Mechanical Music

Okay, I did it!! I now have mechanical licensing for "I Put a Spell on You" and "If He Walked into my Life," AND I just signed up for Nimbit, which is a kind of pay pal account for downloading music. Now for the first time I can actually market and sell my tunes, whether originals or cover tunes. I'm signed up and paid up, now all I have to do is download (I think I mean upload) the songs to my "store." I haven't figured that part out yet, that's my homework for today. Its cool, I can have a Nimbit "store" on my website, facebook, Itunes, and Amazon (I think!) Cool, huh?? I'll keep you posted! Maybe I can have it on this blog too, I don't know! Heck, I'll just get a billboard and be done with it! And I'll be on every McDonalds french fry box! The world is my oyster!! Bwahaha!!! Actually, I think web and itunes will suffice, I just have to figure it out.

I... am on a Fact Finding Mission. Where's my safari hat?

If anyone is remotely interested in the $$ of it all, it cost me $25 a song for mechanical royalties per song (to sell up to a hundred, then it goes up.) Then its $10 a month for the store, plus Itunes and Amazon take a percentage of retail per song. I think the going rate for me to charge is 99 cents per song download. What do you think-- does that sound fair?

Oh, and I recorded the tracks to "The Thrill is Gone" this morning. Vocals tomorrow! I think I need to do at least a few blues tunes in a row next, and with live players (not dead ones, that's for my Halloween album.) I could potentially be in a Blues festival in the Spring and I need some recordings to audition with. And a band with blistering chops. Yay, an excuse to get cracking! I always work best under pressure and with a deadline. I'm thinking a very small band. Drums, maybe an upright bass, and guitar. One more, for solos. Hmm. Sax? Very bluesy. I like fiddles too, they're cool! Oh heck, bring on the Philharmonic! (I have a very vivid imagination!)