Day two of the conference was also excellent, but more for the industry contacts and networking and for hearing some fantastic music and learning, rather than for pick-ups. Our song was presented only once on Sunday and didn’t fit for what the exec needed so wasn’t picked up, but two other execs picked up songs on Sunday that were on the same CD as our song, so they may hear our song anyway.
I just sent a first draft of a song I wrote today to my co-writer Denis Loiseau who was my collaborator on “No More Secrets/No More Lies”. The title is “I’ve Already Won”. He likes it a lot and we’re going to co-write it.
In the meantime, Kevin Harris and I are scheduled to meet on Wednesday to begin co-writing our first song together. It’s called “Shadow Of Our Love”. Some of you saw a post with the first draft of that song a few months ago. Kevin has been in the music industry for a long time as a musician, producer, songwriter, and vocalist. His name is on credits for quite a number of films and TV shows, often for pieces of the background music. His studio produced the demo for “No More Secrets/No More Lies”. I’m looking forward to creating with him, and I’m certain I’ll learn a lot.
For those of you who are getting tired of the songwriting focus of recent posts, I plan to write regarding a wider variety of of subjects this week. Thank you for your patience!
Russ
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I think this is fascinating, thanks for sharing the insight.
Glad to hear it, Bill. Thank you.
Russ
Very exciting stuff Russ. You write about song-writing as much as you want, you hear!?
Yes, Ma’am! OK, I will–just remember you asked for it!
Russ
Your blog is about what you want to talk about – songwriting is just fine:)
Thank you. I’m happy to hear it.
Russ
I would imagine it takes a lot of patience to hopefully ‘break into’ the market …so to speak . But I think you have lots of it…Not to worry about your posts…They’ve been interesting…Diane
I appreciate your feedback. That is comforting. Without feedback, I won’t know when I’m running off of the rails.
Russ
These posts are great! Thank you for sharing this part of your life with us. You’re a beautiful writer so anything you write about is captivating!
Wow! That is one of the best compliments I’ve ever received. Thank you!
Russ
Full support….write on ….sing on! ♫ ♪ ♫
I love it! :-D! Thank you, Paula!
Russ
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I am enjoying hearing about your progress with your song writing, it actually is pretty interesting and i could not be more happier for you. I also agree with everyone who posted before me…especially what “stufffitellmysister” said ~ “Full support….write on ….sing on! ♫ ♪ ♫” Blessings!
Thank you, Patty. If this keeps up, you are all going to give to me a big head. So if I become arrogant and egotistical we’ll know who to blame. (Everyone but little old me!)
;-D!
Russ
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Don’t leave us in the sound proof booth! Keep letting us know what’s going on with your music. Everybody here is correct…this is your blog, we read what you want to write about because we are interested and inspired. Rock on Russ!
Thank you, Rhonda I wil! I hope torock on, country on, pop on, and maybe even folk on!
Russ
All the better! Add some Bluegrass on and it’s perfect!
Good point!
By the way, I like the sound of :…sound proof booth…
Catchy!
it is…can tell you are a music man Russ…you feel the rhythm in the words.
Thank you. At the risk of sounding redundant, I also like your phrase “you feel the rhthym in the words”. Perhaps you might want to consider writing lyrics or poetry yourself!
Russ
funny you should mention. i used to, a lot! i picked up the guitar when i was 9 (and like you cannot read a lick of music, learned it all by ear) and had a friend who used to write poetry, even back then, and i’d put it to music…then decided i liked my own turn of a phrase better and started writing my own. been a long while since i’ve done it or even picked up my guitar, but i still feel the ghosts of the callouses on my fingers
I hope those ghosts inspire you to “pick” up the guitar again and create songs. Don’t let the music die inside you. Set it free. Share it with the world.
I’ll always keep music alive. I actually don’t think I can live without it. Just about every moment of my life can be associated with a melody. Whether I’ll pick it up again, I honestly don’t know, I would like to think I would, but my music, my words or others, I’ll always sing out loud.
As a songwriter I’m grateful to hear when others such as you will always sing their song or those of others out loud. That is indeed keeping the music alive! On behalf of songwriters everywhere: Thank you!
Russ
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