Jun 26, 2015
“I’m a musician myself and came up with the melody I want you to use. Since the creative (i.e. fun) part is done for you, does that bring your rates down?”
Unless the person you're working with knows what they're doing and does it enough to respect the craft, I feel like using a pre-fabricated melody would make rates go up. Aside from severely limiting what could be done compositionally, it usually means that the person has a very specific idea of what the end result will sound like; no matter how good you are, it likely means any derivation from this expectation will be considered a failure. I'll do it, but there's a considerable fee involved if you want to use my experience and training to play "backseat composer".