How to present your cd?

[jpmuzic]

I would like to know how should your CD be presented should I go to discmakers put my pic on it or what. Thank you!

[hummingbird]

Oct 6, 2008, 11:32pm, jpmuzic wrote:I would like to know how should your CD be presented should I go to discmakers put my pic on it or what. Thank you!Up to you, of course, I burn mine at home & make my own labels. The label should be clean & neat, have at least your email address and website, and a list of tracks with genre. A pix makes it more memorable... it's going to represent you to your peers, and possibly a few mentors.

[jpmuzic]

Ok cool. So how many songs should be on the CD. Should you have a insert with the CD. Should you your publsher and copywrite information on it. Can you please just give a list of some of things that should have to present to the mentors and others. Thank you so much for your time. Cnat wait to see you guys at the rally!

[hummingbird]

Oct 9, 2008, 8:03pm, jpmuzic wrote:Ok cool. So how many songs should be on the CD. Should you have a insert with the CD. Should you your publsher and copywrite information on it. Can you please just give a list of some of things that should have to present to the mentors and others. Thank you so much for your time. Cnat wait to see you guys at the rally! An insert isn't necessary, but you can do one. I usually just put all the info on the CD label, and put it in a jewelcase.How many songs? No point in overloading... but, you want to have good samples of your work. No one can really tell you that. I usually go for less is more... knowing that most people are not going to have the time to listen to the whole thing. I bring a highlighter, and I highlight the one song I wish that person to listen to.I think the CD label should have your email & website address where people can go to hear more/read more about you.If you are going to be entering any songs for the panel(s) (you can drop in one song per panel in a box & CDs are chosen at random), you need to include a lyric sheet (bring elastic bands to put around your lyric sheet & CD). For your mentor appointment, bring a lyric sheet for whatever you plan to play. Bring lyric sheets for more than one song in case there's an opportunity to meet with someone else.For the Mentor Lunch, highlight one song on your CD for the mentor to listen to. There's usually 3 or 4 mentors per 15 minutes at your table for the lunch.As to other than that... there are all kinds of people from the industry there, on panels, etc... and 500 people running up to give them CDs. So whatever you give... keep it simple, put your best uptempo song first or highlight what they should listen to, should they listen.HTH

[jpmuzic]

Thank you so much for all the information that you provide on this forum. I just hope and pray that there are mentors that will understand my music, but I think that once you have herad it you will get the message right away. Thanks again! >

[kg]

Oct 10, 2008, 6:11am, jpmuzic wrote:Thank you so much for all the information that you provide on this forum. I just hope and pray that there are mentors that will understand my music, but I think that once you have herad it you will get the message right away. Thanks again! > When you get the list of mentors a couple weeks before the rally, do your research and choose the right mentor for your music. Hoping and praying is fine, but when you add a little knowledge to that, it definitely helps

[jpmuzic]

Ok thanks. I heard that there is only going to be one Gospel Mentor at the rally. Hopefuly that is not the case but maybe there will be some folks that will still listen to my music as well take care.