[paul7986]

Your either not that good, decent, pretty good or the best of the best.

I graduated from MTSU with a degree in Recording Industry. My favorite class was songwriting class where we were paired up with classmates to write songs for a grade. There was this one guy whoever knew he was the best in the class and he was. He went onto write tons of number one country songs from 2007 to 2016. Even being the best of the best didnt get him to that point rather meeting the right connection as my college g/f was just as good as him or better. She's a homemaker now.

Myself, I might be a decent songwriter, but Im a terrible singer. I get joy from others listening to my songs and say ing something nice lol.

Overall it's always been hard and if your not the best of the best or know the right person then well......

[ksec]

It is a little hard in these days and age where talents went unnoticed if you actually tried. And by talent I don't mean just being good or very good. You have to be the best, not just in your class, your state, but in your country or even the world.

Now if you are only very good, ( which in itself is great, you could be the top 5% in the industry, or even top 1% ) you will need some connection and luck. The problem is there are only finite amount of popular song writer writing for best music. And that space is likely to be limited to a double digit personnel.

It is like Formula 1, there are only a handful of drivers in Formula 1, but they represent the best of the best in the world. You don't want a centimetre off Apex, you want them to be in millimetres. These best of the best may only be 4 - 10 faster even on the same cars, but you could spend the rest of your life time never be as fast and as consistent as they are.

[paul7986]

yeah i agree you have to be the best of the best and then make the right connections.

Luke Laird was the best of the best in my songwriting class(out of 20 of us) and probably within MTSU at that time(2001). He wrote a good amount of Carrie Underwood's number one songs as well as many other well known country artists.

[ataturk]

This sounds sad, but I'm not sure how I really feel about it. I went to college with a lot of Music Industry major types in the mid '90s and I thought most of them were kidding themselves about their real prospects even back then. It just seemed way over-saturated from the outside looking in, everyone had a big ego and wanted to be a baller. Wasn't going to happen. Not that I don't sympathize completely because I love music, too.

Most recently, I worked with a business analyst guy who was living in Nashville trying to get work by filling in for sick musicians and thereby making a name for himself. It was going, eh, okay for him. He still kept his day job, of course. The company I worked for back then had let him move to Nashville and work 100% remote. He was on point with a guitar and banjo, I'll say that.