A Beginner'S Guide To Writing For Production Music Libraries

An Introduction to the world of production music libraries, track placements, royalty earnings and much more!

What you'll learn

How to identify potential music libraries and submit tracks to them for placement

Equipment needed to produce music for production music libraries

Understand the different payment models, licensing fees and performance royalty earning opportunities associated with production music

Mixing & Mastering best practices for producing music for production music libraries

Common industry terms and definitions

Understand the need for and the function of performance rights organizations as it relates to royalty payments

Requirements

No prior experience or skill level is needed prior to taking this course. Our objective is to equip you with a better understanding of production music industry and opportunities for music placements on these platforms, as they are a common path to film & television placements.

Description

Creating production music for production music libraries is one of the most sought-after avenues for music creators desiring to get sync placements in film and television, as well as marketing ads, corporate videos, and much more.With the affordability of home studio equipment and production software — the possibility of earning sync and or performance royalties for music creators has become quite an attractive prospect for many producers, composers, beat makers, and musicians alike.New channels and streaming platforms are being introduced all the time, and production music libraries are constantly being sourced to supply the seemingly, never-ending need, to license music for sync to video.Now while the need for production music is undeniable the information around how producers and musicians can get involved with creating music for those libraries is a bit scarce, to say the least. My name is Todd Jones, I have over 18 years of experience in writing and producing music for production music libraries. I have created this course to help demystify the process and help you get practical tools and information around writing music for production music libraries. This course is designed to give you the knowledge and tools you need, in an intuitive way, so that you can get the most out of the course. No need to scour the internet looking for relevant information we've got it all right here! Make an investment in your music career and enroll today!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 What is production music?

Section 2: Getting started in the industry

Lecture 3 What do you need to get started writing music for production music libraries?

Section 3: Assessing your skills

Lecture 4 Skill Set & Musicianship

Section 4: The Composition

Lecture 5 Understanding compositions and arrangement commonly used in production music

Lecture 6 Tips and best practices for composing music for production music libraries

Section 5: Mixing and Mastering for PML

Lecture 7 Mixing objectives, tips and best practices

Lecture 8 Mastering overview

Section 6: How to submit tracks to production music libraries

Lecture 9 How to submit tracks to PML

Section 7: Deliverables

Lecture 10 What deliverables do production music libraries typically request?

Section 8: Getting Paid

Lecture 11 Understanding common payment models when writing for PML

Section 9: Bonus Lecture

Lecture 12 Bonus Lecture

This course is for music producers, beatmakers and composers interested in writing music for production music libraries.