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bluesman007
1 post
May 21, 2014
3:52 PM
So I've just finished recording a tune that's just begging for a blues harmonica solo. I can't play a note on the harp, so I thought I'd turn to you guys.

I literally need a short snappy, swung blues harmonica solo that lasts for a grand total of 4 bars. I've got $20 via Paypal for anybody who can deliver the goods.

Any takers?

Tom
Frank
4322 posts
May 21, 2014
4:12 PM
I would but I need a least 17 dollars a bar - Hey, don't laugh...Micky D employees want 15 bucks an hour - so I'm in the ballpark :)
jnorem
220 posts
May 21, 2014
6:06 PM
I'll do it. I know how to give you exactly what you want. How are we going to this?
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Call me J
harpletunnel
65 posts
May 21, 2014
6:29 PM
I can do it also. Just got to have an email or phone #. looked in your profile but not there. My contact info is in my profile.
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keep it in your mouth
1847
1809 posts
May 21, 2014
6:41 PM
what are the chords?
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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
jnorem
221 posts
May 21, 2014
8:27 PM
What are the chords? Does it matter?
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Call me J
Barley Nectar
399 posts
May 21, 2014
9:21 PM
I'm in. this could be fun!...BN
LSC
636 posts
May 21, 2014
10:25 PM
If you haven't already go it sorted I do remote tracks quite often. My email is at the LSC link.
rogonzab
559 posts
May 22, 2014
12:25 PM
I could try. My email is my username at google mail.
Lonesome Harpman
157 posts
May 22, 2014
12:42 PM
I'll do it for you see thebluerails.com
boris_plotnikov
964 posts
May 22, 2014
2:39 PM
I can do it, contact me via facebook https://www.facebook.com/boris.plotnikov.9
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Excuse my bad English.

My videos.
bluesman007
2 posts
May 22, 2014
3:24 PM
Hey guys,

Awesome, thank you for the response. You can download the track snippet here...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/884793/Trombone%20Harmonica%20Solo.mp3

It starts off with a 2 bar count in, then 4 bars of riff, then 4 bars where the harmonica solo should be.
The chords are E, G, C, B7.

You can get me at: tom [at] guitar lesson central [dot] com (without all the spaces, obviously).

Let me know if you have any questions!
bluesman007
3 posts
May 22, 2014
3:25 PM
It'll be going up on youtube, so if there's any chance you could video yourself recording it, that would be cool :-)
kudzurunner
4707 posts
May 22, 2014
4:10 PM
bluesman007: You're not offering nearly enough money. Any of the professional musicians here would be insulted, frankly, by your lowball offer. (I'm writing this before I've taken a look at precisely who has leapt at your offer.)

Let's leave aside the mumbo-jumbo of AFM recording scales--as outlined, for example, by the Recording Musicians Association of Nashville:

http://www.rmanashville.com/index.php?p=afm+scales

I'll suggest that the absolute bare minimum anybody here should even think about fulfilling your request for is $50. Even that is absurdly low. I pay any musician who does a session for me at least $100 for a song, whether or not they're accomplishing the task in a real or virtual studio. (Union scale would be a three-hour call for more than twice that amount.)

I will humbly but firmly suggest that any forum member who accepts your offer is a) surely not a professional; and b) undercutting the value of what all of us do.

If I sound like somebody banging the drum and shouting "union" and "Which side are you on, boys?": well, yes. That's exactly what I'm doing. If any forum member takes you up on your way-too-low offer, you will be getting exactly what you pay for.

Welcome to the forum, BTW. I just wish you'd made your grand entrance actually offering us something of value rather than seeking to exploit us.

The forum creed explicitly forbids forum members from leveling personal attacks, which is more or less what I'm doing. But, by the same token, it's understood around here that when people seek to become members of this forum, they don't do so simply to sell stuff, much less to exploit the membership of this forum by offering sub-minimum wages for our labors, in their very first post, which is what you're doing.

I would love to know what BBQ Bob thinks of all this.

Last Edited by kudzurunner on May 22, 2014 4:18 PM
Lonesome Harpman
158 posts
May 22, 2014
4:47 PM
Adam try not to be such a buzzkill? Do you know anything about bluesman007? Do you know if he is a professional and wants to make $ from this cut? Seems to me you could have acted a little more professionally and used this as a teaching moment rather than accuse the guy of trying to exploit us? I am withdrawing my offer as a courtesy to you and the other pro players.
jnorem
222 posts
May 22, 2014
4:48 PM
Well, maybe. But I'm a professional studio musician and I see this as a no-big-deal bit of fun. For one thing, I've never done any recording for anyone else using my little home studio, and for another, I've never done it by long-distance.

