This is part 2 of an interview on songwriting recorded with me (www.marklaurent.co.nz) by Carol Bean in Wellington some time in 2005, Thanks to Carol and Press Go Productions for permission to use this excerpt.
Author: LaurentMark
Duration: 427
Published: 2009-07-31 00:01:25
Mark Laurent – singer/songwriter (pt 2) – an interview by Carol Bean
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Here’s a tip on the final stage of the songwriting process, the demo. Keep the songs that you select for your presentation on the demo short. Keep the intro as short as you can and get to the first verse quickly. Aim at keeping the songs to a three or four minute length. While there are no ‘hard and fast’ rules in terms of the length of songs, try this. Listen to your radio with a stopwatch in your hands and time the songs that you hear. This will give you a yardstick for how long a finished, radio-ready song should be. Remember that the songs on your demo will be neither finished nor radio ready. Subsequently, they will be shorter.
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