The Benefits of Stripping Down Your Song Demos

Cliff Goldmacher
Jul 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Let’s begin at the beginning. You’ve written a song and, hopefully, you’re thrilled with it. So thrilled, in fact, that you want to record it right away and use every instrument in both the Western and Eastern musical traditions on the song demo. I don’t blame you one bit. There’s nothing more fun than dressing up your songs to go to town. But it might make sense to stop and ask yourself what your goals are for your demo.

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Songwriting

These posts are from veteran songwriter and music producer, Cliff Goldmacher about the craft of songwriting and charting a career as a songwriter.

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Cliff Goldmacher is a professional songwriter, producer, author and educator with recording studios in Nashville, TN and Sonoma, CA. www.CliffGoldmacher.com

Songwriting

These posts are from veteran songwriter and music producer, Cliff Goldmacher about the craft of songwriting and charting a career as a songwriter.

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