At 6/19/08 11:41 AM, alternativesolution wrote: Have you looked around, did some research yet? You might find a lot more than on this thread.

I did some research and there's, like, a million different ways to pay studio musicians. There's flat rates with w/ payments for overtime, there's payments by the hour, by the song, etc.

At 6/19/08 11:45 AM, SymbolCymbal wrote: minimum wage in NYC is i think like 7.15 orsomething ...you should go for 9-10 an hour... they can use your talents but you can also use this experience as a newbie to the music recording biz. once your established you can get pay per sesion...plus youll learn soooo much about recording when your there...if i was in your position i would do it for just enough to get by and i would do overtime hahahaha ... good luck man ..

I hear studio musicians get paid WAY more than that. I'm not in high school anymore so I need something that isn't min. wage or close

At 6/19/08 11:36 AM, Rig wrote: A friend of mine is a studio musician, and I THINK he charges $500 per session.

Is he really good?

At 6/19/08 11:22 AM, DareDevilGuy wrote: Well, minimum wage for a 17-year old is around 4 bucks an hour. But professional musicians are of course a bit more expensive. This is just a guess, but I'd go for about 6-7 bucks an hour.

That's below minimum wage! I'm not that stupid!

Hey y'all. 10 days ago, I sent an e-mail to Skyline Studios in New York City asking if they could use a session pianist and I sent them samples of my playing. This morning, they finally replied and said they're interested in having me in their studio musician team. So, obviously, I'm very excited. This is a job I'll have possibly through college, having finally graduated from high school.

Now here's the question. The head of the studio asked me how much I should charge. Now apparently, I've never been a professional studio musician before so I have absolutely no concept of how much they get paid. So now I ask you: what's the average cost of a studio musician? If you have a concept of how much they get paid, listen to my blues piano stuff (what I sent them and what I'll mostly be playing) and tell me how much you'd pay me.

That's the sad thing about the internet. There is no sympathy to be found here. The internet is an unforgiving, cruel, and unsympathetic son of a bitch. But in this case, it's expectable, really, because think about it: Connor may be known in your school, but not every single living person in the world knows him personally so naturally, there is little to no sympathy among complete strangers on the internet. If this was a celebrity that everyone knew and loved, that would be a different story and no one would joke about it. Example: Dimebag Darrell: one of the greatest metal guitarists of all time; got shot by some lunatic while performing. Look up the Youtube videos that relate to his death and read the comments. Notice lack of jokes. To most people, Connor is just some kid so they start making jokes about his death. Though I understand why there's no sympathy, it still sickens me to know that people can be this mean and heartless.

7 AM this morning? Got away just in time :D

At 2/18/08 08:36 PM, Aliensandwich wrote: But it wasn't on her birthday!!!

I think any normal human being would be thrilled to get a new car, birthday or not.

What a bitch. These days, teenagers would be REALLY lucky IF their parents get them ANY kind of car at ALL before they turn 18. She gets a Lexus for her sweet 16 and bitches about it. It fills me with frustration knowing that there are actually people like that in this world.

At 2/16/08 09:47 PM, adompeace wrote: Even though it's against the law here, marrying your cousin is ethnically acceptable.

Sorry, I meant to type "ethically", not "ethnically" lol. Sorry. My bad.

At 2/16/08 06:01 PM, Deadly-Shadow wrote: No; I would consider therapy, since loving your cousin is simply disgusting!

Only in contemporary American society is it considered disgusting. In reality, it really isn't. Loving anyone else in the family like that is a different story. It's not wrong at all. It's just portrayed that way in the media, which always blows everything out of proportion anyway. I'm not saying I'm in love with any of my cousins, nor do I know any cousin couples. Even though it's against the law here, marrying your cousin is ethnically acceptable.

At 2/16/08 02:37 PM, goodguy004 wrote: no because you would go to hell.

not necessarily. It's technically not prohibited by the Bible

It's really weird to me, but it's technically okay to marry and engage in sexual intercourse with your cousin, but not okay to do it with anyone else in the family. The subject is actually open to interpretation because the Bible doesn't say anything about cousin couples being right or wrong. But also, in the Bible, there are occurrences of cousin couples. Isaac was married to Rebekah, his first cousin once removed (Genesis 24:12-14)

At 2/16/08 02:33 PM, Truth wrote: Famous people who married their cousins include:
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Rudy Giuliani

There is also Johann Sebastian Bach, John Adams, Adolf Hitler, Jerry Lee Lewis, Edgar Allan Poe, FDR, and thousands of other people I can't remember

At 2/12/08 03:00 PM, DrunkenCat wrote: I l13k b33th0v3n c0z 3 1s d4 1337-c0mp0s3r U c?!

lol

At 2/12/08 02:59 PM, l0vemetal wrote:

Like I said last time...

