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to audition for record labels, you have to send demos right?
but what if you don’t write your own songs?
can you get accepted just by singing songs by other artists?

i’m just curious

You can send covers as well. Even if you imitate others but put your own spin to it, that is what matters. If they like your voice, they will give you songs to sing or whatever.

Edit…… One poster stated that cover songs are for Bar Bands is TOTALLY wrong. Do you know how many rappers copy old songs? Take for instance Puff Daddy.
He took STings’s Every breadth I take and made it into a sort of rap and made millions.
This doesn’t include all the other rappers who took old Stevie Wonders and made them their own. The main thing is how you yourself, make it your own. If its good, record it.

5 Responses

1. Rob Says:
   March 9th, 2010 at 2:33 am

   you want them to hear some of your own songs and at the most two covers…it will give them a good idea what youre capable of
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2. Da Rich 1 Says:
   March 9th, 2010 at 3:20 am

   If your singing not so much, but its nice to have music you have written. If your a rapper, you better write your own songs
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3. Left-T Says:
   March 9th, 2010 at 3:48 am

   You can send covers as well. Even if you imitate others but put your own spin to it, that is what matters. If they like your voice, they will give you songs to sing or whatever.

   Edit…… One poster stated that cover songs are for Bar Bands is TOTALLY wrong. Do you know how many rappers copy old songs? Take for instance Puff Daddy.
   He took STings’s Every breadth I take and made it into a sort of rap and made millions.
   This doesn’t include all the other rappers who took old Stevie Wonders and made them their own. The main thing is how you yourself, make it your own. If its good, record it.
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   Berklee Graduate / Luthier & Studio Guitarist

4. Sal Chaech Says:
   March 9th, 2010 at 3:55 am

   Cover songs are for bar bands.

   Unless you’re talking in the sense that you have a ghost writer who writes the songs that you sing, either because your writer can’t sing, or you can’t write, or both. Elton John is known for that. His lyrics are terrible if he wrote them himself, so he gets some dude whose name I forget (but I think it’s Bernie) to write for him, and it works. But if you sing your own version of Benny and the Jets you’re going nowhere.
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5. Concert Band Composer Says:
   March 9th, 2010 at 4:05 am

   It depends on the company, some companys strictly want songs written by you, some want som writen by you AND covered by you (covering a song is preforming someone elses song) and some strictly want only covered songs.
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