Custom production
You write the words.
We build the track.
Send your lyrics. You get two finished, mixed and mastered tracks — a full vocal version and a drumline cut — produced by Dr. John Edwards.
$499Two versions · two revision rounds · yours exclusively
Send your lyricsWhat arrives
Two versions, cut to the length you actually use
Drawn to scale. Assemblies and announcements run to a minute; a game entrance or a cheer break runs to thirty seconds. You get both, from the same session.
Full version
0:60The one people learn. Assemblies, graduations, the website, the PA before kickoff.
Short version
0:30Percussion-forward and built to be shouted over. Entrances, time-outs, social clips.
Delivered as WAV (44.1 kHz, 16-bit or better) and MP3 320 — the WAV for your PA and your video editor, the MP3 for everything else.
How it runs
Three weeks, start to finish
- Day 0
You send lyrics and pay
Work starts when both are in. If you are paying by purchase order, work starts when the PO number arrives — not when one is promised.
- +10 days
First draft, both versions
Ten business days. You hear the full version and the short cut together, because changing one changes the other.
- +5 days
Revision round one
Send one consolidated set of notes covering both versions. Arrangement, mix, tempo, key, vocal delivery, edits to fit the length.
- +5 days
Revision round two, then final files
Masters delivered in both formats. Yours from the moment payment clears.
Notes sent piecemeal over several days count as separate rounds — gather your committee’s feedback before you send it, and two rounds go a long way.
The line
What $499 covers
Included
- Original music composed to your lyrics
- Lead vocals, arrangement, mix and master
- Full version — approx. 60 seconds
- Short version — approx. 30 seconds, drumline / cheer
- WAV and MP3 320 of both
- Two revision rounds
- Exclusive, perpetual licence — see below
Quoted separately
- Further revision rounds
- Additional lengths or alternate cuts
- Stems, sheet music, video
- New or rewritten lyrics after a draft is approved
- Full buy-out, if you need to own it outright
Who owns what
Your song is yours. Nobody else gets it.
Stated plainly, because this is the part most people never get in writing.
Your lyrics
Yours throughout. Nothing here changes that — you keep them whether we work together or not.
The finished tracks
Licensed to you exclusively and for good: perform, broadcast, stream, put them in video, edit for length, use them however you like. Exclusive means we will not use them or license them to anyone else.
The instrumental bed
Stays with the producer, and never goes to another school or to a competitor of yours, and never with your words. No one turns up with your song.
If you must own it outright
Some districts can only buy what they own. There is a buy-out for that — quoted as an add-on, so ownership is not something you pay for twice.
Credit reads “Produced by John Edwards” wherever a production credit is normally given. AI-assisted tools are used in composition and production, and the agreement says so.
Paying
The fast routes first
At this price the purchase usually sits under a district’s competitive-bid threshold, which opens up every option below except the last one.
| Same day | Card, including a school or district purchasing card |
| Same day | Check from a booster club, PTO or school activity fund |
| Net 30 | District purchase order — by prior arrangement. Work begins when the PO number arrives. |
W-9 and vendor registration handled at intake rather than at invoice time, because that paperwork routinely takes longer than the song.
Hear it
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More styles on the way — Caribbean, Afrobeats, International.
Where I Belong
0:60 excerptWritten, produced, mixed and mastered by Dr. John Edwards. From the GospelVault catalogue — not a commission.
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