Piano cue forward

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[Peterg]

Congrats, nice piece. Good luck!
Peter

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[MichaelReschke]

Congrats on the forward and I enjoyed your musical piece.

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[JackOberkirsch27]

Congrats, Peter! I'm a new member as well and I've also had a busy first few months.

Cheers!

[RPaul]

This brings my "score" up to 8 submissions out of 33 forwarded (24.2 %) in my first six TAXI months.

Wow! Congratulations on the forward ratio. Seems quite good. (Mine is way lower. I've been a member a bit shy of 2 years this time around. No clue how many submissions I've made, but quite a few, and I've only had 4 forwards thus far, 2 from this listing, one with an experimental electronica piece, and one more with a 70s-style adult contemporary song. Last time I was a member, for a year back somewhere around 2011, I think, I got 5 forwards, but the number of submissions was quite high.)

Your piece sounds nice. Good luck.

Rick

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[Peterg]

A lot of brain rewiring going on here now with all the data from the first few months with TAXI and the latest RR videos. I realize that probably more investment into production will be needed in terms of time to increase the forward rate to a level where it becomes worthwhile. However, the more time spent, the more forwards and contracts I'll need to get to pay for that time.

Ron Harris and Rob Chiarelli said yesterday, we should always go for the very best quality. I am still having an issue with that, because you can achieve 90% quality with 10% time, but for the rest 10% quality you need to invest 90% time. Most of the time this does not pay off. Other people are reporting that they made the most bucks with very simple pieces of music, while the high quality stuff is sitting on the shelf.

I am trying to find the sweet spot. Easy-to-fulfill listings that have a big chance to earn big bucks. The piano listing is one of these. A cue like this one is suitable for advertising, and if something like this goes on a national campaign, it can pay big. While some stuff they ran listings for, like the one "orchestral" cue for an exclusive contract that they wanted to sound like one of these major movie ventures - how slim are the chances that this will ever be used and what an enormous effort is needed to produce that?

I liked the piano listing, because it was just so simple and could be done within a few hours per cue.

I sort of agree with you, but have just looked at the forwards blog for this, and see that around 130 tracks were forwarded, so it seems that many people like to go for these “simpler” submissions. I guess that means we’ll be lucky if our tracks get chosen.(I had some forwarded for this too)
I think to differentiate oneself from the crowd you need to go for the highest quality.