Originally Posted by Bill Robinson


I am hoping to adjust my writing to fit more with todays sound. We will see if I can do that.



That will never work unless you also adjust your attitude. You will be doing nothing but wasting your time and your stuff will not be genuine. So much of the difference is musical arrangement based. If this were not the case, you wouldn't see as many New Country acts covering old traditional country songs and making them into hits again. Just write a good catchy pop melody and story board lyrics and have a demo studio give it a modern interpretation and you will be surprised what you get.

To be honest with you, I think my problem remains that I am still getting too much of a traditional sound in my country stuff. It isn't that I can't do modern sounding songs. I do those kinds of songs all the time when I focus on Rock and Pop/Rock, but I always seem to fiddle and banjo my country stuff into something that might not be as modern sounding as it otherwise could be. Never use a steel pedal guitar, BTW, that will be the kiss of death. That makes for such an old fashioned sound, IMHO. I guess I will see when I get around to posting some stuff for feedback.

Last edited by rblight; 05/19/08 08:16 PM.
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