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Andy Price

How to get started (and get paid) writing music for sync licensing

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Though working on improving your creative processes never hurts, you’ve probably not considered that among the many forgotten old tracks and unfinished projects on your hard drive, it’s totally possible that there’s some perfectly sync-able material just waiting to be unearthed. 

Sync licensing companies offer the means to offer up your roster of tracks to music supervisors and creatives who spend their time constantly on the hunt for the right material to fit their films, TV shows, adverts and games. But is it really as simple as uploading your tracks, and waiting for the royalties to roll in, as your unfinished jam from 2017 appears on an episode of Stranger Things?

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