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well if it's not a guitar song then it's not a problem, apart from getting a female singer. A sampled guitar. Hmm how to explain. In the early days of recording there was simply real giutar as an option. Then along came synthesizers. Then you could record a series of notes and use midi to trigger different sounds, some only tried to be synth sounds, others to emulate a real instrument such as a string section, or piano, or a guitar, or drums. In general these synth versions of real instruments were pretty primitive and could be spotted a mile away. Then along came samplers. A sampler used short recordings called "samples" to try and recreate something more like the sintrument that had been sampled... For instruments like drums they were pretty good, but still able to be spotted. For a guitar they were still pretty far away from the real instrument sound. Many VST instruments emulating real instruments are sample based, though some do use some pretty sophisticated physical modelling on top of the samples, yet to a trained ear they can still be spotted fairly easily. 999/1000 you can still spot that it is synth based. For some styles of music that is less of an issue. The great thing about digitally created music is that it is clean and crisp and clear. For more complicated instruments like guitar you are more likely to get the sound you want with the real instrument. Piano is a different deal. It is a simpler instrument because the strings can be played in different ways, the notes can be bent to new pitches etc. There are apps that are pretty good for getting guitar, but yet again a trained ear or semi-trained ear can simply spot what app made it. I hope that helps some more

Answers 1. Yes it breaches copyright 2. No it still breaches copyright. 3. You contact the copyright owner, and that is usually the publisher. The copyright owner of a song is normally displayed in music credits. You can perhaps contact the writer as they often own moral rights ( in countries that recognize moral rights). You may need the permission of both writer(s) and publisher Better to get permission upfront as after the fact they can be quite unforgiving.

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You can, but they look for as high a quality as possible. I would avoid using a sampled guitar. Most other instruments can be sample or synthesis based. Vocals too would need to be real. A bit like selling a home you need to give them what they want. Real instruments help them work out if they like a song without being distracted by poor approximations. Guitar and vocals are harder to recreate accurately, and professonals listening can easily spot the difference and then spend time when they could be appreciating the song being irritated by the shortcomings of the recording. What you could do at this point is a number of things: 1) Shop your song around bands who would be interested in recording it and use that recording for the publisher. 2) Hire a studio and session musicians to record it. 3) Record it yourself using cubase/sonar or similar, and either hiring session musicians to record the main real instruments or finding a few nice musicians ( maybe on Songstuff) to record those parts for free. In all cases you would be advised to get your recording mastered. If you believe in your song then you will find a way. The other two possibilities are: Instead of paying people you cut them in on any royalties. Not the best way as each is likely to want a high percentage as they will likely lack your belief that the song will go anywhere fast and the likelihood that they will ever be paid is very small. Last on the list is do a rough recording and send that. Your song will ultimately not be shown at it's best. Oh, two more possibilities: You use crowd funding to raise the money necessary. That is likely to be a hard sell to make. You investigate sourcing a grant from an arts body. I hope this helps. Cheers John