Rally Rookies

[hummingbird]

Hey, I thought it might be good to start a thread with a few thoughts that might help Rally rookies be prepared.Road Rally Panels / Mentors: With your demo CD, bring lyric sheets & elastic bands. If you want to drop a CD in the box for each panel, you want to make a burrito of your offering & include a lyric sheet with each CD that says which song you are entering for the draw. You can enter one song/per panel. The boxes are divided by genre so you will need to tell them, when passing over your CD, which box to put it in.If you are planning to play a song for the mentor appointment or the 'drive by mentor', then a lyric sheet will help a lot.And when I say lyric sheet, I mean one page, typed, with the lyric of your song.Also, after the panels, they will put the boxes out so you can get your CD back. It can be hard to find them though, so make sure you bring enough.Don't enter anything for the panel or play anything for the mentor without listening to it first to make sure your CD is okay.And for the panel drop, you might want to use a full sized jewelcase as envelopes & smaller cases might get damaged by the weight of other submissions. Don't bother with inserts. the panelists don't see them. Mentors will, though.H.