Your weekly Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Proper File Management Will Save Your Life

Kathy Fernandes, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for the world's largest sheet music retailer, JW Pepper, comes on the podcast to talk about what it's like marketing at such a large scale and what composers can learn from it. We also talk about recent developments in copyright law and the work of the Music Publishers Association.

JW Pepper Webinar on Copyright Issues

Copyright Resources from the MPA

Copyright Resources for Educators

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Your weekly Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Give Your Music Internet Friendly Titles

Advocacting for music generally is one thing. Advocating specifically for YOUR music is quite another.

To unpack this topic, I'm joined by Dr. Emily Williams Burch and Alex Gartner, the authors of The Business of Choir and members of the American Choral Directors Association committee for advocacy and collaboration.

In addition to being experienced and well respected choral conductors, Alex is an established composer and Emmy is the host of the Music Ed Matters Podcast. This episode is a big one!

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Your weekly Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: The Three Myths of Social Media Marketing

Master composer and pianist Phillip Keveren joins me on the podcast today to talk about how the music industry has changed and how composers can success by diversifying. We also break down how to write succesfully for the piano, church, and educational markets.

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Your weekly Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Your Website is Not Enough.

For part two of my interview with Kyle Pederson we take a step back and look at the state of the industry as a whole, what goes into publishing, and what composers need to do to gain traction.

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Award winning choral composer Kyle Pederson is on the podcast this week in the first of a two-part interview! This week's episode focuses on the compositional process, how to get started, and the most challenging part of being a composer: writing authentically outside your own experiences.

In this episode, Kyle references three amazing blog posts by Kurt Knecht which you can read in the links below:

Cultural Appropriation in Music 1: BorrowingCultural Appropriation in Music 2: KnowledgeCultural Appropriation in Music 3: Influences

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With 3.35 MILLION subscribers and over 1.4 BILLION views, they are the most successful sheet music channel on YouTube where they post a new arrangement every single day. We go behind the scenes and talk about their compositional process, how to navigate YouTube, what working as a team is like, publishing through musicnotes.com and much more.

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Visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠sellingsheetmusic.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ for episode transcripts and additional resources for publishers and composers.

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