At Devin's suggestion, I am now up for hire to record any message 100 words of DM vox or less for $5.

Does 100 words seem fair? Or too low?

100 words of death metal vocals for $5 seems reasonable.

Alright, I just didn't want it to seem too low. You can still work some magic with 100 words. I suggested enraged breakup rants along with the classic "Happy Birthday".

Yeah Happy Birthday is like less than 20 words.

Yargh, but that is a pretty weak stock option. It would probably prove most common but just HBD alone would be some weakassshit.

Hey, it's their 100 words.

You should also offer a standard metal backing track for the message. Just the one option, but hey it's something. Plus that is something you would just have to make once, and could record the vocals right on top of it in reaper.

Maybe offer up to 1 minute worth of Death Metal message with a backing track.

But 100 words for $5 is plenty fine by itself, the music would just be to sweeten the pot to get more gigs. Plus it would help in making a video for the gig.

"Not only is he professional, he delivers great music. It was well worth the five bucks. I will definitely order from him again. "

And this is why I do shit like Fiverr:

"Can you make me a CD of just yoga music? If I like this, I will be ordering lots of music from you. I am looking for someone that can grow with my company as we grow. I am looking for typical yoga music. To start off with, I will need 6 CD's, 3 of which are an hour and 15 minutes long, 3 can be 60 minutes long. They need to start slow, then if there is an upbeat part, it needs to come in the middle, and then the last portion slow again. Is this possible for you? Thanks!"

Just started negotiations with this lady. This is the kind of gig where a proposal and contracts will be written to cover my ass, and I will definitely be charging way more than $5



Almost 7 hours of droning hippy music? I'd say that's at leas 20 hours of work ....

That is potentially pretty awesome. What is yoga music? Is that like new age? Like flutes and rain sticks with understated electronic pulse beats?

What is the average heart rate? 60bpm? And average exercise is probably what 90-120? Sounds a bit like starting/end/middle BPMs almost.

EDIT: Actually, a little less and a little more(topping out at "aerobic" prolly, and depending on age):

Yeah I was thinking starting at around 60 pumping up to 80 then going back down to 60. I figure Peruvian flutes, rain sticks, shakers, tribal drums, maybe a log drum and something to add a twist (the pulse beats is a good idea).

We will see what she says.

Please add some sort of subliminal messaging into the yoga music.

If you're doing them in the summer I'd gladly add some sort of noise to it. I mean you'd be making hours of it right? No need to mention me or repay in any way if I do a decent job.

Yar, if the deal goes through this would be a proposal and invoice type job with paid hours. I could potentially use some help on it, and if it is a full 6 album deal we are talking about I am sure this work could extend into the summer hours.

However, if yous doos da work yous gon get paid. Which is fine, and completely fair. Honestly, if I am able to get a lot more gigs doing this, then I would most likely sub-contract out instrumentals from some of the folk on here. Makes sense, I know I will get good quality stuff and it is passing on work to people who deserve it. And the money!

We as a collective should consider starting a production company and doing basically what I am doing on a bigger and more lucrative scale.

I don't want your money.

That's the beauty of it, it's not my money it's the client's money.

I'd be down.

Ah yes. That is actually a great idea. Mapz all up in it. Banthammer sells the fuck out.

Album title right there.

A couple of samples I made for a big gig the wife and I landed.

They wanted trendy and upbeat stuff for the background music for their PSA-esque video, so these are two ideas I came up with.

The first I kind of hate (warning the drum velocities are all fuckt up):

http://soundcloud.com/devin-currie/g202 ... k-sample-a

The second I am happier with (minus the bass which is weak):

http://soundcloud.com/devin-currie/g202 ... k-sample-b

Think disco!