Kill Your Good Songs

How to keep GOOD songs off GREAT recordings

Author

John Pisciotta
June 21, 2023

Kill Your Good Songs - How to keep *good* songs off *great* recordings

Why do artists need to learn to keep a perfectly *good* song off a *great* recording?

After all, you wrote 5 songs… Shouldn’t you start recording them?

Unless you change the activities you do. You will not change the getting you are getting

This week in the Arena we will be stepping though tools for spotting and avoiding GOOD songs.

  1. DRAG or LIFT - First and foremost, recording a GOOD songs limits your career. It makes your teams work exponentially harder.

  2. EGO - recording a *good* song is OK for the artist but TERRIBLE for the fan.

  3. MONEY - It costs you WAY more money. It’s way more expensive to cut GOOD songs than it is to hold out for great songs.

  4. WASTED YEARS - It costs you YEARS. As a writer for Sony Tree, I spent at least a FEW years writing perfectly... adequate... GOOD songs. Until this one thing happened.

  5. BETTER MUSIC FASTER - In the studio, great songs come together almost effortlessly. Less time spent to polish a t**d, less time trying sonic trickery, faster mixes, less fluff overall.

  6. FANS - And most importantly, when you bypass good songs, your serve your fans better. You create a world for them to step into.

  7. FUTURE PROOF - You’re giving them a reason to connect with you not just TODAY, you give them a reason re-connect going forward.

  8. WORLD BUILDING - when you bypass good songs, You create a world for them to step into and SEE themselves in. Over and Over again.

  9. FUN - It’s a hell of a lot more fun.

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