Workin' the Garageband Thing
In a previous post I told you about Faith, a young singer I'm producing. Faith recently recorded one of my songs, "If God Could Sleep." We organized ourselves as a band, "Faith 11.1" and put the song up on Garageband.com for some reviews.
The reviews have been quite interesting, if occasionally harsh. Still, with all the complaining: it's too safe, too commercial, sounds like a Disney tune, sounds like a pop song (gee, it IS in the pop category, jerk), the song debuted at 4.8 when the ratings finally came it. It has bumped up to 4.9 out of 5 stars, so I feel like we've got something here.
Taking a cue from CD Baby's Derek Severs, here's the plan: 1) we're going to examine all of the reviews to see if we gleen any consistent complaints, and if we agree we'll fix them, 2) we're moving the song up one-and-a-half steps to give her a little more control on the low notes--Faith had requested this change in the studio, but we talked her out of it, ooooops, 3) we'll remix and remaster the song, combine it with an excellent remake of "Hold On" by Kansas, and release about five copies as a single, 4) we'll acquire a UPC code through CD Baby and send the release to stock the CD Baby bin, 5) we'll authorize CD Baby to make digital distribution happen, getting us onto Wal*mart.com, ITunes, Share ITunes, TowerRecords.com, Rhapsody, etc., 6) we'll submit the single to Internet radio stations everywhere.
Stay tuned, it will be interesting to see what happens next.
The reviews have been quite interesting, if occasionally harsh. Still, with all the complaining: it's too safe, too commercial, sounds like a Disney tune, sounds like a pop song (gee, it IS in the pop category, jerk), the song debuted at 4.8 when the ratings finally came it. It has bumped up to 4.9 out of 5 stars, so I feel like we've got something here.
Taking a cue from CD Baby's Derek Severs, here's the plan: 1) we're going to examine all of the reviews to see if we gleen any consistent complaints, and if we agree we'll fix them, 2) we're moving the song up one-and-a-half steps to give her a little more control on the low notes--Faith had requested this change in the studio, but we talked her out of it, ooooops, 3) we'll remix and remaster the song, combine it with an excellent remake of "Hold On" by Kansas, and release about five copies as a single, 4) we'll acquire a UPC code through CD Baby and send the release to stock the CD Baby bin, 5) we'll authorize CD Baby to make digital distribution happen, getting us onto Wal*mart.com, ITunes, Share ITunes, TowerRecords.com, Rhapsody, etc., 6) we'll submit the single to Internet radio stations everywhere.
Stay tuned, it will be interesting to see what happens next.
posted by Ryan Michael Galloway at 10:19 PM
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