Making Your Music Work for You: The Science of Generating Money by Licensing Your Music to TV and Film

By: T Whitmore

Narrated by: Neil Reeves

Length: 39 mins

Publisher's Summary

Are you an independent musician who wants to be able to increase your passive income? If you own the publishing rights to your music, you can make money with it. It's as simple as that.

This guide explains, without all the jargon, why music publishing is so important and how to go about achieving success through writing great songs, recording your music, and building a catalog to be proud of. It simplifies the matters of owning your master recording, copyrighting your work, and signing up with a PRO as well as how to interface with the music industry to sell your songs. This guide will explain the advantages of submitting your music to established music libraries and give you carefully thought-out advice for making it in the music industry.

©2015 Terrence Wood (P)2015 Terrence Wood

Helpful and informative book.

This is an amazing book.In this book you will find many helpful topics like information on writing great songs,the importance of owning your master recording,how to interface with the music industry to sell your songs and much more.I hope this book is able to help you very much.


i purchased this book with the purpose that it will guide me to make music for myself.but it totally change the mind.it is written on how to write music and create a good rhythem. this book is for music writers and for those who compose music.Moreover the way in which book written is goodi inspired with it.

Beautiful book!!

I got this book for my brother. As he said This book has many useful information. specially the author has given useful Information on writing great songs, Recording music and building a profitable catalog, How to interface with the music industry to sell songs, and also this book includes many helpful topics about Making Your Music Work For You. Great.

Balanced good book!!!

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A well balanced book.A lot of important information about Music Career has been provided in this book.By listening this book I've got proper idea about music career.I was actually impressed by how much useful information is squeezed in such a short book.By reading this book I've learned some effective techniques.If you want to enhance your music knowledge then this book will be very helpful for you.Highly recommended.

music and building a profitable catalog ...

If you own the publishing to your music you can make money with it.
This book explains, without all the jargon, why music publishing is so important and how to go about achieving success. It also covers many helpful topics including:
Information on writing great songs
Recording your music and building a profitable catalog
The importance of owning your master recording
Copyrighting your work and signing up with a PRO

useful book

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Useful book! This guide gives a great overview of how to turn your spare room into a recording space to make music. It even has a very helpful chapter that deals with common mistakes when it comes to converting your room. I really liked the chapter about exactly how to set everything up. This has been very helpful as I decide which of my rooms will be best suited to convert into a full studio! Really worth recommending to all!

practical guide for a musician in the real world.

This book is extremely helpful to any artist considering a career in the arts. It covers a wide array of topics and gives practical, seasoned advice. The book dispels many of the myths involved in having a successful career and provides suggestions with input from real artists in real-life situations to illustrate many points. I highly recommend his book to artists at all levels, managers and agents.

Informative and helpful.

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I really enjoyed this book.This book will be very useful for young musicians, singers and people who want to engage the music career. This book is extremely helpful to any artist considering a career in the arts. I was very interested to read the book because I love music and think about my career.

Great grab!!!

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Great book

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This was an amazing book .This book clarifies, without all the language, why music distributing is so essential and how to approach making progress. This book contains bundles of tips and information identifying with contracts and other honest to goodness stuff. I myself can utilize a lot of tips from this book about various sites for additional wage and how to profit off transferring recordings on the web. I could figure out how to compose great sounds and profit out of it by distributing it. I could see the significance of owning my lord recording.I highly recommended to all.

5 Stars!!!!

This is a great book on Music Career.
All of the things, tips and guides that I need to know about making your music work for you (the science of generating money by licensing your music to TV and film) are already included and well written inside. Marie Hamilton has done an incredible awesome job in compiling and creating this book.
Also the unique part of this book is the compilations of the “How to interface with the music industry to sell your songs”. Very informative, useful and well explained.
This book is really a great resource for those who want to learn more about the science of generating money by licensing your music to TV and film.
The book is worthy of attention!