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10 percent

I am ALMOST finished a new song.  I'm sorta... not liking the whole idea that I always SAY I want to donate money by doing something with music or whatever creative outlet and then it never happens because the goal I setup is never met.  So this is going to become a priority.  I want to make this happen no matter what.

I have decided that with this new song I want to get 10 thousand downloads of my new song on iTunes.  Oh, I guess I should mention that like "A Place That Fits" I will be uploading this track and paying the 15 bucks to put it on CDBaby and thus iTunes.  Once it's up there I am going to go out and play the song at open mics around the area and every time I play it I will ask that people download the track.  I think I might make up business cards and things with direct links or something like that.  Then once I get 10 thousand downloads on iTunes I will take 10 percent of that... and donate 1 thousand dollars.  Actually I'll technically be donating more than 10 percent because there are fees and all sorts of other things so even if I get 10 thousand downloads at 99 cents it's actually less than 10 thousand dollars.  But I will still donate 1 thousand dollars to charity.

So... I am going to make this my goal for the next year.  I totally LOVE the new song and I think everyone else will at least think it's pretty good.  I am going to make it my goal to get more shows and I will do this by playing open mics and by really trying to get my music out there more than I ever have before.

So yea... I'll be doing all kinds of different things including submitting my music to try and get radio play and just anything I can think of to try and really become more of a legitimate musician.

I really want to use my music to do good and one of the ways I realized I can do that is by generating income from the music and then donating a portion of that to charity and good causes.  That portion i think should be 10 percent.  Even if I am able to make millions upon millions from my music I would still like to give away 10 percent of my income to charity.  So... this is not just going to be a... hopefully this will happen... thing... I am going to do whatever it takes to make this actually become a reality.