drive me nuts

[davewalton]

you folks keep telling me that i need to learn, well, here's your chance.

Assuming Ben and others are up for this... sit back, watch and learn.

http://forums.taxi.com/topic22842.html

[cmk]

Sportmac,
I'm really happy that you had a piece forwarded. I hope there are many more for you. I agree with eo, different listings may call for a different criteria as far as the screeners are concerned. I hope you don't mind me saying this but here I go - we are all artists trying to perfect a craft made for dreamers. It's hard and there's no rubric, I really wish there was! Good luck to you and please know that these people on this forum are good, and they are always there to help. I hope this forward leads to a deal!

[GEOKOS]

I agree some what with Sportmac as I am knew to Taxi and just found this thread I was abit rolled up about joining and torn about joining Taxi for the reasons it seems like a bet of a million to one that songs will get placed and even if they do get forwarded its another gamble that you will make any cash off of them any time soon . I see the point of taking one screeners view and missing on the other it shouldn be like that at all and the 6's and 7's I thought what the crituque said had no bearing on whether the song got forwarded or not was my understanding on the rules if it was on target for the listing it should have gotten forwarded regaurdless if it was 7's and 8's or 9's and 10's . The way Sportmac makes it sound you have to write songs that are 9's and 10's in order to get forwarded to any listing I had a song that was on target got 7"s and 8's was on target for listing and got returned because the lyrics I may be wrong in that thinking as well but It seems like it to me . Not because I got returned it was my thinking before I even signed up ha ha It seems like theres alot of contradictions in the manual ha ha oh well

anyday now is the tittle of the song theres the link
http://www.myspace.com/emilyssmiling

[davewalton]

The way Sportmac makes it sound you have to write songs that are 9's and 10's in order to get forwarded to any listing

Each listing (for screener purposes) has a "bar"... something that's set in terms of how picky they're supposed to be about each song. That comes from the listing client and it's partially a function of how many tracks THEY want to wade through and how many they might need. For basic film/tv library listings, the bar is not nearly as high as a listing where the company is looking for the next hit for Rascal Flatts. The former is maybe looking for hundreds of tracks where the latter is looking for just one... one magic track.

I'm a film/tv guy who submits mostly instrumentals. I generally get between 7's and 9's and I get a fair amount of forwards (and deals). I've never (that I remember) received all 9's and 10's. Getting forwarded isn't as "random" as some might imply. Watch all posts and you'll see that screeners are only morons when they're returning music... never when they're forwarding music.

In the end the track has to sound good but in addition to that, it has have a one-on-one relationship to the listing, it has the meet all the requirements of the listing (whatever they may be). An Opera song that gets all 10's is never going to be forwarded for an R&B listing. And of course an R&B track that can't pull past 5's in any category isn't going to make that listing either.

Hope that helps,

Dave