I'd do it for nothing. I do it every day anyway, so there's no inconvenience
or undue stress, just a bit of fun.

I'll back out, though, and let the less experienced or non professional members have a go.
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Call me J
XHarp
552 posts
May 22, 2014
4:55 PM
Kudzu, Agreed and thanks for speaking up. After having my share of being short changed or not being paid at all for gigs and listening to all the gab about the instrument not getting respect beyond toy status, it's disturbing to sell out for $20. Anyone wanting to do this, it is good experience but it'll take you at least 3 or 4 hours to lay down a good cut. You'll do many takes before your happy with it so you're now working for $5.00 per hour.
Without a royalty contract, anyone can do whatever they want with you're contribution and you can't do sh*t about it.
Boris, I was surprised you offered to do it. With your talent you're selling yourself way short.
Good Luck if you take it on
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"Keep it in your mouth" - XHarp
jnorem
224 posts
May 22, 2014
6:25 PM
Accepting the terms of this deal does not constitute selling out. In this context I think it's a bit ridiculous to charge this guy your hourly recording fees.

Are you supposed the be paid for practicing, or sitting in with a buddy's band?

It's four bars, for crying out loud.

What could be the matter with making music for fun, interest and curiosity?

Last Edited by jnorem on May 22, 2014 6:28 PM
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38 posts
May 22, 2014
6:26 PM
WoW!! I must have been way off base. I saw this as an innocent request for someone to make a few bucks by playing a few notes and helping someone out.
kudzurunner
4708 posts
May 22, 2014
7:48 PM
There's a difference between a friend and a client. I've done a fair number of free sessions for several friends of mine.

bluesman007 is a client. He's offering money, which is to say he's seeking professional services. I've done studio sessions, on an occasional basis, for more than 30 years. $20 wasn't considered a fair rate for any sort of recording session back in 1990, and it's certainly not a fair rate today. A client seeking professional services should offer a fair wage--assuming he knows what a fair wage is--or be prepared to negotiate.

I'm all in favor of friends donating their services to their friends' projects and/or trading services. This isn't that sort of situation.

jnorem, I think you should do the session for free, and have fun doing it. Just don't take $20. That's an insult, frankly, even to somebody who works according to a sliding scale, as many of us do.

I think I'll get some t-shirts made up that say "DON'T SUCK AND BLOW FOR $20."

Last Edited by kudzurunner on May 22, 2014 7:51 PM
jnorem
225 posts
May 22, 2014
8:10 PM
In this one particular case I honestly don't see how receiving payment in exchange for a service is an insult to anyone.

I mean, come on. This is obviously not a case of actual studio work, this has nothing to do with a real actual recording session gig, and anyone who does real actual recording session gigs should be able to see that right away.


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Call me J

Last Edited by jnorem on May 22, 2014 8:12 PM
Kaining
43 posts
May 22, 2014
8:30 PM
I don't know jnorem, it could be whatever bluesman007 want it to be.
He just stated he needed a 4 bar solo and where it will be.
If you count, there's 10 bar for that blues (yeah, the count in may or may ot be counted) and that's unusual. That solo could be used in many different way with computer and... well, i see no point in getting my imagination go wild here, everybody can do the same.

Honestly, i do think it's an amateur request seeing how it's made and the 20 bucks offered are mostly here because as a new member, he might have thought it would be the best way to get some attention.

In the rare case it's not, then adam as the admin is really right to remind us of that even if he does slightly bend the rules by being a little rude to Bluesman. It's more of a wake up call for others forum members.

As we have no way to know before Op give us more precision, the simplest solution would be for complete amateur forum members (beginers ?) to actually do it and ask for being credited. The 20$ aren't even that much for a pro and an amateur being credited might help a big way (if it goes viral, pro might regret not dong though)

Anyway, i do think we are over thinking it. At the moment.
eharp
2161 posts
May 22, 2014
8:52 PM
Hasn't this offer been made previously by a couple of different people?
Maybe the ones that jumped on those deals could speak up and tell us what they did and for how much.
1847
1811 posts
May 22, 2014
9:25 PM
When I was just a youngster…..
We would head out early in the morning, searching for soda pop bottles. When we had enough
Money collected, $1.29 cents

we would head across the tracks looking for our friend curtis lowe
we would give him all our money
and we would walk together to the corner liquor store,to get a jug of spanada and he would play all day for us.

