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Scoring Work: Confidence And Experience Concerns

By Michael Kruk
Library Music Composing

Should I Write Music For Epidemic Sound?

By Michael Kruk
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Music Metadata Explained

By Michael Kruk
Music Production

How To Layer Drums And Percussion That Breathe

By Michael Kruk on Wednesday, May 27, 2020

We all agree that TV and Film music needs to breathe. It often needs a rich, full sound whilst simultaneously staying out of the way for voiceover or sound effects. This is not an area of music production where you want to suffer from an overly-busy or cluttered end result! Layering your Percussion (with or …

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Distraction and Procrastination

By Michael Kruk on Monday, April 20, 2020

“There’s a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don’t, and the secret is this: It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is resistance.” -Steven Pressfield Ever found yourself avoiding sitting down to make music, even though you love doing it? …

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Film/TV/Video Game Scoring

Two DAW Tips To Keep Creativity Flowing

By Michael Kruk on Sunday, March 8, 2020

I’m currently in the midst of a heavy writing deadline for a 4-part TV series, having to write a lot of music as quickly as possible. I wanted to share with you two techniques I’m using to help me write and produce more efficiently within my DAW, (Digital Audio Workstation.) They are useful for any …

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The Fight Against Direct Licensing

By Michael Kruk on Wednesday, December 18, 2019

UPDATE – Since the post below was written, Discovery Networks have U-Turned on their decision to proceed with Direct Licensing. However, we will leave the below post active as a guide to Direct Licensing in general.   The hot topic in the media composer community right now is that Discovery Networks (who own Discovery Channel, …

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The 3 Rules Of Buying More Gear

By Michael Kruk on Saturday, November 23, 2019

There’s an affliction that affects a lot of us composers, music producers and musicians: buying more gear. For many of us, this takes the form of new plug-ins and samples for our DAW’s, be it a new string library, reverb or EQ plug-in. For others, it may be a new guitar, or additional microphones. Should …

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Film/TV/Video Game Scoring

Streaming and the Emerging TV Composer

By Michael Kruk on Saturday, October 19, 2019

TV composing: Is there enough work out there? It can be tough to launch a career scoring TV shows. As you look into getting work in this area, you may, at times, wonder if there is even enough work out there for you to somehow squeeze your way in. It struck me recently how the …

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Production Music: Quality or Quantity?

By Michael Kruk on Friday, August 30, 2019

You’re probably looking at the title of this post and thinking: “Both.” And in an ideal world, you’d be right. You’d pump out a large quantity of stunning music each month. Or each week. Yet for most of us, our higher quality tracks take us longer to write and produce than some of the other …

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Music Rights Explained… …Quickly!

By Michael Kruk on Friday, April 26, 2019

What’s dull, confusing, but a must for composers, producers and songwriters to understand? Music rights! Ok, I admit it: there’s no way to make this appealing or alluring. But give me just over 5 minutes and I’ll explain to you all 7 of the major music rights that you need to know in a clear …

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How I Won a BBC Pitch With a Toothbrush

By Michael Kruk on Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Like many media composers, I split my time between scoring TV shows and licensing music to Music Libraries. Nowadays, in my experience at least, to be chosen to score a TV show you’ll need to pitch even if you’ve worked with some of the team before and/or have been personally recommended. As such, last year …

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Royalties Demystified

By Michael Kruk on Sunday, March 3, 2019

If the ins and outs of royalties regarding Library Music leave you a bit confused, here’s a simple guide to how it all works, from the very basic through to a few common questions.   What is a royalty?   What we’ll be talking about here are “performing royalties”. Simply put, these are recurring payments …

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