The Feedback Loop The Feedback Loop is the most essential song-craft-mentoring feature of Makinstuffup.net. Every VIP member is entitled to one song-evaluation/coaching-session per month from one of our certified song coaches. We encourage you to submit well-recorded, audible “work-tapes.” Guitar/vocal or keyboard/vocal. It’s not advisable to invest a lot of time and money in a fully produced demo until you’ve sought out the constructive feedback that ensures your song is as good as it can be — air-tight and marketable. Each submission is evaluated in three specific ways: First, your song is awarded a point score (up to 60), based on the tenets of the book, Makin’ Stuff Up. In order for you to fully understand the criterion for your point score, it’s helpful for you to be familiar with the book. The 10 current highest-scoring titles and VIP member/writer(s) will be entered periodically on the Feedback Loop Top-10 chart, and displayed prominently on our home page. After four weeks on the FBL Top-10, songs scoring 50 points or higher will be honored with induction into the FBL Hall of Fame. Secondly, your song-coach will point out where and how your song submission is succeeding creatively and commercially. Thirdly, your composition will receive some tough love. Your coach will inform you as to where your work is falling short, and, whenever possible, will give you pointers on what you might try to improve the composition in a re-write. As a VIP member, you can submit re-writes within the same month for an extra charge of $10 per submission. Or you have the option of waiting until the following month to re-submit a rewrite. Rewrites submitted during another month will count as the VIP member’s entitled evaluation for that month. Additional submissions will be accepted at a charge of $15 per submission for VIP members, and $20 per submission for regular members. However, only songs by VIP members can chart on the FBL Top-10 or be entered into the FBL Hall of Fame. As VIP membership is only $19.95 per month, you can see that monthly VIP membership is the most cost effective and rewarding way to take advantage of The Feedback Loop. If you’re serious about developing your song-craft, you will certainly choose to become a VIP member.
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Helpful submission guidelines:
Send one MP3 only, as an email attachment to submissions@makinstuffup.net
Place the song title on the subject line.
Paste your song’s lyric to the text of the email.
In order to help our coaching staff to better evaluate your song, please let us know (briefly) what your intent is in composing this song. Do you intend to pitch the song to established artists? If so, in what genre? Is this a song for you to perform as an artist? If so, what audience are you targeting? Is this song for a film or TV series, a musical, a wedding or for some other custom use? Or, are you writing this song purely for self-expression?
Please allow 10 business days for a response via email.
Thanks for using The Feedback Loop to improve your song-craft. Our goal is to help you become the best songwriter you can be — one song at a time.
One-on-one phone coaching session with Rand Bishop
Song evaluations, career guidance, brainstorm strategy...
Ask questions, get straight, honest, constructive answers and advice from a 40-yr industry pro.
Regular makinstuffup.net members:
½ Hr – $60 (2 song evaluations max)
1 Hr – $100 (4 song evaluations max)
VIP Members:
½ Hr – $50 (2 song evaluations max)
1 Hr – $90 (4 song evaluations max)
How to schedule your appointment:
1) Order your coaching session with your credit card.
2) Send an email to rb@makinstuffup.net to schedule your session, giving three available potential time slots (i.e. Sat. 2/21 at 2PM) and the phone # where you would like to receive your call.
3) Rand will return an email confirming one of your requested time slots and providing further instructions for sending MP3s or other material for evaluation.
You may record the phone coaching session for your own personal use. The recording, however, cannot be sold.
I acknowledge that the music and lyrics I am submitting are my own original work, and that I have the right to submit this work for critique. I also acknowledge that Rand Bishop and some of the makinstuffup.net certified song coaches are professional songwriters, and thus copyright creators and owners. Any similarity between my original compositions and any songs composed by Rand Bishop or any makinstuffup.net certified coach either presently in existence or created in the future is purely coincidental. I hereby surrender and forego my right to sue Rand Bishop or any makinstuffup.net employee for copyright infringement in a court of law. Any copyright dispute arising between Rand Bishop or any makinstuffup.net employee and myself as a submitting copyright owner will be settled through binding arbitration in the state of Tennessee, under Tennessee laws, with all expenses paid by the losing party.
By my making submissions to the Feedback Loop, I acknowledge my agreement to the above Legal Disclaimer.