Hope everyone is safe & healthy!
Just wanted to shoot over a reminder to say we’re still open for business, accepting and populating our TV publishers catalog with YOUR music!
Times are tough, but push forward – we want you to succeed and we can’t help you if you aren’t sending us your music. 🙂
Remember – those who get placements are the ones submitting in tracks. Now’s a perfect time to get back on the grind and start cranking out those tv cues while others aren’t.
UPDATE:
Right now – we are focusing strictly on instrumental cues which are usually 90-120 second in length tracks that evoke a mood, style, or genre.
Hold off on any full songs with vocals. We’’ll let you know once we can start that back up.
Ps. Be sure to submit alt mixes with each cue to maximize your placement potential!
Overall – stay safe & get your instrumental cues firing up and start getting them submitted in!
– MFTV Team
| Music Placement Strategy Tip: |
| Create Valuable Content – Don’t waste your time creating music people do not want to use or hear. Keep it modern and ask yourself questions like, Does this music sound modern, Is this a style that someone would want to use commercially, how can I be of maximum service and cater to the needs of today’s music industry? What type of music is actually getting placed and what style do they actually want? Another thing: Watch the TV shows and listen!! Do some research. You’ll hear what is being used and wanted in terms of style and type of music. Another thing that can devalue and break your songs chance of placement is how you structure or lay out your track. Create/Build your tracks with your customer in mind. Put yourself in the shoes of a music supervisor adding music into a show or film. They need transitions to move from one scene to the next, intros, outros, quick jump ins, vibes, moods, moment makers etc. Taking a day to strategize or do some research is super important! Secondly, recognizable and modern sounding tracks… you can’t go wrong with those! Listen to the Billboard top 100 tracks – those styles are in right now and always a good clue to what will work and is in popular demand. Lastly, create alt mixes of each cue you create! TV placement is some what of a numbers game. The more quality tracks you create and distribute, the more opportunities you’ll have to get placements. Another positive is when you create more and more tracks, your production skills increase, and your personal music catalog grows. This is great for you. Do some math – if you sent us 2 cues with 3 alt mixes each – giving you a total of 8 tracks a week, you would have over 400+ tracks submitted tracks in a year. That’s a great goal for each of you and puts you in a top position to see lots of placements $$$$ Think about it? 2 cues and a few alt mixes a week? That’s not hard at all to achieve. Overall, for best results – just stay consistent, write regularly and you should be golden! Let’s Gooo! Ok go write and fill that pipeline! |
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Working efficiently is so important. Once you join our team, we need to work like a team. Please help us by reading and following directions. Our process, is laid out in steps for you to follow. Check out the “Getting Started” Steps here. We need to be professional in all submissions, meta data, and labeling.
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Not Sure What You Should Be Writing For RIGHT NOW?
Write for our On-Going TV Placement Opportunities all year long! Here’s a few main specifics:
Login here to view more in depth styles, moods, and types of music that are needed.
| Here is a list of genres of artists and band types needed, so get your tracks ready. 1. Current Hip Hop with (clean) vocals. 2. Old School Soul with vocals. (These should be fun and uptempo). 3. Stomp Rock (Imagine Dragons meets One Republic kind of thing). 4. Modern R&B with vocals. 5. Modern Rock of all kinds but an emphasis on sport cues would be best.. 6. Latin/ Cuban/Island music. 7. Modern Country. (Jason Aldean-Florida Georgia Line) 8. Quirky, fun music. 9. Authentic Jazz. 10. Indie Artist-focused music. 11. Black Keys 12. Royal Blood (a side note, no one has come close to this so if you have it or know someone, get them in this now!) 13. Tame Impala 14. Banks 15. Spoon |
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Submission BRIEF – 1 song with vocals. – Links to your social media – Deadline is ASAP so please send right away. – Looking for bands/artists that have a social media presence – This is not for producer only talent, sorry – Submit using a box.com link – Get your box.com free account here https://www.box.com/pricing/individual – All submission must go through our portal here https://musicfortv.net/submission/ – Folder must be labeled – Artist Name – Genre – SM – Date – Tracks should have instrumentals ready to go if asked for |
It’s time to start submitting material for the paid producer gigs that are available.
Please, read this email over and over again. There is a lot of info. Part of this submission process is seeing how you follow directions.
The company choosing producers for the last round has picked 5 of our clients! We are pretty excited about this, as is the production house.
They are so excited, in fact, they’ve asked us to search for more awesome producers. So thanks to all of you who submitted work.
You may submit up to 3 tracks, with vocals or without, but they may only be 30 seconds in length. And here’s why.
A lot of you missed out on this opportunity because your tracks had way too long intros and/or discernible begin gin, middle and end. So now in 30 seconds you must create a brilliant piece of work that has a beginning middle and end.
Trust me when I tell you, a loop over and over again, is not for this. You all need to understand that this is the big leagues and this is a DREAM company to work for. They do CUSTOM music for the BIGGEST companies in the WORLD.
So bring your A-GAME!
I am telling you right now this is HUGE for all of you that want full time jobs producing music and/or want to earn up to $500 per track, up front plus your writers royalties.
All subs have to have metadata regarding your writers name, genre and keywords as described in our protocol sheet starting at the “Track Length” section here:(but ignore the protocol track length. Tracks need to be 30sec exactly.)
https://musicfortv.net/prep-delivery-protocol/
Get your free box.com account herehttps://www.box.com/pricing/individual
Please feel free to email me with any questions.
There are literally dozens of jobs available.
You must be a GOLD member to submit. If you’re not a Gold member, take the time now to sign up. If you’re a Bronze member, send respond to this email and we will give you upgrade instructions.
https://musicfortv.net/gold-tv-pitching-plan/ Grab GOLD Here!
