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Anders, songs sound good to me. Reminds me of how many talented people are out there. But like yourself, I’m pretty new to this too, so I can’t speak as to place-ability of them.
But they sound current, which is always good. I understand libraries are always interested in keeping their catalogues modern sounding.
I’m listening to “Thirty Degrees” as I type, and I can almost see the corporate video in front of my eyes, so I think that corporate placements are possible. Nice keyboard work!
8 to 12 hours. Spread out over a week, as I’ve got a day job. I would love to produce more than 1 a week but that’s been my average.
I liked it. Wonderfully under stated, could fit into the background of a scene well. There’s a tension and suspense, like someone hiding from some monster or danger. And then at around 1:50 the music picks up, a little percussion, I can picture them taking off and running.
When you said self-indulgent, I was expecting giant epic strings and effects and heavy blasts of brass. That could be beautiful on its own but useless for placement anywhere. So, I don’t think self-indulgent is the word here.
That was nice! With a lot of tracks, I’ll get a little bored a minute in or so, but this really held my attention. Not by being big and epic (that’s what self-indulgent means to me) but rather by building tension, being under-stated and telling a musical story.
Thanks for the good suggestion. That seems like a good balanced two-prong approach. One let’s you write a little for yourself, and the other forces you to write a little for the market. I’m trying to find a balance there where I still enjoy what I’m writing but then also making some money too.
I was listening to the best selling tracks at a music library and they all sounded like tweaks of Clocks by Coldplay. Does the artist inside really want to write yet another barely disguised copy of what’s popular? But… guess you gotta do what you gotta do.
Maybe write two “Clocks” for every unmarketable, edgy, avante garde, weirdness?
Well, I think a statement like “the checks are CRAZY!!” will grab just about anyone’s attention…
It’s my opinion that most people who would dare to call themselves a composer would prefer to write the more complex/instrumental stuff. I think that’s more rewarding than writing four chords with minimal instrumentation in order to not conflict with dialog or overdubs. But… if that’s what pays the bills.
Having said that, where would one go about finding these companies with these fat checks for hungry composers?
Wow. I’m still pretty new to this music library business, but that sounds pretty clean and awesome to me. I love riffy guitar songs, and this certainly has that. Very tight, between the guitar and drums.
Who’s doing the vocals? Is that you? Or some local talent? Sounds professional.
Welcome! You’ll find this is a great website. Lots of good information in the library ratings database.
Nicely composed and well mixed. Lots of nice of little accents throughout that indicate time, love, and polishing of the song. I’m new to this business myself, as a matter of fact just accepted to my first library today.
But the way I understand it is that this isn’t the world of the struggling artist, who spends his days polishing a masterpiece of aching beauty and brilliance. That’s a nice picture. But I’m afraid this is the world of factory production, pull a lever and a song pops out, Just keep working the line, keep digging the mines, and sometimes something beautiful will fall out. Just don’t stop working and fall in love with it, gotta move on.