Originally Posted by Colin Ward
WRT to critiques, one of the best steps IMHO is when posting the song for critiquing, the owner should state his position clearly. Examples follow:

This has been demoed and will not be revised.
I just wrote these lyrics and would accept all suggestions.
Here is a rough recording. Anything is changeable at this point.
I want to pitch this song to someone who sounds like Tom Petty - how am I doing?
Is the bridge additive?
Does the melody sound like modern country to you?

Then if you address his question in the critique, you should not be stepping on toes.



I've been asking for that since my second review here, that was about a thousand or more review's ago.

I even posted it for newcomers(probably needs to be a sticky thread) but very few do it. So I CAN"T review/critique songs like I used to. One reason is I can't spend 40 minutes or an hour thinking about someones song and after I do.....

1- They never come back to the thread
2- They tell me "I'm a real estate agent and write songs for fun.
3- It doesn't really matter, everybody loves this song when I play it"
4- This song was about my grandfather
5- This song was about my cat or dog
6- This song was for my wife
7- This song was for my son or daughter
8- "People" like this song so why change it
9- I wrote this whole thing today and finished it
10 - You just HAVE to say something critical about the song because your being a critic.

Those are some...

Some people will at least write "Any suggestions are welcome"


Thanks!
Peace Mike
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