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THE POWER OF WRITING A LOT OF SONGS

2/21/2020

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If you are trying to get a song recorded on a major artist, you are competing with professional writers who write a song almost every day. Those professionals are pumping out more than 200 songs a year in many cases. The sheer volume of material they produce increases their chances of getting a cut exponentially. Why, you might ask? Here is a story to illustrate. Recently, I pitched a song to an A&R person for a big shot artist. She responded that she loved the song, but she thought that it had already been cut. I told her that I had no knowledge of it being recorded.

I had my former publisher (who published the song in question) look into the situation. They discovered that the song was scheduled to be the first single for a rising star artist that had just been signed to a major record deal. Neither I nor my publisher had any idea that the artist in question was planning to cut the song. ​
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The publisher of one of my co-writers had pitched the song and was working through the licensing process with the artist. They had neglected to let any of the other publishers know what was going on. A slight problem, but a good problem to have. I thanked the A&R person for letting me know and apologizing for pitching her a song that was already on “hold”. She was very gracious.
 
The moral of the story is that if you write a LOT of great songs, good things will happen without you even knowing about them. You’ll get a call out of the blue that you got a cut, or that someone is going to single your song. Those are nice surprises. The key is to just keep writing. Don’t focus too much on making things “happen” with your songs. Focus more on write more, better songs. Work at making each song better than the last. Then the good things happen. Of course not automatically and you still have to work for it but if you do so, your chances will be much higher than you can think. Don’t settle for decent ideas. Hold out for great ones. Go big. Those are the keys to writing songs that will get attention. Write great songs. A lot of them. And then write another one. And then another one.

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Hangi Tavakoli is our in-house established and professional music producer with more than 15 years of experience in songwriting, music production, mix and mastering. He has produced more than 1500 and written more than 3000 published songs to-date, including some major hits in international scale.

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Zephyr Percy Khambatta link
2/22/2020 12:22:55 am

I wish you had told me this in January when I was experiencing burn out.

Some of us need hand holding. We are new.

Great advice nonetheless!

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Hangi Tavakoli
2/22/2020 01:06:36 am

Thanks Zeph,
But I remember I was keep repeating this over and over back then too! :D

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