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**** INTRO **** **Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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Yeah. Pay to submit to allegedly get my tune heard. Some real jewy shit. Hit License went under, but Broadjam.com is still up and running. And the grandfather of the pay-to-license sites, Taxi.com, is still in business.

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I've never heard of any of those sites. You said you sold one. Did you at least make your money back?

And... No... No, I'm not gonna pay someone to potentially listen to my music. In fact, it works the other way. You pay me if you want to listen to my music. That's how it works.

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Yeah, the one sale made up for the money spent on submissions, and I had enough left over to get some pot.

But it challenged me to write to prompts. They gave examples of the type of music they were looking for. So say they wanted music for a movie scene, the ad might say, "They're looking for something similar to this." And there would be links to two or three youtube videos. It might be AC/DC or NIN or Johnny Cash or Tori Amos or Jewel or you know, anybody. And so I would listen to the examples, and try to write something that would encapsulate the feel of the example songs.

Or it might be a jingle for yogurt or kids' clothing or whatever. Music for kids' clothes is different than music for dentures or chicken breader.

Most of the jingles I wrote sucked bad, but some were acceptable. I'm no Barry Manilow.

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LOL My dream is to score a BBC documentary. Maybe a Nat Geo doc...

That does sound like a good way to be productive and creative. I've done a whole lot of studio work where you're just given an idea and expected to play it - or you're given not very good notation and asked to play it.

Seriously... BBC can pick up a lion cub's mew from a half mile away - and noise filter out everything but. How the fuck could a sane person NOT want to score one of their documentaries?!? I don't even care what the subject is, I'll do it!