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[kclements]

There is a saying around here - Write. Submit. Forget.

I agree with what has been said above. After I started getting forwards, I thought I was at a point to start sending out material to libraries. I did some research, found a couple I thought would be a good fit and sent a cold email. I got rejection emails in return. BTW, I don't think you should contact a forward - wait for them to contact you.

Later, when I was contacted via a Taxi relationship, I sent that same track in for consideration, and they signed it. I don't know what changed, or who listened to it the first time vs. the second - but it has a lot to do with building relationships. This is a relationship business at the core.

My advice is to write a lot, listen to a lot of what's on TV now, read the listings carefully and write, submit, forget. That is what ultimately worked for me (that and networking with fellow Taxi members here on the Forum and at the Rally). I am now signed with 6 music libraries and starting to get placements. And it only took 3.5 years!

cheers -
kc

[Cruciform]

Don't contact a library based on a Taxi forward. If they want that song/cue they'll get back to you.

Do spend lots of time on the net researching libraries/publishers to submit music to. Your success is in your hands. Don't wait around for what might happen. Go and make things happen.

Get a good handle on where you currently are in terms of production and writing values. Be honest with yourself. Identify areas for growth and development and make it a goal to improve something with every new piece you write but keep marketing yourself in the meantime. You'll get deals based on where you're at but always aim bigger and higher. Stretch yourself and amazing things can happen.

[CHuckmott]

There are tiers of libraries, from not selective at all royalty free ones to the next to impossible to get into high end ones. I wouldn't get ahold of them to follow up on a forward, but if a window of time has passed (say 4-6 months) and you want to brave trying to get in on your own, feel free, in my opinion. But as was mentioned, be honest about your readiness, I spent a year in here before I felt I was minimally prepared to start submitting on my own. My criteria was to wait until I started getting forwards and better marks on my production. And Peer to Peer definitely helps.

If on the other hand you have already been submitting to a library on your own, but your song was accepted as a result of a Taxi foward, then you aren't in the wrong to keep submitting different material. My experience has been that while you can get into some libraries on your own, even mid tiered ones, many of the ones TAxi takes on are a bit more of a challenge to get into on your own (just trust me on this). Which is highly likely why in part even more experienced members (not including myself in that category, I've only been pursuing this less then a year and a half) extend their memberships.