Need a Drummer? A Guitarist? A Kazoo..ist? Musical Collective Might Be The Solution

If you're a musician, song-writer, or composer, you've probably been faced with the following dilemmas: You have an awesome idea, but you don't have the instruments to put it down in a recording.  You can't afford to pay for a professional studio musician, but you really need a drummer.  You have a great snippet of a song/piece, but maybe you don't know what to do with it.

In other words, you want to collaborate with someone...but you don't have the right people around you.

In the age of the internet however, this shouldn't be such a problem. Unfortunately, there wasn't much of a forum for this specific niche - you had craigslist to jam with locals, you had music forums to discuss technical/equipment related things, and you had sample library websites where the focus is a little different.  The closest thing were electronic music forums, but there wasn't much out there for composers and other musicians.  What musicians wanted was a forum where they could post snippets, ideas, or even entire songs - and have other musicians and composers add things to it.

Well, we seem to have finally arrived at such a forum.  The Musical Collective is brand spanking new website that is aiming to become the hubris for musical collaboration. It's still in it's infant stages, but I am hoping that it takes off - as the founder, Brad Westness says:

I wanted to make a place where people could collaborate on music, kind of like the famous stories of "The Postal Service" completing their album by mailing tapes back and forth. I thought this would be a little more convenient than mailing tapes.

Way more convenient indeed.

What do you think?