How to post a song for feedback

Jazzyoh

i have not been on the forum for about a year now but i still have been working hard on Ken's course. How do i post a cover song for feedback? Sound cloud won't let me post cover songs and facebook or you tube is the same. Thank you

Chris82

Yeah the copywrite claims are getting out of hand. Some people here just upload their recordings into something like Dropbox or Google Drive and then share the file that way. I've had sound cloud remove my uploads before because I sound too much like the original I guess.

Jazzyoh

Thanks so much. I will upload to dropbox and hopefully that will work. Cheers

sjonrokz4u

A lot of ppl won’t check it out if it’s on drop box. Just try naming your song something other than the song. Like if it were crazy trrain name it mect

Jazzyoh

i have tried that before but they still seem to catch it. i will give it a shot again though. Thanks

Chris82

sjonrokz4u said:

A lot of ppl won’t check it out if it’s on drop box. Just try naming your song something other than the song. Like if it were crazy trrain name it mect

That doesn't really work anymore. The audio itself gets analyzed by computer software and if it detects a melody it deems as protected it just blocks the song from appearing on the platform. It does seem to be hit or miss but the technology seems to be getting better every day and more and more platforms are using something like it. Even the streaming sites like twitch are banning people for playing copywrited music on their streams and it's all automated melody detection AI.

Now you can still upload some covers with no issues to these platforms because the music publishers have already made agreements with platforms like YouTube that allow their songs to be used in exchange for a portion of the ad revenue generated by the covers. But some publishers do not have these agreements and strictly enforce their copywrite. If you want to cover these songs legally then you must first obtain a mechanical license.

So my advice to anyone is, just try to upload the song to something like YouTube or sound cloud first and if that doesn't work then just go the dropbox route.

Here is a great article about posting cover songs to YouTube:
https://www.legalzoom.com/articles/posting-cover-songs-on-youtube-what-you-need-to-know#:~:text=obtain a license.-,Cover Song Licensing,live performance is not publication.

Jazzyoh

i think maybe it worked. If so, what do you think? Especially when i get into my head voice. I am a lowley baritone so hoping it sounds ok
Cheers

Jazzyoh

Uggh. i guess not

sjonrokz4u

Jeeesh. Thanks for the info Chris. Pretty soon cover bands won’t be able to post their demo anywhere

Jazzyoh

Yea that's what I'm thinking.

Jazzyoh

Ok, here is the dropbox link. Hope it works.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n16ibjb5naclkdh/Can't Take My Eyes.mp3?dl=0

What do you think? Especially when I get into my head voice. I am a lowley baritone so hoping it sounds ok.

Wigs

I have to ask, was there any auto tuning or anything going on? There is a quality to the vocal im not used to hearing. Your tone and everything sounded good but ill wait for more info before going any further.

Jazzyoh

Yes, I did a little tuning

Jazzyoh

does it sound strange?

sjonrokz4u

If you want evaluation of your voice why are you using auto tune? Submit it clean for evaluation

Jazzyoh

Ok, will do. thank without tuning. I will turn down the backing as well. Thanks.