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Scoring Work: Confidence And Experience Concerns

By Michael Kruk
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Should I Write Music For Epidemic Sound?

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Music Metadata Explained

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Film/TV/Video Game Scoring

Scoring Work: Confidence And Experience Concerns

By Michael Kruk on Thursday, November 17, 2022

I hear it all the time… …in fact, let me correct myself…    …I hear lots of reasons why people who are passionate about scoring films, TV shows or video games aren’t pursuing actually getting any work. And for many, this reasons can be stripped back to one of two things:   “I lack confidence …

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Should I Write Music For Epidemic Sound?

By Michael Kruk on Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Music Library Epidemic Sound have had a huge amount of composers up in arms about it’s business model, saying how writing for them could seriously destroy an up and coming composers career. Epidemic’s co-founder and CEO, Oscar Hoglund, says Epidemic’s biggest creators make “”tens of thousands of dollars per month” with them.     In …

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Music Metadata Explained

By Michael Kruk on Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Adding metadata to your music is hugely important if you’re sending it out into the world. In this post, I’ll tell you everything you need to know about what metadata is, how to add metadata to your music files, plus we’ll go into the advanced metadata you’ll need if you want to get your music …

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Why Don’t Music Libraries Reply To Composers?

By Michael Kruk on Thursday, August 19, 2021

One of the things I hear from composers and producers who send tracks to music libraries is “Why can’t libraries have the decency to reply when I send them tracks?” After all, other than it being disheartening, composers and music producers invest a lot of blood, sweat and tears into creating these tracks, surely it’s …

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Should You Register Your Production Music With Your P.R.O.?

By Michael Kruk on Wednesday, June 9, 2021

If you want to get your music licenced into production music libraries for film and TV, should you register that music yourself first with your Performing Rights Organisation, such as ASCAP, BMI or PRS for Music? I’m going to cover this important question in the video below.     With the library I run, we …

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Endings That Make Additional Royalties

By Michael Kruk on Monday, May 24, 2021

  How you end a track is one of the most important and overlooked factors in writing music for film and TV. This video will tell you why ending a track correctly for film and TV is so, so important, the rules to create the perfect finish to all of your tracks, plus you’ll hear …

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A Music Licensing Success Strategy

By Michael Kruk on Friday, April 2, 2021

If you’re wanting to get your music into production music libraries for film and TV placement, you can’t just write a few tracks across a couple of genres and send them out. That’s unlikely to get you a deal these days, as this industry gets more and more competitive. You’ve got to take a much …

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Sample Packs That Will Get Your Tracks Licensed

By Michael Kruk on Wednesday, February 3, 2021

This blog post contains a great technique that SO MANY top Library composers use. And you can apply it too. As you may know, I’m personally not a huge fan of composers buying every sample library under the sun. Yes, keep your samples relevant and of the highest quality you can afford, but you’re at …

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Four Key Tips When Emailing Music Libraries

By Michael Kruk on Thursday, January 7, 2021

I recently added a big section to the Library Music Thats Sells course all about emailing Music Libraries. From that rather substantial video I’ve sliced out a few of those points that I’d like to share with you here. In amongst these tips are the importance of subject lines, (including options that perk interest and …

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Library Music and the Valley Of Despair

By Michael Kruk on Monday, December 7, 2020

Ok, ok. Possibly a contender for the most overdramatic blog post title about production music! But haven’t we all been there? Making a full or even part time living from writing music can be hard. A lot of people give up on it. If you have points where it all seems pretty bleak – be …

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