How do you achieve success in the songwriting business? I can tell you how I did it. I know what you’re thinking right now; “Mark Teeters? I never heard of you…you’re not successful!”. But I am, in fact, extremely successful. I’ll tell you why and then I’ll explain how you can get there too.
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Okay, so you wanna play bass guitar and you want to play your favorite songs right away. Your first thought? Look it up on the internet or buy a book. That works fine if you can read music; however if it all looks like a bunch of squiggly figures and sticks; don’t fret (pun intended). There is another way to do things that might look equally chaotic at first but will have you on your way to rock stardom overnight (all good things happen overnight don’t they?).
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If you have written a song, you certainly want it to be copyrighted. There are many myths and legends surrounding copyrights and I’ll try to debunk a few in this article. First of all, if you write a song by yourself and no one paid you in any way to write it, you already own the copyright! US Copyright law states that as soon as you finish the song, the copyright automatically belongs to you unless it is a ‘work for hire’. A ‘work for hire’ means that you work for an employer who pays you to write songs or someone specifically commisioned a song and paid you to write it. In these cases, the employer or person who commisioned the song would own the copyright.
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Do you ever wonder where songs come from? Do they magically float through the air and the lucky, chosen ones grasp them and make them their own? Or are they delivered by the Song Fairy? Sometimes these answers are easier to believe than the actual truth. They come from a deep hidden place inside your own head…a place that even you may not be familiar with.
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Most songs are written in a certain key, such as C or Eb. This means that that the chords and melody notes will be drawn primarily from the scale of that chord. In other words, if a song is written in the key of E major, then the notes and chords will be constructed primarily from the E major scale.
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