Clay Anderson Johnson

@Paul Hayworth You created your own personal death spiral by posting this as your introduction. Few will listen to it as this is not the place and makes you look only interested in self promotion.

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end This is a line from The Moody Blues song Nights In White Satin. The song has charted time and time again for the last 50 years by different artists. This is not about the band or the song. This is about the inherent truth contained in this line. You are what you believe yourself to be. If you believe yourself to be someone you will become that person. You cannot create talent but you can create opportunity. You can create dignity. You can create respect. None of these things will happen if you believe yourself to be the victim of your circumstances. All my life I have watched people fail because someone else controlled their destiny. I have seen some really talented people become beat down, screwed up, and broke because someone in the “system” they envisioned told them they could not do something or it won’t sell or some other reason. I have known people who have become drug addicts and alcoholics because of this. I have known people who committed suicide with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a .357 in the other. One of my closest friends did this, someone who watched our wedding gifts while my wife and I went on our honeymoon, someone who was married to my wife’s best friend. There Is No System. For everyone who tells you No there will be most likely someone who will tell you Yes. Willie Nelson wrote hit after hit after hit in 1960s Nashville recorded by other people. He could never get support for himself as an artist because the established hierarchy did not think he fit. He spent every dime of his royalties promoting his own small tours. In 1970 he left Nashville and moved to a ranch in Bandera outside Austin. As fate so had it he played a free political fundraiser for Democratic candidates in Zilker Park for a bunch of hippies from the University of Texas. He played those hits. They could not believe he had written the songs they had heard for most of their lives. Word spread like wildfire. Austin was an important place in their world. A bunch of hippies at a free gig catapulted Willie Nelson to being a successful, well known artist. This was the beginning of Outlaw Country music. Someone who had been shunned by the Nashville establishment became bigger than any star they had seen since Hank Williams. Never take No as an answer, go to someone else. Carry yourself with grace and dignity. Sooner or later you will find the respect you deserve. I am a person, I’m not a number, I am a person, not a digital excuse. I am a person, I’m not a number, I am a person with a name. I am the voice of reason, crying to be heard. Listen to me, listen to the wisdom of my words. No one else can tell you how to realize your dreams. No one else can tell you what the secret really means Lorraine King, Tim Hamill, & Dave Parsons

THE MUSIC BUSINESS Professional Music Is A Business. If you do not wish your Music to involve dealing with money then why would you ever choose this as a career move? Pablo Picasso was a great artist. He was also a great businessman. So was Salvador Dali. Business and art have lain side by side since the beginning of civilization. Michelangelo didn't paint the Sistine Chapel because of a burning desire to be creative. This was a job. Ludwig von Beethoven wrote his 9th Symphony to poke his thumb in the eye of the Catholic Church because of their presumptuous arrogance irritating his patrons at the Austrian Court. This is the reason for the pagan imagery. He was a businessman. He had a publisher. I learned these things in a university Fine Arts Music History course. No matter how much you may dislike it everything you will ever be involved with will revolve around someone making money. If you are good at Music and want to pursue it other than as a hobby bite the bullet. At some point, if you have a successful business as an artist and a performer, you will most likely need: An attorney A booking agent A costumer A manager An office A publicist A publisher A record label A recording distributor A recording studio A road crew A security staff There are probably more but this is just off the top of my head. You should have gotten the point. You will not have to deal with all of them personally but they will be there. They will all have to be paid somehow whether it is directly by you or it is from your Music earning them money. They will not work simply because they like you. Form a business and open a business bank account to write off your expenses. I formed my LLC directly with the State of Maryland using their online form for a filing fee of $100. I average around $800 monthly in ordinary expenses which comes directly off my gross income as business related. Most of my activities can be written off as education, research, all of my musical instruments, their upkeep, and accessories along with software subscriptions, memberships, my web domains (5), my web hosting. The list is endless. I have $9,500.00 in business expenses to declare from last year which includes the studio in my home which formerly was only a bedroom. There is no more bed, only a desk, computer, amplifiers, keyboard, work table, and an accessories cabinet. I will have at least that much this year as I already have around $2,500.00 worth at the end of the first quarter. This includes no travel or lodging expenses as I have not left home. This is an international music forum with a 20 year history. If I wanted, this Blog could become a business activity and the time written off as a publicity expense. I could base the rate on previous tax returns and back the claim with a union scale chart. Thank you and good evening ladies and gentlemen! Encore

I took your survey. One suggestion is along with age and gender you might want to add questions regarding profession and income level. These variables will influence the answers and will help give more balance. This is especially true as you are soliciting here. A professional musician or music enthusiast will have different perspectives than the guy on the street. In other words you are not soliciting a typical viewpoint here and should bear this in mind.

