This video is the best thing I’ve watched on UA-cam in the past months. Amazingly put Alex and thank you for sharing these amazing tips to all of us. You’re an inspiration bro!
Alex, I just wanted to thank you for what you do for all of us for free. You have no hidden intentions and no lofty ego. Unfortunately, today I saw a composer who is actually not even famous or anything like that, and I saw him having too much of an ego trip. I saw him humiliate others because they dared to question his expertise on a certain topic which eas disgusting to see. I immediately remembered you and realized how simple a person you are, even though you've been through a lot and you're one of the most famous composers, and you're still down-to-earth and here for people. And thank you for that, stay who you are.
Thank you so much Nick, but honestly spoken, I once was like this too a long time ago. I remember that a few bits of me were quite arrogant and that I questioned not successful or famous composers' feedback but the ones from people that were slightly above my level - even more when they gave feedback on my music, but I never heard of them before. It also didn't happen very often but more during my very early years :D ... fortunately, I have learned from this. So, let me guess, the person in question was very young? :)
@@AlexPfeffer Thank you for being honest, I'm glad to hear that you saw your mistakes and overcame them. Unfortunately, this man is not very young and has been doing this job for 10 years, that's why I was surprised by his arrogant behavior.
Thank you for the useful and amazing content. I really appreciate the candid and genuine nature with which you present the information for each topic! Keep up the inspiring work.
Great video Alex. Lover your inspirational approach to things. Ugh..mindset..that's still something I'm working on and is a tough one, but your videos definitely can give a good boost to a better mindset.
Ha! I did understand you had said "45 years ago"... and I thought to myself you are loooking daaaamn fine for a 75 years "young" gentleman ;) Thanks for all you're doing Alex and happy to hear you are in a good spot now! All the best for the future gigs and endeavors!
I’m really grateful I found your channel, and I enjoy these inspiration/idea videos just as much as your music videos! The main thought process that discourages me at times is knowing that there are thousands of other talented composers, perhaps more skilled than I, that are trying to make it in the music industry, or who already have careers, and it always leaves me thinking something like, “Is there even room for me?” or, “If there is, am I skilled enough?” Also being unsure what to pursue, because I love making everything from edm to orchestral, and given there are so many avenues to begin making money with music, I get option paralysis. Anyways, these videos and your channel in general really help to make me not feel alone and give me some ideas as well. I think they’ve helped me realize that I need to be more focused on one thing (building a portfolio) rather than trying to cast too many nets, especially in the beginning. Patience, consistency, and self-love (especially when I’m feeling like my music is crap) are the things I’m going to try and go forward with from now on!
Thank you so much for your kind words! However, my entire point of this video is to NOT stick with music only. The reason why so many composers do not make it is because they spend way too much time trying to get better and better. I mean, it is good to work on your music writing process ... but the point of my video is that you can create something as a side project making you enough money and entirely taking the worrying process away from you and eventually at one day, writing music for whatever you want without relying on work-to-hire :)
@@AlexPfefferDefinitely, I 100% agree! Diversifying your income is something I hear from almost all musicians, and I think that path is more sustainable as you say! But I have a really scattered adhd brain lol! What I mean to say is that I need to diversify, but also hone in my focus and take things one step at a time, don’t try to do everything at once. Don’t try to climb a mountain in one day. Step one for me I think, is having a nice portfolio online that will build credibility, and that can be a jumping off point for diversification; courses or lessons or products, because as you say, just focusing on music is usually not sustainable long term! Really appreciate you, Alex!!
