Originally Posted by Jody Whitesides
Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
Songwriting coaches are generally guys who haven't had success placing their own songs, or placed songs long ago, and can't any more.

I'm all for trying to improve, but I'm not sure paying money for a.critique is your answer. And when you are paying, nobody is going to tell you you stink

This may or may not be true. But I get people who come to me for my advice. While I don't make it a business of providing feedback, I will ask they buy me lunch or something for my time. Then again, I've had 1,000s of placements and usages. Are there people out there who critique and haven't had any success? Probably. But doing your due diligence on who you're asking advice from is the songwriter's responsibility.

There's a couple of people on this site who do make it a business to mentor others. And they're good at what they do. MAB being one of them.

Originally Posted by Barry David Butler
In my humble opinion Taxi is not a good place to go and it cost a fortune.

[sarcasm]Yeah, I can understand how paying to have actual A&R people that work at the labels give you feedback could be a real waste of your time and money.[/sarcasm]


Jody, it may be semantics, but I think there is a difference between placing songs in movies and tv, and writing songs for another artist, in hopes they will have a hit with it.

To me songwriting coaches focus on the latter. And those are the ones who wouldn't be doing it if they were scoring hits and placing songs with majors all the time

Correct me if I'm wrong, but tv and movie spots most often use 30 seconds iof a track, so placing for tv and ml it's is more about how you sound than how you write

But I'm sure mentoring can help in either case.

But songwriting is an art, making money is an art too I suppose but for a different reason

I dint have any problem with teachers or coaches, everybody can use them from time to time. Yet at the end of the day nobody really knows what a great song is, they only know what they like to hear,

But it's cool you have all those placements

Last edited by Fdemetrio; 11/04/17 01:44 AM.