deal from road rally part 2

[davewalton]

Jul 2, 2008, 3:51am, strato wrote:AWESOME JOB! CONGRATS!I'm also curious what a successful music cue sounds like. Are they just 30 second snippets? Do they have endings?Almost anything that you or I would successfully submit through Taxi or directly for TV/film placement is going to be a well developed track of music that runs maybe 2:30 to 3:00 in length with a definite ending, not a fade out.Generally speaking, "successful" cues seem to fall into one of several categories... they're either "emotion specific" (happy, sad, mysterious, etc) or "genre specific" like Salsa or Indie Rock or "ethnic specific" like Indian or Japanese music. My personal thought process is that when writing, I want to avoid writing music that's "sort of" happy or "kind of" sounds like Japanese music. It has to be the real deal, whether it be emotion based, genre based, or ethnic based.Other than that, as evidenced by the Vonage "Woo-Hoo" song... anything can get used given the right situation.

[davewalton]

Jun 12, 2008, 9:40am, terryb wrote:This is a follow-up...I recently wrote about having five of my songs picked up by a publisher with a west-coast music library that I met at the Road Rally...and getting two nice royalty checks from ASCAP...I worked hard through the winter, and wrote almost 35 new instrumental cues..well the same library is taking 25 of them, I also will be signing a deal with *COMPANY NAME WITHHELD*...through the same publisher...they want one of my songs for a New Age compilation...for CD's, streams, and downloads.Never stop writing!Yeah... a little lesson on "how to do it". Congratulations on the music and also on the "relationship building" that you obviously do so well.

[anne]

Wonderful news - just the right bit of great success to see today!!

[orest]

Congrats to you! Nice job!! I hope I can afford to travel to this road rally sometime!

[mewman]

I love this story! Congratulations! Best of luck.Mewman