My First Placement

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Re: My First Placement

Post by marcblack30 » Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:51 am

Happy to see this post first thing on a Monday morning!

Congrats Tom!
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Re: My First Placement

Post by songmaster » Mon Feb 13, 2017 6:54 am

Thank you Lamar, Paul and Alessandro, much appreciated.

Alessandro, in answer to your question. A lot of Taxi members get placements faster than I did. So take hope. I usually got about 1 forward for every 10 in sent in. I would say I submit about 40 songs a year. The song that got the placement, never got a forward, no matter how many times I sent it in. ( that was more my fault for not understanding the listings ). I submitted the song I got placed in a library 3 years ago. It was pitched by that library about 11 times over 3 years, until it got placed 3 days ago. As you can see, there is no exact formula ( at least in my case ) on getting a song placed. The main thing that I had going was constantly being involved in the Taxi forum, where I got to meet Mark Blackwell and many other great collaborators. Not to be corny, but they are the wind beneath my wings :roll: Really what it comes down to in the end, is persistence. I am just too stupid to give up :) I would say, give Taxi and yourself a chance and try not to judge your success by how others are doing. I did that a lot and it is a waste of time. You could be doing music instead. I hope that helps you and welcome to Taxi.

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Re: My First Placement

Post by songmaster » Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:01 am

Thank you Ron I appreciated it !

Hey Marc, thank you so much for getting me to this place. You did a great job on the song and Debbie's vocal sealed the deal. I had a lot of hope for this song and I am really glad that it finally found a home!

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Re: My First Placement

Post by Sonora » Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:06 am

songmaster wrote:Thank you Lamar, Paul and Alessandro, much appreciated.

Alessandro, in answer to your question. A lot of Taxi members get placements faster than I did. So take hope. I usually got about 1 forward for every 10 in sent in. I would say I submit about 40 songs a year. The song that got the placement, never got a forward, no matter how many times I sent it in. ( that was more my fault for not understanding the listings ). I submitted the song I got placed in a library 3 years ago. It was pitched by that library about 11 times over 3 years, until it got placed 3 days ago. As you can see, there is no exact formula ( at least in my case ) on getting a song placed. The main thing that I had going was constantly being involved in the Taxi forum, where I got to meet Mark Blackwell and many other great collaborators. Not to be corny, but they are the wind beneath my wings :roll: Really what it comes down to in the end, is persistence. I am just too stupid to give up :) I would say, give Taxi and yourself a chance and try not to judge your success by how others are doing. I did that a lot and it is a waste of time. You could be doing music instead. I hope that helps you and welcome to Taxi.

Tom
Thank you Tom, this is very helpful and detailed!
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Re: My First Placement

Post by songmaster » Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:11 am

No Problem Alessandro. I am glad I could help :)

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Re: My First Placement

Post by Sonora » Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:24 am

songmaster wrote:No Problem Alessandro. I am glad I could help :)

Tom
And by the way, your song is absolutely great!
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Re: My First Placement

Post by songmaster » Mon Feb 13, 2017 2:40 pm

Thank you for your compliment. After listening to some of your sound track work, you should have no problem getting placements. Amazing stuff !

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Re: My First Placement

Post by chrismugs » Tue Feb 14, 2017 8:29 am

Congrats on the milestone!!! here's to many more forwards

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Re: My First Placement

Post by songmaster » Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:59 am

Thanks Chris, Much appreciated :)

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