TRUE STRINGS

True Strings was back in the studio, this time with the help of Tailfish Productions owner Taylor Van Arsdale and vocalist Carl Osterlof. Carl laid down vocal tracks for "How I Remember You" with the help of sound engineer Mark Nathanson at Studio 637 in Hermosa Beach. The recording turned out great and the new single will be released on iTunes in late July. You can hear now on the website by pressing play below.

We don't produce music by sitting around talking about how great we are, we work hard at it and are constantly making new music. There's no free lunch in the music business so we are constantly reaching out, submitting our songs, making new contacts and getting kicked in the nards with rejection notices. It all just a game we play. It's like a lottery only we have more control of the odds since we write the songs. Take a listen to this new one. Mike Butler and I sat down and said we can wrtie a Blink 182 styled songs and viola - "Don't Tell Me" was born. It took us about twenty minutes. Classic! 

So here's how the song submission process works at True Strings. We transfer our inventory and our newest original songs for release over to several submission services. We like Music Xray best because they continually kick us in the balls with their merciless feedback. (Ouch!! thank you guys can we have another! ha ha ha). Music Xray claims to have a pool of industry professionals that will listen to each of our songs and give them a subjective rating. These ratings are then averaged and each song is given a percentage score compared to other songs submitted on the site. Songs are rated for things like composition, production quality, arrangement, performance and of course, hit potential. Now at True Strings we produce new classic rock so we don't think we're in the same league as Justin Beber or One Direction (Darn). We write all our songs and play them on our guitars knowing full well that the radio stations playing new rock n roll are few and far between. The songs here were submitted on 10-19-13 and have been available for review for less than a week. Here's our hit list as of 10-23-13

1. So Many Tear  (I can't believe this!) 31% with 4 fans
2. How I Remember You. 31% with 7 fans
3. Sweet Days of Youth - 31% with 4 fans
4. Guide My Way - 30% with 4 fans
5. Hyper - (Surprisingly) 30% with no fans ha ha! go figure

Check out my favorite, "Guide My Way" 

Keep watching the blog because I think things are gonna get pretty interesting in the nest few months.

It's been busy here at True Strings. We have been working collaboratively with Music Xray, MusicSUBMIT, and a host of other web-based submission services to get our music out there to new listeners and find our audience. It's tough because we're not pop, we're rock and PROUD OF IT! If you like "So Many Tears" you'll like our other songs. Take a listen, buy a download or tell a friend. Support a starving rock band. It's just good old rock n roll.