You Must Have Great Songs: How to Get a Record Deal

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Part of the video series: How to Get a Record Deal

Summary: Learn the importance of having great songs on a demo to get a record deal, or recording contract in this free online instructional video.

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Barry Bergman Barry Bergman is a veteran manager, music publisher, speaker, consultant, who is the president and founder of the Music Managers Forum in the United States. A... read more

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You Must Have Great Songs: How to Get a Record Deal

Hello! On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Barry Bergman and today I am going to give you tips on how to get a record deal. Although you need talent which is subjective, you need to have great songs. It's one thing to be able to deliver the record vocally and performance wise. It's another thing to have great material. Great material that I have found over the years that it is very important to have something that is memorable by the public where they can hear it once and remember it. So when they go to purchase it, they know what they have heard and I think it is also important to have great arrangements along with these songs with great production and clarity. So you know the better your production is, the better the results you are probably going to get and hopefully you are going to have songs that resignate to the public.

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