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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
I just came across an image that made me smile: Doesn’t it feel like that for us all sometimes?! Ha ha. There’s food for thought here though. The interesting thing regarding writing music for income, is that whilst you’ve got to enjoy the process of writing it of course, it doesn’t have …
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 …
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 …