The Essential Guide To Writing And Selling Production Music

One of the biggest challenges facing music composers and producers is getting paid for their work. Royalties are ever-dwindling as music buyers move from physical ownership of music to streaming services.

However, there is still a market that hundreds of music producers use to make a living: production music.TV and film industries are always hungry for fresh, innovative music.

This book guides you through the entire process of writing production music - from getting ideas for your first track to the tricks and tropes unique to this genre - and includes advice on where to send your completed work and how you can expect to be paid.

Dr Michael Hewitt is a composer, lecturer and writer with over 15 years' experience writing production music. His music has been placed all over the world in a wide variety of productions, from BBC nature documentaries to The Oprah Winfrey Show.

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The Essential Guide To Writing And Selling Production Music

One of the biggest challenges facing music composers and producers is getting paid for their work. Royalties are ever-dwindling as music buyers move from physical ownership of music to streaming services.

However, there is still a market that hundreds of music producers use to make a living: production music.TV and film industries are always hungry for fresh, innovative music.

This book guides you through the entire process of writing production music - from getting ideas for your first track to the tricks and tropes unique to this genre - and includes advice on where to send your completed work and how you can expect to be paid.

Dr Michael Hewitt is a composer, lecturer and writer with over 15 years' experience writing production music. His music has been placed all over the world in a wide variety of productions, from BBC nature documentaries to The Oprah Winfrey Show.

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The Essential Guide To Writing And Selling Production Music

The Essential Guide To Writing And Selling Production Music

The Essential Guide To Writing And Selling Production Music

The Essential Guide To Writing And Selling Production Music

Overview

One of the biggest challenges facing music composers and producers is getting paid for their work. Royalties are ever-dwindling as music buyers move from physical ownership of music to streaming services.

However, there is still a market that hundreds of music producers use to make a living: production music.TV and film industries are always hungry for fresh, innovative music.

This book guides you through the entire process of writing production music - from getting ideas for your first track to the tricks and tropes unique to this genre - and includes advice on where to send your completed work and how you can expect to be paid.

Dr Michael Hewitt is a composer, lecturer and writer with over 15 years' experience writing production music. His music has been placed all over the world in a wide variety of productions, from BBC nature documentaries to The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781999600310
Publisher: Stereo Output Limited
Publication date: 10/12/2018
Pages: 148
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.32(d)

Table of Contents

1 The Music Marketplace

An introduction to the contemporary music marketplace and the economic forces that govern it.

2 Production Music

An introduction to what production music, also known as library music, is and does.

3 Creating Production Music

How production music is created, from start to finish.

4 Composing Production Music

The art of composition as pertaining specifically to production music.

5 Production Values

The techniques and production values used specifically within production music.

6 Mixing And Mastering

The techniques of mixing and mastering specific to production music.

7 Cut-downs

The methods used to create short versions of production music for tracks of particular lengths.

8 Music Libraries

What music libraries are and what they do.

9 Copyright and payment

How composers get paid for their music by leveraging their copyright.

10 Library models

Different libraries have different business models - this chapter is a guide to what they are.

11 Choosing A Library

How to pick which production music libraries to send your demo to.

12 Submitting A Demo

How to submit a demo using techniques that are most likely to succeed.

13 The Contract

A simple guide to understanding the terms commonly presented within a contract.

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