Corelli's Music Box

"Valor" by Sovern

2012-01-18T07:51:00.000-08:00

Cowboy Christmas by Jerry Corelli

2011-10-09T04:44:00.000-07:00

Check out music from SOVERN

2011-08-28T19:12:00.001-07:00

"Where is your heart" Live by Jerry Corelli

2011-01-25T13:44:00.000-08:00

Demos from Songwriters

2010-09-22T20:26:00.000-07:00

Recently I just went through listening to another wave of song demos. Corelli Music Group, along with Corelli's Music Box and My Angel's Songs publishing companies have been listed in the Songwriter's Market book since 1997.

Every year Writer's Digest sends me my listing in August and asks me to update it for the following year. And every year I update it I double check to see if my guidelines are clearly printed. Sure enough they are in my listing. But, every week I get demos from songwriter after songwriter that don't come close to my guidelines. So, last year, I decided to write a book that would help songwriters out. The reason I wrote a book that costs money is because for years I gave out free advise to songwriters who basically weren't paying attention. Not to mention that the guidelines I have in the Songwriter's Market book is free advise that songwriters still don't follow.

"The Songwriter's Guide to Submitting a Demo" is a small price to pay when you consider never hearing back from all the publishers a songwriter sends demos to. If a songwriter sends out just 3 demos a month and they're all sent out incorrectly then they're throwing away money. If they get this book for less then the same cost it would take to send out the 3 demos in just one month then a songwriter would increase their chances of hearing back from a publisher.

Here's a tip! If a music professional asks to send a S.A.S.E. then send it. If you don't you will not hear back from the publisher or record company. S.A.S.E. means Self Addressed Stamped Envelope. I can't tell you how many songwriters don't hear back from me because they don't send that S.A.S.E. but that's only part of it. Get the book and learn how to send a better Demo to industry professionals.

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2010-09-20T23:15:00.000-07:00

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The Good Lord Loves You by Jerry Corelli

2010-09-11T10:24:00.000-07:00

I'm Not Dead Yet by Jerry Corelli

2010-09-06T09:08:00.000-07:00

Mistakes by Songwriters

2009-06-15T08:38:00.000-07:00

I'm amazed at some or most of the songs I receive in demos from songwriters. A great many of them will send a song that they wrote and perhaps even recorded 20 years ago or more. It's very common for me to receive songs that have been written and recorded 30 years ago or more too.

Haven't these songwriters listened to the radio lately? You have to understand that if you're going to write a song that you want to submit to a publisher then the song MUST be what the publisher is looking for today. Unless you want to waist your time, the Postman and the Publisher's time and have nothing better to do than I guess it's okay.

But, if you're a songwriter who has found this blog, please make sure that when you send your material it's updated. Whether you're going to send it to Corelli's Music Box, BMI or My Angel's Songs, ASCAP or another publisher please have mercy.

Unaffiliated Songwriters

2008-09-29T06:03:00.000-07:00

Recently I've been posting songs I've recorded on my CD's to my Jerry Corelli Music Blog and in doing so I am posting who wrote the songs I've recorded and published. I've found that songwriters whose songs I've published years ago through BMI have yet to affiliate with BMI as a songwriter. It still amazes me how songwriters fail to learn the business of music. By not affiliating a songwriter collects no performance royalties on their song, or songs. You can lead a horse to water but you sure can't make them drink!

Jerry Corelli

The Songwriter's Guide to Submitting a Demo

2008-09-15T06:08:00.000-07:00

This book is now available on LuLu.com at http://www.lulu.com/jerrycorelli. I wrote this book, only 28 pages, because I get deluged with demos that have been prepared incorrectly.

I have been listed in the Songwriter's Market book for about 10 years now and I give clear instructions, like other companies in the book, on how songwriters should send their material. Yet time after time songwriters don't hear back from me and other companies because they fail to follow guidelines.

For example, many songwriters over the years have never heard back from me because they didn't send a S.A.S.E. like the guidelines told them to do. So, this small book can help all new songwriters prepare their demos so they can get positive feed back from music professionals.