Goals and Systems We will assume you have read Part One. If not, it would probably be a good idea to click on that link and do so. Now you have completed the first three steps. You have confirmed by other people’s reactions you really do have talent. You realize what you are going to give up in time, money, and aggravation. You know how you can possibly fit in. Now we are going to move along to Goals and Systems. Goals are important but it is the System you use which will get you there. The first part of setting your Goal is WHY? Why do this at all? You already know there are a lot of possible down sides. Is this a need, a want, or both? What made you choose this avenue? Is this a romantic fantasy? Do you want an audience? Is this a step toward a larger Goal? Is this a compulsion? Do you want the money, the attention, the satisfaction of doing it? I fell into doing this. My Goal was to get out of Dodge, have an adventure, and not work a day job. I hated where I grew up, I wanted more than a dull routine, and I didn’t like the idea of being told or expected to do something which profited someone else more than it profited me. Music was ONE of the ways I accomplished this Goal. It was not the only way. So for me it was only one step toward a larger Goal of becoming financially independent. This was an avenue. It was not the destination. I was a Musician who used that Skill to make money. I did this in order to become financially comfortable along with owning an event production company, a commercial web development company, and being a free lance graphic artist. This is creating multiple income streams. This is a System. This is why I was never interested in stardom. Fame was never my Goal and I never considered myself to be musically exceptional enough. I am good, I am NOT Jeff Beck. This is having Realistic Expectations.* I have been in a band which might have had a shot at fame if not for other circumstances, but even if it had it would still just have been a step toward my real Goal. I started playing music in Jr. High (Middle) School band. I got kicked out because of my inability to sight read. This is hilarious when put together with the fact I ended up as a Bandleader/Producer in a studio. (Irony never sleeps) This shows that for every rule there is an exception or an extenuating circumstance. I was able to do this because: I could read music, just not quickly or well. I was taught The Nashville Numbers System by older musicians. Popular Music is extremely simple. This meant I could read something, quickly memorize it, then play it back from memory. You could not do this with Classical Music. I moved on to playing Acoustic Guitar and then Electric Guitar in my bedroom. I fooled around and copied records as most do. I have never been good at chording a guitar BUT I was very good at playing single notes and had a naturally good ear for Melody. Melody is a very important concept as it is the one of the two bases of most songs which sell. A chord progression has little to do with it. A chord progression only supports the Melody. Most people attempting to write songs get this backwards because they write on an acoustic guitar not on a piano. They start with a chord pattern then try to put words (Lyrics) around it and then find a Melody. The BEST songwriters I have known start with a Melody or a Beat. A Beat is a rhythmic pulsation. There are many extremely successful one chord songs. Google it. Because I could play single notes well I concentrated upon this area and became a good Soloist and Lead Guitarist. Find out what you do best then target that area. I obviously can play chords and have to do so but that is not my strength. Build upon your strengths. You can shore up the wall later. This is a part of a System. In college I started playing in bands, none of which were very good. Although this was where I discovered I had talent. People liked to hear me play and were impressed. THEY thought I was good before I ever considered it anything other than having a good time. This was the encouragement needed to go further and deeper. I was actually in twin BFA programs in Theater, one in Writing, the other in Stagecraft. These led toward forming the event production company and what you are reading now. This company was another avenue toward my Goal. None of these things were the Goal in and of themselves. The Goal was being my own man and not working for the man. None of the bands I played with in college were serious. After leaving there I decided to find people who were serious and find a working band who would hire me. I became someone else’s follower and learned from them what to do. This is part of a System. One of the most important things they taught me was to be as simple as possible and not to overplay. Your friends may think this is cool but if you overplay at an audition for a professional band it will be the last time you will ever see them unless it is from the audience. Now, what is your Goal and what will be your System for doing it? I can tell you what I did and show you things you can do. I cannot tell you what you should do as only you can find your own path. ****** Know who you are talking to and where their perspective will be from. When your friends, your relatives, or your co-workers tell you how good you are, take as a complement. When people who are professionals start talking about your career it is time to listen. They have better things to do with their time than to talk to you for no reason. These people know what they are talking about and mean what they say. Part Three

Go beyond SoundCloud! Go to CDBaby or Distrokid to put your songs in stores. It is cheap and at least you put them in the actual marketplace in Amazon, Spotify, and all the other major online retail outlets. I use Distrokid but research online and decide which fits your needs the best. This no guarantee of success in sales but at least you have made a forward move rather than being stagnant.

