Originally posted by Nedim:
You and few others cursed at my Western Styles when i released them
Way to overreact, Nedim... You are quite the drama queen.
Nobody cursed them. They just didn't like them. Different story. Where you come from, if you don't like something, do you say 'I curse it!'?
But it perfectly illustrates the dilemma. A style maker, from Romania (or somewhere like that, sorry if I got it wrong) steeped in Balkan music, trying to make American styles, and utterly confused (to the point of paranoia) why few were impressed.
Nedim, what do you think of Balkan styles created by people that are not from the Balkan tradition? Do you like them? And, if not, does this mean you curse them?
If you are selling styles (not cheaply, either), the customers have a right to expect a product that competes with the best of the ROM from the arranger you are creating for. For Romanian music, the field is wide open (there AREN'T any Romanian styles in the ROM
) so comparison isn't a problem. But for Western styles, unfortunately, there's a standard. It's what comes in the arranger when you buy it. If your styles are as good as these, people buy them. If they are not... well, they mostly don't.
If that's a curse, it's self inflicted.
But it still doesn't address that your styles, just the same as the ROM ones, are still hopelessly out of date to attract NEW players into the arranger market. You are making styles for the existing market. Nothing wrong with that, it's good business sense for a small style maker. But the manufacturers themselves, with MUCH deeper pockets and the very ones that would benefit the MOST from growing their market share into areas that don't buy arrangers now, they are the people that SHOULD be doing this.
Or, within ten or so years, the arranger market in the US will dwindle to close to what the 'home organ' market is now. Virtually gone.
Cursed, I suppose you could say...
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