Megan Elizabeth Morris (aka MEM, Megan the M.) is a bonafide professional catalyst and adventurer. As the Ideaschema instigator, orchestrator and autodidact, she is hopelessly addicted to Making Things Happen.What I want is 24-hour turnaround, custom on-demand classical accompaniment — sent to my email as mp3s!
When I’m visiting my parents, it’s not convenient to call around to hire an accompanist to come to my house and play so that my grandmother can hear me sing. (Even worse would be having to get their old piano tuned — yow!) I want a site where I can go to find a real pianist with mad skills who can accept my music by email, record the accompaniment with some basic tempo input from me (preferably using a metronome for accuracy), and email the mp3s right back to me. I’d be thrilled to pay per song, with price tiers for difficulty. The pianist should be technologically savvy, brilliant with piano accompaniment, truly knowledgeable about pauses for breathing and traditional tempos versus accepted variations, friendly, warm, and reliable.
The pianist could even have a list of repertory and standard pricing per song for the stuff he or she already knows — and some information on how to estimate the cost for songs he or she doesn’t already know. If the song is already on a list, I can add a few to my cart, upload my music (to prove I own it, I suppose!), pay my tab, and know that in 24 hours I’ll have mp3s in my inbox that I can burn to CD.
Instant living room concert!
This, this should be doable. In fact, if you are a brilliant pianist and you want to enact this little business model, I’ll help you do it. And I’ll give you money, right now, to send me accompaniment tracks via email. Because that would be awesome.
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