@@brandonallen5566 Thanks so much again! We are similar, and you may call it scattered ADHD brain. I see it as the most incredible power I have. I try to see that "I want everything all at once" not in a negative way but as a positive one. I am interested in so many things and got so much energy and, almost every time, a vision of how I could turn this thought into something. Of course, you are correct that focusing on one thing at a time is the best way to get stuff done. However, please let yourself drift off on one or two days of the week and write down all your ideas. You will notice how this can turn into a great power! :)
@@AlexPfeffer I appreciate the advice, I hadn’t really thought of it that way! I’ll definitely set aside some time to write ideas down and strategize a game plan around my various goals! :)
Thank you so much Alex .! This is definitely a very inspiring special video . Thanks again.! For your word and always try to help us to continue in this journey. So glad came across your channel.! 🙏🏻 also to say that I absolutely love your video game course 🔥🔥🔥 .
Hey Alex, great video as always and thanks for being so honest and upfront on this one. Tiny detail in the way we Americans express dollars - we would normally state this in writing as "$100, 000" (without the quotes.) I first read this as 100 dollars and 000 cents, and knew that couldn't be right! Keep up the solid work, man!
I think it's because he's German/European (used to writing e.g. 100.000,01 - which makes much more sense) but appealing to an American/international audience.
I don't see any problem with it. You do not resell parts of the library nor even use their sounds. There could be exceptions but a company should welcome these because you basically advertise them too.
Thank you! Music for stock libraries will be never really passive income because your music won't be used forever. As said in the video, on average, stock music sells for around 10 years, so you have to always deliver.
Thank you Alex. I am watching this right now. The problem for me is I have is that I love music and try to do it on my spare time - however after working there isn't much energy left. The other problem is I make almost twice what you make here, so quitting my day job is not super tempting either..
Please be aware that what I show in this video is without writing any music at all. Meaning, writing music for a video game or trailer album. It is entirely done with my store and courses. Leaving BMI royalties and work-for-hire completely aside. If you make 200 grand a year but you want to write more music then you have to make a decision on eventually building something on how you can use the concept of your main job and relate it to a product or a course that could be interesting for other composers. Maybe this would be an option?
@@snarf1504 Hi, I work in a software company. We actually have unlimited vacation, but as most companies that offer this, you are responsible for keeping up with work coming in, so in reality it is hard to take that much time off. It's a good option to explore if I could get an actual agreement for less work days and have someone else pick up the slack though!
Alex, Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into your videos. Question : Let's say you compose two different genres of music Metal and Jazz. What is the most logical method, to use in one of them a pseudonym and have two promotion channels or to have them all together ?
Thanks so much! I honestly found that having two channels is a good way to promote stuff that isn't living close to each other. However, to care about two channels also demands a lot of time. What exactly do you want to do on your, or each of your, channels?
@@AlexPfeffer As a new composer who decided to make some tracks I discover that although I want to make a series of blues-funk tracks I also want to make a series of harder sounding metal, doom-epic style. If I make a UA-cam channel, the right thing is to put them all together and confuse the listener, or put them on different channels and use a pseudonym. It will be strange even for the algorithm to bring two results for the same name with different content. Also, I will have to do the same to put the pieces on the spotify, etc.
@@angeloszois9673 Ok, just a simple question. If you are interested in Jazz and Metal, are you a guitar player? Why not zooming out a bit more and not focus entirely on only these two styles but being THAT instrumentalist!? :) You could easily set up two playlists, one for Jazz, the other for Metal. I basically did the same with three main playlists. One for video games, one for trailer music, one for the business side of things. Yes, you could have two channels, but only having two channels to only post music tracks won't grow your channel.
@@AlexPfeffer The logic is not only to put music videos but also videos with the process, the thinking and the performance as a bass player, to achieve better results. Thank you so much :)
I have 215 tracks on Pond5. On track 180 I learned to master and mix fast, with a certain pattern and standard. (...), but not for all genre types yet, and some mixes are so hard to bounce without some distance of one week. When I reach 1000 I can say if I failed ;) Meanwhile, I would love some Pond5 advice. And maybe also a video about the guy who want unpaid work? I become weekly unpaid requests. I can´t say it is worthwhile trying to convert them, buy now the idea is to bring them to PAtreon as followers, who can download free music there.
why bother about all the unpaid requests and Pond5 sales if you can build something that brings in money that doesn't involve writing music as the main purpose? The point of my video was entirely about this :)
Off-topic: When you transfer your earned online money to your local bank account, do you pay local taxes? I know it's weird question but I need to know. Thanks, and great content.
