Understanding how music licensing works, and how you can use this service to look for extra avenues for your music
What you'll learn
Discover all the possible avenues that you can explore to make money from your music with music licensing services
Learn how to Build up your Music Licensing portfolio for music libraries or stock library platforms
Requirements
You should be a music maker with computer experience, and a willingness to pursue your music path.
You should know how to make music in commercial quality
Description
What is Music Licensing and how you use it? In this course composer/sound designer Gary Hiebner will guide you through the interesting world of Music Licensing and how it can benefit you as a musician. In this modern day world of music making, multiple revenue streams is the true way to go to be successful as an artist. And Music Licensing is a great way to take the music you already have and see if it can be used in other projects and media.
We will cover the different terms used in this field so you become familiar with how it works. Then we will explore the stock library platforms and how you can submit music to them. With these platforms titles, tags and keywords are of the utmost importance for generating sales. We'll guide you on best practices for these and how they work.
Then we'll move onto how to take these same principles to build up your music portfolio. And finally we'll give you advice on how you can contact music libraries direct to show them your music.
Course Content includes
What is Music Licensing?Terms used in this FieldStock Libraries AvailableTypes of music you can submitHow to Upload songs, with titles, keywords and tagsPromoting your musicContacting Music LibrariesAnd Building up your Music Portfolio
What You'll Get From This Course
A Guide on how Music Licensing works and which avenues you can go downExploring the Stock Library platformsHow to build up your music portfolio for these librariesHow to promote yourself and contact Music Libraries
Course Goals
At the end of this course you'll have a good understanding of how music licensing works, and why it is a beneficial path for you to go down as a musician, and a way to generate extra revenue for your musical journey.
This class is geared towards musicians who want to explore extra ways of generating money for their music. This will help you along your musical path, and ensure your success as a musician.
Overview
Section 1: Introduction
Lecture 1 Introduction
Lecture 2 Fixed Fees, Royalties and Exclusivity
Section 2: Stock Music Libraries
Lecture 3 Audio Jungle Stock Library
Lecture 4 Types of Submissions for Audio Jungle
Lecture 5 Getting a Song Ready for Upload
Section 3: Tags and Keywords
Lecture 6 How to use Tags and Keywords
Lecture 7 Using Metatags in iTunes and Soundcloud
Lecture 8 How to Promote Your Music
Section 4: Music Portfolio and Contacting Libraries
Lecture 9 Contacting Music Libraries
Lecture 10 ACTION: Create Your Music Portfolio
Lecture 11 Bonus Lecture: Congratulations! and Your Are Invited =)
Music Composers, Producers, Beatmakers, Songwriters and anyone making music,Music Makers who want to take their passion further and start making money from their music
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