What Does It Take to Write a Custom Song?

Here are the 12 steps I take to personally create your Custom Made Song.

• I create the poetry from the information you give me
• send you a copy of the poem for your approval
• make any necessary changes to poetry
• compose the music to fit the poem
• write an arrangement for the music
• record the music and vocals in my professional recording studio
• mix & balance the music for the final master version
• transfer this lavishly produced master of your Custom Made Song to highest professional quality CD available
• your dedication / photo is fixed to the face of the master CD
• inserts such as photos and song lyrics are inserted into the built-in frames/pockets of the DVD case
• your CD master is set in a beautiful DVD case ready to be gift wrapped
• your Custom Made Song CD is sent to you by courier

WHAT IS THE POWER BEHIND KORY’S CUSTOM MADE SONGS ?

IT'S THE SUBTLE WAY THEY TARGET THE OPEN RECEPTIVENESS OF THE HEART. The heart is a place where love grows, where love is nurtured. The heart is the place from where love is sent to other hearts. The heart is prone to love. The heart will always welcome a message of love, be it one of honour, of acknowledgement or recognition. It's all about the same thing ...LOVE.
Gift giving is a time for hearts to shine, for both giver & receiver. It's a time for attention and mutual admiration. My Custom Made Songs are sent from heart to heart, and therefore they have to be handled very carefully and skillfully. A Custom Made Song not made with care, understanding & love, will not convey the message you want get across.

WHAT SEPARATES MY SONGS FROM THOSE OF OTHER ARTISTS ?

The aim of most song writers is to compose a song that will fit a “hit song formula” , as defined by
corporately owned commercial radio stations. As a result, these writers make carbon copy songs of what they hear on the radio. They even sing them the same way. There is nothing unique about that approach. Cookie cutter formulas that result in cookie cutter products are useful... MacDonald's, Wendy's, &
Taco Bell franchises, are living proof that this approach works well. However, the whole purpose of a
Custom Made Gift is completely defeated by a cookie cutter song!

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My Musical Background

I began my music studies when I was seven years old. By the time I was fourteen I knew music was my calling. I am a University graduate, B. A. (music) and a certified teacher, B. Ed.

My studies also include composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada, and piano with Allan Ray, who was atone time Billie Holiday's accompanist.

I have produced and released 4 CD's that feature my original compositions - instrumental & vocal. My voice coaches have included Hazen Louis Dante, who taught me to sing in the “Bel Canto" style, and Ian Garret, who is also Shania Twain's voice coach. In 1979, I founded The Toronto High School for the Performing Arts, where students combined academics with dance, music & drama.

MY CUSTOM SONGS ARE EMOTION BY DESIGN!

Song writing just doesn’t happen! My songs are born as a result of my personal innovation, inspiration and a quiet determination. My Custom Made Songs are a precise and delicate integration of music, voice , words and sound, all of which ultimately creates an emotional experience that you will never forget. When you present your special person with a Custom Made Song by Kory Livingstone, you will be noticed!

Just imagine you are the young bride about to have your first waltz of the evening with your father. It' s not just any old waltz.Your father has officially given you away as you start your own family. It' s been a long road to this point, full of ups & downs, thrills chills and you remember every one of them. The baseball games, the dancing lessons , how he taught you how to catch a ball , your first bicycle ..the thoughts pour in like a river. The thing you most want to say to your father at this time is, " Dad , I love you " ! Tell him in a song . Yes these three simple words are magnified a 1000 times when you put them in a song .

I Pride Myself On Old Fashioned “First Class” Service !

Let me tell you a story about a shopping experience I recently had at an outlet of a large nationally known sporting goods company ( I won’t mention their name ). I needed a pair of good jogging shoes. They carried everything in this store. If it would help you run, jump, or fly, they had it. Everything was there that is except a sales person to help me find what I needed.

No problem! I know how to help myself. I selected several styles of shoes to try on & then searched for a sales clerk to get my size. I found three employees at the cash register chewing the fat. When I asked for help one young lady gave me a, “Well I guess if I have to” , look then picked up the intercom and paged someone. This fellow strolled out from a back room. From the look on his face I knew I was disturbing his quiet time. I gave him my samples & he retreated to the storeroom. He returned a while later saying, “Sorry, we don’t have your size”. Did he say, “I can phone one of our other stores to see if they have it you r size?” No! Did he say, “I can order it from our warehouse?” No! He turned and sauntered off to the back room. I drove home (with my money still in my wallet) wondering how this store stayed in business. I searched online for the particular company that made the brand of shoe that I wanted and drove over. It was a fair distance away, but I went anyway. It was a company store that specialized exclusively in their own brand of athletic shoes. It was about one tenth the size of the giant retail chain store that I had just visited. What happened next I was not prepared for! As I walked into the store, a sales person greeted me and showed me what he had in the price range and style that I was looking for. He measured my foot! Can you believe it? I haven’t had my foot measured since I was a kid, when my Dad would take me to our local shoe store to buy new shoes every spring.

