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