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I feel a much of sympathy for you two :) Cool and interesting video! I just have to laugh everytime when I hear (and know) that positive music gets more attention and money. Because it´s harder for me. I am a melancholic dark horror black metal person :D But I always find some libraries and people who wants my music and there is no better feeling to get the love and payment for doing what you love to do ;)
Congrats I have an account with motion array, and I don’t see anywhere to sign up to be able to submit my original music. Could you please advise thank you.
Hi Eric and all! Eric thank you so much for having me and for the great convo! It was fun and I hope informative! If anyone has any questions they can for ask me here in the chat. :)
This is a superbly insightful video/interview Eric, Mark is eloquent and so knowledgeable, put's his info across in a clear and concise manner. Brilliant
Eric, fabulous video! One thing that wasn’t even mentioned is that SongTrust offers occasional promotional discounts to sign up with them? At least they used to?
@@MakeMusicIncome some new developments since I wrote you the other day. I emailed ST last week and no one has gotten back to me? I also thought it was strange that on their RU-vid page, most of the videos are old and nothing new has come out in a while. After doing further research, I came across an article in Billboard that the company has been encountering some major issues/leadership changes since 2023 and haven’t been paying out royalties to songwriters. It’s sad because they really seemed like the latest and greatest a few years back.
After spending 4 years trying to go direct to music supervisors, I have given up. Like they said, music supervisors get 1000s of emails everyday. What the sync license course sellers don't tell you is that music sups already have their trusted pipeline of music publishers and libraries that they work with. To try and break in as an unknown is virtually impossible. It's like dating sites, 90% men compete for the 10% of women. Artists are the 90%. I would bet that most artists don't even know the type of placements there are. Music Sups don't want to waste their time hand holding artists. Good luck with Disco.
Im a bit confused. You say its a great site and we should all start there but then you say at 14:17 "your not going to make any income from stock music that's used for youtube or a stock corporate presentations". Then towards the end you say your total profit from this site for the year was $13.00. Did I miss something?
At 14:17 I said you won't make any PRO income (performance rights) which is paid by your PRO (you actually might but I have seen that much.) you still make money from the sales on P5. I've made over $1000 with a Pond5 over the past three years!
@@MakeMusicIncome Ok, I guess I need to learn more about all this. I've been making music for 15 years and want to have a side hustle that can generate income. Is this really doable? It sounds like Im gonna have to spend hundreds of hours making hundreds of tracks so I can maybe make an extra $1000 per year. Is this really worth my time?
@@MakeMusicIncome do you have personal experience with that or know people who have? I've only read very bad things about beatstars not paying artists ecc
I have 2-1/2 years before retirement. Upon retirement I want to compose full time. Unfortunately, my current job takes 11 hours of my day. So I have basically nothing left to give to music during a normal day. This video will give me some ideas for the future. I hope you have some free time because I would like to schedule a coaching call with you to help me sort all this out. I feel overwhelmed right now!! 😄😄
That is my plan too Gary but I have figured out a way to find writing time everyday. I think I could help you. I am Available for coaching Monday-Friday. Here is the link: makemusicincome.com/coaching/
I would just like to add that I do alot of music tutoring. I also do youth work with young people, through my local council in the UK. I get paid a steady wage for this, which helps to keep the lights on.
Unless I missed it, I don't think you actually clarified what you mean by 'getting on board with ai'. Do you mean you'll be generating songs via ai prompts, or do you mean something else?
Yes I should put this in the description. This mainly applies to music that I have in non-exclusive libraries who MAY use it to train AI processes. I stress MAY because like their sales, they are all possibilities and never certainties. I will NOT be generating music with AI programs, although I have been experimenting with AI vocal programs for demos and such, but this isn’t really what I’m talkign about here.
@@MakeMusicIncome Yeah, tools like Audimee are great. At first I was a little skeptical, because the takes I converted seemed to lack the energy/soul of their examples... But I learned it's just because I'm not a singer. I had a singer friend try it out and his examples had so much more life to them.
Yeah, sorry about that. No way I am a purist when it comes to putting down notes. In fact, look out soon for a video about how important we think it is to play an instrument.
Eric I agree with everything you said. We have had huge changes that have made significant changes to the music business. I would say the difference, I see, with AI is the ability to create. All the changes you described were in the storage, collection and distribution of content. AI brings a new wrinkle of being able to create content. Not sure how this will work out in the end, but as creators we just have to keep creating
I am an illustrator cartoonist and I show my work on DVR not trying to do a free ad there but I do want to say that my site DNR allows me to do a dream up AI visual and although a initially reluctant, I have now used it for about a month and came up with about 12 to 15 images that I don’t plan to sell anywhere but what it does do is allow me to come up with my vision Add to then have it rendered in a way that is either beyond my virtual skill level or it would take me too many hours and cost me too much money so these images are sort of like free giveaways that I do for my DVR page as well as my Facebook and Instagram accounts with no intention of selling really good show. I love what you’re saying and I totally agree. Yeah it’s just creatives. Really worry about this as a threat. Thanks again. Keep up the good work man keep teaching that’s wonderful.
Yes, it seems so. I got in with CD Baby, but it took a while. But another friend of mine, who is a classical composer, got a piano piece into Apple Music classical with symphonic
@@MakeMusicIncome Sorry if I am bothering you, but which service would you recommend, Routenote or Symphonic? They both let you keep 100% royalties and apparently both distribute to Apple Classical. I just thought I’d ask a seasoned professional just as yourself-before I proceeded. Thanks!
Well, I would use CD Baby, but only because I already have been using them. And I don't have any experience with route note. But symphonic is very detailed.
I have about 6 videos on RU-vid that i have lost loggins for. There's no way i can get the channel back and i live in regions not yet available for RU-vid monetization system. So the only way to get some revenue the channel generate when monetized, is through content ID.
Great video, Eric! Good to see there's someone else who's not a panic-stricken, pearl-clutching sheeple. Sorry, I'll end here before I get myself triggered.😎
(The SSL2 interface looks to be a decent deal). I am not careful about own my music. Nearly all of it is released under Creative Commons Licenses I create. I uncheck the Content Id box when distributing music. I want nothing to do with RU-vid's and corporation's content Id systems. There are more well meaning people making content and will likely never make coin. If they can use some of my music that is fine will me. Freely distributed handmade original Commons music without any hitches can find a home. Seems a busy space, how long, I do not know. AI is already taking away craft, ruining the internet, unleashing more ridiculous bad content, including stupid ads. It is hit or miss wether it ever creates interesting AI art. Access to AI creation tools are like playing poker, saving points or chips. I would go as far to say AI companies adopt a gaming model. It makes sense as these learning models revolve around probability
@@MakeMusicIncome Its a catch phrase of late. It took my a while wrapping my head around object oriented code and intelligent objects decades ago. AI meant computer viruses, making game simulations etc.... They can exploit data but do not need large language models. People willingly give up and feed personal important data to social media and call centers, chatGPT etc.... That should concern folks. It is over the top now Guy Michelmore does not have an issue, he is fine divining knowledge from a 'Magic eight ball' . I admit its really math, ideas, layers of code and tons of energy and intellectual waste, grift, most I do not understand but that is all it it is. That is AI
I think you are giving too much credit to a computer process. These are just tools like the tools we've been using for 40+ years since computers came out. Don't give them that much credit. Use what you need and don't use what you don't need.
