34 out of 34 returned so far !

[mojobone]

Martin is correct. Squids commented on how much time and effort it takes to become a musician. It takes as much time and effort to become a writer. Today, we ask music providers to be engineers as well, but it takes still more time and effort to become that. Finding time to learn all that can drive you into the streets screaming.It's a good thing we have Taxi and this forum.

[squids]

Right. I shoulda used the word 'writer' instead of musician, I apologize. I blame lack of sleep or possibly time, I can't remember which. Can you hear me growing yet? hahahahahahaha

[cameron]

Hey Hoknes,Have you put some of your stuff up for review on Peer to Peer to get some feedback on areas where you need to improve?Cam

[claire]

Well lately everything I send in gets returned. On the submissions that have critiques I get all 8s and 9s, the songs are almost always on target for the listings, the reviewers think the songs are great...but. There's always something. Same songs that get picked up at publisher pitches on a regular basis in Nashville get returned by Taxi. Oh well. What's another few hundred dollars in $5 increments...Claire

[heinsite]

hi clairewell, i'd ask robin what's up--if you're having success in nashville, man, something doesn't smell quite right...warren

[hummingbird]

Jul 11, 2008, 12:30pm, claire wrote:Well lately everything I send in gets returned. On the submissions that have critiques I get all 8s and 9s, the songs are almost always on target for the listings, the reviewers think the songs are great...but. There's always something. Same songs that get picked up at publisher pitches on a regular basis in Nashville get returned by Taxi. Oh well. What's another few hundred dollars in $5 increments...ClaireClaire, it's hard to comment without a specific listing, the entire critique, and a link to the song submitted. Suggest you start a thread and post perhaps 2 or 3 of the most confusing returns and we'll see if we can help.

[billg]

Jul 11, 2008, 12:30pm, claire wrote:Well lately everything I send in gets returned. On the submissions that have critiques I get all 8s and 9s, the songs are almost always on target for the listings, the reviewers think the songs are great...but. There's always something. Same songs that get picked up at publisher pitches on a regular basis in Nashville get returned by Taxi. Oh well. What's another few hundred dollars in $5 increments...Clairewell lately it seems there's been a bit of things actually working in the reverse . . . that is, forwards go nowhere & returns get signed/placed etc., bet that's really gotta sting even more in Nville.

[davewalton]

Jul 11, 2008, 12:30pm, claire wrote:Well lately everything I send in gets returned. On the submissions that have critiques I get all 8s and 9s, the songs are almost always on target for the listings, the reviewers think the songs are great...but. There's always something. Same songs that get picked up at publisher pitches on a regular basis in Nashville get returned by Taxi. I think there's a big difference here in the publishing you're picking up and what you're submitting to via Taxi. I've been wrong exactly 103,345,456 times before (and my "Listen To Dave" t-shirt sales went into a slump that month) but you might comparing apples to oranges. Here's a sample Taxi listing...CONTEMPORARY COUNTRY SONGS a la KEITH URBAN are needed by the Sr. Director of A&R at a Major Nashville Label. Gee, I wonder who this is for? Even if it's not him, it's somebody LIKE him. Outside of Taxi, how easy is it for you (or anyone) to get this gig, writing a song for Keith Urban or anyone like that? Is this the kind of thing you're getting picked up for on a "regular basis"... writing songs for Keith Urban and others at that level? If so, then you don't need Taxi but I'm guessing "no" is the answer to the question. Either that or Chits has seriously overestimated the difficulty of writing for a major label star. So regarding this particular Taxi listing (which would also be known to every Nashville songwriter, agent, attorney, waitress and bartender), how many grammy-award-winning, multi-platinum, multi-top-ten hit Nashville songwriters with proven track records are ALSO in the hunt to write songs for Keith Urban? THAT'S your competition and it seems is what Taxi has to use for their criteria to forward or not forward on these. This is just my speculation (to some extent) but it isn't too far from reality. When Taxi submits music to a "major label" (who is looking for NOTHING but potential #1 hits), those tracks have to be, in the screeners judgement, as good as or better than anything that the most successful Nashville songwriter can currently put out. Otherwise, what's the point of sending in a track from a Taxi member if it's anything less than what Nashville's most successful songwriters have pumped out recently and will likely be submitting? I'll bet Nashville's current crop of hit songwriters, using their connections, will have a pretty good selection of tunes to submit directly to whoever this is. So if anyone can say "I submit regularly to Capitol Nashville and it makes it past THEIR screeners but Taxi rejects these same songs", well then they have a point, but otherwise...

[squids]

Well, I dunno, Dave. I get what you're sayin' here, especially when it comes to artist pitches. I don't submit to them but rarely and only out of curiosity ("huh, I wonder if this would pass?"). For film/tv stuff, though, that's a different kettle of fish. It's quite possible to get returns at Taxi and get accepted elsewhere for those sortsa opps. And honestly, I don't know who that listing is for......it only says "ala Keith Urban" not "this is totally for Keith Urban so put out something new like right now!" As we both know, there're layers of artists at labels, some not so big as others, some pretty dang big. I can't tell from this listing who the heck it is. Not to say anyone here wouldn't be freakin' thrilled to get a cut on a medium sized artist's album, jes saying that the listing isn't specific about who this is and what that would mean if you got a cut. I don't know if the A&R guy is the one who influences the producer to choose the songs or not. Don't know much, really. That's my motto lately: Don't know much.

[heinsite]

hey squids,i know a tune, "Too Much I Don't Know" that might work, i've submitted to this high bar listing, and may already be turned down, got to check....ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hugs,warren