Listen to this! The salesman asked me to walk to the front of the store & back while he observed my gate. He saw that my right foot leaned to one side & suggested a different model shoe that would help correct this. He even laced up the shoes on my feet. How is that for service! Needless to say I bought the shoes. I spent much more here, than I would have at that giant retailer I visited earlier. Why ? Because I got a product that satisfied my personal needs ... not to mention their “First Class” personalized service. Of course I’ll be recommending “New Balance” to my friends & family.

Like “New Balance”, I pride myself on old fashioned, first class service!
You can trust you’ll get MY COMPLETE ATTENTION, focused on your PERSONAL NEEDS!

Most folks have difficulty expressing their feelings in meaningful manner. It’s a very common problem. because they’re not professional poets. I save you a whole lot of frustration trying to do it yourself. You are not sure just how or where to start. You get really frustrated when you start thinking about what you really want to say and the words just won’t come out right. Don’t worry. You’re not alone! Like I said earlier, my job is to relieve you of all the pain & discomfort associated with trying to do it yourself. I make it very easy for you. You simply provide me with some basic information such as:

		recipient’s name
		the occasion for the song
		do you have pet name for them
		a favourite story about the recipient
		an “I remember when” story
		when/how you first met
		anything else you think to be important
		style of music you would like (ballad, country, swing, waltz, etc.)

Who Do You Want To:

Do you need a pep song for a sales convention?
Is a valued employee retiring after serving your company faithfully for the last 30 years?
Are you are looking for a unique Xmas present to send corporate your clients?

When compared to traditional gifts like candle holders, clocks, & picture frames, copies of your Custom Made CD stand apart from every other gift, in every way you can imagine. How many candle sticks, clocks,& frames do you have stored away somewhere, just waiting to be recycled?

A Custom Made Song is a collectors item. No one else will ever have your custom made song. Nothing else will even come close to recreating the magic of your special occasion, like the heart felt words of a
Custom Made Song by Kory Livingstone.

Your message, emotions, feelings will always be refreshed and renewed everytime they play your song: in the car, on the computer,on ipods, mp3 player - anywhere modern electronics allows. Try that with a candle stick holder.

I give you below wholesale prices on bulk CD’s orders that will save you more time, more money and more worry. Wholesale prices start from $ 5.00 per CD.

You also have the option of having your message or company logo printed/silk screened directly on the face of the CD itself.

email me for details about bulk order CD's

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• Custom made says “I care about you”
  
• Custom made says “You send me”
  
• Custom made says “You’re very special to me”
  
• Custom made says “anything you want it to say”

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You have a CD that will last the rest of your life, to play anytime, anywhere you want and relive the memory of a truly memorable occasion. It can be passed along for future generations to cherish just like family photos. Your CD comes beautifully presented and set in an elegant DVD case that will keep it protected from scratches, dust, & dirt. The front and back covers of your DVD case have sleeves where you can insert 5x7 photos or printed material.

The inside cover of the DVD case is designed to hold extra printed material such as the lyrics to your Custom Made Song or a wedding program or booklet.

A message or greeting can be printed and applied to the face of CD for you as well. What a permanent memento of a very special occasion! A simple yet profound and loving way to express your feelings in a unique & concrete fashion.

As you can tell from the many music samples you have heard, my musical talents & skills are every bit as equal if not better, than any of big names in the music industry today. But, as in real life, you always pay a huge premium for brand names. (That’s why I never get my car repaired at the dealership). Getting one of my Custom Made Songs puts you on equal footing as the high rollers, and you know you are getting the same great product at an unbelievable price!

When I arrange or write for outside professional recording studios I charge an average $500.00 per hour. Typically a professionally produced song takes anywhere from 30-40 hours to complete from start to finish and could cost you over $ 20,000.00, provided there are no unforeseen circumstances, such as singers or musicians, engineer etc. not doing a good enough job& therefore ,the whole recording has to be redone at an additional cost to you.

When you order one of my Custom Made Songs you know the price. Period. It’s 3 easy payments of only
$ 327.00! It doesn' t matter if it takes me 20 hours or 100 hours to produce a song that you will be completely satisfied with...that’s all you pay. Canadian residents are subject to gst and provincial tax.

Remember ...I create these songs one at a time, because I serve my clients one at a time.
I am proud of what I create. If you miss out on this once in a lifetime opportunity, you will
regret not having taken advantage of it .

You will lose the chance to express your feelings and emotions for an occasion that will never
present itself again .

This is your chance to capture the most most important time of your life that you can keep
forever . Don't miss this opportunity . Don’t miss this one chance to let let your love flow .
Don’t let the time come when you have to say “I wish I had done it, when I had the chance
looking me right in the eye”.

A Custom Made Song crafted by Kory Livingstone is the solution to your gift problems

It’s convenient! It saves you time and effort and has an impact that no other gift can ever
hope to achieve.

Crestant Music
1052-2 Centre Street # 364
Thornhill, ON, Canada, L4J 8E5
Toll free: 877-856-8290
Fax: 905-669-5165