3 Steps To Get Your Music Into TV & Film
January 7, 2018
Here are 3 proven steps that will help you get your music licensed in 2018. They will answer questions like these…
– Why do some artists seem to succeed in sync over and over again?
– Are you moving forward or getting ripped off?
– Have you been trying to get your music licensed for a while?
I looked at the successes of people I’ve produced, and the wins of my students in The Art Of The Song Pitch course. I distilled it down the 3 things that will vastly improve your chances of getting your music into TV & film.
I am looking forward to hearing your songs on TV, in movies, and ads. May 2018 be your best year ever.
Happy New Year!
Chris
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Great video. My biggest challenge with songwriting is getting my songs finished. On that note, I liked the recommendation of teaming with another person in the group who’s creatively compatible, in an effort to get these songs done.
Yes, I actually have the same problem, Fernando. I find the last nails to hammer in the hardest. It’s probably because I leave the hardest stuff to last, but also because I get precious with the finishing touches. Getting a co-writer who has an outside view is definitely a way to get around this. Why don’t you give it a try on a song that is less important to you first to see how it works? Let me know how it turns out!
How about a little acronym to make it easier to remember? 🙂
L-earn
I-nvest
F-ocus
E-njoy!!
Nice! Can you fit "licensing" in there somehow? 😉
Hi Chris
First of all I have enjoyed the course. It has been very informative and fun. The reason I signed up for your course in the first place is my music has been reviewed many times and almost always the reviewers mention the music would do very well in film and movies. My music has won many awards and is doing well on Sirius XM and worldwide radio play and internet downloads. So far I have 3 albums and 1 EP soon to be released. If I have a problem it is this, I have a hard time writing songs on demand. (if you know what I mean) every song I have ever writing has been based on my experiences and feelings. The thing I have going is my producer Frank Ralls who I have been working with for 10 years. Frank has the ability to take my melody’s and turn them into almost any genre. We have experimented and recorded a few of my songs and changed the genre. Like one song we changed was a contemporary instrumental song to a smooth jazz with a little funk fusion. Anyway I wanted to let you know about my strengths and weaknesses concerning my songwriting abilities. So I’m one those that let people that know what their doing Produce and Master my work and use studio musicians do the instrumentation.
It’s taking my music several years now but is finally starting to pay off in royalty payments. If you like you can check out my work and some of the musics reviews on my website billwrenmusic.com
Thanks again
-Bill
Hi Chris:
May 2018 be very healthy and profitable for you!
To answer your roadblock question I am just beginning to to develop a licensing relationship with someone somewhere and believe 2018 is the year.
Regards,
Jerzy
Fantastic news Jerzy! That’s where it starts, and you can leverage that relationship to start new ones as well. Here is the best for your music. BTW Being a fan of your music, I sent your website link to a music supervisor I know. I’ll let you know if I hear something back.
Hey Chris,
Enjoyed your video. It reiterated a lot of my thoughts going into this year. Roadblocks for me have been spending the time and energy working as a special ed teacher by day for barely enough to survive, then working on an old family farm house by myself cause I cant afford to hire anyone, and working on the music inbetween all that. Ive wrote more songs than I can keep track of, made a few albums with another one just about done and all the costs of recording, submitting songs to folks that say they want to hear them but then not ever hearing back from them. Anyway this is the year for me to get the music costs covering themselves and having all the walls finished so the outside stays out and the inside can really be inside. Check out some of my tunes on youtube, iTunes, Spotify, Facebook etc.
Thanks Again
~John Henry
of
John Henry’s Farm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXXS0N2T6JU
Hi John, that’s great you find a way to fit music into your life with everything else you’re doing. Cool video with a great community vibe. There are some important steps you should take and need to make sure each one of them is done correctly. I can’t go into them all here, but check out my free videos which have a lot of that info on them. Bottom line, you need to be targeting your music to the shows or movie and ad types your music fits with, your production has to sound as good as everything else getting into TV & film, and then I teach some other techniques to amplify this in my course, but start with these and you will be on the right path. Hope that helps.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the video and your sincere desire to help. My roadblock is how to find the music supervisors and the right approach to get their attention. I like the idea of focusing on a few songs and pitching those few – that’s the approach I want to take this year. I’ve had a few good placements but would like to make a steady revenue stream from them. I’ve been writing for a couple decades and produce my music in my home studio with an efficient setup of a few quality preamps and mics. I’d like to hear more from you and how you can help.
Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Son Vo
Hi Son, feel free to check out my free videos on this site for a lot of tips on how to get your music ready to rock it in licensing. I unfortunately can’t go into everything about how to connect with music supervisors here. I teach that in depth in the course and introduce people to some of the top ones to start those relationships, but just know that it is a lot about finding the ones who are looking for your kind of music for the productions they are working on. I talk about targeting your music in some of my free videos, so I would start with that. Know that if you are contacting a music supervisor and you have what they are looking for (you are solving their problem) you have a much better chance of getting a response back. Hope that helps.
Thanks Chris. I’ll for sure check your free videos out. Good sound advice. 🙂