BrianDWatson

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  • in reply to: Where might I be going wrong? #26372
    BrianDWatson
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    Oh and before you submit to a library listen to their music and make sure they / you are a good fit.

    It doesn’t hurt to have a reference track in your session to if you’re going for a certain vibe / dynamic as well.

    -B

    in reply to: Where might I be going wrong? #26371
    BrianDWatson
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    Everything Mark said is spot on.

    Find what genres you are good at and enjoy writing and just write as much as possible.

    A typical production cue will run from 90 seconds to 2 minutes on average, sometimes less sometimes more. The ABA structure is tried and true. That is the first A is your basic theme, B is usually a stripped down break, then the second A is similar to the first, but bigger, usually introducing more instrumentation / dynamics.

    As for mastering / mixing, look up the Recording Revolution on YouTube. Graham has a ton of tutorials covering mixing from a beginner’s level. It helped me a lot.

    Good luck and happy writing!

    in reply to: PMA, Yay or Nay? #26256
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    Excellent, thanks Art!

    in reply to: New ascap website #26232
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    So looks they updated it again. A step in the right direction, but still not as good as before, they give you the series total and cue sheet total, but still not how many cue sheets per show or series. So it looks like this…

    Cue Sheets: 1363
    Series: 224
    Episodes: 1344
    Non-Series: 19

    in reply to: New ascap website #26187
    BrianDWatson
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    Jay the way I understand it is, if a song of yours gets placed but it hasn’t been registered through ASCAP before hand, they will just give it a name based off the show. So if you have a song that hasn’t been registered by your publisher but it gets put on a cue sheet, ASCAP will just call it “Cool Show Cues” or whatever the show is called.

    in reply to: HitLicense – anybody have any experience? #26186
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    Yeah, I haven’t used the in a couple years. I got a lot of shortlists and one deal. I did the math and after the deal I broke even.

    One good thing about it is, you can use it to write different kinds of cues and get out of your safe zone (or to work on your chops in safe-ish zones). You also get ref and a deadline, so it’s good for that. Even though I only broke even, I also wrote a bunch of cues I might not have ever written.

    Another tip that I’ve heard, and it seems to ring true is that you shouldn’t bother with any of the listings that pay over $1000. They are almost always shopping around and for something that’s 5k or whatever they will be way more selective (and more competitive too). Unless of course you have a cue lying around and don’t mind thinking of it as a $5 lottery ticket 🙂

    in reply to: New ascap website #26185
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    Here’s the response I got…

    Thank you for your feedback! As ASCAP has newly redesigned Member Access, your concerns are on the radar as other members have inquired about cue sheet totals as well. ASCAP is looking into fixing this issue.

    in reply to: New ascap website #26174
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    I remember thinking “boy I hope if they ever update this site, they do something so it shows you what cue sheets are newest” didn’t realize they’d make it even harder to find, DANGIT.

    in reply to: New ascap website #26173
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    Oh haha, thanks Michael, duh.

    in reply to: New ascap website #26172
    BrianDWatson
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    There’s also no way to see how many cue sheets you have in total, very lame.

    in reply to: New ascap website #26169
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    Not only that, but before it was easy to scroll through a cue sheet and see what cue of yours they used, now it’s less obvious. So far I think it looks less early 2000s, but as far as navigation goes it’s actually a step back.

    in reply to: How long for a cue sheet to show up? #25053
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    Oh, haha so it all evens out anyway! Dang.

    in reply to: How long for a cue sheet to show up? #25051
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    Huh, so weird!

    Yeah it’s a bunch of non-exclusive stuff. I suppose I’d be okay with leaving the ones that are already there at ASCAP, but if BMI is really that much better than perhaps going forward it wouldn’t be a bad idea to move over there if possible.

    Thanks for the info, very helpful! Wish I’d known before I signed up for ASCAP! HA

    in reply to: How long for a cue sheet to show up? #25049
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    I see.

    So wait, you had cues in ASCAP and BMI at the same time (different songs I know, but you as a composer had cues registered with both BMI and ASCAP?) I didn’t know that was allowed!

    in reply to: How long for a cue sheet to show up? #25047
    BrianDWatson
    Participant

    “I left ASCAP after I realized that they missed around 70% of my performances. I’ve also found BMI to be fairly reasonable when it comes to correcting mssing cue sheets and cue sheet errors.”

    How much of a pain is it to switch to BMI? What does that entail if I have nearly 2000 tracks registered with ASCAP with different libraries?

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