Releasing Music

10 years ago when we got back from CO, we had just finished a recording of the 14 songs I had written over a 14 year period. Some of the melodies of songs had been in the back of my mind for years before I had finally finished them. Anyway, I wasn't happy with the percussion. I wanted to find a drummer and add drums to pretty much every song I had recorded. We looked for drummers. Friends who were drummers would promise me that they would play on the recording, but then just not return messages. I borrowed some drums and learned a couple of songs... which sounded pretty good live, but not for these recordings. The best drum sound we got was when Braedon decided to try his hand at keyboard drums. But, nothing sounded quite right. For some reason it took me 10 years to just accept them the way they were. Now that I've been releasing them, I'm finally able to start thinking about the "newer" songs that I've been writing. That and I want to augment 2 of the last 14 before they are released.

Oddly, I started writing the newer songs a year before we had moved to CO. So, I've been working on most of this next album over a 14 year period also. And, some of the songs I'm wanting to put on the album were written as early as 1998. So, they're a compilation of 24 years of writing. Regardless, I'm ready to finish the songs I have been working on and record the songs I've been sitting on. Finally. Here's to more short spurts of recording.

Legal Stuff pre-release

So yesterday I did a bunch of stuff to get ready for some music releases. I signed up with BMI and Songtrust. They both help with the collection of Royalty's in case your songs are making any waves. I also signed up with Sound Exchange. They help to identify and track music. Then, I tried to sign up with AWAL, who is a distributer, but I may not have enough stuff out there for them to accept me. I probably don't need them quite yet anyway. Then, I signed up with SoundCloud to upload some music. Soundcloud allegedly is about getting your music heard. I was going to sign up with bandcamp, who is supposedly better at getting your stuff sold, but I don't really have much stuff, so I went with SoundCloud. So then, this afternoon I checked the Copyrights I had worked on a couple of months ago, and there had been some sort of problem. They didn't work. I had called and spoken to a rep who told me precisely what to do, but it was still rejected. I called back, but then remembered it was Saturday. Oh well, I suppose some day soon will be my day to fix the Copyrights and probably delay any music releases for a few weeks. So many moving pieces.

Sing Your People on You Tube. Finally...

Sing Your People video was filmed on an iPhone. More recently life has been busy... with some weekend editing sessions, some occasional nights of Braedon and I recording drums, we'll be done some day. Though, it seems never really done. There comes a point when you have to stop tweaking it. Call it done, let it go. Upload to youtube, then figure out how to set up some sites. Thanks in advance for signing up. I'm new to all of this social media stuff. More time consuming than I'd imagined. That's OK, seems worth it... a good way to reconnect with old friends, make some new ones, and stay in touch.