We covered a BUNCH of stuff today in the live Q&A including….
– How to email music supervisors, and more efficient alternatives 😉
– How to research music libraries
– My creative process and how I got rid of the perfectionist mindset
– How you can organize your catalogue and track your music submissions
Check it Out
Resources mentioned during the live session….
– How to Research Music Libraries
– Checklist to Prepare Audio Files for Licensing, including stems, stingers and instrumental versions
– My Creative Process and How I Got Rid of the Perfectionist Mindset
– Preview of the spreadsheet I use to organize my music catalogue and outreach
– Music Library Report to get other composers’ opinion about music libraries
– Free Chrome extension you can use to review music libraries’ monthly traffic
Have a follow up question for me?
Let me know in the comments
Hey thanks for all the info. So my question is how you find the supervisors or people who work on that positions… I mean How to “appear on their radar”?
thanks 😀
Great question!
I’ll answer that in the next Q&A.
In the meantime, you might want to check out these 3 posts:
1- Submit Music For TV Placement Without Having To Rely On A Publisher
2- Networking in the Music Industry For The Shy And Busy
3- Getting YouTubers to License Your Tracks Through a Music Library
hey Joyce, i recently read your article about getting youtubers to license tracks through a music library. however, that got my gears turning. 1) i’ve been rejected from every music library i’ve ever applied to. BUT that’s kind of my music career in a nutshell.
which makes me wonder…
if i’m doing the outreach and building these relationships with content creators already, what’s your take on having my own music library that i license through? thinking of doing a subscription model where creators can license the tunes from me directly. rather than driving traffic to an epidemic sounds, jingle punks, etc they just go to my personal website.
feel like as independent creators themselves they would value the idea of working with one. maybe i’m being romantic.
thoughts?
Hey Kia,
To get started, I would advise working with libraries and driving traffic there because you don’t have to worry too much about stuff like pricing and contracts. You know, the stuff that gets in the way of making music and promoting it 😉
Having said that, you could absolutely build your own music library if you wanted to. You might want to look at Bensound for inspiration. He’s a musician that successfully launched his own subscription based library.
Bear in mind that you’ll have a lot of work to do to drive traffic there, write up contracts, deal with unhappy customers, etc.
I wrote more about this over here.