Thanks for your honesty here mate, loved the part towards the end about your hard work and struggle.. Glad it's starting to pay off, you defo deserve it!

Very similar journey to mine. Writing production music has opened up many doors for me and has made me a better musician in more ways than I can count. Meeting and working with you is one of the outcomes at the top of that list!

Another great and helpful video, Jon! I've been a gigging musician for years but I'd say that is all but gone and I should have a look at different musical money-making ideas... Luckily I've also been writing for years! Salutations from threatening snow, Ireland! ☘️☮️🤘🏽🤠👍🏽☮️☘️

super useful insight. thanks for the candid info Jon !

Thanks for another interesting video Jon. I'm at that 3 year mark now and starting to see the backend pay off. I only got my first royalty statement back in September 2020, but the other week got the next one (I'm with BMI btw) and started seeing more tracks featured along with the older ones. It's important people understand this is a long game business and to enjoy the ride. One track I wrote just over 2 years ago (Nov 2018, just as I was finding my feet) was aired in Jan 2020 and I got paid in Jan 2021 for that one track which will go on making income for some time yet hopefully as it was a show on Bravo about Housewives... which are apparently quite popular?! Keep up the good work sir!

Thanks, John! As a fellow writer for Atomica, I have always LOVED your stuff! Great Video!

Marathon long haul here with you, Jon. Continuing the journey writing and creating alongside you. Thanks for sharing your story.

Great Video Jon... I do the same thing & I also teach the bass guitar for a couple of hrs in the evening... I remember thinking the same thing about 2 years into it, doing all this work and composing SO much music and not seeing any money results & it really got me down! HOWEVER I stuck with it and I'm glad I did :) Royalty Cheques are a VERY nice thing to get each month & inspiring to Keep on writing... Thanks again for the video and sharing ... Grant...

Excellent. I'm on a similar journey with library music. I'm lucky that I live in a country where the exchange rate to the dollar is high so even small placements in films and tv shows in Europe and the States mean that once it's converted to rands the money goes a little bit further. Thanks for the video and the awesome channel.

Great video (as always). All my music money comes from sync. I’m signed up for BMI, but I’ve always been scared to list my tracks for fear that it would somehow interfere with the sync deals I’ve made. It sounds like my fears are unfounded?

Studying and learning a variety of musical styles. Great advice! Thanks for your videos.

Very helping video!

Hey Jon! I just came across your channel for the first time! I'm digging it! Just subbed too! Keep up the great vids!

Thank you so much for this Jon. Great insight and love the honesty

Thank you so much Jon, I have been waiting to see if you cover this topic.

Great video Jon.....Stuff explained very clearly.

Thank you Jon! It was very informative.

Glad I found your channel Jon! I had a recent bit of good luck with licensing a piece of music and it has made me want to invest more time in it lately. This video was right up my alley today.

Nice one Jon. Thanks for sharing.

Tommy Ray Staley Jr. Real so your royalties for free100% and get paid for it sell scene is a royalty of your song how much how can you find a free one website ?

Is there a sample platform or website that you would recommend for making a library/archive of samples to sell?

Hi Jon! I discover recently your channel but I love it! All videos are so interesting... and I notice that they look so amazing in quality, color and audio... please can you explain me what you use for video and how you record and edit your videos? Thanks in advance and keep on rockin!

Here in South Africa we have a really tough time with SAMRO and the copyrighting of our music content for royalties where it be Sync or Performance or Mechanical Royalties... is there a way that I as a South African composer can register my my compositions for sound/music libraries that are American based? How would I go about this, what are the requirements to copyright your music under Ascap or BMI?

Thanks man - really encouraging

Thank you. Subscribe. If posible, would you share the track thats was in that infomercial? saludos

Thanks so much for covering this topic Jon. May I ask how you stated submitting your work and what service you used or would recommend? Would you consider a longer form (paid for) video on the subject or better still a live stream if enough followers showed an interest? Thanks for listening to our requests Jon and have a great weekend.

Thanks for the info Where can i go to introduce some of my music to REAL clients

Great insight!

Thank you Jon, that's a very inspiring and down to earth video. I was wondering if you have music that are both in streaming network (Spotify ...) ant sync library ?

This is so great. I'm interested in knowing if you had a strategy when starting your 800+ track journey. Did you set a goal, like a song a week? Also, how much of that time was spent dissecting and studying other "library focused" tracks?

Thanks Jon. What's the scheme for actually getting your music to get picked up? Do you do some type of promoting, or do you just submit your music to the libraries and publishing group and hope for the best? Does having the KZfaq videos seem to help drive your music to get picked?

I’m curious if you have any opinions on royalty free sync sites such as pond5 and Audiojungle or subscription sites like artlist.