BRIEF
– All tracks have to be 30 seconds in length.
– Deadline is Thursday Jan 30th 10am est But send asap because I am delivering tracks that fit their needs as they come in.
– Endings must be tight, button, and/or stingers
– You may submit multiple genres in one box.com folder
– Get your box.com free account here https://www.box.com/pricing/individual
– All submission must go through our portal here https://musicfortv.net/submission/
– Folder must be labeled – Name – Genre(s) – Paid Gig – Date
– Vocals where needed with regards to genre.
– Tracks with vocals should have instrumentals ready to go if asked for
– All tracks you submit must be available for sale.
They pay up to $500 per track.
If they buy a track you will keep your writers share of the publishing.
If they hire you, your opportunities for earnings are through the roof.
Here is a list of genres, so you can get ready.
1. Current Hip Hop with (clean) vocals.
2. 90’s Hip Hop
3. Old School Soul with vocals. (These should be fun and uptempo).
4. Stomp Rock (Imagine Dragons meets One Republic kind of thing).
6. Orchestral music: film trailers, action/adventure cues.
7. Modern Rock of all kinds but an emphasis on sport cues would be best..
11. Authentic Jazz.
12. Indie Artist-focused music.
13. Black Keys
14. Royal Blood (a side note, no one has come close to this so if you have it or know someone, get them in this now!)
15. Tame Impala
16. Banks
17. Spoon
18. John Williams
19. Hans Zimmer
In December we placed 6 of our producers with potential jobs. Now we’ve placed FIVE more, in ONE week! .
GOLD members may submit for these jobs. Bronze members please email for details to submit.
https://musicfortv.net/gold-tv-pitching-plan/ Grab GOLD Here!
Bronze packages are still great for cue unlimited submissions but you will not have access to staff job opportunities. Of course you may upgrade your Bronze to GOLD. Just shoot us an email and let us know.
Keep in mind that in between these “job placement” requests you’ll be able to submit material, to us, and get it placed dozens of shows. All of this info is on our site. Www.musicfortv.net
Please read all of the briefs several times, and then read them again.
Please ask questions as we are here to help you. We want you to succeed! When you succeed we succeed.
Feel free to forward this email to anyone that may be interested. If they sign up we will send you $10.
Thank you all again for making MFTV look awesome to some really big players!
Happy Tuesday!
This is an amazing opportunity for MEMBERS only! If you’re not a member and you’re getting this email, this means that you passed our audition and are allowed to sign up here https://musicfortv.net/shop/
We strongly encourage you to sign up now because your chances of immediate placement are through the roof for this one.
Music Needed: MTV Catfish
We just got a request from the show MTV Catfish. We will be submitting new music to the network every week. Deadline is on-goin until further specified. We only ask that you focus on quality over quantity. Here’s a breakdown of what we will need:
Indie genres are the highest priority.
Deadline:On-going
Type of Submission: Non-Exclusive Instrumentals
Members you of course have wide open unlimitedd submission for this and this is ongoing. But get on it asap because someone will beat you to it, if you don’t!
For those of you still waiting on the side, go to the link and sign up https://musicfortv.net/shop/
You are seriously missing so many opportunities that are ongoing.
90% OF OUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE ONGOING WITH DOZENS OF SHOWS. AND WE DO NOT SEND OUT EMAILS FOR THESE. PLEASE DO NOT GET CONFUSED AND THINK THAT WE ONLY SEND OUT EMAIL REQUESTS.
This is what makes us different than everyone else. We are constantly supplying shows with music. We don’t waste time with email requests unless there is BIG money involved. Of course you’ve seen those emails and they are great! But becoming a consistent supplier of cues to our shows is going to make you the long term money!
STOP WASTING TIME AND GET IT DONE NOW!
https://musicfortv.net/shop/
Alt mixes are pretty much like the full version of the track but with parts/instruments taken away. Not stems.
Here’s an example:
You have a full mix with everything in it – like bass, piano melody, drums, synths
You could make a minimal alt mix that might just be the drums, synths and bass with no piano melody
You could make a no drums mix – where its everything in your full track without the drums/percussion.
Here’s some examples of alt mixes and how to Label your tracks:
https://app.box.com/s/af4n5mz7ma4gp2gu1m9bo403vln8yhj3
You’ll see I have a main track then a minimal, no percussion alt mix etc.
An alt mix needs to be a complete track on it’s own.
If you have a full mix of a track called Happy Days
You could literally cut all the drums out of your main cue, export it out then label that track the (no drum) alt mix. i.e Happy Days (No Drums)
Here’s a solid video showing you how to make alt mixes:
Our protocol is a little different from how this guy and his clients need material but it should give you a better understanding.
When making an alt mix think about the music supervisor putting your music in a show? He might like your main track but doesn’t need the drums in the track or maybe the melody or lead synths are too complex and just wants a simple minimal version with no melody and only rhythm.
Some of our features placements! The only difference between a successful TV composer and you is that they didn’t quit and kept writing. Anyone can do this! WE SUPPLY MUSIC to tons of TV shows regularly as a trusted source. Most of our tv music opportunities are ongoing year round so you get the maximum upscale potential to submit your music to networks and start making a name for yourself in the TV placement game. Our service is low key 🔑. You can do this in your spare time without the stress of a quick deadline. Write and submit material at your own pace.
Just wanted to encourage everyone to keep up the good work, keep writing and don’t give up! Try to stay persistent and consistent. Setting Weekly goals helps me keep a pipeline of cues flowing into our publishers.
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