OK I'm not a big insider, but I have a few decent accomplishments, so I'll chime in

1) I have the impression that John Mayer writes all his own stuff, so I don't see much point in pitching songs to him.

2) you wrote: I, in turn, started a thread lamenting that I thought I had finally written a cut-worthy country song, only to be scooped by an established Nashville songwriter.
which song, which writer, I'd love to read that story
got a link?

3) you asked: Just how does one go about breaking into that exclusive inner circle of writers who have the ear of major artists and their "people"?

a. develop your skills and writing ability so you become one of their peers,

b. network, network, network
meet the people you need to meet
get cell phone numbers, email addresses,
take people to lunch
set appointments

c. wait for opportunites and seize opportunites

d. develop a catalog of excellent songs and
pitch pitch pitch

e. be very very patient, develop contacts, build relationships
but don't rush to ask them for a favor,
do favors for them
Wait till you have something AWESOME and AMAZING

Michele Vice Maslin gave a great talk on songu on pitching
you can hear it in their on demand section
www.songU.com/ifs

get to where you cowrite with artists, producers and successful songwriters

Make sure your songs and demos really are amazing and would stand up head to head with songs written by professional writers

I want to hear HITS not EXCUSES


Originally Posted by Bob Cushing
Lance Adams started a thread about trying to pitch a song to John Mayer, to which I replied that it wasn't too likely. I, in turn, started a thread lamenting that I thought I had finally written a cut-worthy country song, only to be scooped by an established Nashville songwriter. So...Just how does one go about breaking into that exclusive inner circle of writers who have the ear of major artists and their "people"?
Step 1 obviously is to write GREAT songs,{and face it, many of us delude ourselves that we're better than we really are!}

But where does one go from there?

TAXI is one avenue, but their specialty lately seems to be placement in films and T.V. In the past I've subscribed to some industry tip-sheets, but most of the publishers there seem to be small-time. Any tips from you insiders out there?

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