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Hi Gang-I just found out that my song "Candy Shines" was a top-10 finalist in the hiphop category for the 2006 USA Songwriting Competition, which was open to world-wide entries last year:http://www.songwriting.net/winners.html (look under finalists in hiphop or search for the song name)Winning would've been great, but I feel pretty good about placing! Props to Omari Bobo (aka Kontious1) who performed the rap, and to several of my ex's who did the backup vocals. You can hear the tune here:http://www.broadjam.com/transmit/transm ... sq=1Thanks for listening,Andre

Quote:Hi Gang-I just found out that my song "Candy Shines" was a top-10 finalist in the hiphop category for the 2006 USA Songwriting Competition, which was open to world-wide entries last year:http://www.songwriting.net/winners.html (look under finalists in hiphop or search for the song name)Winning would've been great, but I feel pretty good about placing! Props to Omari Bobo (aka Kontious1) who performed the rap, and to several of my ex's who did the backup vocals. You can hear the tune here:http://www.broadjam.com/transmit/transm ... sq=1Thanks for listening,AndreCongrats Andre! It's a great song.Just how many ex's do you have , young man?

Pretty good.Take the number of entries to that category. Take away 10. Makes your song better than the amount of songs in the resulting figure.I think that makes sense.Anyway. That's a really good way to look at it.There can't be a lot of difference in quality between the top 10.

Hey Andre,Congrats! I liked the cut a lot. Everything was right where it needed to be. Did you write all the lyrics for the rap? That was well done. The synth clav caught my ear right away as well. Two questions: 1. How can a guy as busy as you have time to have one ex, let alone SEVERAL? 2. How did you manage to get them all in the same room at the same time? Keep it going man, you're on your way.John

An ex is an ex without the 'S'. Did you manage to get them in the same room at the same time?You're a brave man.

Quote:Quote:1. How can a guy as busy as you have time to have one ex, let alone SEVERAL? Quote:2. How did you manage to get them all in the same room at the same time? re#1 You answered your own question re#2 I would wonder WHY, more than how. But that answer is in the mix! Just listen to your candy girls!dude, dat's da bomb, jazzy chords & swinging in a rap. BooTyFuelcondratulations André, again

Quote:Congrats Andre! It's a great song.Thanks Vikki! It was fun to write and produce.Quote:Just how many ex's do you have , young man? Thanks to the magic of multi-track recording, about 16! Actually, one of them is back in the picture...poor thing. Andre

Quote:Pretty good.Take the number of entries to that category. Take away 10. Makes your song better than the amount of songs in the resulting figure.I think that makes sense.Anyway. That's a really good way to look at it.There can't be a lot of difference in quality between the top 10.That's how my huge ego likes to look at it...but another perspective is that on a different day, with different judges [aka screeners], even the top 100 might have been an entirely different field. Sound familiar? Andre

Quote:Hey Andre,Congrats! I liked the cut a lot. Everything was right where it needed to be. Did you write all the lyrics for the rap? That was well done. The synth clav caught my ear right away as well.Thanks Mazz. I did write the rap, and I even "spit it" in the first version...but no matter how much PurePitch formant shifting I applied, I couldn't get my voice to sound "not white" enough. Quote:Two questions: 1. How can a guy as busy as you have time to have one ex, let alone SEVERAL? What Steve said. Quote:2. How did you manage to get them all in the same room at the same time? The Temple of Pro Tools makes all things possible. Quote:Keep it going man, you're on your way.JohnAren't we all? Andre

Quote:Quote:re#1 You answered your own question re#2 I would wonder WHY, more than how. But that answer is in the mix! Just listen to your candy girls!dude, dat's da bomb, jazzy chords & swinging in a rap. BooTyFuelcondratulations André, again Thanks Steve! I like to think I bring something different to the table in this genre, but you can only be so different before you're not in the genre anymore.*** Disclaimer: No ex's [feelings] were harmed in the making of this track! ***Andre