Retrospective #6: An Index of Posts on Michael Acoustic
Posts 21-24 - An interview post, writing a silly song, adding chords to our silly song, and choosing a PRO, and business entity to hold your publishing rights, and COPYRIGHT EVERYTHING!!
This is the sixth in a series of posts that “index” some topic groupings over the past year of Michael Acoustic. I’m only including the main Friday posts, not the Thursday “teaser” posts. All posts in chronological order can be found at the Archive.
Post #21 - Interview with Mr. Adam Perlmutter, Editor of Acoustic Guitar Magazine
Post #22 - In this post we take a random line from my “Odds and Ends” note page where I jot down lines and phrases that occur to me and that may (or not) someday turn into the basis for a song. We wrote some rhyming lines, phrased them out with syllable counts, wrote a chorus, decided on a rhythm structure, and in the end came up with the lyrics to a silly song.
Post #23 - In this post we take our silly song lyrics and add music to it, writing in one key, then adding a capoed version to use different chord shapes to play the same intervals in the same key, just like the big boys and girls do.
Seriously debated including this iPhone voice memo that has very little bass and me reaching for a note in the chorus and OMG I sound terrible, blah blah blah, but just said screw it, and here it is without any excuses (except all that blathering in the first part of this sentence). “Audio embeds” weren’t available on SubStack when I originally posted this, but now they are, so enjoy. Or whatever.
Post #24 - Choosing a Performing Rights Organization, (PRO), metadata to include with any version of your songs (even the ones you write on the back of a cocktail napkin at closing time), start a business entity (usually an LLC) for publisher rights, what rights you and/or your collaborators (if any) and your publishing entity hold, master recording rights, and copyright (with the US Copyright Office) the hell out of everything.
Cheers and keep playing!
Michael Acoustic