Originally Posted By: bupper
Pat
you hit the nail on the head when you talked about music for film. The record sales market is a thing of the past. The last real bastion for making money from writing music is in the media industry (film, tv etc). It all depends on what youaspire from your music but if you want to make a (real) living then you have to start composing for media. While I am saying this I would totally advise people to avoid sites like Taxi, any site who asks you to pay money to them to be interested in your music is a rip off!!!


Absolutely.

You fine folks here do get to hear the songs I write but you don't hear everything I write. The vast majority of things I write are instrumental cues and short songs.... 1 to 2 minutes. These almost entirely are getting signed and placed into some of the better and top line music library sites for film and TV use. I have 42 cues submitted to a major reality TV show that is, as I write, filming and in production for their next season. I won't hear from that until after the fact.... but that's cool.

This song..... New Grass Lullaby is one of those 42 that I did actually put up here. And it's on some producer's desk right now..... hoping it gets used in the show.

Yes, the chance of getting a cut in TV or film as source or underscore is vastly greater than getting a cut in N-town from anyone, even the artists that have no hope of making it.

Produce radio ready stuff, style it like the music you hear in the reality shows and get it to the screeners for the publishers and perhaps you will get the greenlight to submit. Send in the music and see if they sign it. I get about a 50% or slightly better signing rate on that kind of music. Still, it's not a slam dunk since there are thousands of writers out there with the same goals in mind writing every day, and submitting song after song, and cue after cue.

But I personally do see this as a more easily achieved goal for getting my music into wider distribution.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 05/12/14 01:19 PM.
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