Now curtis was a black man
He was not what you would call a professional blues man,
Certainly not no… stevie ray Vaughn, or a jeff healey. Not by any stretch.

But he could sing like muddy waters, and play like lighting sam!
And when he would blow his harmonica……
It would leave me feeling sad and confused.

Not sure what a vintage bottle
Of spanada goes for these days “68”
But twenty bucks sounds about right.

white boy lost in the blues




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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"

Last Edited by 1847 on May 23, 2014 7:15 AM
nacoran
7767 posts
May 22, 2014
9:50 PM
As an amatuer who has only ever gotten $1 in tips (total, but tips aren't usual at open mics) that would be 20 times what I've ever earned.

I guess it all depends on the level you're performing at. At this point in my 'career' I'd do it for an album credit rather than money, trying to leverage it in money down the line, but I can certainly understand Adam advising us not to undercut the playing pros. Music is a tricky place to unionize. If you work at a car factory you join the union because you already have a job, and the union is definitely looking out for you. If you are a minor league baseball player looking to break into the pros the players union is looking out for the guys who are already up in the majors.

I'd go play for the Yankees for free (on second thought, I'd rather play for the Red Sox, I'm a lousy player and I'd rather drag down a team I don't like!) That said, most professional musicians aren't making millions.

I'll admit, I've got a song I've been trying to get a good clean copy out of my band on for a while that I was thinking of asking people to play on, (it's the devil and a blues harp player cutting heads, so it needs two players above my playing skill to pull it off) and I'd been thinking of two $50 gift certificates as a prize, but I'd also give album credit, in the unlikely event it had commercial success I'd cut the harpers in for whatever normal scale is.

I guess if I was offering my services, I might set the pay scale based on if it was a indie band recording their own album, paying for things out of their pocket- or a record company paying a band to record. (My bass player just quit a band that had a very decent budget to record something for a record company, but he wants to focus on our stuff, so no pressure!)

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dougharps
620 posts
May 22, 2014
9:58 PM
If you see yourself as an amateur, I see no reason not to go ahead. Have fun, give it a try.

If you see yourself as a pro or even a semi-pro as I consider myself, I don't think you should work this way.

I would do a recording session at that rate for a friend. I once recorded for some friends in a home studio for a couple beers and a home cooked spaghetti dinner. I had worked with them before on gigs, and it was fun. Friends helping friends.

I would not take a recording gig at that rate for a stranger. When I do studio work I request a rough cut in advance and prepare several options for solos and fills. If you are going to record then you want it to be your best, because this will represent part of your professional body of work. Preparation takes time, and time is money.

I work cheaper than those in major metro areas, but I don't give it away (except for friends). Studio work is business, unless it is for friends. Your harps and gear cost you. The skill you have developed took hours and hours of work. How will you buy the next harp you need? How will you buy the next mic or amp?

When I first did some studio work years ago, it was local studio work in a real studio, before everyone had a computer studio at home. I worked too cheaply. This was my first time in a studio, and it was a learning experience.

Afterward I had a conversation with a professional bass player acquaintance who had done a lot of recording, and he filled me in on the idea of the money charged for recording being commensurate with the time spent and ability needed. He suggested that I not give the music away. He noted that it hurt other pro players by undercutting them.

Taking work from strangers at cheap rates also serves to continue devaluing the harmonica as a professional instrument. If you can get good harp players to work that cheaply, then harmonica has little value and is a novelty effect.

Studio rates vary depending on where you are and the level of musicianship needed. Unless you are doing it for a friend, or you foresee the gig as a way to get regular work with a band or a studio to build your career, a pro or semi-pro should not work so far below reasonable studio rates.

Posting on forums could expand into a growing trend, and the forum could become the go-to place to hire cheap harp tracks for your songs rather than hiring a studio musician at pro rates.

By the way, I think that the original poster was not someone trying to a score cheap track. I think the OP made a well intended request for a little harp on a track on a song he recorded, and didn't consider any of this stuff. He even offered some compensation. I don't blame him for asking, and I respect that he offered to pay some.

I think this is more an issue of the question we need to ask ourselves: "Do we as harmonica players on this forum value our ability to create music, and do we believe that harmonica music has equal value as musical performance as do other instruments?"

