How to approach a studio..?

[kara]

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Kara I appreciate the lesson on song writing, but I got news for you, many of those songs you hear are bought from people called "songwriters"...there are many "songwriters" who are not recording artists, not performers that make a pretty damn good living selling songs to those that are....

It wasn't ment as a lesson, and I'm sorry if it feeled like that, I was just trying to explain what happens here in France.
And I did not question the people that bought those music, actually I'm glad they buy it because I'm living from it

Now if this is going to turn in a 'I have the biggest...' treath, I'll just stay out of it. I was just answering questions to the OP


Rony

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Now if this is going to turn in a 'I have the biggest...' treath, I'll just stay out of it. I was just answering questions to the OP

as was I, about the ego thing, I have no desire to go there either...

[soulata]

I imagine session guitarists are fall less hard to find then a good horn player.

It's quite different here I might say. There are tons of guitar players with only a few of them good enough for session work.

With brass players it's a different game. Not so many of them but almost all skilled enough (I guess because hardly anyone learns a brass instrument just by himself)

k

[Sascha Franck]

All I said was that once you'd be doing movie or big band session work, sight reading is a must, even for guitarists.
You may have a little time to check out the charts by yourself, but in general you'll need to figure out things quickly.

For most other styles of session work (albums, jingles, whatever), as a guitar player you'll be asked for flexibility in style and sound. And of course your timing needs to be freaking dead tight - which btw is THE major requirement for ALL sorts of session players. If you don't deliver class A timing and the ability to instantly sit on a groove, rest assured that your first job will be the last one as well.
People don't necessarily want first take heroes, but they want kickass groovy and/or tight performance.

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I think we all agree, session work is a tough way to make a living....