I think klassikul musex are good 4 are kidz 2day to listin 2 cuz iz real musex cumpozed wiv timme an effert.

amidoinitrite?

do you like it yourself?

Ok because my last topic made no sense to you, let me elaborate: What do you think of classical music (ex. boring, beautiful, kick-ass, etc.)

I listen to Dream Theater, Yes, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Genesis, and Pink Floyd. Dream Theater, ELP, and Yes are my biggest musical influences. My favorite keyboardists (instrument of choice) are Jordan Rudess, Keith Emerson, and Rick Wakeman, whom all happen to play for those three bands respectively.

At 2/11/08 07:00 PM, Jon4life wrote: That movie did suck.

Your mind is apparently too pathetic to understand it's phenomenal writing and charm, which seriously made the movie in my opinion.

At 2/11/08 06:41 PM, LOLZILLA wrote: I thought Juno was very well written.

Sure was!

I'm pretty sure your music teachers have told you this, but you need to practice consistently, everyday, which is most likely the problem. I know practicing is not the most exciting thing in the world, especially when you're a beginner, but practice is why Jimi Hendrix is a guitar god, and why Neil Peart is a crazy ass drummer. These guys literally devoted every free second of their lives to practicing. Hendrix literally fell asleep with his guitar on top of him very frequently when he was a kid.

You could learn something from him.

I'm serious when I say this:

Mr. Manners, my asshole gym teacher

At 2/4/08 05:35 PM, MojoJojo99 wrote: at least i'll have a good time while it matters? who cares about when i'm all old and stuff? i'll let my future-self worry about that. in the meantime i'll just have a good time

Just watch. When you get older, you'll be very lonely. Girls like you now just because you're attractive (according to your vain words), but when you become wrinkled and old, people will look past your bad looks and see what a true douche bag you are and stop hanging out with you.

I don't think I'm that attractive at all, so I have to work hard to get girls to see the real me and like me. I'm a musician, training for years and years to become the virtuoso I am now. Because of that, everyone likes me, no matter how ugly I am, because of my insane keyboard skills. And my popularity will still linger in old age, as opposed to you.

taken from South Park lol

At 2/4/08 04:36 PM, MojoJojo99 wrote: As bad as it is, I don't regard women as real, trustworthy humans.

and as stereotypical and sexist as it probably sounds, I do have some valid points.

There is no excuse for being sexist >:-(

I am mildly attractive, girls LINE up to date me in anticipation I'll be done with the current girl I'm dating at the time.

I know this because I always get girls asking me how I'm doing with my current gf.

and I'm not stupid.

I know what they're really asking is, "Are you done with that girl yet?"

Because obviously they want to be the first to know so they can jump it before the other girls can.

It's called being nice! Maybe these girls care about your relationships and are just being friendly by asking. Have you ever thought about that? I always ask girl friends about their relationships and I'm not attracted to any of them.

I'm not trying to sound vain or conceited but that's just how my life is.

Then why are you telling a population that's most likely 85% single and desperate? There are so many people out there that don't want to hear this because it reminds them of how desperate they are. Not me, personally. I admit I've been single all my life (I'm not even 18 yet, mind you). That's because I'm waiting for the right girl to come around.

To me, girls are like boxing bags.

The harder you hit them, the harder they come back.

Not to say I beat my gf's which I don't, girls typically LOVE the whole, "Use me and abuse me" deal.

Not the girls I know.

I ignore them, I tell them I'll show up to dinner and not go.

It all builds anticipation.

You are just totally disrespectful, man.

All women are like this, each and every one.

How the fuck do you know? You can't say that unless you know every last female on this planet.

and I exploit this for my advantage.

You are fucking sexist

I'm not sexist, I just treat women how they want to be treated, like sex toys.

You are obviously sexist. Don't even try to cover it up.

This is the girl i'm seeing at the moment: http://i31.tinypic.com/219yqh2.jpg

But she's a bit too brainy for me so i'm gonna dump her for this girl: http://i28.tinypic.com/2duyux3.jpg

Do you even LOVE any of these girls

Has this ever happened to you?:

You're going through your submissions to check on your best submission's 4.20+ score. It's fine. You check on it an hour later and the score has drastically dropped because of one or two measly votes. You become disappointed because some random asshole (who is apparently a very high level) voted zero on your best work

If you said "yes," then join the Zero Bomber Bombers! Spill your anger out here! Talk about and share past experiences with zero bombs with fellow victims!

