KIDS RECORD HITS SPECIALIZES IN:
1. SONGWRITING
Collaboration is the key to success in the music industry and this is no exception. Kids learn to write an original song with award winning songwriters and proven industry professionals. What better way to learn than being in the field, working in real time, and in the end, you end up with a high quality product to show for it.
2. PRODUCTION
Clients will end up with a radio ready master of their song, fully produced at the end of the process. There are two levels of pricing.
3. ARTIST DEVELOPMENT & THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE:
The 4 week process is essentially a professional music school along with being a production house. The difference is the learning happens in the process of actually making a product that will hold up in the real world in practice not in theory. The best way to learn is to do. Meanwhile, the client is learning with one on one instruction in the mentor/apprentice learning style; the most effective in our opinion. This is something that is invaluable and often missing from our schools and training programs today. There are collaborations and connections made throughout the process. All songs and videos are shopped to a movies and TV agent and the final product is blasted to 5,000 people via email. The email list includes many industry professionals and artists as well as potential fans.
SCHOLARSHIP:
Kids Record Hits is designed to create and foster a new generation of young singer-songwriters. We find and develop talent between the ages of 10 and 18 who show potential as recording artists and songwriters. Our company pairs successful industry professionals with talented kids to co-write, produce and record an original song at NO cost to the kids or their parents. We award 2 full scholarships per year. One in Feb. and one in Sept.
Simply click on KIDS APPLY HERE and follow the directions. Talented kids will become professional recording artists and published songwriters. In an era when public schools are cutting arts programs and record companies no longer offer artist development, we fill that gap. Our goal is to give direction to their talent and help them realize their dreams.
PERSONAL CLIENTS:
For those who want to go through the Kids Record Hits experience but did not win the scholarship, you still have a chance to become a personal client. Clients pay for the not just the end result of a radio ready song but for the 1 month experience that is essentially a music school or camp rolled into one. You will go through the exact same process as the scholarship winners and end up a fully produced, radio ready song. You must still apply; not everyone will be accepted because the talent has to be very strong in order to make a great quality song.
Typically personal clients tend to be people who applied for the scholarship and came in second or third. They were great auditions but someone just edged them out. Many times, personal clients go on to get major radio play, Disney interest, TV and movie placements and create great music. The fee is $1,200 per song. All songs are displayed and shopped to industry contacts when the song is completed as well. Also, clients are not required to be ages 10-18. Any age is accepted. Our clients range from age 10 - 66. If you have questions email Geoff Byrd here: geoffbyrd@mac.com
Here is an example of an excellent personal client who is doing amazing things including getting her song in rotation at 95.5 in Portland, a major pop station. She recorded a song called "RIGHT NOW" that was written by Geoff Byrd, John Oates and Steve Sundholm that is doing very well on radio, film and TV. She is only 13! She did not win the scholarship but is going on to becoming one of our best artists! Check out K: www.listentok.com
We also specialize in MUSIC VIDEOS for clients only! Email for prices.
WHAT YOU GET:
A professional, Grammy nominated singer, songwriter, includes all studio time, all instrumentalists and musicians. Also included: mixing and mastering, an original, radio-ready master, help signing up with ASCAP or BMI, professional guidance and, in some cases, songs will be shopped to our film and TV agents. We have over 500 placements on film and TV to date. Auditions are still required for private clients and contest winners.
TIME COMMITMENT:
The whole process from beginning to end will take approximately 1 month. We will meet once a week for a total of 4 weeks. The sessions are approximately 2 hours long.
Week 1: Write the song
Week 2: Finish Writing and editing the song
Week 3: Start recording the track
Week 4: Vocals
Week 5: Pick up the final recording
KIDS RECORD HITS CONTRACT FOR CONTEST WINNERS:
Every song will be co-written between the artist and an industry professional who works directly for Kids Record Hits, Inc.
ARTIST AND PUBLISHING ROYALTIES:
A song produced in the Kids Record Hits program will be split 50/50 between the industry professional co-writing the song and the artist participating in the program. The 50/50 split pertains to both the artist royalties and the publishing sides.
MASTER SOUND RECORDING:
Kids Record Hits (KRH) will retain full ownership and rights to the sound recordings produced in the Kids Record Hits program. All revenues derived from the dissemination and use of the master, universally and in perpetuity, will be channeled directly back into Kids Record Hits, so that many more young artists can benefit from the program. We will give the artists a license that allows them to use the master as well. They simply have to ask for permission and in most cases it will be granted. For instance, burning and selling CDs of the song at live shows, using the song on promotional websites, having the song played on the radio, these are common usages that will be permitted. However, permission must be obtained from Kids Record Hits.
KIDS RECORD HITS LICENSE:
The artist will be given a non-exclusive, license for use of the master recording in perpetuity and given the right to sell and distribute the sound recording to help further their own career and learn to market and sell their own original music. As rightful owner, Kids Record Hits must grant permission before any independent marketing can begin. Most requests will be honored with few exceptions. The spirit of this language is clearly artist-friendly; we wish nothing more than for the artists who participate in the Kids Record Hits Program to go forward and flourish. The client will be allowed to keep all monies derived from their own independent marketing and promotion of the master recording, as long as permission is granted by Kids Record Hits. KRH reserves the right to cancel a master track scholarship (MTS) if goals and objectives are not being met.
JOHN OATES (HALL AND OATES)
KELLY DARR (THE GRAMMY FOUNDATION)
STEVE SUNDHOLM (HIT SONGWRITER AND PRODUCER)
CATHIE MOSTOVOY (CEO, WOODCRAFT RANGERS)
TOM WALKER (DNS ELECTRONICS)
AL KORB (FINANCIAL ADVISOR)
ERIC STONE (CLACKAMAS MIDDLE COLLEGE)
SONIA PEREZ (METROPOLITAN ACCOUNTING & TAX)
GEOFF BYRD (SINGER, SONGWRITER, PRODUCER)
NORMAN R. WILLIS MD (MEDICAL DIRECTOR, MERIDIAN PARK RADIATION ONCOLOGY CENTER)
