Originally Posted by Fdemetrio
Ive been looking at bass players and keyboard players, gonna use the drums ive spent so much time on programming. But it can be hard deciding. You have no way of knowing if the player is good at "composing" parts. They can jam all they want, and play cover songs, showing that they can play, but how creative are they, how well will they play with my songs.

It's all a crapshoot, i dont like this 5 dollars for songs under 2:00 minutes nonsense lol. Lets be real here, who has a song under two minutes. Or do I start writing songs under two minutes to save money on players lol. The Ramones came close to under 2 minutes

I prefer upfrontness, tell me what you're going to charge me to play bass on a song. Some of these guys are like car mechanics.."well, it took longer than I thought it might"
Im defintly gonna try. Gonna give them one song at a time and see if they are any good. Musical parts should compliment the melody, if you're going to jam, i might as well use samples.


Are you hiring them to play or to arrange? It sounds like both. Hire a producer (which is what arrangers now call themselves) and they will usually do it all for you. I'd rather write the arrangement (the fun part) then have a pro play it like a human rather than my synth reproduction.

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