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Chris what a wonderful Story, thank You for letting Kenny sing this song,it absolutely Amazing, love Kennys very Soulful Voice always, thank you Kenny and Chris ❤❤❤

Thank you!

I just want to say something here. If you are advanced in music, but just have never used a DAW program, maybe it's worth it to buy an expensive program. If you are a beginner or intermediate, just use one of the many available free programs. You do not have to be advanced in music to be a songwriter. I am not advanced and I am doing it.

What you should do as a new (or returning songwriter). Don't spend all your time watching videos about songwriting. Go write your song. Also, do as I say, not as I do.

The all-time song success story, if not for absolute dollars then for the story's appeal, might be Bart Howard's "Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In Other Words". Howard wrote the song in 1954 when he was 39 years old. Over time, it became a jazz and pop standard and, thanks to Frank Sinatra's 1964 hit cover, a great classic. Reportedly, Howard made a continuing income for life off of this one song. I wouldn't be surprised if the song still makes enough money for a person to live on. The song will not go into the public domain until the 2070s.

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To the best of my knowledge, the U47 John used is still in Abbey Road.

Brother what can a man do that has a couple or a few good songs but has no idea how to get the right person to hear it?

hi this was a great video, but I cant find part 2 on your channel is it still uploaded?

You the man!!!

Appreciate you, Sir

Definitely therapy for me too but I can’t sing a lick 😊🎤🎼🎶

Great job by the way hopw ur doing well, 3 years after

Hey man sing em and theyll come. U could be like me 62 and still reaching for the first cut. Maybe it's about time to hang it up I don't know ?

Buy a house write a song,,,

Just now finding these! Really enjoying them! Good seeing you at our showcase the other day! Keep posting quality content, buddy!

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Thanks Chris! Appreciate you brother!

Congratulations

You captured it man. This is potent. Amazing

I had joined Taxi a short time after the "Don't Blink Debacle". Thought it was amusing that they closed the forum thread seemingly with their tail between their legs! One of the "rules" you surely had to follow to be succesful was never start the song on the chorus! I'm like "Damn, l can think of 20 hit songs like that right off the top of my head" I quickly came to realize the only rule is there are no rules and by the way Don't Blink is a pretty cool song bro!

Got a honest question for you Chris, I got a whole bunch of Songs that Ive written over the years, and kept to myself because I really dont understand how the music industry works, and have been told by a respected friend, that if you dont understand Nashville and the music industry- then you need to keep out of it till you do, and I once had a fellow songwriter tell me that If I Recorded and released a song, that any music company out there who heard and liked my songs could record them using one of their artists and re-release it - basically stealingg my songs and they would pay me nickels-( next to nothing) and could basically steal my songs and record them under copyright compulsory laws, and they could legally rip me off for my songs that I wrote. Since you Have a respected name as a country songwriter, I gotta ask if thats true or not?, and if it is, then is it really a good Idea to Record and Release your Copyrighted songs or not? I realize you aint a lawyer, but Has anything like that ever happened to you?

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Hey Chris. I’ve got 2 really good songs written, now how do I safely get them out there? They would both hit number 1 if in the right hands. Id love to be able to get them to the radio without having to split the pie 5 different ways. Any advice?

When you say songwriter and he wrote the song are you talking the entire song music and all or just the lyrics and melody progression

4:55 i feel something's peeing on my head all the time, but i know it ain't unicorns.

it only takes craft to write a song, but it takes craft AND art to write magic. if it all was craft, then all super experienced songwriters would write magic. or hits.

Am so hoping none of those critiques were mine LOL don’t this so. I remember Lester’s TS appearance…oh boy…the reviewer was even worse… So glad you made this video… ❤

where do they find these guys who don’t have shirts on? ROFL

I'm a year late to the party, but congrats to the winners! Chris, you're familiar with mountains too.....seems I'm always climbin' and fallin' and climbing....... See y'all at the top!

Check this out, I don`t know the details about how much this guy contributed to the song. His tattoo guy was sharing this with me he said it could have been a verse a riff or just about anything. Anyway after a few days they call him in and tell him the record is doing well and they wanted to show their appreciation by handing him a check for ten-thousand dollars and had he been there alone he woulda tore the guy`s arm off but he brought a friend along and he is a roadie and he advised the cat to check with a lawyer that specializes in music contracts. So he did and the lawyer asked him how long he had to decide? The cat said one year and the lawyer said I would wait because you never know what may transpire. HE ended up with 1.2 million dollars so as you can see the music industry uses some type of gorilla math much like medical, oil, 30 cookies..six dollaes plus

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Thank you for sharing this and for spending your time doing this: do radio stations still pay 10 cents a play for performance royalties? Of course this would be the total publishers share, the publisher and the songwriters.

Hey Chris, I’ve got 2 number 1’s written right now I’m sure of it. My question is, how do I get them to Nashville without having to split my song 10 different ways, your song something to be proud of only had you and the publisher so as I understand you got 100% of the songwriters cut, how did you do that if you don’t mind me asking?

Love this man! I just moved to Nashville & I have my first booked some on Friday & im going to pitch two songs next week. Thanks for the great advise. Cheers man

Thank you ,Chris !

Cool advice Chris👊

Great video! Looking forward to hearing some more.

Great info, thanks. And I just listened to your #1 song . WOW thats a great song, Thats something to be Proud of !!!😎

Where's part 2?? You left me hanging on the edge of my seat!!! 😂. Also, as a note for anyone interested. If this money had been immediately invested the first years income on his songs into dividend paying ETFs. Something like RYLD, that pays 12% annually. He would be getting paid roughly $6500/ month in dividends for life, without touching principle. Plus, he would keep getting royalties for his songs going forward. If he re-invested those, that income would only keep increasing, even without another #1.

Wow - insightful.

I really enjoy how you teach - thank you!

Thank you! Will be applying the tip to heart ! ✨🤘

Merry Christmas Chris My fiancé is planning to have all her brothers and sisters for sleep over Should be interesting there are 13 siblings

Blue curtains,,,,

Fantastic!! Nicely done. Thanks for sharing your gift, Chris.

Chris, thank you so much for this video. All of your videos come from a position of experience and and I can tell you genuinely care about getting honest information to your viewers. I'm a new songwriter, but believe I am doing quality work (don't we all). This video showed up in my feed just as I was dealing with some rejection and it was very motivating for me. Thanks again for all you do.