Backing Tracks For Your Lyrics and Melody -- My Co-Writer

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A great tool for songwriters at all levels, each volume of My Co Writer™ features original music tracks ready for YOUR melody and lyrics. These royalty-free Song Starts™ are professionally produced, live backing tracks that provide a great foundation for your own composition. It’s like having an out-of-town collaborator serving up great songs for you to finish. Because the tracks were specifically written and recorded without significant melodic hooks, they will inspire your own unique melody -- not dictate one. So every song you write will be fundamentally different from someone else with the same Song Start. Plus, if you're a musician, adding your own instrumentation or mix can make yours a totally unique production. My Co-Writer is a great tool for everyone from novice songwriters, to seasoned composers, to instrumentalists who need a live backing band to jam with. Choose one of three formats/prices for three levels of usability:

Music CD For Songwriters (1 CD)
Whether you’re an experienced songwriter looking for new ideas or a novice writing your first song, My Co-Writer is a great collaborator. Find the right Song Start to inspire you, and voila, you've got a backing track that sounds like you spent big dollars in the studio. Here's an example. Also included is a Starter Guide with with Song Start worksheets, time markers, songwriting checklists and more (see column at right). Only $32.95 BUY NOW

24-Bit PC CDs For Recording Musicians (2 CDs)
If you're a recording musician, import any of the 24-bit WAV file, stereo Song Starts into your PC or DAW, and add your own melodic hooks or other instrumentation to complement your melody, building on the Song Start rhythm section. You can add your own solo guitar for example. You can also do some editing -- double a chorus, move a bridge, etc. My Co-Writer is also a great 'live' backing band for instrumentalist. Also included are the charts used in the recording sessions too.
Only $43.95 BUY NOW (Also includes the music CD above.)

Multitrack DVDs For Total Control (2 or 3 DVDs)
Finally, if you want a totally unique production and complete control of the mix, then purchase one of the two multitrack WAV file upgrades. With your recording software or DAW, take away what you don’t want. Add more of your own tracks. Tweak the mix. Here's an example. In addition to the multitrack files, we've also included many of the live MIDI files for the piano and keyboard tracks for even further modification. Choose one of two multitrack upgrades (one with stereo drums, the other with multitrack drums):
Multitrack Instruments/Stereo Drums (2 DVDs) $99.95 BUY NOW
Multitrack Instruments/Multitrack Drums (3-4 DVDs) $129.95 BUY NOW
(Also includes the music CD and 24-bit PC mixes as well>)

KEY FEATURES INCLUDE
• At least 16 Song Starts for you to finish (depending on volume)
• Royalty-free license
• Contemporary song structures and patterns
• CD-quality mix
• Rhythm section includes guitar, bass, piano, drums and overdubs
• Live players -- no "fake" MIDI tracks
• Popular Yamaha C7F Acoustic Grand Piano.
• My Co-Writer Starter Guide for novice writers.
• Chord charts and song section markers
• Optional Multitrack upgrade for complete personalization of the mix.

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	"Radio Rock" - Vol. 5 My Co-Writer™ Vol. 5 offers up the kind of grooves and attitude you'll find all over today's rock-pop radio charts. A combination of hard-driving up-tempos as well as ones that start quiet and slow but end loud will put you in write-a-hit state of mind. In general, these are electric guitar-based Song Starts™ with keyboards filling out the sound. Radio Rock is great partner for writing rock-based radio hits as well as heavier instrumentals. BUY NOW
	"Country Mix" - Vol. 4 My Co-Writer™ Vol. 4 features 16 country-flavored Song Sarts™. We're talking contemporary Nasvhille, not grandpa's two-step. From ballads filled with lush layers of acoustic guitars to rippin' Tele-style paddle-balls, "Country Mix" offers an inspiriing combination of mid, down- and up-tempos. There's even a little fiddle and pedal steel here and there to fill things out. BUY NOW
	"Rockin' Blues Jam" - Vol. 3 My Co-Writer™ Vol. 3 is designed specifically for songwriters and guitarists. Inspired by and produced with our very own "Blues & Boogie" edition of Drums On Demand, Vol. 3 provides a great back up band for blues and rock guitar jamming, plus some great classic blues and rock chord progressions and song structures to write to. Drums, bass, keys and just enough rhythm guitar to put you in the "lead guitar spotlight." BUY NOW
	"Mid- & Up-Tempo" - Vol. 2 My Co-Writer™ Vol. 2 features a collection of 16 mid- and up-tempo Song Start™ tracks appropriate for pop, country and rock songs. BUY NOW
	"Ballads & Love Songs" - Vol. 1 Vol. 1 features a collection of 17 Song Start™ tracks; great inspiration for writing ballads and love songs in a variety fo styles. BUY NOW

Royalty-Free License: A non-exclusive, royalty free license is granted for use in the writing, recording, reproduction and performance of new musical compositions with instrumental and/or lyric melodies created by the purchaser. (In essence, when you add your melody and/or lyrics, the recordings become yours to use as you please.) Any use, file sharing, distribution, re-sale or reproduction of the unaltered tracks, or any part thereof, for any other purpose, is expressly prohibited.

What Users Are Saying

The ease of working with the My Co-Writer tracks and worksheets was only surpassed by the inspiration that came flowing from that place of creativity known as my heart. The music played and I wrote.
--James Leo Oliver
NSAI Regional Workshop Coordinator, Michigan

I received my copy of My Co-writer in the mail yesterday, and wow, it is great! This morning I wrote a song. It's a wonderful tool.
--CJ Hood, Oregon

Writing the lyrics and melody to a My Co-Writer track allowed me to create a song from a different approach. I would recommend it for writers at all stages.
--B Burch, Utah

"I have absolutely loved using My Co-Writer. It's like having my own personal composer to work with while at the same time helping me keep my lyrics focused and saving me money. I highly recommend it to every songwriter."
--Julie Keyser
NSAI Regional Workshop Coordinator
Salt Lake City Utah Chapter


	80 Pages of PDF Extras The My Co-Writer CDs includes 80 pages of Song Start worksheets and charts, plus a starter guide for novice songwriters -- in PDF form. • Starter Guide • Pre-Writing Form • Checklists • Song Start Worksheets • Time Markers • Chord Charts


	Why My Co-Writer? Pro songwriters conceive songs in a variety of ways. Some write most of the lyric first, some start with an instrument riff, others develop the lyrics at the same time as the melody. Some even write lyrics to a pre-existing melody. But one proven and popular method of writing a song is to start with a track and "writing to it." The track is used to inspire the mood, tone and direction of the song. What we've done with My Co-Writer is taken this method of writing to a totally new level. Whether you play an instrument or not, My Co-Writer is a great way to write songs -- and great way to learn about writing songs.