10 Reasons Demos are Rejected:
Category: Music
1. No Contact Information on CDR and/or CDR container
(put your name, address, email, URL, MySpace address, and your phone number on both)
2. Lack of Originality
(just because you can record, doesn’t mean your music is worth recording)
3. The Music Is Good, But The Artist Doesn’t Play Live
( this applies to all genres of music except electroninca and experimental music)
4. Poorly Recorded Material
( so you bought ProTools….so what!)
5. Best songs are not identified or highlighted on the CD or the CDR
( send only 3 or 4 songs and highlight the best ones)
6. Sending Videos In Place Of CDRs
( keep it simple, in the demo mode, all anyone wants is to check out your songwriting and musicianship. If you want to send a link to a video you have put-up on YouTube, that would be a better idea then sending a video disc or tape.)
7. Sending Unsolicited Recordings
(you sent them, but they never asked for them…which means they will probably mail them back to you.)
8. Sending The Wrong Music To The Wrong Label
(you didn’t do your research to find out what labels put out what kind of music, did you?)
9. Musicians Can’t Play Their Instruments Competently
(this is so basic, but you would be astounded at how incompetant most start-up musicians are)
10. The Music Sucks
( this criticism is as old as music itself. you may think your music is the greatest thing since frappacinos, but most demo recordings the industry receives are as bad as the first round contestants on American Idol)
