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Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

NBC’s Songland Guest Sam DeRosa | From Playing in Wedding Bands and Waiting Tables to Signing a Record Deal w/ Shane McAnally

Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS

Clay Clark

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Sam DeRosa shares what it’s like to be mentored by Charlie Puth, Ryan Tedder, Shane McAnally, and Ester Dean and the importance of Ryan Tedder’s advice “You have no control over who gets signed when you will get signed...the only thing you can control is the work that you can put in.”

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tell everybody what's your name.

0:02.0

And then,

0:03.0

last name?

0:04.0

Clark.

0:05.0

Okay, go for it.

0:06.0

What word of encouragement would you have for my daughter and for the young ladies out there

0:11.0

of young men out there who are, you know this this kind of 10 11 12 year old

0:14.6

songwriters what what advice would you have for the Angelinas of the world

0:17.9

first of all hi Angelina thank you I would say two things. One is make the music that you want to hear and that you need to hear and that you need to hear and not what you think you need to make.

0:30.0

And if you listen to everything, get inspired by everybody, use your cell phone, use your notes,

0:36.8

something your mom or dad says could be an inspiration for a lyric.

0:40.0

Those are the best stories of songs.

0:42.0

And just remember that inside of you there is a

0:45.2

fire that you are naturally born with. I'm a super fan of One Republic. I've been a

0:49.8

fan of Tedder's writing in production for so long so seeing him in person just being a normal human being in front of me was crazy.

0:57.0

They had said hey just so you know every producer has a piano or a guitar they may make some suggestions but when they started singing I mean

1:04.6

they knew what key the song was in already they remembered the melodies and the lyrics and

1:08.4

they just they jammed on it for a while and I just remember at one point I said

1:12.4

Ryan Tedderers playing piano

1:14.0

on my song.

1:15.0

You can almost hear the audience singing along with it, 50,000 people.

1:19.0

Could you drop it down?

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