No More Excuses...Please Help A Wannabe Songwriter
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- KVRian
- 868 posts since 18 Sep, 2007
- KVRAF
- 6325 posts since 18 Jul, 2008 from New York
@wags: I just noticed this in another KVR thread: viewtopic.php?p=7481634
If you can get to Manhattan on Sep 7, maybe you should enter this Songwriting Competition?
https://imsta.org/2019_nyc.php#section-topline-1
If you can get to Manhattan on Sep 7, maybe you should enter this Songwriting Competition?
https://imsta.org/2019_nyc.php#section-topline-1
Bring your Song in to have it reviewed by an expert who will provide you with a professional critique. Song Reviews between 2-5pm.
Enter your original song submission into our 2019 Songwriting Competition to win the opportunity to attend Black Rock Studio's in Santorini, Greece
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- Banned
- 12368 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
wags is kvr thread akira. why do you hate people so much.
this is what you get when measuring against each other. "oh, sure, folks, 10,000 hours is all it takes for mastery. gotta account for all teh time to draw pricks in teh urinals."
thanks hink for being an admin who realises that dude is like a trainwreck every time i snap my fingers
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 21196 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
Please guys, can we stop? I don't want Hink to have to close this thread. I'd like to be able to post my progress with my production music. I am asking nicely. No, I'm begging. This is important to me and I'd like to be able to chart my progress through this thread and possibly get some suggestions along the way that might help me.
Thank you
Thank you
- Boss Lovin' DR
- 12630 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
It is, but Edgbaston (where the ground is) is a posh part of Birmingham. Who would have thought such a thing existed?
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 21196 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it. Aside from that, there is no way I can travel to Greece.Frantz wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:11 pm @wags: I just noticed this in another KVR thread: viewtopic.php?p=7481634
If you can get to Manhattan on Sep 7, maybe you should enter this Songwriting Competition?
https://imsta.org/2019_nyc.php#section-topline-1Bring your Song in to have it reviewed by an expert who will provide you with a professional critique. Song Reviews between 2-5pm.
Enter your original song submission into our 2019 Songwriting Competition to win the opportunity to attend Black Rock Studio's in Santorini, Greece
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- addled muppet weed
- 105895 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
i think the prize is paying for you to get to greece?wagtunes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:34 pmUnfortunately, I won't be able to make it. Aside from that, there is no way I can travel to Greece.Frantz wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:11 pm @wags: I just noticed this in another KVR thread: viewtopic.php?p=7481634
If you can get to Manhattan on Sep 7, maybe you should enter this Songwriting Competition?
https://imsta.org/2019_nyc.php#section-topline-1Bring your Song in to have it reviewed by an expert who will provide you with a professional critique. Song Reviews between 2-5pm.
Enter your original song submission into our 2019 Songwriting Competition to win the opportunity to attend Black Rock Studio's in Santorini, Greece
- KVRAF
- 15279 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
vurt is right, you already made it!!
People perform best if they can do what lies closest to their heart.
People perform best if they can do what lies closest to their heart.
There is an audience plus performers for your work, you're surrounded by them every Sunday.
We are the KVR collective. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
My MusicCalc is served over https!!
My MusicCalc is served over https!!
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240
- KVRAF
- 35191 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from the wilds of wanny
You're not a Campbell are you?toonertik wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:17 pmoi... watch it...thecontrolcentre wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:12 pm Its those Border Reavers you have to watch out for ...
talkin bout my ancestors like that...
- KVRAF
- 2752 posts since 15 Feb, 2017 from a worn out vinyl groove
No... more Neanderthal, judging by behavioral tenancies.thecontrolcentre wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:49 pmYou're not a Campbell are you?toonertik wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:17 pmoi... watch it...thecontrolcentre wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:12 pm Its those Border Reavers you have to watch out for ...
talkin bout my ancestors like that...
I don't remember the clan, but Camp_bell don't ring a bell.
My mother thinks Clan Donnachaidh (Robertson) but the tartan does not look like the kilt my Gandpa bought me as a kid, along with bagpipes and my journey into making terrible sounds (music... nah, not even ) but I can always find vol_11.. just ask my neighbors
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- KVRian
- 868 posts since 18 Sep, 2007
Sure. Let's keep it on topic. I look forward to reviewing your production music. I think I might take a second look at some of the other songs you posted so I can get real specific with my feedback and offer you as much help as I can.wagtunes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:32 pm Please guys, can we stop? I don't want Hink to have to close this thread. I'd like to be able to post my progress with my production music. I am asking nicely. No, I'm begging. This is important to me and I'd like to be able to chart my progress through this thread and possibly get some suggestions along the way that might help me.
