Hi! I'm a new member and I'd like to introduce myself

[PetePrice]

Hello fellow members. My name is Pete Price and I'm new to Taxi. The last few weeks have been a great learning experience for me to try to understand this side of the music business.

I'm 69 y/o and although I'm getting to be an old dog, I'm trying to learn some new tricks. I will try my best to be supportive and helpful with my comments in the forum. Certainly, at first, I'll probably have to take more than I give.

I have played guitar in a local cover band for many years but have always wanted to push my original music. All of my songs so far fall into the singer-songwriter style although the genres go from rock to Americana to slightly country.

I've watched Taxi TV the last few weeks and have learned quite a bit so far. It has created more questions than answers though.

My first big question is; Is it at all possible for a guitarist with no keyboard skills and limited DAW skills to become successful through Taxi? I have always written songs with music and lyrics with the intent to create songs to perform. Are these skills transferrable to writing instrumental Cues for movies and TV shows?

I've posted three songs so far if anyone wanted to give a listen and possibly provide some feedback. I promise not to take any critical feedback personally. I really want to figure out if this is just a pipedream for me or if I actually work at this, could I possibly have some modest success?

My music can be found at www.petepricemusic.com or on bandcamp at peteprice1.bandcamp.com

Many thanks!

[kregdurant]

Hello fellow members. My name is Pete Price and I'm new to Taxi. The last few weeks have been a great learning experience for me to try to understand this side of the music business.

I'm 69 y/o and although I'm getting to be an old dog, I'm trying to learn some new tricks. I will try my best to be supportive and helpful with my comments in the forum. Certainly, at first, I'll probably have to take more than I give.

I have played guitar in a local cover band for many years but have always wanted to push my original music. All of my songs so far fall into the singer-songwriter style although the genres go from rock to Americana to slightly country.

I've watched Taxi TV the last few weeks and have learned quite a bit so far. It has created more questions than answers though.

My first big question is; Is it at all possible for a guitarist with no keyboard skills and limited DAW skills to become successful through Taxi? I have always written songs with music and lyrics with the intent to create songs to perform. Are these skills transferrable to writing instrumental Cues for movies and TV shows?

I've posted three songs so far if anyone wanted to give a listen and possibly provide some feedback. I promise not to take any critical feedback personally. I really want to figure out if this is just a pipedream for me or if I actually work at this, could I possibly have some modest success?

My music can be found at www.petepricemusic.com or on bandcamp at peteprice1.bandcamp.com

Many thanks!

Hi Pete
Welcome. Listened to your stuff and i think you can definitely have some success. Of course i'm a newbie myself, but I'm 32, so your music translates down a few generations. Definitely frequent listings that fit your style too! Tracks sound great.

[funsongs]

Greetings - albeit - from a lurker in The Peanut Gallery.
Your bio/Intro reads close to exactly like my own... including your name.
Let's see how you adapt your skills to the mandates of the listings, as others have commented.
Cheers!
Peter
PS: you might help yourself by putting some of your music links in your signature for these forum posts.
PSS: I see your website photo has you playing an Alvarez. I own 2; the better one is an Alvarez-Yairi.

[PetePrice]

Kregdurant, Telefunken, and Funsongs-

Thanks for your kind replies. I enjoy a challenge so trying to write and record to satisfy a certain listing will certainly be that. Kregdurant, I appreciate your encouragement. Graham, thanks for the excellent feedback and resources to pursue in the skills to become successful with Taxi. Peter, yes, that's a 1989 Alvarez Yiari which I bought new. It's my main "gigging" guitar and it plays like butter! I wish you all health and success!

I appreciate the time you took to reply to my post!

Pete Price
www.petepricemusic.com
www.peteprice1.bandcamp.com
www.linktr.ee/petepricemusic

[cosmicdolphin]

I think the issue you're probably going to have is although the songs I've heard so far all sound well performend and produced, the material itself sounds like songs from 30-40 years ago....ie. they aren't contemporary sounding.

The vast majority of listings want stuff that sounds like "now" and music that sounds like it could have been made in a previous era won't fly for sync ( with the odd exception )

So I think the trick is going to be whether you can adapt your writing and production style to the point where it would fit on a current playlist of whichever genre you're writing for. Even trad styles of music sounds different in 2022 than they did 5-10yrs ago.

The best way is to always write to the listings, listen to the refernce tracks on repeat until the style starts to embed itself, play along with them, try covering them and understanding what makes a 2022 song sound different from one in the same genre from previous years.

It's not easy and some can't manage it but plenty have as well, the information is all out there but for most there is a big learning curve to go through first. My main advice would be write new material for Taxi otherwise it can get frustrating when it's constantly rejected.

Mark

[gitanosoy]

Hi Peter,

Nice tracks! Just an observation on your song "Diamonds in the sky" first hearing I thought the intro was a faster version of Gary Moore's "Still got the blues "

Welcome.

[PetePrice]

Mark-
I guess I didn’t realize I was 30 to 40 years behind! Yikes! I do like your suggestion about listening to the reference tracks over and over. I’ll give that a try and see if I can get out of the stone age!

And Gitanosoy, I’ll have to check out that Gary Moore track. I promise that the melody line for Diamonds in the Sky came right out of my noggin. Thanks for listening and for the feedback!

[funsongs]

It's pretty funny, actually - for those of us who got into music at a young age - or as teenagers - trying to learn to play and sound like 'the older, good guys'.
And now, us old guys gotta learn to play and sound like teenagers.
OY & EESSHH!!

The first time I heard someone say, "OH, SNAP!" - I thought something had popped open on my overalls;
and maybe something was hanging out that shouldn't have been visible.

[cosmicdolphin]

Mark-
I guess I didn’t realize I was 30 to 40 years behind!

Well 30 years ago was only 1992. In the UK chart this time 30 years ago was Hazard by Richard Marx which is about the closest song to your wheelhouse I guess.

Good song, but even then I'd say it was it bit retro. You wouldn't hear a song like it in today's chart.

[PetePrice]

I got my first song returned (Diamonds in the Sky for listing S220614PW) I thought the message was right on target but that was not what the reviewer thought. I’m not complaining. It’s good to have gone through the process and to get another perspective. -All part of paying tuition!