How Did/Do You Decide Which Types of Listings to Write For?
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:19 am
Hello Group--
After the last Road Rally I decided to try my hand and doing Pop songs again after many, many years of just doing Alternative Rock. I've got much to learn and the more listings I see, and the more sample music I hear from you guys, the more I realize I'm not sure if Pop music is the/the only genre I want to work on.
For those of you that do instrumentals, how did you decide to go that way? For those of you that do Singer/Songwriter, why? I watched one of the helpful songwriting videos that said never tell a publisher that asks you what genre you write that you can do them all.
How do you decide if you want to write for artists, or TV commercials (or anything in between)? **I know this is a subjective question, but I'd like to see if I can learn anything that might help me with my decision on which direction(s) I want to go.
My bottom line is the bottom line. I want to earn money for my music, but I'd also like to enjoy what I'm doing--so I'm never going to bend into a direction that I don't want to go. (I do that already at my day job )
Any feedback from anyone, but especially those of you who have placements, is really appreciated.
After the last Road Rally I decided to try my hand and doing Pop songs again after many, many years of just doing Alternative Rock. I've got much to learn and the more listings I see, and the more sample music I hear from you guys, the more I realize I'm not sure if Pop music is the/the only genre I want to work on.
For those of you that do instrumentals, how did you decide to go that way? For those of you that do Singer/Songwriter, why? I watched one of the helpful songwriting videos that said never tell a publisher that asks you what genre you write that you can do them all.
How do you decide if you want to write for artists, or TV commercials (or anything in between)? **I know this is a subjective question, but I'd like to see if I can learn anything that might help me with my decision on which direction(s) I want to go.
My bottom line is the bottom line. I want to earn money for my music, but I'd also like to enjoy what I'm doing--so I'm never going to bend into a direction that I don't want to go. (I do that already at my day job )
Any feedback from anyone, but especially those of you who have placements, is really appreciated.