Thank you
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 21196 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
Well, it's going to be a while. I'm still in the process of going through the sites to see what kind of material is being submitted and accepted. I have a 12 week wait just to find out of Music Vine will even take me. So it might be some time before I post anything here.SAW75 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 11:07 pmSure. Let's keep it on topic. I look forward to reviewing your production music. I think I might take a second look at some of the other songs you posted so I can get real specific with my feedback and offer you as much help as I can.wagtunes wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:32 pm Please guys, can we stop? I don't want Hink to have to close this thread. I'd like to be able to post my progress with my production music. I am asking nicely. No, I'm begging. This is important to me and I'd like to be able to chart my progress through this thread and possibly get some suggestions along the way that might help me.
Thank you
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 21196 posts since 8 Oct, 2014
Earlier in this thread, Benedict asked me what I was afraid of and I said nothing. Well, that may have been true when I was writing pop songs, but now that I'm changing career paths, I noticed something that I can't just brush to the side.
This guy who can, and has, knocked out a song a day, in sitting here doing nothing. I'm using a 12 week wait to get approved by Music Vine as an excuse for not doing anything beforehand. The truth is, I should get right to work this morning on doing production music. But I'm not. And the reason is simple. I'm scared that I'm going to do all this music, which is going to take a considerable amount of time to build up a large library of work, and it's all going to be for nothing. Every site will reject me and nobody will want my library music any more than they wanted my pop music. And the thought that that might be a reality is just too much for me to deal with. I'd rather just do nothing.
Wrong attitude? Of course it is. It's the kind of fear I never had doing pop songs or I would have never written so many. But having been through all that and having nothing to show for it, I just don't want to go down that road again. I think it would be the straw that broke the camel's back.
But if I do nothing then I have absolutely no chance to succeed. That's a 100% given. It's like Wayne Gretzky said. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I realize this is something I have to work through myself. Nobody here can make me overcome my fear of yet another failure. I'm hoping I can motivate myself today to at least start one song. But then I still have the problem of not having a clue what kind of music I want to write. There is so much out there that is viable. What if I choose the wrong thing? That's why I'm trying to study the tracks that are out there and, supposedly, selling. Though I can't really know for sure since I have no access to sales figures. For all I know, every track I've listened to could have zero sales between the lot of them. There's just no way to know.
Anyway, I've rambled on enough. Today I'm going to do something, even if it's just open up my DAW and record a few notes. But if I don't get started, nothing will ever get done.
This guy who can, and has, knocked out a song a day, in sitting here doing nothing. I'm using a 12 week wait to get approved by Music Vine as an excuse for not doing anything beforehand. The truth is, I should get right to work this morning on doing production music. But I'm not. And the reason is simple. I'm scared that I'm going to do all this music, which is going to take a considerable amount of time to build up a large library of work, and it's all going to be for nothing. Every site will reject me and nobody will want my library music any more than they wanted my pop music. And the thought that that might be a reality is just too much for me to deal with. I'd rather just do nothing.
Wrong attitude? Of course it is. It's the kind of fear I never had doing pop songs or I would have never written so many. But having been through all that and having nothing to show for it, I just don't want to go down that road again. I think it would be the straw that broke the camel's back.
But if I do nothing then I have absolutely no chance to succeed. That's a 100% given. It's like Wayne Gretzky said. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I realize this is something I have to work through myself. Nobody here can make me overcome my fear of yet another failure. I'm hoping I can motivate myself today to at least start one song. But then I still have the problem of not having a clue what kind of music I want to write. There is so much out there that is viable. What if I choose the wrong thing? That's why I'm trying to study the tracks that are out there and, supposedly, selling. Though I can't really know for sure since I have no access to sales figures. For all I know, every track I've listened to could have zero sales between the lot of them. There's just no way to know.
Anyway, I've rambled on enough. Today I'm going to do something, even if it's just open up my DAW and record a few notes. But if I don't get started, nothing will ever get done.