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 …
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 …
I’m thrilled to have Matt Vander Boegh as the latest composer contributor to the “Library Music That Sells” course. A prolific Production Music composer, Matt has a catalog of close to 4,000 instrumental cues and his music has been placed over 10,000 times. That, and he’s one of the nicest guys you could ever hope …
One of the advantages I can offer to you in terms of Production Music is the perspective and experiences of someone who co-owns a Music Library. We’ve seen and heard a lot of things over the years. Great music. Terrible music. Composers we feel we want to deal with, and composers we definitely don’t. …
Breakdowns are often important elements to a library track, but how do you give your breakdown just a little bit of background sparkle and magic? When done well, it’s a lovely trick, even if you’re not going for a magical angle – it just adds a nice element of sonic interest that can set you …
When we run comedy type listings for the Music Library I co-own, one of the biggest issues that results in us turning tracks down is that composers try to make the music funny. That may sound counter intuitive, right? After all, the client will be going to the comedy album to look for funny music, …
When starting your journey as a library music composer, you’ll need to write a bunch of tracks in preparation to send to prospective libraries. You know one of the biggest challenges about writing library music for sending to these companies before they’ve shown any interest? Finishing. I know that if you’re anything like me, finishing …
This post is super short. It’s also very important if you’re writing Production Music. I had a great email this week from a composer who has taken the “Library Music That Sells” course and watched the recently added “Deep Dive” video walk-through of one of my tracks that has done well for me regarding …
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 …
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 …