I want to make one thing very clear at the beginning of this post. I have never been THE leader of a band. NEVER! I have owned three businesses, I have never owned a band. The biggest disappointment of my career was because the leader of the band went to rehab not once, but twice, because of being a drug addict. This resulted in the band, The Wolves, NOT being signed to Geffen Records and becoming a national tour act with major label backing. He was the leader because the band operated with the aid of his money as he was wealthy. This was also why he could afford to do hard drugs not because he was some low life out of disillusionment. He did it purely for pleasure. Good bands require a lot of money and it has to come from somewhere. Someone’s job at the garage will not be enough and if he stops working, there will be no money at all if you do not have someone booking you gigs. I have always been the willing follower of someone whose money or status kept the band alive and working. My primary skill is being a Bandleader and Musical Director in a studio or in an act fronted by an Artist. I acquired these skills by being a good follower. This is different from being the Artist or owning the band and making all the business decisions. Every time I ever made money on stage I was a follower of someone who was the leader. I have never made money where everyone voted on things. I have not played in that type of band since college. I direct a band in playing not the artistic or business direction. This is what Chuck Leavell does for the Rolling Stones. He plays keyboards and directs their backing musicians. This is what Steve Van Zandt does for Bruce Springsteen. In early 2020 I was hospitalized with Covid-19 for 28 days and suffered neurological damage. This severely hampered my ability to play and can no longer do so at a professional level. This is not as tragic as it may sound as I am 70 years old, played my first gig in 1969, and I am financially secure from a combination of my musical career, the businesses I have owned, and my wife being the Executive Director of a major national nonprofit foundation. I record Music now because I enjoy it and feel I still have an artistic contribution to be made as I am musically different from the average commercial artist. These are basically the same two reasons I write here. Based upon 50 years of experience I say a band either has to be a business or a hobby with friends there is no middle ground. They should not function as a democracy. They have to have a clear direction in which they are going. They have to have a clear top down structure from the beginning. Otherwise it will be an anarchy of “Yeah man I don’t want to do that I’ve got other plans that day.” There would be a constant struggle for control. To not believe this is nativity. The least desirable circumstance is a struggle for power. I have seen this happen over and over and over again with other people’s bands. There is no ideal world of sunshine, flowers, and rainbows in anything which makes money. Two people can share decision making power in a band after that it becomes chaos. Look at any major band and it will usually comes down to a center of one or two people. They will all be contributors to the music but not in the direction of the career moves. Charley Watts complained later in interviews that Mick Jagger made him wear his hair long. Several members of The Mothers of Invention had the exact same complaint about Frank Zappa. Few things designed by a committee are good because the attempt is to try to please everyone’s separate interests. This is a form of weakness because of lack of actual unity. There is no real unity only a consensus of individuals representing their own priorities. What are the qualities of good leadership? Someone who is a good leader thinks of the benefit of his followers in order to keep his organization alive. Wealth and power usually comes either from some form of being the servant of others in helping them to succeed on their own or family inheritances. The leader of The Wolves was a BAD leader because his personal whims destroyed the band. After this was when I became an AFM union member. Union musicians have a great deal of power because of belonging to the union. This prevents them from being abused because of the union’s power. The American Constitution is the child of James Madison which was helped to be birthed by Thomas Jefferson. Put another way it is the result of two leaders bringing the other members to agreement not individuals finding their own path to consensus but following a path in which they were led “in order to form a more perfect union” as it reads.

I haven't owned anything but a Mac for over 20 years. My wife screams at her work laptop with Windows 11 almost daily.

You know what is best for you. Although I am surprised you use a Microsoft server. I have never used anything other than Linux as they are more secure and easier to program.

