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meh, I didn’t create it and it made me smile

Hi and welcome to Songstuff Joe! A good intro too. If you have any questions I can help you with, just let me know. cheers John

I am so glad you have taken a dive into visuals Steve. It brings such a new dimension to what you do.

Music Humour In Image Topic to collect together funny music related image. To get us started…

Hey New Music Friday #29 Ok, ok, calm your screams of excitement! Post up your current music projects. Anything from whistling a tune, a 1+1, beat boxing, through to a full arrangement and production. Be as experimental as you want. I aim to post up another of my 1 take songs I recorded on my phone a little later. Post up your tracks! Your giddy screams of excitement may now resume! Cheers John

hey there Snow Flake. It’s good to have you with us and to understand a bit about you and your process. When you describe inspiration leaving… can you lay out your typical process?

Hey Trudy! Welcome to Songstuff Post up your work in our critique forums, but please take time to comment on the work of other members. You aren’t expected to be an expert at critique, but I can say offering critique to others not only keeps the community ticking over, but it actually has the opportunity to help you more than posting your own work and getting critique. Also, it does encourage your fellow members to notice you and to critique your work. Dive in and have some fun.:)

Pretty good job! The only bit I am not so sure of is the verse backing harmony. The level is ok but the harmony line could be better. A good wall of sound mix, pretty clear too. What sort of set up did you use?

I totally agree. It’s more about updating my knowledge on better exercises!

Engagement I thought a post dealing with engagement would be a good idea. Yes engagement is important. Ideally, engagement with the right people, at the right time, with the right message is even more important. The opposite is also true. Engagement with the wrong people, at the wrong time, with the wrong message is completely useless at best, critically dangerous sometimes. Engagement should not be aimless. It also should not burn valuable content for no obvious, large gain. Here’s the thing: Thinking in terms of who has heard any of your songs or watched any of your songs and comparing that with people who have never heard any of your songs or watched any of your videos… which group is larger? Those have heard/watched you or those who haven’t? What sort of percentages are we talking? Thinking in terms of how many times you were exposed to the last trending song, was it more than once? Was it always in the same way? Was it always in the same place? Do you know what “reach” is? Do you have a good understanding of it and what aspects of reach are important For 1, I’d be hugely surprised if in truth Those who haven’t heard your music or watched your video wasn’t by far the largest group. I’d be surprised if that group wasn’t of the order 99.999% haven’t heard your music. Yet the majority of artists focus 99% of their effort into talking to the same people, in the same place? For 2, I’d be very surprised if you were not exposed to the latest trending song many times, in many ways, in many contexts. Yet many artists post only a couple of times, sometimes only once, to tell people about their releases and other news? For 3. There’s a good chance you have some understanding of reach, but at the same time have done very little to apply it to your own marketing efforts. Yet the majority of artists spend 99% of their time talking to the same crowd. Not just the same crowd but struggling to engage them with interesting content. The language they use, the content they promote… is all geared towards people who have already encountered their music. Not just that, people who are familiar with them. I’ll let that sit for a while before I post part 2…

I second that.I’ve followed his channel for some time. Loads of interesting episodes from a knowledgable and experienced dude. He also interviews some awesome guests in a way they would rarely be interviewed.

Honestly, rarely. I know I should do them every time, but the warm ups I use are poorly remembered exercises from when I started singing as a kid and a few taught to me by my mother as I grew up. She was an opera singer so they were good exercises…. But they were old exercises based on old understanding and singing practices, largely for a singing style I don’t use. Long story short, I believe I have more vocal training than most singer-songwriters, and a large chunk of experience, yet I would freely admit I could know more and would like to know more. I would guess that most singer-songwriters rarely if ever practice their singing without also playing their instrument. More, I guess that few if any bother with warm up exercises. I’d be really interested to hear from my fellow singer-songwriters whether they agree or disagree with me, just because you’ve got me curious now! Lol Cheers John

Very similar looking twins (other than size if right in front of you). Older bikes are just awesome to fix up. That late 70s - early 80s styling is a sweet spot in Japanese bikes. 60s - 70s for Brit bikes. They just polish up nice. A nice spray job too.

Lovely job MP! Z750 twin?

hi MP I am not seeing a photo, just the dpace it should be displayed it. Did you upload of link to a photo on another site? Cheers John

Continuing the movement theme, Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

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I had a thought. Perhaps your plays were used by someone gaming the system with a bot? Those plays might initially be counted and later deducted. In previous occasion when I have heard of data mismatches and payments not made it has been because of fake plays. Often they are not picked up at the time of playing, only when the plays are analysed later. This results in early high play counts and later massive deductions of loads of plays and payments for plays not being made. Sometimes that gaming is not detected, but the person in question trying to game the system is often up to several tricks. They need only be caught for a serious enough an infringement and their account will be deleted and as a cheat they can have all plays deemed untrustworthy and payments and plays are discounted. Did you try to contact your PRO? CD Baby? TikTok? At some $16k+ (iirc) it really needs explained.

Hey Emma! Welcome to Songstuff! A great offer! If you feel inclined to contribute (and it is perfectly ok if you don’t) to Songstuff, in terms of content, be it articles, tutorials, in text or video please give myself, Mahesh or Peggy a nudge. All our articles have been contributed by learned members at some point! We have a YouTube channel hungry for content and an equally hungry guitar area of our site.

The Police - Walking On The Moon

Hi Gang I thought I would start a new game. Simple idea based on YouTube videos from Official channels. The idea is to form a chain of songs, linked by words, phrases or topics. Try to go for clever word play where you can. Please post: The previous title you are connecting to (in case two people post at the same time) The title of your new song selection A short description of the link as you see it Embed a YouTube video of the song from the artist’s official channel Extra credit for interesting/clever connections Examples: Based on movement: Van Halen - Jump -> David Bowie - Let’s Dance Based on a word: Rolling Stones - The Singer Not The Song -> will.i.am (featuring Britney Spears) -Scream and Shout What NOT to do: Don’t mix artist name association. It is not “Artist name association”. I.e. Black Sabbath - Pink Floyd, or Foo Fighters and Tubeway Army. Ok let me pick a song to get you started… Radiohead - High and Dry

Hi all Thought I’d start a topic on music quotes: Plato ”Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything”

Time to close Richard’s old topic as he never drops by any longer and start a new topic on the same subject?

Hi shecklhj, welcome to Songstuff! I look forward to hearing your songs. What sort of role or roles are you working in as a pianist? Do you focus on specific genres?