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4 THINGS I LEARNED FROM MY FIRST CUT

11/21/2018

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1. It takes a LOT longer than you think it will in the beginning. I had written for 3 years on my own and about 3-4 years into a writing deal with ZERO cuts before I landed that first one. I was really fortunate that it went to #37 on the charts and became my first Top Forty hit.
 
2. There is a huge learning curve when you are trying to write commercially. It’s not as simple as “writing a really good song”. There are lots of other elements that go into making a song commercial and getting a song cut. 

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3. There are hundreds of people trying to get those ten slots on EVERY record. For big artists, it would be thousands. I had to look at all of that competition and figure out ways I could beat them out for one of those coveted spaces. For me it was a combination of digging deeper for unique ideas, learning to write better songs all the time, hard work, quantity of songs written and getting to know people who could help me get my songs placed. In other words – a lot of hard work.
 
4. It feels every bit as good as you imagine it might feel to hit play and to hear someone else singing your song on a real record that’s in real stores (or on iTunes). It inspires you to write more, to work harder and to get more songs cut. And the feeling of hearing your song come on the radio out of the blue? That’s an indescribable feeling I hope all of you get to experience someday!

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Hangi Tavakoli is our in-house established and professional music producer with more than 14 years of experience in music production, mix and mastering, recording engineering, live sound designing/engineering, lyrics writing and music arrangement. He has produced more than 800 and written more than 2000 published songs to-date, including some major hits in international scale.Write something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview.

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