Would any of us post a similar request on a guitar forum, or keyboard forum, or saxophone forum?
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Doug S.
didjcripey
745 posts
May 23, 2014
12:43 AM
Would guitar or keyboard or saxophone forum members be as quick to take offence?
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Lucky Lester

Last Edited by didjcripey on May 23, 2014 12:43 AM
Honkin On Bobo
1202 posts
May 23, 2014
5:45 AM
I don't see how bluesman007 is exploiting anybody. The guy wrote a tune. He'd like a little harp on it. He's got twenty bucks for anybody who can deliver a 4 bar solo to his liking. He ain't asking someone to audition for an off Broadway production of the life and times of Little Walter. If someone feels that they're above "delivering the goods" for a $20 spot, here's a radical idea...don't respond to the offer.

Maybe he finds someone who isn't an active pro today but once was and does it for fun and a little beer money. bluesman gets a great solo and the responder has some fun. Good for them. Maybe he gets a crappy solo from a beginner level hobbyist. Hey, you get what you pay for right? I doubt either outcome is going to tank the market for professional harp session players, whatever the condition of that market may be.

How would jnorem be insulting anybody if he decides to do it and takes the money? If he doesn't take any money then it's cool? Huh??? I'm still trying to untangle the twisted logic of that.

Last Edited by Honkin On Bobo on May 23, 2014 6:10 AM
Diggsblues
1338 posts
May 23, 2014
6:30 AM
I agree with Adam. Let's not undercut professionals.
I see this kind of stuff with gigs. I hate it
when people play for cheap. Many of these people have
good day jobs and can undercut pros. If you want
pros to come here to give advice help keep wages up.

Emile
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eharp
2162 posts
May 23, 2014
6:49 AM
This can be argued for any profession.
And I can't believe that no one here that is arguing about undercutting pros hasn't shopped around for the cheapest person to do some service.
Or walked onto a car lot and told the salesman you wanted the lowest price, and after getting the lowest price, gone to another lot and told the salesman THERE that you were offered a price and hope the second salesman will beat it.
C'mon!

And is Diggs threatening a walk-out of the forum pros?
Are you the voice of all the pros, Diggs, or are you gonna organize them?

It's odd that there aren't any pros arguing this point.
(to me, a pro is someone whose sole income is, in this case, music.)
Diggsblues
1340 posts
May 23, 2014
7:08 AM
I'm the Union Co-Chair of the Classified Unit of
AFT 2026 AFL-CIO. I actually sign the contracts worth
millions of dollars in wage and benefits. LOL

Asking for low wages here is like walking into
a Union office and saying hey guys how about
working for 30 percent less.LOL

Emile
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eharp
2163 posts
May 23, 2014
7:17 AM
So you ARE threatening a walkout of this forum.
Over 1 person taking $20 for a few bars.
And without talking to the members.
Says something about unions and those in charge of them.
Barley Nectar
401 posts
May 23, 2014
7:18 AM
I'v been playing for 40 yrs. Probably could be simi pro if I wanted to be. would have to move to the big city to pull that off. I play for fun and get a couple bucks now and then. I am a union guy but not musicians union. I would not expect someone to hire a union electrician to swap out a bad light switch, small job. I don't have a problem with this request. If I worried about money, my playing would be a job. I don't need another job! JMO...BN
Diggsblues
1342 posts
May 23, 2014
7:25 AM
@ eharp what's with the personal attack.

I think your comments are out of line
The conclusions are yours not mine.


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1847
1812 posts
May 23, 2014
7:35 AM

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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
The Iceman
1677 posts
May 23, 2014
7:36 AM
Have been a professional (now a semi-pro), but I would do this for fun. Unfortunately, I am very limited w/computer knowledge and don't know how to download and add a track.

Don't feel this is an insult...the offer was $20. If that's too low for you, don't participate.