It depends, you need to pay taxes, but please be more specific on situation since sometimes company that you work for pay taxes in your name. Some countries have tax treaty on double taxation. There is more situations so please be specific.
@@nickepic1863 Specific more than that? I clearly said when someone transfer cash that was earned ONLINE to his/her local bank, does the bank send a letter to the tax authority so that the tax authority deduct taxes from that cash? that's a specific situation for you here. I didn't mention any company or any employee or any thing. You make me feel that I was talking in general, I wasn't lol
@@nickepic1863 ok ok, here is a more specific question. How a country apply taxes on ONLINE EARNING? and how does the government know about it? what are the procedures? I am not talking about corporates or local jobs, I am talking about online earning through paypal or payoneer or anything else :)
Congrats on your entrepreneurship! But, not to be Negative, but it seems to me, that the trend for "composers" now is to teach others HOW to compose, or to teach others about HOW to pursue a career in the music industry whether library, sync, broadcast, games etc. It is the same thing with Evenant, too many Trailer composers so teach Trailer composition? Is that because composers can no longer actually earn a living just by writing music? Truthfully, how much money do you earn from actual music? This is not an attack, I just want to know your opinion for my own path and plans. Is this path dead and dying?
short answer: yep, if you have a decent following (getting there is the tricky part) it's much more lucrative to sell courses, but that holds true for most other art/business fields.
It is the same trend as with everything since forever. For example, some guitar players have a career with a band, others turn into studio musicians while others do guitar lessons. Then there are people that, as explained in the video, had so much work and projects (sometimes four at the same time) that they were looking for a solution to change the situation. So, it is not that I didn't find work and out of needs started making courses or Midi packs. I wanted to explore another way and wanted see what was ahead, so I listened to others and basically started courses to talk about the topics I get questions from around the world since 15 years. If I could I would do everything for free but if you work on setting up a course for around 9 months and still add content after two years since launch, you can't live from air and love :)
Sadly yes, but there is a difference of selling a dream or showing actual development, methods and planning that the dream doesn't stay a dream. I do that since the beginning. I laid it all open all strategies. Someone could easily jump into it by setting up a store and have their first sale in a few weeks from now. The decision if something stays a dream or not is mostly your own decision.
So, instead of writing music, composers should be creating enticing courses and midi packs for beginner composers... yeah there is no way in which this will end well, except for those grandfathering this system.
Please forgive me but if I use that narrow position I could also say: please all composers keep creating music and at some point there is no project or ear left to listen or in the need of your music. I sat down for a few days and created a list of what people can actually sell BESIDES working on their music. I quickly came up with 30 ideas that would sell well. This is not about black and white attitude or to replace something entirely. But what is better? To make income from music in different areas or still be forced to work full or halftime job at something one doesn't enjoy?
Hello Alex, this is strange because your video is probably getting the opposite effect on me. Your video frustrates me. I thought royalties paid off and it was like a kind of long-term investment. At least that's what I heard from a professional but maybe it depends on what you do. Maybe the music in a movie pays longer. Basically it will make me think about what is not totally bad in itself. Good evening !
Hey Amy, I am sorry the video had the opposite effect on you. Yes, library music pays for along period but only 10 years on average. You have to make sure that you always deliver. When it comes to movies it depends on the company you work for but also on the deal and the streaming/royalty situation. My goal was to give composers and musicians an additional method to offer not just their music writing service but a course or a product. There are so many endless possibilities. You can always drop me a message at alex@alexpfeffer.co if you need some more inspiration on that.
@@AlexPfeffer Yes I understand the objective of this video and the previous one which dealt with the same point. However, I had misjudged the possible income with the sale in libraries over the very long term (10 years and more). I had as we say in Quebec "a shower of cold water". However, as I said: it feeds my thinking and that's not a bad thing. Thank you for everything and have a good day !
