JM> MD> Seriously now: I compose some stuff in MIDI for my own
JM> MD> pleasure, but stuff for my band to play I mostly
JM> MD> scribble the words on paper, mark chord changes & where
JM> MD> solos go, and the actual rhythms , melodies, bass
JM> MD> lines, leads are in my head. Then I just show them what
JM> MD> I want, and they usually end up changing their parts to
JM> MD> suit themselves.
JM>More seriously now:  How do I go about getting a band to accept
JM>and work on what I show them?  :)
Well, hopefully you are IN this band, and these people are your friends
or at least people that share the common goal of your band's music with
you.  Now if you are are asking how do you get a band that doesn't know
you to do a song you wrote, I don't have a clue, I'm not the guy to
ask; I just write for my solo projects or for my band, and my band is
receptive to whatever I propose. The piece may ultimately be rejected as
straying too much from our style, streching the vocalists too much, or
just plain being "bad", or many other reasons, but it's at least given
serious consideration, as only 2 out of 7 of us seem to be interested in
writing anything original.  So the band is the plallete, the song the
canvas, and sometimes the right colors aren't available, or the result
just isn't interesting, but then again, sometimes it's right on the
money.
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