Recent content by Nekujak

It might be easier to get the ball rolling if there was a definitive starting element, and you identify different parts of the song where folks can contribute. First, provide an initial seed to inspire and kick off the process. It could be a riff, chord progression, lyric fragment, song title...

I suppose it all depends on your goals. If you're trying to make music that's "commercially acceptable", you probably want to wait until your music achieves a minimum bar of acceptance, at the very least. Of course, that bar is also a very gray area and a moving target, largely influenced by...

July is a tough one. This one is basically a default choice, because it's the only song I'm intimately familiar with that mentions July. It's a good song and I like it... but don't necessarily love it. Happy July!

Those are some heavy losses - so sorry to hear. It's hard, if not impossible, to fully recover from that kind of loss. Music is a good friend to have in such times. I honestly don't ever expect anyone to listen or comment on my music. For pure music sharing, I use SoundCloud or YouTube. The...

Sharing in-progress, or even finished, songs with others and getting feedback can be tricky, to be sure. After years of exposing my music, both finished and in-progress, to various people and audiences, and getting reactions and feedback, I've found the most important factor is context. Or put...

For the past 7-8 years, I've been making music only for "commercial" purposes - production libraries, film scoring, trailers, promos, corporate, etc. During this time, I haven’t written a single "personal" song, simply because I got into a mode of channeling all my musical energy into projects...

If you're referring to the Pet Shop Boys song, it's not exactly the Royal Road progression because it doesn't include the V chord. The chorus goes: F - Em - Am But you're right, it's extremely close and imparts a similar feel.

My fav for the month of June...

I stumbled onto yet another interesting YT video related to songwriting and chord progressions. This time it has a name: The Royal Road progression - or in Japanese: Odo Shinko. Apparently, it's overwhelmingly popular in Japan, not only for pop songs, but also in anime and video game...

I stumbled onto this video the other day, and thought I’d share with the group. The video presents some of the most common 4-chord progressions in every mode. Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with modes - you don’t need to know theory to make use of these progressions. I love this kind of...

I spent half the morning trying to find just one of the posts, but the VI-C search engine is not very effective, and even using Google didn't help. However, I did find a reddit thread about this very topic: Anyone else seeing clients switch to AI music for commercials? Speaking for myself...

Yes, hopefully you're right 🤞 But in the last 6 months, I've seen several postings on VI-C where a composer lost out on a gig because the client decided to make their own AI music. Most clients are not musicians and don't have a musically discerning ear, so it's very conceivable they'd be...

I can't even make myself rich! Clearly, making people rich is a job I'm not very good at :ROFLMAO: Agreed. It's similar to folks who construct music with loops. For some it brings tremendous satisfaction, while others find it boring and unsatisfying. It really only becomes problematic when...

Thanks for the clarification. Immediately after the settlement, the initial buzz was that Warner now owned Suno, but obviously, it's more nuanced than that.

I'm not a lawyer, but if you're the original writer and AI is just creating an arrangement for you, I would think you would own the rights, and therefore could sell the music. I view it as very similar to writing a song and then using EZdrummer to play the drums, EZkeys for the keyboard part...