Before pitching your songs to a label, publisher, artist, manager, A&R…it’s a very good (and overlooked) idea to find out what kind of songs that person is liking right now.
You find this out by asking them. It sounds like this, “So play me some tracks that you really dig right now”. And the ‘right now’ part is a key to the request…it brings the request current.
Once you hear what they like, it’s not that you need to play them something exactly like what they just showed you, but hearing what they like will help trigger you for what song you’ll start with. And then the reaction to that one will trigger the next and so on…
Too often you’re so excited about the meeting itself, so eager and elated to show your wares that you don’t even take into consideration that the person you’re showing them to (and hoping to get help from) might be really into ukulele indie dudes right now but you brought new wave heavy metal synth songs.
Now this isn’t the end of the world, but it would sure be nice to know what head space the other person is in. You can use it to your advantage, and theirs.
Ask what they like.
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