I have in several, not for the studio but picked for an individual assignment. In early 2020 I was hospitalized with Covid for 28 days and suffered neurological damage. This severely hampered my ability to play and can no longer do so at a professional studio level. I although I am a member there I have never lived in Nashville only gone there on short trips for work, usually staying with a friend who passed away from a stroke in 2020. I don't like tourists. I actually live in a very small town just outside of DC in Maryland. It is close to the city for dining and entertainment but very quiet, with no crime, as it is upper income with more police than you can imagine. There are so many cops you cannot leave home without seeing at least one and there are often 5-6 squad cars in a group on the main street. I keep my union membership more out of solidarity with AFM than for income. I am a big believer in unions and collective bargaining to protect musicians. This is when I started my first DAW recordings last Summer. I never used one until then. I also built my first home studio in a spare bedroom at that time.

My actual meaning was Showcase, Song Critique, etc. I never meant individual topics which was poor wording on my part. As I mentioned this was based upon guesswork not actual knowledge of your goals only what I perceived as an outsider. My biggest point is you should only make changes IF it improves the site to a large extent. Rearrangements like tagging are probably insignificant for the time expended. The membership will adapt. The question is will it benefit you enough to make the change?

The lion's share of my income has come from owning an Events Production company and a commercial website development company for businesses not individuals. I have made money playing Music both live and in a studio however the other two produced much, much more which allowed me to pursue Music. I am a union member so I make good money when I play. However that has never been my sole income nor did I wish it to be.

I understand your position. I am attempting to make things easier for everyone, especially you. I am not suggesting redesigning the site only the menu navigation. I don't know what type of CMS template you are using but most likely it will have a free or lost cost add-on for the ladder menu I suggested prebuilt and only has to be inserted in a cell or a div after you have added the links. My guess, and it is only that, is the Forum is the widest used portion of the site and thus should be the forefront. Concentrating on the Main Menu as being the forum topics would seem to me to be the main thrust of the navigation to simplify the ability to view all of those topics at a glance. I am not privy as to what all your goals are but several of the Main Menu items at this time appear to be of little usage or real value to you, Store appears to have little value. Hubs takes you to Forums. Music Resources all simply leads to different areas of Forums. If you want improvement, changing the Main Menu to me would seem not only the most impactful but also the easiest. Your original suggestion of tagging strikes me as being rearrangement not change.

@GregB I am in the same situation as you and believe we are also the same age. I have owned businesses alongside playing Music and the union also has a pension fund. My money has always come from having multiple sources of income. I do this now simply because I can and I enjoy doing it. I would not expect to live off selling music on the web. Both our overheads are probably too high to risk on that assumption.

I became good at running businesses because I preferred it to working for a corporation. Almost every dime I have ever made in Music though came from working for someone else. The combination of the two is why I survived This last year was the first time I ever attempted doing my own thing as an artist.

Whichever direction you go, forming an LLC as well as having a business bank account is highly beneficial. It means being able to take tax write offs for any business related purpose such as your website and Office subscription as well as adding legitimacy should you ever make a move such as seeking investors. I use Blue Host myself. I have found them to be very good overall. I did have problems with the initial setup as they default to a Wordpress format. My HTML5 pages appeared as code. This was easily fixed but I did have to contact Support more than once initially. Their SSL certificates also expire and you have to get Support to update them. If you do not use HTTPS rather than HTTP many browsers will flag your site as unsafe. Their certificates have expired twice within the last year. They use a general certification not one specifically linked to your domain. The counter balance is they are free (at least with my account).

This is not what I was referring to as you still have to scroll the page. It simply presents the information in a different viewing format. This is not a menu. This is only the same information presented in a different manner. It is the ability to see every topic forum heading at one glance which will simplify navigation. I also would have real concerns that few would view the video tutorial on tagging. People's attention spans as well as the time they are willing to allot to a web page or site on viewing it is generally less than 3 minutes. This is a statistic fact not an opinion. You have to have a very serious person with a very serious, not passing, interest to either scroll a page for information or watch a tutorial video. Unless I am really, really, really interested in a tutorial video I will choose not to watch it. I have to perceive that video as being extremely important to ME personally, not the website's preference, to watch it. This is not unusual behavior, this is typical behavior. What you or I might be willing to do for information is not the same as your typical web visitor or even typical member. The less time which is involved in finding as well as the simplicity of understanding information creates interaction and participation. What you are advocating is not an improvement only a rearrangement of what you are doing already. In this scenario the best path would be to do nothing as your existing membership are familiar with the current format. ***** What I would do is develop another Main Menu opening in Forums listing the different forum topics. Then I would place all the other items which are currently in the top menu in a ladder style dropdown in the upper left hand corner.