Thanks Alex! For me, watching this video, not only getting useful information, it also replaces going to a psychoanalyst.
Thank you so much!
You are so honest person and straight to the point and it’s my first you tube comment since 10 years thanks a lot
Wow thank you sooooo much!
Nice and good thinks, thank you!
This video is the best thing I’ve watched on UA-cam in the past months. Amazingly put Alex and thank you for sharing these amazing tips to all of us. You’re an inspiration bro!
Thanks so much man!
Alex, I just wanted to thank you for what you do for all of us for free. You have no hidden intentions and no lofty ego.
Unfortunately, today I saw a composer who is actually not even famous or anything like that, and I saw him having too much of an ego trip. I saw him humiliate others because they dared to question his expertise on a certain topic which eas disgusting to see.
I immediately remembered you and realized how simple a person you are, even though you've been through a lot and you're one of the most famous composers, and you're still down-to-earth and here for people. And thank you for that, stay who you are.
Thank you so much Nick, but honestly spoken, I once was like this too a long time ago. I remember that a few bits of me were quite arrogant and that I questioned not successful or famous composers' feedback but the ones from people that were slightly above my level - even more when they gave feedback on my music, but I never heard of them before. It also didn't happen very often but more during my very early years :D ... fortunately, I have learned from this. So, let me guess, the person in question was very young? :)
@@AlexPfeffer Thank you for being honest, I'm glad to hear that you saw your mistakes and overcame them. Unfortunately, this man is not very young and has been doing this job for 10 years, that's why I was surprised by his arrogant behavior.
@@nickepic1863 Argh, bummer :D
Thank you for the useful and amazing content. I really appreciate the candid and genuine nature with which you present the information for each topic! Keep up the inspiring work.
Such a great video Alex!! Thanks a million 🙏🙏
You've answered so many questions I wanted to ask you, in this video. Thank you Alex. You keep on inspiring me!
Ein unglaublich inspirierendes und ehrliches Video. Danke dafür! 👍🏻😊
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, am having a writersblock at this moment.
I just found your channel and I’m very impressed and inspired by what you do
Thanks so much!
Great video Alex. Lover your inspirational approach to things. Ugh..mindset..that's still something I'm working on and is a tough one, but your videos definitely can give a good boost to a better mindset.
Dude brilliant tip on content multiplication!
Your advices are pure gold, Alex! Danke schön!
You're welcome! Thanks for checking out my video! :)
Ha! I did understand you had said "45 years ago"... and I thought to myself you are loooking daaaamn fine for a 75 years "young" gentleman ;)
Thanks for all you're doing Alex and happy to hear you are in a good spot now! All the best for the future gigs and endeavors!
Haha, thank you!
Danke ,fuer die gute information.
I’m really grateful I found your channel, and I enjoy these inspiration/idea videos just as much as your music videos! The main thought process that discourages me at times is knowing that there are thousands of other talented composers, perhaps more skilled than I, that are trying to make it in the music industry, or who already have careers, and it always leaves me thinking something like, “Is there even room for me?” or, “If there is, am I skilled enough?” Also being unsure what to pursue, because I love making everything from edm to orchestral, and given there are so many avenues to begin making money with music, I get option paralysis.
Anyways, these videos and your channel in general really help to make me not feel alone and give me some ideas as well. I think they’ve helped me realize that I need to be more focused on one thing (building a portfolio) rather than trying to cast too many nets, especially in the beginning. Patience, consistency, and self-love (especially when I’m feeling like my music is crap) are the things I’m going to try and go forward with from now on!
