I already posted my original song release “Hallelujah Christmas” with my vocals, BGV (sound engineer and his wife), and Nashville live band with some electronic strings sound added. So it cost me approx. $600/song to do this, and it takes about over a month per song to get everything back. Still waiting on 2 more songs to come back and we started mid-Nov. However, my sound engineer put my song in Sumo and sent it to me. So here it is. He wants me to release it. I assume I can have both versions out. I have DistroKid with unlimited releases. I like the idea of releasing both, having an original version with my real voice, and maybe me playing keys. I’d like to add a strings sound over my keys playing, that I was hoping Derick could do. However, right now I can’t afford it. Say 40 songs at $100/song is still $4,000. Then I still have to pay my sound engineer to do the Sumo versions for me. He hasn’t given me a quote yet on it. But he charges $200 to record my vocals, and add his BGV, and he mixes/masters the whole track. He did make a mistake on the volume normalization, and it’s way lower than the 3 songs I had recorded in 2023. I listened to them in my car, and you have to turn the volume up after listening to the older releases. So I messed up in Distrokid, you can pay $3 for them to add volume normalization, but it was an upgrade, and I opted out because I assumed my sound engineer knew what he was doing, but he did not! So that’s my second dilemma is if I want to take it down, and have them fix the volume on it for $3, then reupload it. Then upload the Sumo version. What do you all think? Hoping someone could help…..🙈. Added original Garage Band track with my keys and vocals. So my sound engineer could just use my keys track. We could re-do the vocals at his place and it would eliminate the background noises u hear (on future releases). Yayy or Nayy?

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Here’s the worksheet I use every time I write a song from a sermon. It walks you through: ✅ Identifying the main point ✅ Finding the emotional core ✅ Writing the hook (chorus) ✅ Building verses around the journey Download Below Use this for your next song and post your results in the Wins tab! — dT