This is really great Steve! 👍🏻 This is highly imaginative plus your sound is growing much better both tonally as well as texturally. The underlining musical sound is progressing in a much more sophisticated manner also. Well done! It makes me want more!

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I can only say what I would do in your position. I would eliminate Draft entirely since Critique in itself indicates an unfinished work. I would keep both Lyric and Song as separate forums. Tagging is very confusing for many people, myself included. It would be especially so for any newcomer as they and I did not know where to post, much less tag when I was new. This seems to add to confusion rather than eliminate it. What I would suggest is a sidebar menu with all the different forums rather than having to scroll down the page to see everything. OR This could alternately be a dropdown menu when you hover (mouse over) Forum in the upper Main Menu. Being able to see everything at once is preferable to looking through a page to find what is there. 👍🏻

One thing I have noticed happening frequently is many newcomers post all over the place. It is not clear if they want Critique or Promotion for their work or what they actually want at all. They also provide links to a variety of pieces not just one. I doubt few are interested in listening to their EP, album, or their musical history.

What do you want from life? I knew what I wanted from an early age. I wanted an adventure! The first time I ever ran away from home I was six years old. It wasn’t the last either but I finally made it through high school and left for college. I grew up in a cow patty of an oil field town in west Texas by the name of Sweetwater. It was a place where people got drunk on the weekend and got into fistfights for fun. It did not take me long to realize this was no way to live while I was watching Leave It To Beaver on TV and watching surf movies shot in LA at the movie theater. Ironically the name Sweetwater came from it originally being a land scam which most of west Texas was. People from the east coast were lured there by false advertising buying land they had never seen in the early 20th century. The water actually came from Bitter Creek which was alkaline in content which made the town’s next biggest industry two sheetrock plants. The third was a SAC base outside town, Avenger Field, which, during WWII, had been one of the delivery points for aircraft being in almost the exact middle of the country east to west. This meant many of the fistfights were between the airmen and the locals. This was a horrible place to raise children and even today is plagued by drug abuse, violent behavior, and alcoholism. But I digress… The majority of people wander through their lives like cattle (another Texas reference 😁). The biggest losers I have ever met were not those who died broke but those who had a dream they never followed. These people were unhappy, frustrated, and malcontent no matter how much wealth or status they did or didn’t accumulate. Their situation was worse than the drug addicts I have known which would be several, at least most of the druggies were happy. The saddest part is that this all happened because something else was always more important than what they actually wanted to do. Show me an unhappy person and I will show you an excuse. I am rambling again… If you want your life to be just like everyone else, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The corporations of the world should be indebted to you even if they aren’t and you are expendable. If you want to make a hobby of Music that is certainly preferable to being a gun enthusiast in my book. Kudos on that choice! If you want to have a career, it is going to require several things. The first is a realistic assessment of what you have to offer. I mean a really hard, cold look. Most people who believe they have talent don’t. If people say ”That’s nice” when you play rather than “Wow” that is a good indicator. THIS DOES NOT MEAN YOU CANNOT IMPROVE. So if you are in that situation polish what you are doing. If the reaction does not improve you probably didn’t either. After several cycles be happy with your hobby if your audience reaction does not get any better OR try a different audience. It might be THEM if you are playing for the same people. Someone else may fall in love with you. The second thing is evaluate what you are willing to give up because it will be a lot. It will be a lot of time, a lot of money, working with people you may wish you had never met, along with a lot of rejection and bitter disappointments on many different levels. If you are a delicate flower and envision working with everything you ever wanted in a friend or coworker this is not for you. Although there are some areas where you can work cloistered in solitude. It will just not be in a stage act. Sounds fun and exciting, huh? This is the definition of glamour, the illusion of beauty where there is none. This is a hard, hard way of life. It is too hard for the average person. It is great if you succeed but remember also that Success does not always mean stardom. There is a lot of money to be made in Music if the general public never knows who you are. Lots of Music people labor in ignominy but it is generally lower paying if you are not in one of the unions which also give you more benefits such as having a pension plan and residual