With technology advancing at an incredible pace year on year, its now easier than ever for anyone to compose music in their bedroom. This lower entry level into the music industry means its now bursting at the seams with everyone fighting for their voice to be heard. It can be

1. The Power of Habit What it’s about: The author provides us with a list of scientific discoveries that explain exactly  how habits are formed, and how to change them. He uses some incredibly interesting case studies to show us how companies use the science of habit formation to influence what we

Composing music for Film and TV can be a great job – but sometimes you can be up against a deadline – another composer has just dropped out of a project and the director needs a full score for his feature length film in two week’s time! Cases like this

No matter the style of music you write, if you compose digital music, you’ve heard of Kontakt. Native Instruments‘ sampler is one of the most popular pieces of music software out there among film, tv and game composers with a huge range of developers creating sample libraries for it. From

More often that not, composers are faced with temp music – that is, pre-existing music that has been selected and placed in a working picture. This will, of course, be replaced with your eventual, original composition. Temp stands for Temporary, and can illustrate the musical genre, mood, feel, arrangement or emotional gravitas the

There are a number of “pay to play” websites online which allow you to pitch your music to libraries or opportunities requiring music in return for a fee.  I personally avoid these: at best they are slightly dodgy, and at worst, massive scams.  Some websites will even post a fake

The following music licensing term defnitions are from my eBook “The Business of Music Licensing – Generating Revenue Through Your Music” which is available at www.TheBusinessofMusicLicensing.com   Exclusivity– In music licensing, you can choose to have one company represent your music exclusively, or have numerous companies represent your music non-exclusively. Both

Production Music Libraries – Understanding the Different Types It is great to awake from a good nights sleep knowing that you’ve just earned some money, as you slept! And that is what can happen for composers who have their music placed with production music libraries. I am sure that many readers