I read somewhere that sony and other record companies have a machine that is able to determine a hit song.......

My quetion is do you think music is a science

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Doesnt this look like a scam. I have no doubt you can analyze asong and get favourable comparisons but thats no guarantee for a hit.

Different parts of the world have different tastes. What makes a hit in Europe has no guarantees in the states or Asia.

Sorry but its a scam

Steve

I write alot of songs for other people, different styles. If someone wants a specific thing then I analyize a similar track, break it down, and then build a song along that design. Now I come up with some good stuff and not so good stuff. But is that because I followed a pattern or because I'm good a creating melodies in my head.

I have no doubt you can build in similarities into songs but that doesn't automaticaly make it a hit.

But I still think this is a scam

Oh by the way I'm still waiting for the big hit

Steve

No, no, no, sorry Virus you seemed to have picked me up wrong. There is deninatley ways of improving your chances of having a hit, but my point was that if I follow a similar track thats been a hit, Same bar counts, same transition of scales, major to minor for emotional effect etc, then that doesn't make it a good song. I may have done all this and written a shocking melody.

So I can sit and duplicate a track and analyze it till the cows come home, but there is no gaurantees, I mean face it thats why most people hire a producer instead of just an engineer, the producer has worked with enough bands to influence a track with certain attributes, to make it more commercialy appealing.

Does that make more sense, or am I just rambling again.

Steve

whats a hit song? and dave