Sunday, January 13, 2013

Get Your Music On TV - Get your music in commercials, TV segments and more!

You don’t need to be a big name musician with lots of contacts to get your music on TV OR compete with everyone else for the same gigs with sites like Taxi.com. 

There’s a niche industry that pulls music tracks for commercials and TV every day. Yet most musicians completely ignore this route. I personally placed music in hundreds of commercials and for TV and never used a site like Taxi to find talent. Musicians and music houses came directly to me.

You absolutely DON’T have to waste your time and talent competing with dime a dozen musicians on services like Taxi. Or hunting down representation that tells you what you want to hear and fills your head with empty promises. You can get your music into the hands of people who make decisions. Right now.

All you need to know is how to find the most overlooked person out there who desperately needs new music. And be ready to deliver. The demand for new music is unbelievably high.

During my time in New York, I had tons of friends in bands waiting to get discovered, schlepping their equipment around in cabs and on the subways, performing in dive bars in front of a dozen people who didn’t care about their real talent. Then leaving with $10 in their pocket and a free beer before doing it all over again the following weekend in between their dreaded 9 to 5 day job. Talk about depressing.

I personally placed 100′s of songs for commercials and TV segments over the years and constantly needed new music.

And yet I have absolutely no background in music. This is where musicians get lost in the journey and white noise of their career. They just keep pounding on the same doors every other musician pounding on. Instead of finding people like me, literally waiting for music to come into my office.

There was no audition process or secret connection to meet me. I would listen to just about any mp3, CD or music portfolio link that came my way. In fact, it made my job so much easier to have new music pour in on a regular basis. I was completely stressed out trying to find it otherwise.

There was a catch. The music had to be formatted properly and sound professional. Without a few key elements, red flags were raised that the musician didn’t know what he was doing. Their music was tossed. 

Musicians only needed to know where to find me and what I did for a living. And no. My job WAS NOT any of the following: 

There’s such an easier way to break into the industry than drinking away your sorrows that no one appreciates how hard you work at your music. Or how about buying into this idea you have to wait around for years and pay your dues instead of taking immediate action?

Or maybe wasting away the best years of...

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