Featured Artist: Rob McCurdy

StudioPros gives new life to a Latin-Rock inspired song. Rob McCurdy is a retired IT Professional, now full-time songwriter whose life motto is to “live life to the fullest” in every way possible. Having been serious about writing songs for 50+ years, he has now used StudioPros to polish up his records and achieve a more professional and creative sound within his music. His featured song “She Drives Me Wild” tells his own personal story of a wistful fleeting romance… [Read More]

Featured Artist: Country Contest Winner Kurt Hunter

StudioPros Country Song Contest winner Kurt Hunter shares “Old Guitar” final master We wanted to share with you the before and after of Kurt Hunter’s winning StudioPros Country Contest song, “Old Guitar”. Kurt is such a talented songwriter and was a true pleasure to work with throughout this country music production. The StudioPros production team chose to go with a live country band feel including live drums, bass, electric guitar, piano as well as some tastefully placed pedal steel. Kurt… [Read More]

StudioPros Pop Songwriting Contest Winners!

First Annual StudioPros Pop Songwriting Contest Winners Over 300 talented pop songwriters submitted to StudioPros first annual pop songwriting contest in just 2 weeks time. Wow! Well done everyone. Thanks for your enthusiasm. I have to say, there were so many great submissions that we had a really hard time making a final decision. If you submitted a song and you didn’t win, please don’t get discouraged. Keep on writing! We still want to help you professionally produce your song… [Read More]

StudioPros Welcomes New Male Vocalist! Meet Michael.

We wanted to officially welcome the newest member to the StudioPros vocalist team. Meet Michael. As a born and bred Cajun man, the spirit of the Delta runs deep in Michael’s blood. From the moment he could speak he was singing everything from blues tunes to R&B and soul music. As he progressed and his love of music grew, he began performing live at age 11 in local bars and clubs, taking crowds by surprise with his soulful vocals and… [Read More]

Communicating With Session Musicians

Communication. The root of a lot of sessions that go wrong as well as relationships in general not working out comes down to this word COMMUNICATION. After years of working on productions in all styles, languages with different personalities, I thought I’d throw together a quick blog on what I have seen WORKS. Keep it short. Musicians in general don’t like to read. I have seen clients write paragraphs upon paragraphs of changes that they’d like to have made. What… [Read More]

Behind The Scenes at StudioPros

First things first, HAPPY FRIDAY. TGIF! I wanted to share with you a really fun project I’ve recently wrapped up here at StudioPros in collaboration with my client Thierry Kauffman. Thierry lives in France. To me, it’s just amazing how we can get so much done and collaborate on a project like this from halfway around the world. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, MUSIC IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE that brings us all together. Thierry has good melody… [Read More]

The Art of Collaborative Songwriting

Tips for A Great Co-writing Session The Situation: You’ve spent countless nights humming into your voice memos. You’ve scribbled dozens of ideas into the notepad on the bedside table after 2AM. But now, after spending most of your songwriting journey alone, other people want to come in and crash your party. If you’re a notoriously awkward collaborator, haven’t done it enough, or have never written with anyone before, here are a few tips for a smooth co-writing session. Songwriting With A… [Read More]

The Importance of Work For Hire

You’ve written a great song. You have a strong melody, lyrics, the musical structure is set and you have a vision for the production. The next step is finding the right team of musicians, engineers and producers to help you bring your vision to life. As an independent artist you come across a lot of decisions that can make or break your career in the industry of songwriting and pitching your songs to film and tv. Decisions such as: What… [Read More]

StudioPros Welcomes NEW Female Vocalist! Meet Alice.

Help the StudioPros team in welcoming our newest addition to our female vocalists. Meet Alice. Alice is an industry recognized singer, writer, and artist with over 20 years in the recording industry. A ragin’ cajun from Louisiana, she specializes in adding a little down home soul and some fiery spice to each project. Now in Los Angeles, she’s known as a true vocal chameleon with the ability to sound like a number of popular singers like Amy Winehouse, Nelly Furtado,… [Read More]

StudioPros Country Songwriting Contest Winners!

First Annual StudioPros Country Songwriting Contest Winners The StudioPros producers are beyond excited at all the wonderful country songwriting contest submissions that we received. What started out as a fun contest, turned into such an outpouring of well crafted country songs that we had to sort through. We had over 500 submissions to the contest! Making the final decisions on the winners was a difficult decision to make, but we LOVE the songs we chose. Stay tuned as we will… [Read More]

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