EP4 - Tell Me Why You Write Music

We all have our own reasons for writing music and I am really curious to hear yours.

More importantly I wanted you to know what I think is the very best way to get your music out into the world in the biggest way possible.

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

So why do you make music? No, I'm serious. I really want to know.

Why do you make music?

People make music for all kinds of different reasons. Some people want fame, some people are after money. Some people just want to do it for the art. Everybody else seems to fall in between those three poles of this great triangle called music.

So whatever your reason is, you can't answer that for somebody else. I can't answer that for anybody. We all have our own reasons. The one commonality though, that I've discovered is that no matter why you make music, you want to get your music out there, it's a condition of being human. It's like it's just life.

If you look around you in the world, there's all kinds of things going on. Things are changing, things are moving, things are growing. There's. Always something happening. And so music itself just wants to be shared. It's something that brings people together. It lets people understand you in a much deeper way.

There's all of these great benefits and a music supervisor friend of mine told me one time, which I thought was absolutely brilliant, he said that music is the one thing that humans have invented. That hasn't created destruction or caused, you know, all the problems that many of our other inventions have wrought upon the world.

And I think he really hit that nail on the head. So, if you are thinking about getting your music out there, of course there's a million ways you can go about doing that. So you can go after label deals, you can go after publishing deals, you can tour, you can put posters up on polls. There's a million ways that you can do this.

The one way that I've found that works the absolute best for the indie musicians I worked with in the studio trying to just make something happen with the record was sync licensing.

It was fast, it was huge, it was lucrative. And so when you get a sync placement, you get that big sync fee up front, you get the backend royalties, you get this big bump in your fan base, you get the reputations in the industry. It really is such a fantastic way to go. .

But the thing about sync licensing is that sounds really easy, right? What I just described and sounds awesome. It's actually really, really hard. It's difficult to actually get a sync placement. Why is that? Well, because everybody's trying to get a sync placement.

That's the reason - there's a limited number of opportunities out there, even though there's so many opportunities. There's like television 24/7. Cable on top of streaming on top of online production like this. It goes on and on and on.

Then there's ads, and then there's films and there's student films and Hollywood films and, you know, streaming services are making films.

So there's so many more opportunities than there was even just five, 10 years ago. But the thing is, everybody's got a record out and everybody's trying to get into those spots. So if you know the right way to, it definitely is an amazing way to go.

The problem is most people don't know that path or they don't follow that path.

So you might be thinking, Chris, you know, all I gotta do is get my song into a music library. Well, that's great. You could absolutely, like right after you watch this video, you could total