SkillShare How to Make Money with Music Licensing

What is Music Licensing and how you use it? In this course composer/sound designer Gary Hiebner will guide you through the interesting world of Music Licensing and how it can benefit you as a musician. In this modern day world of music making, multiple revenue streams is the true way to go to be successful as an artist. And Music Licensing is a great way to take the music you already have and see if it can be used in other projects and media.

We will cover the different terms used in this field so you become familiar with how it works. Then we will explore the stock library platforms and how you can submit music to them. With these platforms titles, tags and keywords are of the utmost importance for generating sales. We’ll guide you on best practices for these and how they work.

Then we’ll move onto how to take these same principles to build up your music portfolio. And finally we’ll give you advice on how you can contact music libraries direct to show them your music.

Course Content includes:

What is Music Licensing?
Terms used in this Field
Stock Libraries Available
Types of music you can submit
How to Upload songs, with titles, keywords and tags
Promoting your music
Contacting Music Libraries
And Building up your Music Portfolio
What You'll Get From This Course:

A Guide on how Music Licensing works and which avenues you can go down
Exploring the Stock Library platforms
How to build up your music portfolio for these libraries
How to promote yourself and contact Music Libraries

Course Goals:
At the end of this course you’ll have a good understanding of how music licensing works, and why it is a beneficial path for you to go down as a musician, and a way to generate extra revenue for your musical journey.

This class is geared towards musicians who want to explore extra ways of generating money for their music. This will help you along your musical path, and ensure your success as a musician.