4 Ways To Know You Should Quit Sync Licensing

[irthlingz]

https://www.taxi.com/my/artist
https://open.spotify.com/track/1bsDY7Zf ... 4eeafa4b51

Welcome, Calvin! Search the forums for how to link to your member page.

/my/artist

will not work for anyone but you!

[melodea]

Hi Everyone,
My name is Calvin and I'm a "newbie" on the forum and with Taxi. I watch the video, "4 Ways to Know You Should quick Sync Licensing." I thought it was informative, at the least. As I mentioned, I am new to Taxi and the forums. However, I realize that my beliefs and values are diverse from everyone else. Though the narrator made excellent points, I personally believe that if one loves something, they fight for it, never giving up. Especially if it is a dream of theirs to reach a specific goal. There are just too many examples out there of people who would have failed if they had given up on their dream, or desired to be successful in whatever it was that inspired them in the first place. I do not know anyone that has refused to give up that is not successful in whatever they worked hard to accomplish. Tyler Perry is my favorite example, but there are so many more who against all odds, refused to be refused, and kept going despite oppositions or rejections. However, I did enjoy the video and it made sense. Thanks for posting it!
I appreciate any help you guys can offer me while here, on this journey to successfully have my music synced. Please give me feedback. I have posted a link to my songs. I hope it's okay. I was not sure if I was to list them from my profile page, or if it really made any difference, so I listed both links. I'm still learning my way around here.

https://www.taxi.com/my/artist
https://open.spotify.com/track/1bsDY7Zf ... 4eeafa4b51

Hi Calvin, welcome and good luck with your endeavor! Good points in your post.
Just one little tip here IMHO: don't ask to listen to your entire song list and expect a critique. I would be more focused on one song at the time with specific questions regarding a listing you writing for or certain aspects of the song you would like someone else's critique.

Cheers Chris

[funsongs]

One way: when you and your face are featured on the cover of Rolling Stone... or, Fortune magazine.

[cosmicdolphin]

One way: when you and your face are featured on the cover of Rolling Stone... or, Fortune magazine.

Or on the cover of Who's Nobody

[Paulie]

Welcome Calvin, and best of luck to you on your musical endeavor!

If you don't have a good paying job, getting one should be your main focus. Writing music for television takes a long time to achieve success with and to get paid. For example. If you submitted a song to Taxi today, it got forwarded tomorrow, the library contacted you the next day, then you delivered the full mixes the next day, then they delivered it to their customer the next day, and the customer placed your track into the show during post-production work the next day... you would not get paid for that track for at least six months, probably longer. Of course the timeline I just described is entirely unrealistic, but I am making a point. All of that stuff I mentioned above normally takes months, and that's before the six months for your PRO royalties.

I appreciate your optimism, chasing dreams is great. But it doesn't pay the bills. take care of yourself first, and find time to hone your craft. If you want to pursue music,it is vital you figure out your musical identity and strengths, then focus on that like a laser. Get your home recording situation organized and definitely hang out in the forums to learn. This industry has come incredibly competitive, and saturated with thousands and thousands of composers. Post your music in the Peer To Peer forum here and you will get great feedback. When your music is up to it, create some social media activity by posting videos of your music on YouTube. Network, find collaborators in your preferred genre, ideally some that are already in libraries... that can really shorten your onramp.

At the end of the day, it takes years to get to the point where you are making a living wage at this, I think most people here are doing this for the fun, the thrill, and maybe some extra pocket money. This is not an industry where you make it big (there will always be exceptions, but I'm being realistic.

As a guy that has been in the music business for a long time, and doing the tv music thing for less than a decade, along with being a dad... I'm just trying to help set expectations.

Best of luck to you!

[DesireInspires]

Personally I think outsourcing the vast majority of your production is a cop out, it's like those people who buy those mail order meal kits instead of understanding the techniques behind cooking. You can't call yourself a chef..Can you ? Whilst it's good for the people over on Soundbetter etc. it's a poor business model long term for sync. Learning to play an instrument is far more rewarding than using tools like Blandinabox and will inform your songwriting on a much deeper level. You can go from scratch to 'good enough' if you work at it for about 6 months so I see no excuse if you've been at it for 20 years. The money normally spent on hiring others could be reinvested in instruments, equipment and lessons, and recouped with the connections already made. What's stopping you? ( If you don't know I will tell you )

Dude, outsourcing is not a bad thing at all. It can be very helpful in tight situations and can reduce a great amount of stress. Getting help every now and then is nothing to be ashamed of.

[cosmicdolphin]

Getting help every now and then is nothing to be ashamed of.

I'm not on about help every now and then , I'm talking about outsourcing the whole entire production consistently. That's not making music to me.

[DesireInspires]

My new goal is to establish a constant trickle of placements. For this, I regularly submit for briefings of a library that usually allows two tracks per author. I totally understand that this will not get me into a high income bracket.

You are doing good. Continue to work consistently and expand your network. From there on, you can leap into a six figure income.