<p>Greg presents one of his songs, "And I Answer", to illustrate to process of creating a demo and then through to a finished song. Clips from his personal demos for the song, along with tracks from the studio recordings. (This song is from his album "Get Back to You".)</p>

Greg presents one of his songs, "And I Answer", to illustrate to process of creating a demo and then through to a finished song. Clips from his personal demos for the song, along with tracks from the studio recordings. (This song is from his album "Get Back to You".)

Episode 1: Greg Smith "And I Answer"

<p>Are you a songwriter who'd like to take a song idea into the studio to make a recording? Or maybe a poet that would like to turn your poetry into lyrics? "Anatomy of a Song" takes you from demo to disc. Host Greg Smith, an accomplished songwriter with 14 albums of his own recordings, as well as a producer and session musician on over 100 other releases, talks with musicians of all genres about how a spark of inspiration turned into a lyric, and then a song. Greg and his guests break down the process of making a home demo, then refining it. They also discuss the inner workings of a professional studio environment: the role of producers, session players and engineers. Or if you'd like to keep in all "in-house", some of the gear you'll need to create your own home studio in order to produce radio- and streaming-friendly recordings. Even the process of protecting your music through copyright. "Anatomy of a Song": from inspiration to composition to recording to release.</p>

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Are you a songwriter who'd like to take a song idea into the studio to make a recording? Or maybe a poet that would like to turn your poetry into lyrics? "Anatomy of a Song" takes you from demo to disc. Host Greg Smith, an accomplished songwriter with 14 albums of his own recordings, as well as a producer and session musician on over 100 other releases, talks with musicians of all genres about how a spark of inspiration turned into a lyric, and then a song. Greg and his guests break down the process of making a home demo, then refining it. They also discuss the inner workings of a professional studio environment: the role of producers, session players and engineers. Or if you'd like to keep in all "in-house", some of the gear you'll need to create your own home studio in order to produce radio- and streaming-friendly recordings. Even the process of protecting your music through copyright. "Anatomy of a Song": from inspiration to composition to recording to release.

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