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“I don’t have any songs.” Many starting musicians use this as their excuse for not playing gigs, promoting their music, and continuing on in their music career. This excuse is very common and is out of insecurity and not actuality. There are three simple solutions to this excuse.
There are millions of songs in the universe and hundreds that are popular and recognizable to your target music demographic. Playing these songs yourself is called “covering songs” or playing “cover songs”. Many venues allow cover songs to be played, however the reason this is accepted is because they are usually paying a “blanket” license fee to ASCAP or BMI. This means that your cover songs are being accounted for and the proper fees are being paid to the original artist/writer. This does not work for any other use of the songs such as recording it for your CD, putting it on YouTube.com or other video/social media site, or playing the song in a venue that does not pay ASCAP or BMI fees. You would have to get separate licensing agreements and pay them yourself. Nearly all venues will tell you whether or not you are allowed to play cover songs. When choosing the songs you will cover, remember to pick ones that are similar to your genre or adapt them to your style. This helps audience members get a feel for your type of music even if you’re not playing original songs.
Similar to cover songs are public domain songs. These are songs with no licensing issues. Nearly all songs written before 1922 are public domain since they were written before the establishment of music licensing. There are many resources to find these public domain songs at the library or online. One thing you need to be careful of is the arrangements. Even if the particular song is public domain, the specific arrangement is probably not. This means that someone wrote out the piano music or guitar cords in a certain key with certain notes and called this their arrangement. This arrangement is copy written but, again, the song is not. PDSongs.com has a large selection of Public Domain Music, Songs, Books, Lyrics, and other resources. Public domain songs are not dull old tunes. These songs have been hits on the popular charts, made into famous movies, and are continually being performed and recorded by artists like Frank Sinatra and Fiona Apple. These public domain songs include not just American hits but classical music and many familiar holiday tunes like Jingle Bells. In a recent interview with “M Music and Musicians,” Willie Nelson talked about old standards and said, “If it was a good song a hundred years ago, it’s still a good song today.”
Knowing these public domain songs and cover songs not only gives you songs to play, it increases your music knowledge and shows you the formulas for how to write a hit song of your own. You can choose to add/change lyrics, notes, and styles. Taking a public domain song and adding your own flavor might just be the next big hit!
Besides cover songs and public domain songs is the most obvious remedy of all– write more songs. Writing songs is not always easy, fun, or produces big results. Practice is the best way to get good at anything. Look at and study the past hit songs and incorporate their winning formulas into your own writing. This does not mean stealing melodies, but rather ideas. For example if many of the songs you like have descending melody lines, make your own song with descending melodies. The more you write, the better you will become. Do not forget the biggest tool writers use: editing. Never cease to go back through what you have written to tweak it; there is always room for improvement.
“I don’t have any songs” really does not stand up in any argument. There are plenty of songs to borrow, re-create, or to be written. Do not let insecurities or lack of knowledge get in the way of the truth that there are songs for you.
In My Own Experience:
As a singer, I have always covered songs. Whether it was classical pieces in choir, standards in a vocal jazz group, current hits while singing karaoke; I was always singing “cover songs.” When I decided to become my own artist, I bought into the music industry myth that you need tons of good original songs and hits. This can be true and helps, but it is not the whole truth. Think about every major artist in history– nearly all of them “covered songs”– can we say “Christmas Album”? So I went about covering songs that touched me personally and that I liked, I mixed in my own style and personality, and ta-da! My first album was born.
Natalie Oman: Singer/songwriter dispelling the old notions of the defunct music industry and bringing back live music by “Thinking Outside the Stage”.
http://www.NatalieOman.com
http://www.PDSongs.com
Looking for Christmas Songs?
I am a American Country singer living in Ireland.
I am looking for a couple Christmas songs to record.
One that would be upbeat and that would sound good in a Irish Style with fiddle and accordian.
Second, a good traditional type song that would sound good with a choir backing me.
I have a deeper baritone voice.
Would like to hear your suggestions.
You can hear my style and current CD at www.jefftuttle.com or www.facebook.com/jefftuttle.
Thanks,
Jeff
You could cover The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York.
I don’t know the workability of the rest of these, but some of my favorite Christmas songs that may work are:
The Kinks – Father Christmas
Over The Rhine – Darlin’ (Christmas Is Coming)
A ss Ponys – Last Night It Snowed
The Weepies – All That I Want
Meiko – Maybe Next Year
Joan Osborne – What Do Bad Girls Get?
Belle & Sebastian – Winter Wooskie
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Celtic Thunder: Heritage $11.42 Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 02/22/2011… |
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Heritage $9.83 Following the success of their last 4 shows the new Celtic Thunder show Heritage accentuates the musical culture of Ireland. The CD features 12 new recordings including: An Irish Blessing, A Place In The Choir and Whiskey In The Jar. In 2011 March PBS pledge will feature Celtic Thunder’s Heritage airing the program over 1,000 times. In the fall of 2011 Celtic Thunder Heritage will be on tour. Over… |
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Noel $4.32 CD Noel… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney’s Masterpiece) [VHS] $2.99 One of the brightest nuggets from Disney’s golden age, this 1937 film is almost dizzying in its meticulous construction of an enchanted world, with scores of major and minor characters (including fauna and fowl), each with a distinct identity. When you watch Snow White’s intricate, graceful movements of fingers, arms, and head all in one shot, it is not the technical brilliance of Disney’s artists… |
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra – The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve $7.92 Studio: Wea-des Moines Video Release Date: 11/27/2001… |
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Schylling Musical Hand Bells $29.98 Fill the air with music! Each of these 8 beautiful colored metal bells has a plastic handle and a different musical tone. Comes with music…. |
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8 Note Hand Bell Set $38.38 Introduce tonality and the one-octave scale with these colorful hand bells. Promote cooperation by having each child play one bell, creating their own melody…. |
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Open Your Hymnal – A Devotional Book That Harmonize Scripture With Song: How Our Favorite Hymns Reveal God’s Amazing Grace Through Hymn Story Devotions (Seeking the Heart of God) $2.99 Do you ever catch yourself singing a song in church without paying attention to the words? Open Your Hymnal is a collection of thirty devotions that transport the wisdom of classic hymns and gospel songs into the twenty-first century. Introduce yourself to the rich spiritual heritage that hymnals contain or gain a new perspective on songs youâve sung since childhood. Whether you sing in the c… |
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Wee Sing Bible Songs (Wee Sing) CD and Book Edition $5.11 Songs of praise, prayer, Scripture, Bible stories and Bible heroes are shared by a charming children’s choir. Hear marches, clap alongs, action songs, call and response, and quiet, prayerful songs. This is a wonderful collection of traditional Sunday school songs that have been sung for decades…. |
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The Christmas Cantata (The Liturgical Mysteries) $2.99 St. Germaine, North Carolina was in a crabby mood. Yes, the whole town. If a temperament could affect an entire populace, “crabby” was what St. Germaine was. Noylene’s new personal Christian astrologer, a woman named Goldi Fawn Birtwhistle, blamed it on the convergence of Pluto and the third moon of Jupiter.Pete Moss, the owner of the Slab Café, thought that the crabbiness might have something to… |
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