Thank you so much for your kind words! However, my entire point of this video is to NOT stick with music only. The reason why so many composers do not make it is because they spend way too much time trying to get better and better. I mean, it is good to work on your music writing process ... but the point of my video is that you can create something as a side project making you enough money and entirely taking the worrying process away from you and eventually at one day, writing music for whatever you want without relying on work-to-hire :)
@@AlexPfefferDefinitely, I 100% agree! Diversifying your income is something I hear from almost all musicians, and I think that path is more sustainable as you say! But I have a really scattered adhd brain lol! What I mean to say is that I need to diversify, but also hone in my focus and take things one step at a time, don’t try to do everything at once. Don’t try to climb a mountain in one day.
Step one for me I think, is having a nice portfolio online that will build credibility, and that can be a jumping off point for diversification; courses or lessons or products, because as you say, just focusing on music is usually not sustainable long term!
Really appreciate you, Alex!!
@@brandonallen5566 Thanks so much again! We are similar, and you may call it scattered ADHD brain. I see it as the most incredible power I have. I try to see that "I want everything all at once" not in a negative way but as a positive one. I am interested in so many things and got so much energy and, almost every time, a vision of how I could turn this thought into something. Of course, you are correct that focusing on one thing at a time is the best way to get stuff done. However, please let yourself drift off on one or two days of the week and write down all your ideas. You will notice how this can turn into a great power! :)
@@AlexPfeffer I appreciate the advice, I hadn’t really thought of it that way! I’ll definitely set aside some time to write ideas down and strategize a game plan around my various goals! :)
Very inspiring as always Alex, thank you !
Thank you so much Alex .! This is definitely a very inspiring special video .
Thanks again.! For your word and always try to help us to continue in this journey.
So glad came across your channel.! 🙏🏻 also to say that I absolutely love your video game course 🔥🔥🔥 .
THank you sooo much! ❤
Great advice here, keep it up, Alex! 🚀
Damn this is so inspiring to hear.
Amazing video Alex!
Very inspiring video Alex, really cool to see how you have developed your career so far, thanks for the content!
Thank you!
Fantastic! Subbed!
Thank you sooo much!
Thanks for these gems!
Hey Alex, great video as always and thanks for being so honest and upfront on this one. Tiny detail in the way we Americans express dollars - we would normally state this in writing as "$100, 000" (without the quotes.) I first read this as 100 dollars and 000 cents, and knew that couldn't be right! Keep up the solid work, man!
I think it's because he's German/European (used to writing e.g. 100.000,01 - which makes much more sense) but appealing to an American/international audience.
Thanks so much Keith. Yes you are right. My German genes messed this up again 😂
@@AlexPfeffer nahh the European system is superior :D
@@snarf1504 xD
Great video, thanks!
Is it ok to release a pack of midi loops based around a certain library? Is it ok to market it that way?
I don't see any problem with it. You do not resell parts of the library nor even use their sounds. There could be exceptions but a company should welcome these because you basically advertise them too.
I'm good and rich!
Congrats! ❤️
Hi alex great video, very inspiring thank you!
what you think about making music for stock libraries for a passive income?
Thank you! Music for stock libraries will be never really passive income because your music won't be used forever. As said in the video, on average, stock music sells for around 10 years, so you have to always deliver.
Thank you Alex. I am watching this right now. The problem for me is I have is that I love music and try to do it on my spare time - however after working there isn't much energy left. The other problem is I make almost twice what you make here, so quitting my day job is not super tempting either..
Please be aware that what I show in this video is without writing any music at all. Meaning, writing music for a video game or trailer album. It is entirely done with my store and courses. Leaving BMI royalties and work-for-hire completely aside.
If you make 200 grand a year but you want to write more music then you have to make a decision on eventually building something on how you can use the concept of your main job and relate it to a product or a course that could be interesting for other composers. Maybe this would be an option?
@@AlexPfeffer Thanks Alex, that is a good idea and food for thought. Appreciate you always jumping into the comments as well!
@@tosvus what line of work you in?
If you make that much, perhaps you could look into working 0.5 - 1 day less?
