ACTION/ADVENTURE forward and a question for you

[slap]

Hey, just got three more forwards

[slap]

Dave,I was curious to see my average in terms of choosing the right pitch for the right piece, and ends up, I have had 32 forwards in 42 pieces submitted, in the instrumental music. genre.

[davewalton]

Nov 18, 2008, 11:02am, slap wrote:Thanks for your insight, Dave. Makes sense to me. The one part I'm not sure of in your reply however is the : .."Tightening up my targeting skills"... .Do you mean a choice of submissions better tailored to my style of music?Also, do the tweaks you refer to like mix fixes and such?In hindsight that was kind of a vague way to say it. I don't know if I can do any better here but I was thinking in terms of when I was "close" but still hadn't made it over the hump yet, I started to do things like "sandwich" my music between two other pieces of music (the "alas"). When I listened to them in succession, if mine was obviously "different", then I focused the music a little more. When I thought it was pretty close, I'd send it to a couple of friends and/or musicians to see if they could identify which was mine. When nobody could tell the difference then it was ready. Then things started to break loose for me (slowly) and things were headed in the right direction (forward). There's a thing that says that the last 10% of anything takes 90% of the time. That seems to be a universal truth.

[slap]

Yeah, the last 15 feet, or as W.C. Fields used to put it: "When you fall from a 20 story high building, it is only the last 5 feet that are dangerous to you ..: ..or something like that ...

[slap]

and Dave ,I wasn't thinking of the 'a las", these type of cues I find unappealing as we are asked to basically plagiarize somebody's else vibe and work, but hey, nothing's is fair or perfect, is it? hehe..In those cases, i can relate to your answer, as you are basically judged in terms of cloning appeal, and then, it makes it harder to evaluate once when you are knee deep in it, better to play it to a friend and see if he/she can identify the genre you are trying to achieve.

[davewalton]

Nov 19, 2008, 2:08pm, slap wrote:and Dave ,I wasn't thinking of the 'a las", these type of cues I find unappealing as we are asked to basically plagiarize somebody's else vibe and work, but hey, nothing's is fair or perfect, is it? hehe..In those cases, i can relate to your answer, as you are basically judged in terms of cloning appeal, and then, it makes it harder to evaluate once when you are knee deep in it, better to play it to a friend and see if he/she can identify the genre you are trying to achieve.Ah... my first chance to lay out my newfound Rally Logic... Actors go to auditions. If an actor auditions for the part of Rainman, he/she goes into the audition knowing full well that in order to land the role, they will have to cast themselves as an autistic savant. Going into that audition with the mindset "Oh... they just want to limit my talents" and then doing something "less limiting" guarantees that someone else will get the part. Those that aren't really interested in the first place, they audition for other roles they ARE interested in. A successful acting career (like Dustin Hoffman's) will including many seemingly "limiting" roles but the culmination of all those roles together is what makes him one of the best actors in my generation. There's a lesson there somewhere regarding submitting for these listings but for the life of me I can't remember what it was.

[ibanez468]

Hey slap!Congrats on the forwards!! Nice tunes! I think your question has been answered appropriately by everyone else.I-468

[slap]

Hey Dave You are such a poet full of deep thoughts , hehe I get your point and the "a las.." are a good way to flex our writing and sonic muscles.I ws referring more to the submissions that are ultra-specific, as for instance, .."need a a song a la Wonderful World.. " whatever, they probably cut the film to that song as the temp track, and now they want the song cloned cos' they are too cheap to buy the original rights, that to me is pretty lame from a creative standpoint. And if it doesn't pan out for the creator of the " a la", what can you do with a three dollar bill ?

[jay10music]

SLAP....I SECOND THE I-468....CONGRATZ....JAY

[slap]

well thank you kindly, Mr. Bib-Bip aka Jay