this for the love of it, but along with working on developing my songcraft, I also have been researching the market. What I've found is the business of music, how it's distributed, how it's produced, and music itself has changed drastically over the past 5-6 years when I started writing vocal music. Prior to that I was a jaded rock & R&B *lead* guitarist that gave up the rock star dreams in the 90's to teach myself jazz & write jazz, fusion & R&B as a hobby/passion and settle down, have kids, work a day job. Well, now it's decades later, I'm in a much different situation in life, and sure wish I could have some success or get some gains from from the art form I've loved so long. With all that improvisation and musicianship in my musical DNA, fitting into todays market of techno drum machine pop, rock that sounds like disco, and rappers using auto tune to pretend they're making R&B, has left me humbled to say the least. My songwriting is decent, but is rooted in old school concepts of people playing instruments and I have to admit that I just don't connect mentally to 95% of what I hear being produced today. The kiss of death for someone that spent most of my musical life playing guitar solos and don't know where to fit in. Yes, we do it for the love of it, and a good song *should* be able to be produced with todays production values, but even though I've received several compliments here on songstuff I know I'm far from having a tune that could have some success in todays market. *I hope I didn't go too far off topic on this reply.