Suggestion to improve Taxi?

[feloniuspunk]

Several of my tunes have lyrics and I assume that whenever I submit one of those tunes, the lyrics also get forwarded as well. But that's an assumption on my part. You do not get confirmation from Taxi after submitting that a copy of your lyrics were also submitted, only that the song itself was submitted and they took your money.My suggestion is to also add a button so Lead Sheets can also be included with tunes as well, for those of us who have them. Most of my tunes do have Lead Sheets, in pdf file format and could easily be included with the song. I guess maybe solicitors rarely want or need Lead Sheets so maybe it's not a big deal.But for folks who solicit material for their own artists to record, I would think having a Lead Sheet would be invaluable? There are many programs that generate Lead Sheets in any key desirable: Band-In-A-Box, cakeWalk, Finale, etc. How hard would it be to add this little feature? In fact, I think it'd be a really nice feature just for us "Taxi members" to share with each other if we so desired. Let's say I'm a huge fan of taxi member so-snd-so and would really like a copy of their Lead Sheet to one of their songs. Voila! with this feature it's as easy as a button click to download the Lead Sheet in pdf file format and go about my business.It's like asking for cream with your coffee or ketchup with your fries. That's how I view this. I don't think it's an insurmountable obstacle for a computer code writer.There I go complicating things again, and just when everyone was getting comfortable with the status quo . . .

[Casey H]

Quote:Several of my tunes have lyrics and I assume that whenever I submit one of those tunes, the lyrics also get forwarded as well. But that's an assumption on my part. You do not get confirmation from Taxi after submitting that a copy of your lyrics were also submitted, only that the song itself was submitted and they took your money.My suggestion is to also add a button so Lead Sheets can also be included with tunes as well, for those of us who have them. Most of my tunes do have Lead Sheets, in pdf file format and could easily be included with the song. I guess maybe solicitors rarely want or need Lead Sheets so maybe it's not a big deal.But for folks who solicit material for their own artists to record, I would think having a Lead Sheet would be invaluable? There are many programs that generate Lead Sheets in any key desirable: Band-In-A-Box, cakeWalk, Finale, etc. How hard would it be to add this little feature? In fact, I think it'd be a really nice feature just for us "Taxi members" to share with each other if we so desired. Let's say I'm a huge fan of taxi member so-snd-so and would really like a copy of their Lead Sheet to one of their songs. Voila! with this feature it's as easy as a button click to download the Lead Sheet in pdf file format and go about my business.It's like asking for cream with your coffee or ketchup with your fries. That's how I view this. I don't think it's an insurmountable obstacle for a computer code writer.There I go complicating things again, and just when everyone was getting comfortable with the status quo . . . Lead sheets are major overkill for initial submissions in the music industry as a whole. A&R want to quickly read lyrics to see if their interest is peaked. Other information such as chords just get in the way. If an artist is interested in recording your song, they will often ask for a lead sheet at that time.If you submit to TAXI and include lyrics in your submission, your lyrics are part of the submission. They didn't just "take your money." Your choice of words here is a bit "on the attack." Casey

[elischumann]

Hey that would be a cool feature!!And I have another idea:It would be wonderful if we could “watch” the listings we are planning to submit something. You know, like on eBay: “watch this item” and you get e-mail notifications about the item. I would like to bee available to get notifications about some of the listings, specially the ones that ends on a far future. I would like to see how many submissions has that listing and who submitted to that listing and that would give more reason to talk to each other about what we have submitted. It would be wonderful if we could listen to the songs others had submitted. But of course, every member should have the option to make their submissions on “private” if they don’t want others to know they are on that listing or listen to their songs. On my case, I’m an open person, anybody can listen to my music and I won’t be afraid to let everybody know I submitted to any listing.

