soundsailer

can anyone guide me to any good threads / discussions / tutorials on the topic of copywriting songs electronically ?

Thanks John, I like your philosophy, when we first got our farm about 15 years ago before I got my studio setup in the milkhouse I had a old upright piano in the barn and one of the songs I came up with during that time is called " I don't smile enough ". We had a chicken that would actually jump up on the bench and just sit there while I played.... Dam I miss that chicken.....

Hey Tom, Thanks for the reply, words of wisdom for sure, I look forward to checking out your site.

this is my first contact with alien creatures ( other song writers ) " I come in Peace "........ I'm in my 50's, still got my longhair & ear ring and still think we need a cultural revolution in this world to free the people from the fascist take over.... I'm still writing songs about that and a lot of other things, have been since the 70's. But I told myself years ago that I wasn't going to be another starving artist so in my mid 20's I started fix'n up old houses and just kept do'n it until I ended up in a little farmhouse on 20 acres in the Cascade Mountains of Washington . I've got a home studio in my barns old milkhouse I call " the milkhouse studio ", what else.... Anyway I've got well over a 100 songs and I'm writing as much or more now then ever. I'm just about ready ( been say'n that for awhile now ) to get my material sent in for copywriting. I think I've got a handle on how to do it from this article http://www.musicbizacademy.com/internet/how2copyright.htm my style is ALL over the chart, broadway stage tunes, country, folk, rock, pop, childrens, etc... Some of my songs are just perfect for a particular artist, wonder how feasible is it submit to individual artists?. I've written batches of songs in what I call styles; Neil Young Style, Stones Style, etc. I do ALL the vocals and instrumentals, mixing and recording. The recordings are pretty clean, with multi harmony backround vocals, a lot better then the old 4 track days when I started ( I've still got my 4 track and all the original tapes, some 30 years old.... ) Why do I do it WHY !!!! I do it because I JUST CAN'T STOP................. After I copy write my tunes I have NO IDEA what to do next?? I'm also heavy into digital graphic arts and do a lot of still photography and do large format printing, I also started working on doing short 1 minute youtube style video's using a D550 DSLR, 12' boom, a few good lenses, green screen, after effects, etc. But I don't know if I should just start posting my songs on youtube, or setup a website with all my songs, or start submitting them to places like weshopsongs and songlink or all of the above ?? I doubt anyone got this far in this post but if you did thanks for taking the time to get to know a little about another songwriter up in the mountains, do'n his thing in the old milkhouse and please feel free to drop me a line and say hi or offer a suggestion......... Later