@@snarf1504 Hi, I work in a software company. We actually have unlimited vacation, but as most companies that offer this, you are responsible for keeping up with work coming in, so in reality it is hard to take that much time off. It's a good option to explore if I could get an actual agreement for less work days and have someone else pick up the slack though!
awesome man, danke vielmals
thanks for sharing! hey AP I noticed your compressor/gate kills too much transients making it hard to understand you at times. pls fix this
Thanks yes, I changed that already.
@@AlexPfeffer great. thanks!
Alex, Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into your videos. Question : Let's say you compose two different genres of music Metal and Jazz. What is the most logical method, to use in one of them a pseudonym and have two promotion channels or to have them all together ?
Thanks so much! I honestly found that having two channels is a good way to promote stuff that isn't living close to each other. However, to care about two channels also demands a lot of time. What exactly do you want to do on your, or each of your, channels?
@@AlexPfeffer As a new composer who decided to make some tracks I discover that although I want to make a series of blues-funk tracks I also want to make a series of harder sounding metal, doom-epic style. If I make a UA-cam channel, the right thing is to put them all together and confuse the listener, or put them on different channels and use a pseudonym. It will be strange even for the algorithm to bring two results for the same name with different content. Also, I will have to do the same to put the pieces on the spotify, etc.
@@angeloszois9673 Ok, just a simple question. If you are interested in Jazz and Metal, are you a guitar player? Why not zooming out a bit more and not focus entirely on only these two styles but being THAT instrumentalist!? :)
You could easily set up two playlists, one for Jazz, the other for Metal. I basically did the same with three main playlists. One for video games, one for trailer music, one for the business side of things. Yes, you could have two channels, but only having two channels to only post music tracks won't grow your channel.
@@AlexPfeffer The logic is not only to put music videos but also videos with the process, the thinking and the performance as a bass player, to achieve better results. Thank you so much :)
I have 215 tracks on Pond5. On track 180 I learned to master and mix fast, with a certain pattern and standard. (...), but not for all genre types yet, and some mixes are so hard to bounce without some distance of one week. When I reach 1000 I can say if I failed ;) Meanwhile, I would love some Pond5 advice. And maybe also a video about the guy who want unpaid work? I become weekly unpaid requests. I can´t say it is worthwhile trying to convert them, buy now the idea is to bring them to PAtreon as followers, who can download free music there.
why bother about all the unpaid requests and Pond5 sales if you can build something that brings in money that doesn't involve writing music as the main purpose? The point of my video was entirely about this :)
Don't bother with pond5. They take a huge cut and it's mostly the low quality/amateur market anyways.
Hi! I love your content! Do you have any tips where I can create my own store to sell music licenses for my music? Thank you!
Sellfy would be my way to go! It is very easy to use and affordable with 29 USD per month, lowest tier.
@@AlexPfeffer Awesome! Do you have an affiliate link with them?
@@piyasirimusicproduction actually yes! Thank you! get.sellfy.com/7h9g3og5u4v8
Off-topic: When you transfer your earned online money to your local bank account, do you pay local taxes? I know it's weird question but I need to know. Thanks, and great content.
It depends, you need to pay taxes, but please be more specific on situation since sometimes company that you work for pay taxes in your name. Some countries have tax treaty on double taxation. There is more situations so please be specific.
Yes, I pay taxes here in Germany.
@@nickepic1863 Specific more than that? I clearly said when someone transfer cash that was earned ONLINE to his/her local bank, does the bank send a letter to the tax authority so that the tax authority deduct taxes from that cash? that's a specific situation for you here. I didn't mention any company or any employee or any thing. You make me feel that I was talking in general, I wasn't lol
@@AlexPfeffer I know you pay taxes in Germany Alex, you also interpreted my question as a general question like our buddy Nick up there lol
@@nickepic1863 ok ok, here is a more specific question. How a country apply taxes on ONLINE EARNING? and how does the government know about it? what are the procedures? I am not talking about corporates or local jobs, I am talking about online earning through paypal or payoneer or anything else :)
The moment I misheard the intro as "45 years ago" instead of "4-5 years ago" ... omg. Sry, had to share this :)
😂😂😂
Thanks
The Audio Entrepreneur Challenge link is dead
Should be working again
@@AlexPfeffer Thanks :)
Congrats on your entrepreneurship!
