Dj, going along with my "what makes a good tune" thread. I do not believe there is perfection in music. I'll tell you what I do on all my cds as I go along.

I record my work and as I think they are finished I mix them done then every morning for as long as the cd takes I relisten through headphones while I surf and post (as I'm doing now)and so by the time a cd is done, I've listened to the tunes bo less than 40/50 times each

I listen for very obvious things wrong notes bad progression, mix etc. I especially listen for an ovrall feeling for the tune. Did it say what I wanted it to say and is it pleasant to listen to for ME.

I will tell you this about getting bogged down in "perfection." As we all do I have several musician friends that got started on recording their work when I did. A few years later, literally they are still working on their first cd and literally the first cut or two.

That's ok, but is not my agenda, I have chosen instead to adopt the learn as I go from cut to cut cd to cd. When I listen to the first 10 cd's as opposed to the last 10 there is quite a difference all around in every respect, composition, engineering overall quality of product. I am very happy with where my work is, but hope to get better with the next cut's and cd's. As we have seen here as of late if you are going to try to compose for everyone else, you'll never get a body of work created, because everyone else has their own ideas of what good music is.

In oposition to what some may think here about the quantity of my work, I take each cut very seriously and do what I consider to be my best work and effort at a given moment in time. Whether that work is commercially viable or not does not enter into my equation at all, I really could not care less if it is or isn't. I spent allot of years chasing after the financial end of music, now it does not interest me at all and is not what I am trying to accomplish. And the saleability of a tune in NO way adds credibility to that tune from an artistic point of view. $ does not = good music.

If everyone said my work is crap or incomplete or whatever, it does not necessarily follow that it therefore must be crap because everyone says so.
Terry

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jam on,
Terry http://imjazzed.homestead.com/Index.html

[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 06-28-2003).]