And - congrats on your recent success!

Thanks for the comments. I intentionally built the channel to both share my experiences and pay tribute to the folks who I have been following for info. We all should be here for each other. Community is a good thing!

Great! Glad this is helpful! Thanks for watching! More to come!

Thanks! That is for sure the number one commented t-shirt I have!!

Thanks Cedric! I started this channel because I wanted to both share my real experience, but also because I felt there were things not being said on other channels. Thanks for watching!

It’s key for me. I have to plan and make lists, etc. I have too much to do to get things done any other way.

Acoustic guitar is very in demand. Solo stuff, acoustics with orchestra, etc. Think in terms of music that might be used in a scene. Good luck with it!

@@MakeMusicIncome Thanks a lot, appreciate it

Cool! Yep, they are all different!

Thanks for watching!

Each contract with each company is completely different, so that would be a hard one to make.

Thank you!!

Would love to help. I do have an in-depth critique service you can find here: makemusicincome.com/music-review-feedback/ Let me know if this is what you’re looking for.

You bet! Good luck to you!

Well, that will take some research on your part. Seek out libraries that you like and see if they have this kind of music in their catalogs. if they do, they may need more. If they don’t they might like some.

Well, "stock music" is not different than "stock photos" or "stock video". It's music people pay for or subscribe to download what they want, mostly for music behind KZfaq or corporate presentations. I think the easiest way in is Pond5, but I have only made about $175 there in twelve months. But it is a place to get your feet wet. Motion Array is about the only place to make real money (or Artlist if you're an artist under 40 imo.) But both of those require pretty high quality music. Check out my next video. There just might be an offer near the end you'll like.

I usually try and send a full album of 10-12 plus edits (usually instrumentals or other interesting edits)

@@MakeMusicIncome gotcha. Thank you!

Check out Scorekeepers.com & CrucialMusic.com.

@@MakeMusicIncome ok thanks for the info. Appreciate it 👍

Well, what I did was risky. I sent 5 or 6 emails with the same SoundCloud link. That can be risky as you well found out! Jesse talks about this in many videos how you have to be really careful. Conversely, you can send an email to one library and not hear back for months, so sending one by one could take months or years… What I more likely do is approach new libraries with stuff they can have exclusively, but if they don’t get back to me in a few days or a week, I have to move on. Now that I have three libraries I usually send new stuff to one first, then if they don’t want it I send to the next, and then the next, and then post to non-exclusive stock. I can always pull from stock libraries if a company changes its mind or I find another exclusive use. Meanwhile it can make money in stock.

@@MakeMusicIncome Thanks for this detailed answer!

@@MakeMusicIncome thanks for the video! Why do you prefer exclusive libraries instead of non-exclusive libraries? Is one exclusive more profitable than several non-exclusive?

@@user-cp8wn3oc1n Well, in general licensing to film and TV and Ads can be MORE profitable. But I do know some people making pretty good $ with stock. But it's a low percentage. I prefer to make high end tracks that are focused for higher end uses. That said, places like Artlist are "non-exclusive" but higher quality.

Yea I would say there is probably more use for minor, darker things since there are more dark shows and movies than ever.

@MakeMusicIncome Thanks for your reply. I enjoyed this video. Getting sync has been very difficult but vids like this give me a little extra push.

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