Originally Posted by DonnaMarilyn
Originally Posted by Michael LeBlanc
what i would like to know is why isn't there an "Instrumental Forum" here so "we" lyricists can maybe write something for them. Some of the musicians may be great until it comes to putting words together. Sure you'll get some lame lyrics as we get lame music for our lyrics but something might jive from time to time.I think i've only taken one maybe two instrumentals here and wrote words for them.Not sure if they really actually liked it but it sure was fun for me to write with an awesome piece of music.So let's average it out and you musicians start putting some work out there for the lyricist.


A separate thread's not a bad idea, Mike.

Useful for me would be something in between. For example, I often create melodies for my lyrics (and I send the Audacity file to my collaborators), but it's much easier for me to get into a musical groove if I have a backing track to sing against.

I don't mean a full instrumental complete with melody - just a basic track in various genres/time signatures. It wouldn't be used outside the context of me creating a melody over it. It could even be the track (sans melody) of an already completed song, or simply a track for a song idea that's been abandoned. I'm sure composers have plenty of those, just as we lyricists are likely to have a drawer full of half-finished lyrics and still-waiting hook/title ideas. wink

In times past, it was easy to find 'free-to-download' tracks (intended for musicians to jam with), but those days seem to be gone. Everyone now is trying to sell everything they do. I don't mind that so much ($0.99 now and again won't break the bank) - what I hate is that to even be able to listen to some of the tracks you need to accept cookies on the website, which means even more crap spam landing in my email.

Anyway, this is just a thought. Maybe a section that would include random backing tracks for folks like me. Or, if instrumentals are posted specifically for collaboration, maybe someone would jump in to propose a lyric.

I strongly recommend though that composers seeking collaboration - at the very least - provide lyricists with a leadsheet. This makes it much easier to write a lyric for a melody.

Donna


Donna,

Just to let you know, a cookie itself doesn't lift your email, it gets something far more valuable. It tracks every site you have ever been to before and after when you have a cookie. It tracks what you type, it tracks what you click, it tracks just about everything you do after it is in there but it also goes back in time by lifting your various histories. It is permission essentially to spy on you. But.. and this is big, it takes a massive tech company to put that much into their apps and cookies etc. We have cookies here and it only does a couple of things: It saves your progress on this specific site so that when you revisit a post, it goes to where you left off etc. and it can remember who you are so you only have to log in one time per year. I have zero access to any info on you of any kind. I can see globally where ALL visitors come from and where all visitor go when they leave. But I almost never look at it because I am not selling anything. But most companies ARE so you are right to be cautious. Sadly all of us have knowingly or unknowingly given so many companies carte blanche to spy on us that outside of leaving online for good, they will always know just about everything there is to know about you. These companies know what food you eat because they buy your shopping info from the grocery stores and the credit card companies. This is why they so desperately want to get rid of ALL cash so you can't hide a single activity you participate in. They have you 10 different ways.

It sucks and it is getting dangerous. These companies have far more power than our governments. That is not hyperbole. I can see the day where the US military takes over these companies.. but that is only if they aren't behind all of them in the first place. All the ones up and running well were started with government money. So the deep state has it all. The NSA The military equivalent to the C_A has it all on EVERYONE.

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