July 19, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here I was still in the last week of the mourning phase from my father’s passing and I was reading the accordion forum. I found an interesting post\u2026 it was about a man was looking for someone to create two or three 30-45 second German Polka style “original” or “public domain” jingles for a book\/DVD about a US-based beer company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I just posted that it would be fun for someone to do something like this, I was not even thinking about me doing it as I was still in mourning and didn’t have an idea as to how I would feel about playing afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, the gentleman contacted me via private message and asked me if I could do it. I thought about it for a few minutes and just made up my mind to try and committed to the project\u2026 not even very sure that I could, but I would give it a shot. He mentioned that with this book there is a DVD with interviews and what not and the music would be used as intros\/exits to interviews and what not, hence, why only 30-45 seconds in length are needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A week later, the mourning process was over, and I gave some thought as to how I would proceed. The new Mackie mixer was in place and made it quite a bit of fun to produce, and with about 4 hours of playing around and I had the 1st jingle out! The second one came the next day and only took me 2 hours and on top of it, is IMHO a better effort and was also double in length\/time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My 3rd was even easier, because I thought about it and instead of looking within myself for several hours, I found 3 public domain songs and took aspects of each to make the last jingle. I completed it on July 19, 2016 and then emailed the songs to Paul, the gentleman to whom the project belongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I know that normally one gets paid for doing such work, and paid fairly well. I know about this because as a professional photographer, I’ve had several magazines offer to credit me and send me free magazines in return royalty-free copies of my works and the result was the same each time\u2026 I turned them down. I did that because the value I place on my work is worth much more than a simple credit in a magazine and a copy of it and because obviously, the magazine is made better from my works and THEY profit from it, so morally (and yes perhaps legally too), I should profit just a little as well, even if it is in some small matter\u2026. but in this case I did it for almost nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I needed this small challenge and am actually enjoying it. I won’t be working totally for free.. I asked for 3 copies of the book\/DVD and this was agreed to, so, there is something more than a credit and magazine as payment (but credit in the book will be there both by name and email address).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am both appreciative and happy to do this and have thanked Paul for the challenge! So\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Are the jingles short? Yes, they’re jingles!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Are they funny? Maybe not funny, but fun!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Are the songs cheesy? Most assuredly!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But it was FUN and I get credit in the book they come with, so what the heck\u2026 it’s my welcome back present into the accordion world! BTW, I am not adding these songs to my audio page as I don’t really consider them full songs, just jingles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are the 3 jingles that I made:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jerry’s Polka #1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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