burn the melody or midi to cd, send it yourself recorded delivery + dont open it. copyright sorted

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Sell melodies? What kind of a Fisher-Price genre do you think you're dealing with ? Oh...wait...I see your point.

Selling a melody has to be the lamest thing I've ever heard. Since when do producers go shopping for melodies? You'd have to be out of your mind if you were a producer buying melodies.

If you're going to sell a melody, it better be damn original. I don't mean original, I mean really fucking original because trance is full of canned melodies, most trance tracks are based off canned melodies, and the only thing that makes them unique are the sounds used.

As for copyrights... send in a short form PA of your melody collection. If a producer hear's your melody and it's been done before, there's nothing you can do about it if they "steal" it.

If I were you, I would concentrate on producing and liscencing your own productions to labels, commercials, or any sort of media instead of selling melodies to producers. If you're a composer that plays an instrument, then sell samples of you playing your instrument (trumpet, sax, guitar, piano, ect)... Us, producers love it when you send us some high quality riffs off your instrument or a high quality acapella, you'd make some good money off of that.

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Originally posted by State of Matter What kind of way is that to talk to someone who's trying to help you? You could atleast ask nicely for a condensed version and not be such a dick about it...

Only an idiot who thinks he can make a living off selling melodies would say that.

Seriously, what are you smoking?

Go open a melody store on Main Street.

"sorry the tiesto-style melodies are out of stock. come back next week"

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Scooter buys melodies all the time. He's rich and pays alot if he wants a good melody.

Here's my melody btw. Rip it, I don't care anymore. Music-industry sux.
http://www.lydparken.com/download/g....asp?fileid=455

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To be honest, there's oh so much trance floating around it could also be by coincidence that someone's melody sounds a bit like yours.

Best thing to do is - when you really want to be sure - to register every track you make to a rights company. We in Belgium have SABAM, the french have BIEM I think. You can always send yourself a copy of the melody and don't open the package if you don't want to pay for anything...

Anyway, you just got signed mate, what's your sudden hate for the music industry? Agreed, it's not the best time to be selling any music, but then again - you can still release your music to thr crowd, no?

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Originally posted by alexpea Scooter buys melodies all the time. He's rich and pays alot if he wants a good melody.

scooter is 3 dudes.. not one

and they doesn't always buy the melodies.. they sometimes steal them

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Originally posted by alexpea Scooter buys melodies all the time. He's rich and pays alot if he wants a good melody. Here's my melody btw. Rip it, I don't care anymore. Music-industry sux. http://www.lydparken.com/download/g....asp?fileid=455

I doubt it. They probably do a lot of sample liscencing... like Shake That... where they have to pay KC and the sunshine band royalties for every track sold, and they sample a lot of 80s tunes and make them highpitched for their chipmunk choruses. As for the melodies, I heard they steal trance melodies, I often see posts here on how the original artists are complaining because Scooter took their melody and totally screwed it over with cheesey fanfares. No one really cares if a trance artist takes another trance artist's melody, but makes it better, they only make the squeal when they mess it up. I don't think Kaycee cared when Kamaya Painters jacked their melody, or when Kaycee jacked Binary Finary's melody, and then Binary Finary took it back from Kaycee and made it better again, or when Pervading Call jacked Kai Tracid's melody, or when Green Court jacked Rank1's melody, or when Envio jacked Armin's melody...man the list goes on. If Tiesto were to totally take a dump on Kaycee's melody, they would have made a big deal over it.

As for your melody, if you're a producer, why the heck do you wanna give it away? Just make a tune out of it.

If Scooter's the only artist you can name that buys melodies, you're probably going to fail in the melody business because that's only one out of the millions of producers out there.

and there's nothing original about the melody you posted... sounds like any melody a euro tune would use after the vocal hook... haha try selling that to Candeejay

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Last edited by gerrycueto on Mar-06-2005 at 21:48