Meeting with a mentor/library owner at the 2023 Road Rally leads to a publishing deal - though still early days
Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2024 2:58 am
I traveled from Brisbane, Australia for the '23 Road Rally (RR). On the first day, I lined up for several hours and registered to play my music to a RR library owner/mentor.
We met on the Saturday afternoon; I provided a QR link to several of my nylon string guitar tracks.
The reactions were: first, "Michael, this is your lucky day!" and second, "How many more similar tracks could you provide in the next 3 months for a flamenco-ish album?"
This direct contact would not have happened if I had not gone to the RR,and had rather hoped for a Taxi forward to lead eventually to a deal - to date I have had 3 or 4 Taxi forwards in as many years, with no follow up or deal.
After the RR, I waited a couple of weeks, then sent the library a link to a new track. The library owner then informed me that he would like to sign me up. At that time, I tried to commit to a number of tracks which I believed I could realistically manage. I avoided the temptation to over promise, which I believe would be important when trying to establish reliablility.
Anyway, I provided 6 guitar demo tracks to the library and all were accepted. I then spent much time learning how to present the music for publication. But I did it (with now a total of 9 tracks made up of 6 guitar tracks,1 dark ambient tension, 2 Christmas crooner songs, with 7 published so far, hopefully awaiting licensing).
For me the good news is that there's still much to learn.
Cheers
Michael Leeman
We met on the Saturday afternoon; I provided a QR link to several of my nylon string guitar tracks.
The reactions were: first, "Michael, this is your lucky day!" and second, "How many more similar tracks could you provide in the next 3 months for a flamenco-ish album?"
This direct contact would not have happened if I had not gone to the RR,and had rather hoped for a Taxi forward to lead eventually to a deal - to date I have had 3 or 4 Taxi forwards in as many years, with no follow up or deal.
After the RR, I waited a couple of weeks, then sent the library a link to a new track. The library owner then informed me that he would like to sign me up. At that time, I tried to commit to a number of tracks which I believed I could realistically manage. I avoided the temptation to over promise, which I believe would be important when trying to establish reliablility.
Anyway, I provided 6 guitar demo tracks to the library and all were accepted. I then spent much time learning how to present the music for publication. But I did it (with now a total of 9 tracks made up of 6 guitar tracks,1 dark ambient tension, 2 Christmas crooner songs, with 7 published so far, hopefully awaiting licensing).
For me the good news is that there's still much to learn.
Cheers
Michael Leeman