Could be a good experience for many on this forum.
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The Iceman

Last Edited by The Iceman on May 23, 2014 7:41 AM
1847
1813 posts
May 23, 2014
7:43 AM

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i get a lot of request when i play my harmonica
"but i play it anyway"
kudzurunner
4709 posts
May 23, 2014
7:45 AM
diggs and doug are coming from the same direction I am. And yes, diggs's analogy is exactly right. "Asking for low wages here is like walking into
a Union office and saying hey guys how about
working for 30 percent less.LOL"

I also understand those who are slightly mystified by the fuss I'm making, so I'll clarify: my initial comment, all my comments, are coming from the perspective of somebody who is viewing this forum as a kind of virtual guild hall. We're all members of a guild--or at least that's how I see us. We're apprentices, journeymen, and masters, all participating in what is essentially the same skilled trade. In the real world of skilled trades, the apprentices do a lot of free work for the masters, until they're prepared to create their masterwork and have it judged by a panel of masters--at which point they're prepared to go out on their own and set up a shop. We don't do that here, at least not in that literal way. But I know from the emails I receive every week that some of the teaching that experienced players offer here is shaping the lives of harmonica students in ways that are, in fact, enabling them to start playing gigs and even make part-time livings as musicians.

The virtual element of our guild, in truth, adds an element of novelty and uncertainty to the whole apprenticeship process, but basically what we're doing is what I've described: this is a place where experienced tradesmen share trade secrets and trade knowledge and where less experienced apprentices are asking questions and soaking up knowledge.

One element of the profession that is felt keenly by many of us who've been doing this for a while is the wages/hours/working-conditions side of things. One thing that characterizes the professions, or did for a long time, is that professionals determine their own wages, hours, and working conditions. Skilled tradesmen, one step below professionals, have unions that have, over time, bargained with management to arrive at wages, hours, and working conditions that both sides can live with.

Skilled blues harmonica players fall somewhere in the spectrum between the professions and the skilled trades. Professions have certifying organizations; we don't have one, really. Skilled trades have the apprentice/journeyman/master sequence, with the masters holding the keys to promotion. The blues harmonica world works more like that, albeit somewhat more informally.

In any case, I responded to bluesman007's query with exactly the sort of wariness that a professor of medicine or a master machinist might exhibit when someone unknown to any of us walked into my hospital or shop and said to my residents or my apprentices "Hey, how about doing some really cheap work for me?" I'm equally protective of my own hard-earned professional/trade prerogatives (i.e., to set my own rates or work within long-established, hammered-out rates) and those who, rightly or wrongly, I view as junior partners whom I'm trying to socialize into the profession or trade.

That's where I'm coming from.

I do, however, understand why some here may view their own participation in this forum somewhat differently and may view ANY pay for playing harmonica as a good thing and ANY work experience as a good thing. I won't try to change anybody's mind about that, either.

Last Edited by kudzurunner on May 23, 2014 7:52 AM
eharp
2164 posts
May 23, 2014
7:51 AM
A personal attack?
Really?
I asked if you had the pull to do what you claimed you were threatening to do.
The next post was my opinion.
A personal attack.
Too funny.
You're not still angry because all you got was runner-up in the Bushman forum, are you?

Again- they were not meant as a personal attack, Diggs.
Diggsblues
1343 posts
May 23, 2014
8:14 AM
I think Adam explained it great.

@eharp what's with the new attacks

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The Iceman
1678 posts
May 23, 2014
8:23 AM
ah, yes. The good ol' daze of Michalek head to head postings lives again...

clue...if either of you (Diggs or eharp) choose to "not respond", leaving the last comment to twist in the air, it will effectively end the battle.
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The Iceman
JustFuya
185 posts
May 23, 2014
9:00 AM
Apparently mentioning a $ figure is what gets a few riled. If it had been worded as a question rather than an offer all this talk would have been moot. I don't see evil in a post that could have been better presented.
Cotton
24 posts
May 23, 2014
10:02 AM
@ 1847 Your comments on Curtis Lowe sound like you were with Ronnie and Garry, at the corner of Lakeshore and Plymouth in Jacksonville Fl. in 1968. That was my old stomping grounds.
LSC
637 posts
May 23, 2014
10:18 AM
"I will humbly but firmly suggest that any forum member who accepts your offer is a) surely not a professional; and b) undercutting the value of what all of us do."

There have been a couple of folks who have responded within the context of professional players who are now perhaps "semi-pro" in that they no longer make their living solely from playing income. After three albums of original material, a record deal, and thousands of paid performances everywhere from shoe store openings and brothels to football stadiums as well as session gigs including film and television, and yes, years of paying my bills solely from music related income, I'm now one of those.

There are a huge percentage of players in the world are who by any criteria, other than gross annual income from music, are in fact professional by experience, skill level, attitude, and how they go about their business. To sit in judgement from on high and declare that anyone who accepted this offer is "surely not a professional" is insulting to that group of us who are indeed professional by anything but your subjective definition.

