Here is the note just from what I learned from studiying the music business, management expirience and working as independent songwriter for different projects.
The music business felt apart several years ago. I think after digital recording studios came out or even earlier. The people who was working for Labels, but were fired for some reasons started to create all these DIY sites to get a job/paid by indie artists, for giving them advises or to have a chance to be heard by music professionals.
The Indie artists belived that they will get help in breaking trough :(
It wasn't a case unfortunattely. These people and sites were and still promoting only themselves. They can't do it without you-the Artist/Musician. These people who is trying to give you advises in a Music Business did destroy the Music Business because of their own interest. No one business in general gonna give you details how they run the business. They blamed on Record labels, but do the same even worse.... geting greedy.... Even at school we had a propoganda articles against Record Labels, maybe it was just a test to get our own opinion.
The music world is overloaded, the iTunesis overloaded, but there is still a chance when you published your material. The only problem is - Indie artists are paying for all that, and a lot of times you still gonna go negative from what you spent for publishing or distribution or radio plays compare the sales. All these sites gonna shout loud (give me your music!) and you will...
It was always a hard choice for me between the Music and The Music Business... I loved and wanted to do both...but you can't. To create and record music takes time to do the business even longer....
I got back to recording my music about 4-5 years ago and was noticed by filmmakers very quick.
I never did scores or wrote music for films before that. I was going in a good timing and had several paid jobs. Everething has changed very quick and two years later I couldn't get a job, because the market was overloadet with a free tracks for movies, people were willing to give their music away for any indie movie just for credits. I gave up on that for a while and just was trying to put my life together.
I still was doing submissions for Film/TV once in a while, with not much attention I should of have.
As I mentioned in Facebook post, my music ideas and some tunes have been used in major programms or events, they have been redo or replayed, re mastered let's say.... and I didn't know nothing about this. The most interesting in all cases, it was 2-3 months in between after my song was submitted/redone and used, because they have a due date.
My guitarist asked me -Why they wouldn't use your originals and to work with you in changes ...
Here is a simple answear -Why they need me if they can change the song, to have all the copyrights as the songwriters and get all the royalties to themselves...that's why my dear.
It will be a long proces for me to investigate, how my songs/tunes and unique ideas got into big market and a TV shows I submitted my music for....and who was behind all this. I will let them run these tunes for a bit longer, so I can get paid more in the end.
Single Artist.
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