DAY - 247

Apologies for the delay... Big day on Friday...here's what happened (Friday, June 22)


I spoke with someone over at the Larry Beaird Music Group in Nashville (the place we recorded "20/20") I happened to be perusing their website, looking into some demo singers, and I stumbled across a pretty cool event they just started hosting.  Its called "Evening With A Publisher".  Apparently, a couple times a month they hold an event in which an established publisher rep comes in and you can pitch him/her a song.  The only criteria is that you had to of recorded the song at Larry Beaird Studio and it must be a premier quality demo.  Well, it just so happens "20/20" meets that criteria so I called to try and schedule.  It turns out that you don't even have to be there in person, you can pitch a song via Skype!  This is awesome! Anyway, the guy I spoke with said he would put my name on the list for the next event.  More to come on that!

I sent J Fred Knobloch an email with a new idea for pitching "Heart On A String".  Earlier in the blog, (Day 206) Fred had mentioned that he was talking to Digsin, indie label owner, Jay Frank.  Digsin is a label that is big into TV & Film and multimedia placement.   I told Fred we should send the song to Jay Frank to see if he could help us out.  Can't hurt!   I'll follow up on this as well.

I also submitted "Start of Something Good" to a new listing on Taxi.com.  Here's what the listing said...

TOP-SHELF HOLLYWOOD MUSIC SUPERVISOR working on a HIT NETWORK TV SERIES needs EMOTIONAL SINGER-SONGWRITER, ROCK, and INDIE ROCK SONGS a la THE NATIONAL, THE VERVE, HEY ROSETTA, ANDREW BIRD, and RA RA RIOT for "BIG MOMENT" MONTAGES. I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T: the music supervisor needs SONGS with an ORCHESTRAL or STRING ELEMENT. Quoting the supervisor, "I love using ORCHESTRAL ROCK or CHAMBER INDIE ROCK SONGSÊ in BIG EMOTIONAL MOMENTS. The addition of STRING SECTIONS in ROCK SONGS really helps make it a special CINEMATIC moment." All tempos and moods are welcome.Ê MALE and FEMALE vocals are BOTH welcome. Your songs should sound "COOL" and CONTEMPORARY. Lyrics must be PG-rated and of a general, broad and universal type to be able to work with emotional moments the characters on screen are experiencing. Songs should be a minimum of two minutes long. Full artist-style pieces are needed, NOT jingles or library music. Instrumentation must sound NATURAL and AUTHENTIC. Broadcast Quality is needed (excellent home recordings are fine). As always, do NOT copy or rip off the referenced artist or their songs in any way, shape, or form! NO SAMPLES of other songs or artists can be incorporated into your track. The estimated fee for this license will be $2,000-3,000 total. This is DIRECT to the MUSIC SUPERVISOR, so you will KEEP 100% of the fee should you get a placement.