But, not to be Negative, but it seems to me, that the trend for "composers" now is to teach others HOW to compose, or to teach others about HOW to pursue a career in the music industry whether library, sync, broadcast, games etc. It is the same thing with Evenant, too many Trailer composers so teach Trailer composition?
Is that because composers can no longer actually earn a living just by writing music? Truthfully, how much money do you earn from actual music? This is not an attack, I just want to know your opinion for my own path and plans. Is this path dead and dying?
short answer: yep, if you have a decent following (getting there is the tricky part) it's much more lucrative to sell courses, but that holds true for most other art/business fields.
Selling dreams is always more lucrative.
@@snarf1504 I like the way you put that...
It is the same trend as with everything since forever. For example, some guitar players have a career with a band, others turn into studio musicians while others do guitar lessons. Then there are people that, as explained in the video, had so much work and projects (sometimes four at the same time) that they were looking for a solution to change the situation. So, it is not that I didn't find work and out of needs started making courses or Midi packs. I wanted to explore another way and wanted see what was ahead, so I listened to others and basically started courses to talk about the topics I get questions from around the world since 15 years. If I could I would do everything for free but if you work on setting up a course for around 9 months and still add content after two years since launch, you can't live from air and love :)
Sadly yes, but there is a difference of selling a dream or showing actual development, methods and planning that the dream doesn't stay a dream. I do that since the beginning. I laid it all open all strategies. Someone could easily jump into it by setting up a store and have their first sale in a few weeks from now. The decision if something stays a dream or not is mostly your own decision.
I'm all for people moving off Shopify. It's bloated and they price like it's valuable bloat. But it's not. It's bloat.
5:08 in my opnion he is paid to get inspired. But you know, sell your product for ask for it...
sorry, can't quite follow what you want to say
So, instead of writing music, composers should be creating enticing courses and midi packs for beginner composers... yeah there is no way in which this will end well, except for those grandfathering this system.
Please forgive me but if I use that narrow position I could also say: please all composers keep creating music and at some point there is no project or ear left to listen or in the need of your music.
I sat down for a few days and created a list of what people can actually sell BESIDES working on their music. I quickly came up with 30 ideas that would sell well.
This is not about black and white attitude or to replace something entirely. But what is better? To make income from music in different areas or still be forced to work full or halftime job at something one doesn't enjoy?
Hello Alex, this is strange because your video is probably getting the opposite effect on me.
Your video frustrates me.
I thought royalties paid off and it was like a kind of long-term investment. At least that's what I heard from a professional but maybe it depends on what you do.
Maybe the music in a movie pays longer.
Basically it will make me think about what is not totally bad in itself.
Good evening !
Hey Amy, I am sorry the video had the opposite effect on you. Yes, library music pays for along period but only 10 years on average. You have to make sure that you always deliver. When it comes to movies it depends on the company you work for but also on the deal and the streaming/royalty situation. My goal was to give composers and musicians an additional method to offer not just their music writing service but a course or a product. There are so many endless possibilities. You can always drop me a message at alex@alexpfeffer.co if you need some more inspiration on that.
@@AlexPfeffer Yes I understand the objective of this video and the previous one which dealt with the same point.
However, I had misjudged the possible income with the sale in libraries over the very long term (10 years and more). I had as we say in Quebec "a shower of cold water".
However, as I said: it feeds my thinking and that's not a bad thing.
Thank you for everything and have a good day !
How old are you Alex? If I may ask 🤣
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@@AlexPfeffer Merci !
@@AlexPfeffer What? You trolling right? You look like 32-35yo.
@@nickepic1863 Haha, no, I was born in 1975 :D Thank you so much for your kind words!
Always super inspiring. Thanks Alex!