payments for your work. It may also take a long, long time. I used to drink at the bar with and watch Stevie Ray Vaughn with Double Trouble playing at Shakey’s Pizza on Guadalupe in Austin. Talking with any of them was no more unusual than talking to the bar tender. Stevie had been recording for years and was becoming well known among musicians but he could not draw a crowd. This changed when someone who was more interested in musicianship and already had a crowd booked him, The Montreux Jazz Festival. He had been recording over a decade at this time and actually was booed at the festival. BUT after the show he met David Bowie. This was the fabled “lucky break” which almost NEVER happens. Stevie later got pissed and quit Bowie’s tour because he was only being paid union scale rather than a cut of the show although he was playing before thousands who would have never seen him if not for that tour. This put him in the public eye through being on the tour and playing on Let’s Dance which was an enormous hit. This broke down the wall. He came back to Texas famous. My wife Adrienne, who I did not know at this time, was friends with David Bowie from long before this and speaks very highly of him as a person as well as an artist. She thinks this was a temper tantrum over a perceived slight and unrealistic expectations. Current union tour scale is $275 per day of the tour plus $100 for a rehearsal, all expenses paid, plus $35 per diem on a playing day or $75 on an off day. This is $1,925 a week with every expense paid plus whatever the per diem is and for rehearsals. The third point is decide where you fit. What do you do best? It might be songwriting. There is a lot of money in it IF your song is a big seller by you or someone else. If not, you will most likely not see a dime. If you are in a publisher’s writing stable you do not get paid unless you sell a song. Zip, zero, nothing… Do you sing? Is that singing good enough to put before an audience? Anyone can sing, the question is how well? Plus you will be front and center, can you be entertaining? If you sing very well but are shy there is still good money to be made by joining SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists singing on records, commercials, and for films and TV. Do you play an instrument? Do you play it well? If so, do you have any sophistication and taste in the way you play music? If no, you are a potential Metal player. If yes, there are a world of options. If you want to make it strictly on your ability to play an instrument, if you are an American or a Canadian, pony up the $300 a year to join AFM, the American Federation of Musicians. It is loaded with benefits even if you never play a studio session. There are insurance programs for you, your family, and your instruments. There are loan programs, travel discounts, and many other perks. There is a NO PLAY list of abusers, crooks, and cheats. Many artist tours will not hire you unless you belong to AFM. If you are not serious enough to spend $300 on your career, you are a bad joke at this level unless you are the artist. Cut, take, end of commercial… As long as we are on the subject, session players get a bad rap, although I have never played with one who wasn’t a union pro so that could make a difference. The guy who owns the studio down the street is most likely using scabs not paying for union musicians. In the US or Canada unless you are paying everyone at least $144 an hour and twice that for the band leader plus 14.09% in benefits they are not union. If you are working doing music for a business and you are not union yourself if they bring in “session players” they will not be union either. What you will find with union musicians is they are as good as they are directed to be. If you have a meandering direction so will they. If you are weak and bland they will be following your lead. I have a friend in LA whose players are out of control. He is lost which means so are they. However these same people played for Curtis Mayfield, Luther Vandross, and George Benson as well as several others on hit albums. This is because there was a shot caller running the show. Someone has to drive the car, it will not drive itself. Famous Session Players If you want to be the artist, not a band, but THE artist. You had better be multi-talented. Most singer songwriters never go anywhere because they cannot hit all the bases. They play Writers Nights for donations and restaurants. This is usually is because they are not entertaining. Their songs are not good enough to keep peoples attention or they are not good enough as a performer or they do not understand the difference between a set and a show. Amateurs play a collection of songs which is called a set. Professionals play an order of songs which is called a show. Thus the term Show Business. Part Two

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I have a good friend who is a PR professional in LA who has her eye out for a possible movie or TV series to score. She believes that is a good next step. However these type of deals are not common and there is much established competition in this field. Scoring a feature film would be a major life event for me.

You can hear all of my current project still underway on audiomack.com https://audiomack.com/clay-anderson-johnson If you are new to the business and are interested in different ways to earn I would suggest my Bog post here from today.