Browsing Archive: July, 2012

Stock Music Defined

Posted by Aaron Davison on Thursday, July 26, 2012, In : July 2012 

Stock Music Defined

A few weeks ago I created a course all about how to make money with stock music libraries with the Canadian musician Aaron Saloman.  In the course Aaron and I go into extensive detail about how to make money specifically by creating stock music and selling it via a number of different stock music libraries that connect artists and their music with a variety of different media outlets that use stock music.

Stock music differs from what I call “artist music” in a numbe...


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Self Publishing VS Using Outside Publishers

Posted by Aaron Davison on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, In : June 2012 
Getting your songs licensed is, often times, the result of getting your song to the right person, at the right time.  Music publishers and libraries make it their jobs to find out about different projects that are happening and deliver the appropriate styles of music for the appropriate project. 

As I have often stated, aligning with the right publisher or library is easier than tracking down projects yourself, because much of the leg work that is involved in licensing your music will be done ...

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Our Music Industry: A Cup Half Full Or Half Empty?

Posted by Aaron Davison on Monday, July 16, 2012, In : July 2012 
Today's post is another guest post from music producer Gary Gray.  Gary and I recently created a brand new course on how to produce music specifically for licensing opportunities, called "How To Produce Music That Will Get Licensed And Make You Money".  I am super excited to share this new course with you.  It turned out amazing! Gary is an incredible teacher who has a way of taking really advanced concepts and making them easy to understand.  If you're interested in improving your music prod...
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What To Listen For When Mixing Your Tracks

Posted by Aaron Davison on Thursday, July 12, 2012, In : July 2012 
Today's newsletter features a guest post from producer Gary Gray.  Gary is a renowned producer with 30 years of experience working in the industry with a long list of placements and credits. Gary has worked with the likes of Phil Ramone, Quincy Jones and many others. Gary and I recently created a new course about how to produce music specifically for licensing opportunities.  I'll be revealing details about that course soon, Gary and I our still putting the finishing touches on it.

In the mean...

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How To Properly Meta Tag Your Tracks So They Get Found And Licensed

Posted by Aaron Davison on Friday, July 6, 2012, In : July 2012 
During the course I recently created on how to license your music with stock music libraries with a fellow Berklee College Of Music Alum and stock music expert, Aaron Saloman, Aaron revealed a wealth of information on how to increase the revenue you earn through stock music libraries.  Some of the information Aaron revealed seems so intuitive in retrospect, that I had several "Duh, why didn't I think of that moments?!".  But yet I hadn't, and chances are most of this information is going to b...

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A "New Breed" Of Indie Musicians

Posted by Aaron Davison on Wednesday, July 4, 2012, In : July 2012 
I recently spent a few weeks in the Dominican Republic playing gigs and networking with musicians down there.  During my stay, I met a really interesting and talented singer/songwriter named Justin James that I thought would make a perfect topic for my newsletter/blog.  Justin and I made several attempts to do an official interview, but unfortunately our schedules never quite meshed and that didn't happen. However, we did play a couple shows together and had some really interesting conversati...

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