Having said that, I would agree that $20 is a low ball offer but I don't believe it was intended as such. We constantly have to deal with people who make such offers out of ignorance. I normally charge a minimum of $50 per song, a minimum rate set by players in this town who are world class by any definition. The last time I hired players the agreed fee was $75 per song except for one guy who charged by the hour. There are also guys who ask $200 a song or more. Do they feel undercut by those who have similar skill but maybe not the reputation or demand who accept less? Do they disrespect them? I can tell you flatly they do not.

I offered to throw something down because these days I like to look at projects that come a bit from left field. It's fun and sometimes really good things come from it both musically and financially. The whole deal would have taken me one hour max, in my home, and I wouldn't even have to have gotten out of my bathrobe. Rather different that rehearsing material, traveling to a studio, being available for an arbitrary length of time, having the take judged as sufficient or not by the client, etc. etc. etc.

Adam, IMHO, you are comparing apples and oranges. If the offer was something you choose to dismiss, fair enough and understandable. I'm a former union man, advocate of Fair Trade Music, and a guy who sometimes pays out of pocket to give the guys I hire a minimum fee on every gig. Please stand down from your judgements of me and those who are professionally similar. It is hardly "humble" and does you no credit.
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bluesman007
4 posts
May 23, 2014
11:38 AM
Wow…just thought I’d check in on the thread and saw all the fun that’s been happening in my absence!

Firstly…and with all due respect to kudzurunner, I do roll my eyes when I see musicians spouting all the union stuff in situations like this. You would have a fair point if I had a label budget or was part of a professional touring act. As it is, I’m just a guy who’s put together a tune that’s gonna go up on youtube and needs a measly 4 bars of music. I think most people in my situation would have probably asked someone to do it for free, but I thought I’d offer $20 as a token of my gratitude. Requesting a full time professional session fee for this kinda thing is pretty ridiculous in my humble opinion.
If you’re a full time paid-up union muso, then this obviously isn’t something you’d want to be involved in...but regardless, in the spirit of being merry and spreading some smiles, thank you for contributing to the thread ;-)

I’d just like to make it clear to everybody, my request was in no way meant as an insult to anybody. I’m just a guy with a guitar and a laptop in search of some cool harmonica sounds.

To anybody who feels like giving this a shot, drop me an email and hopefully we can get something down!

All the best,

Bluesman007

PS. Thanks to everybody who stuck up for me in the thread :-)
Frank
4335 posts
May 23, 2014
11:41 AM
Mooncat should swoop in, take the money and run - that would be a quick easy Jackson for him :)

And I agree - this fellow seemed to be simply lookin for takers to a pretty easy request. And he didn't say only Pros need apply, which may of been insulting to their worth.

Sure you can get get anal about it and put way to much unnecessary time into it, that's your prerogative... but if your good at computers, music and harmonica - it should be a wham bam thank you ma'am adventure.


BTW What does this mean exactly?

It'll be going up on youtube, so if there's any chance you could video yourself recording it, that would be cool :-)

Last Edited by Frank on May 23, 2014 11:43 AM
bluesman007
5 posts
May 23, 2014
12:40 PM
Hi Frank,

I've recorded myself on video playing the various parts of the song, so it would be nice to get some video of whoever records the harmonica, playing their part, so I can include it in the video version which will be going up on youtube :-)
Diggsblues
1344 posts
May 23, 2014
1:06 PM
Years ago I had a situation similar to this. I was sent
the music and the finished tracks. I was given the phone number of studio and was supposed to record it there.The studio was difficult to schedule time I just did it at home and mixed it. A year later I did a video for you tube for free to bring a little joy to the guy because his wife had alzheimer's disease and he was the main caregiver. I received 100 dollars for the work.




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bluesman007
6 posts
May 23, 2014
1:18 PM
Good for you Diggs...good for you :-)
jnorem
226 posts
May 23, 2014
2:16 PM
I'm curious, now that all these professional diatonic harmonica players have waded in, as to what their regular recording rates are.

For me to get into studio work I had to be able to read music and play the chromatic. Playing only the diatonic wasn't going to cut it. But that was just me, it doesn't mean that this is how it always is.

So let's assume that it is possible for someone to make serious money as a studio diatonic player. Which it isn't but let's assume it anyway.

Tell me your rates and I'll tell you mine, and then maybe we can all share the earnest outrage over one of us being willing to have a little fun sharing our skills and doing someone a solid in exchange for a Jackson.
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