[mazz]

As Casey said, there's a way to include lyrics in your submission already. A lead sheet won't add value to your submission at this stage of the game. Most industry people, if they can read music or not, will want to hear the piece first anyway. If they are interested, they may or may not want a lead sheet at that time.As far as tracking the listings, while a good idea, I think that's up to each composer to come up with a system that works for them. TAXI already provides a pretty cool service and adding something like this may be fairly complicated to implement and may force them to raise their rates. I'd rather track them myself, personally. And it's also up to each composer to choose to post their submission here on the forum or not. Otherwise, it's pretty much like it is in the real world, you hear about a gig and you submit to it but you have no idea who else submitted or what their stuff sounds like. This forum might be the only place in the highly competitive music industry where composers post their submissions ahead of time. And the forum membership is a small percentage of the whole TAXI membership.Cheers,Mazz

[Casey H]

"Born to run" Springsteen"Born to sit.....and compose" Mazz"Born to kvetch"... Many of us

[elischumann]

Quote:As Casey said, there's a way to include lyrics in your submission already. A lead sheet won't add value to your submission at this stage of the game. Most industry people, if they can read music or not, will want to hear the piece first anyway. If they are interested, they may or may not want a lead sheet at that time.As far as tracking the listings, while a good idea, I think that's up to each composer to come up with a system that works for them. TAXI already provides a pretty cool service and adding something like this may be fairly complicated to implement and may force them to raise their rates. I'd rather track them myself, personally. And it's also up to each composer to choose to post their submission here on the forum or not. Otherwise, it's pretty much like it is in the real world, you hear about a gig and you submit to it but you have no idea who else submitted or what their stuff sounds like. This forum might be the only place in the highly competitive music industry where composers post their submissions ahead of time. And the forum membership is a small percentage of the whole TAXI membership.Cheers,MazzHi Mazz, I totally agree with you! And it can really be complicated to add that feature! It’s just something I was looking for the first time I went thru the listings as a member. And I’m not complaining (in case someone gets me wrong). A few days ago I was thinking about taxi-success-or not success and I can say to anybody that the money I paid to become a member was not wasted. Even if I don’t get a deal through taxi, become a member has been the best thing I ever done! I’ve been living in US for 2 years and now is when I’ve found “friends” (everyone on the forum) to share ideas with and get suggestions. And I start college very soon, so I’ll be more involved on music circle!!

[mazz]

Quote:Quote:As Casey said, there's a way to include lyrics in your submission already. A lead sheet won't add value to your submission at this stage of the game. Most industry people, if they can read music or not, will want to hear the piece first anyway. If they are interested, they may or may not want a lead sheet at that time.As far as tracking the listings, while a good idea, I think that's up to each composer to come up with a system that works for them. TAXI already provides a pretty cool service and adding something like this may be fairly complicated to implement and may force them to raise their rates. I'd rather track them myself, personally. And it's also up to each composer to choose to post their submission here on the forum or not. Otherwise, it's pretty much like it is in the real world, you hear about a gig and you submit to it but you have no idea who else submitted or what their stuff sounds like. This forum might be the only place in the highly competitive music industry where composers post their submissions ahead of time. And the forum membership is a small percentage of the whole TAXI membership.Cheers,MazzHi Mazz, I totally agree with you! And it can really be complicated to add that feature! It’s just something I was looking for the first time I went thru the listings as a member. And I’m not complaining (in case someone gets me wrong). A few days ago I was thinking about taxi-success-or not success and I can say to anybody that the money I paid to become a member was not wasted. Even if I don’t get a deal through taxi, become a member has been the best thing I ever done! I’ve been living in US for 2 years and now is when I’ve found “friends” (everyone on the forum) to share ideas with and get suggestions. And I start college very soon, so I’ll be more involved on music circle!!I didn't pick up that you were complaining at all, don't worry! Keep the ideas flowing! Good luck to you and study hard, write and play as much as you can! If you can live, eat, sleep, music now, it will pay big dividends later!Cheers,Mazz

[elischumann]

Yeeaaapppp!!!Thanks mazz!

[Casey H]

elischumann You did not come off at all like you were complaining- you were just making a suggestion. There were some other posts (not yours) that seemed to me like they had attitude... Casey

[elischumann]

Quote:elischumann You did not come off at all like you were complaining- you were just making a suggestion. There were some other posts (not yours) that seemed to me like they had attitude... CaseyYou're totally right Casey! I was just saying in case of....