There are no rules. You can be as mad and angry as you want. We understand. Type in all caps if you want! Let the anger out! Just don't insult some of your fellow members. That's all I ask. :)

Definitely sounds like fun! I can play all sorts of styles!

Your song needs at least 20 votes to be accounted for in the rankings. And the Top 30 is never updated until Wednesday (12:00 AM EST I assume?)

I know. I hate the people that vote 0 all the time! Ex: Call of Ktulu track was 4.59 with 36 votes then 4.49 w/ 37 votes. I cannot believe someone with high experience would do this >:-(

I know this is old but this issue was really bothering me lately and I need to get it off my chest

There are a lot of reasons to impeach Bush: the war in Iraq, the poor response to Hurricane Katrina, failure to support the rights of the disabled, and tax-cuts for the richest in the country, but the biggest reason for me is the lack of funding to education. It's all about the war in Iraq nowadays, which I have yet to see a practical reason for starting. Now I go to school in New York City so the lack of funding is more apparent than anywhere else in the nation. I go to one of the most prestigious schools in the city (LAB School in case you're wondering) and we have great teachers but even we have computers that are really slow and outdated, class sizes that are way past the legal limit (my science class at one point was 47 students), constant switching of homerooms, poor and cheap planning of school events, and mediocre security among other things. It's like the government is saying, "Fuck you" to us.

I noticed that the most affected party is minorities, particularly in Harlem (where I live), which shows that society is now more racist than ever. I know one kid (I won't give names) who literally got grades in the 10s and got held back twice, and wants to be a rapper, but his lyrics are terrible (one time, he compared a girl's butt to a "jellyfish man." Laughable, isn't it?). It's not entirely his fault. It's the nation's fault for not giving him a decent enough education. If they focused more on education and stopped being unreasonably racist, he will most likely stop rhyming like P. Diddy and start rhyming like KRS-One, and his grades will at least be more acceptable.

I wasn't going to be so fired up about this issue but I found out what they are spending more money on besides the war: Detention halls. Just to lock up minorities for years for even the slightest offense, like stealing a slice of pizza or a 2-pack of batteries, while letting white drug dealers off the hook. Fucked up, eh? The government COULD use the money to keep them off the streets and give them a future, but no. They have to make MORE jails, which only makes the problem worse.

The government either has no common sense whatsoever or has no faith in us whatsoever. They're throwing us away, like a used candy bar wrapper. I know a lot of people in my generation that have great potential for promising futures and the government is preventing those futures from happening. In 30-60 years, someone from our generation will run the country and without proper education, who knows what will happen to the nation? We're doing terribly enough as it is. And we're under the control of someone who went to Yale, which is an Ivy League college; only the smartest have the potential of getting in. If that's a Yale alumnus running the country, are becoming less intelligent? Do we not want to be intelligent? Do we not want to be a respected and dignified nation? The pursuit of knowledge at this point should be more important than money, especially if there's a good chance that there's no future for my generation. Our arts will represent the 2010s and the 2020s (the 2000s arts are awful enough as they are), and our politics will influence the 2030s to the 2050s. Then we will screw up another generation, then they will screw up the next, and so on and so forth. So it's not just us the government is throwing away. They are throwing away ALL the generations that follow us. Humanity will be doomed if we don't change our attitude towards education.

Now to end on the lighter side: (switches smiley to excited face!)

I have a date this Friday!!! Real cute looking girl! She plays the drums! I'm gettin' real antsy about Friday!

At 11/7/07 03:45 PM, Corky-D wrote: Now explain what I just said no to.

You're unaware of the injustice in the world. Including homeless people, unequal healthcare, and underfunded education. You also said that you don't know that the Constitution doesn't take care of these things

Ok. This will only take, like, less than 2 minutes of your time (if you were just chillin' in the forums, you really have nothing better to do anyway, so why not?) This is a survey for a Human Rights class at my school. Can you please answer these two measly yes-or-no questions? I only need three responses but the more the merrier!

1. Are you aware that the Constitution does not guarantee social and economic rights?
2. Are you aware of the disparities regarding housing, healthcare, and education?

Don't go into detail. Just give me a straightforward answer. Appreciate it!