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http://www.youtube.com/user/BassLineband · by **Alex003** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:46 am

So far the only good website i have found that works well for critiquing other music in return of your music is the UG forums, but they are awfully un-professional alot of the time. Alot of good members, but bad ones too.

Know of any other websites for people to listen & critique?

by **strychninekid** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:16 am

Garageband.com is a real good one. And if you are real serious you can sign up for Taxi.com Taxi is the extreme serious site to get your music critiqued and sold in the industry. It is quite expensive at 299.00 a year but it is a good tool if you are very serious in moving forward in the industry. One more is Acidplanet.com and since they have changed their ranking system it has gotten better as well.

Peace
Rich

http://www.youtube.com/user/BassLineband · by **Alex003** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:27 am

Im a proud taxi member

Just got back from the convention actually a couple days ago...it was awesome!

by **lostylost** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:59 am

I like your attitude Alex. Your best bet is to find some musicians you admire the style of and ask them to critique you.

If you are a shredder, you don't want some blues guy saying, 'woah man, breathe, pace yourself'. Conversely, if you are a bluesy slow burning player, you don't want shredders telling you to take a Viagra and `harden the bleep up`

All this oversimplification and stereotyping to illustrate the point: Music is all so subjective. What is `good` music anyway?

It's pretty cool that you are so proactive about learning at only 16 and are humble enough to realize you don't know it all.

Good luck dude.

by **jamienelson** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 1:31 pm

Since you're a Taxi member, I would say, send in some songs to them. They really give good solid reviews. From the ones I've gotten back from them, I would say they were right on.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BassLineband · by **Alex003** » Tue Nov 11, 2008 9:57 pm

right on...I think i will wait to send in a song until i think i have something worthy to spend 20 dollars for a critique on haha. I did have a song critiqued by Fuzzbee Morse at the convention, and what he told me was great info

I like that....what is "good" music anyway?
Like something i heard at a panel in LA...there are no right answers in this business. So don't take everything someone says about your song too literally, its just an opinion, not fact no matter who the person is.

by **jamienelson** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:36 pm

For as far as writing commercial music, you might want to look at the Taxi listings and if there is something that is in the realm of what you play, write a song specific for that listing and then submit it. Most of the listings give you a review with the submission, unless they specify they don’t.

If you wait for them to have listings that fit the songs that you already have, you may be waiting for a while. Plus it is good songwriting exercise.

You might want to come over to the Gator Forum. We talk about Taxi and critiques we get back there.
http://forum.gator-studios.com/topic.php?id=5

by **strychninekid** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:46 pm

So for the 300.00 do you tink Jamie and Gator that it is worth it? I know if you land a deal it would be but if that doesn't happen do you tink it is?

by **vad1er** » Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:24 pm

I am not understanding why someone would want there music critiqued by someone else. Art is relative to the person examining it and judgement is always subjective.
Really what you should be looking into is marketability. This is predominatly controlled by the media streams and reality t.v. So if your looking to become famious you may want to sign up for American Idol. Rap, Hiphop, Club and Country music are what is selling.. People don't care about talent anymore. But don't give up you are living in a time where the paradigm is about to shift. The internet age will change the face of music forever. You just need to be ready to put your credit card or paypal software on your website.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BassLineband · by **Alex003** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:47 am

The only songs they are looking for is mainstream mtv sellouts. I don't see how music is going to evolve into anything good when we have these publishers looking for 1 sound...the same sound we have been hearing on all the radio stations constantly already.

btw gator...TEOTB was a really good song

by **vad1er** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:34 am

Because it is all moving to the internet streams so get as computer literate as you can and learn dreamweaver or another web design program because this will give you an advantage- Worldwide! Not to be cauky but this last year I made over 20,000 just buying and selling MMOG and I don't even play the boring crap! Work smarter not harder and think outside the box. All this talk about the world being in finacial distress is a big pile of stinky crap!! Gas prices are less than 1/2 the price they were 3 months ago. The market for online games hasn't even flinched. Other than the housing market(I can't sell bleep right now). I think it's just mass manipulation by the powers that be. And as for Jobs I looked in the local papers just yesterday and there were more help wanted adds than ever. So what's the deal are things different for anyone else somewhere else? I can only speak for myself. But hey now we have a new president coming in to be the great black hope.. To fix all the stuff that I didn't know was broken. But hey atleast now we are to believe that anyone has a chance to do anything they choose right? So maybe things get better or worse.. But until I notice some negative or positive I am not buying into the media stream of social reform and Reality T.V., and sutle manipulative control. THINK outside the box Alex I can tell you are not the average bear so use the 100+ IQ you have and find the American Dream.. Your Excaliber is your music, And the Internet is your white horse(Or Black Horse) if you choose.

by **JouniL** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:40 am

vad1er wrote:buying and selling MMOG and I don't even play the boring crap!

Just out of curiosity: which boring crap MMOG's are you working with, WOW, Sims? ;-)

by **cwight** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:02 am

errrr...What's a MMOG?

by **lostylost** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:19 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_multiplayer_online_game

Rifflink for people who can't play guitar.

by **vad1er** » Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:36 am

lol..

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