The Production Music Insider - Weekly insights to get your music licensed, placed, and profitable.

The Production Music Insider - Weekly insights to get your music licensed, placed, and profitable.

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  • 18 Tips for My 18 Year Old Self

    When I was 18 years old, I had no idea how to approach business combined with my passion and dream of being a composer. I didn't know what I was getting myself into, to be honest. Now that I am in my 40ies, I learned a lot through trial and error, mistakes, and successes.
    This episode will give you a jumpstart into your music career and insights into what works and what doesn't.


    ✨ Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3oWRViD

    Resources in this Episode:

    📘  If you want to learn about systematizing your business: Michael E. Gerber: The E-Myth Revisited
    🗄️  How I organize my business and systems: Notion 


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    🖲️ My Trackball - Kensington Slim Blade: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/kensington

    🎹 My Travel Keyboard - NI Kontrol M32: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/travelkeyboard

    🌱 My Favourite Podcast Platform - Buzzsprout: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/buzzsprout

    🔖 How I remember what I read - Readwise: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/readwise

    ⛅ Most secure Cloud Backup - pCloud: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/pcloud

    💪 How I stay fit and healthy: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/healthy


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    👕 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/composerclass

    WHO AM I:

    Hello, hello 👋, my name is Sebastian Watzinger, a film and media composer from Germany, living in Mexico with my family.

    I share my best advice, on how to start, build and grow your business as a film and media composer.

    GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email me at [email protected]. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭

    PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜



    Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/composerclass )
    25 min
  • The Plug-Ins I Use to Create Successful Production Music Tracks

    The production process in itself is hard enough we don't have to make it harder on ourselves with too much technical difficulty. Some composers deal with it by having huge templates where they never even have to look for a sound because they are all at their fingertips. But tbh not many of us have the luxury of buying or building a machine that can do that. And in my opinion, that is also total overkill especially for production music and commercials. In tracks where you only might need 10-15 tracks from a 350 track template that doesn't make sense. In this episode, I will show you what I use to create my most successful production music tracks.


    ✨ Listen and Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3oWRViD

    ✔️  Episodes mentioned:
     
    3 Ways on How to Kickstart a New Track

    Sick of Unfinished Tracks - Try These 3 Strategies

    TOOLS OF THE TRADE:

    🎙️ My Mic: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/microphone

    🔉 My Studio Monitors: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/studiomonitors

    🎧 My Headphones: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/headphones

    🖲️ My Trackball - Kensington Slim Blade: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/kensington

    🎹 My Travel Keyboard - NI Kontrol M32: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/travelkeyboard

    🌱 My Favourite Podcast Platform - Buzzsprout: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/buzzsprout

    🔖 How I remember what I read - Readwise: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/readwise

    ⛅ Most secure Cloud Backup - pCloud: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/pcloud

    💪 How I stay fit and healthy: http://go.thecomposerclass.com/healthy


    WANNA BE FRIENDS: 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://thecomposerclass.com/newsletter

    🌍 My website / blog - https://thecomposerclass.com

    📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/sebwatzinger

    🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SWComposer

    👕 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/composerclass

    WHO AM I:

    Hello, hello 👋, my name is Sebastian Watzinger, a film and media composer from Germany, living in Mexico with my family.

    I share my best advice, on how to start, build and grow your business as a film and media composer.

    GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email me at [email protected]. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭

    PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜



    Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/composerclass )
    23 min
  • Sick of Unfinished Tracks - Try These 3 Strategies

    When it comes to composing music, one of the most difficult things for me, in the beginning, was actually finishing a track, getting a track to a point that it didn't need much more maybe mixing.

    But getting to this point of a track, really being done and finished, I learned to ask for a certain discipline, that I have to practice. And also the confidence of knowing when a track is actually done. So in this episode, I want to show you what I do with all of my tracks to finish them.


    WANNA BE FRIENDS: 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://thecomposerclass.com/newsletter

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    📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/sebwatzinger

    🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SWComposer

    👕 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/composerclass

    WHO AM I:

    Hello, hello 👋, my name is Sebastian Watzinger, a film and media composer from Germany, living in Mexico with my family.

    I share my best advice, on how to start, build and grow your business as a film and media composer.

    GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email me at [email protected]. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭

    PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

    Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/composerclass )

    22 min
  • The Full Stack Composer

    I discovered this article by Productivity Guru, Tiago Forte about the Rise of the Full-Stack Freelancer. This changed my approach from being a highly specialized composer only to including a couple of different portfolio items in my business. These are modules that make my work not only more interesting but also make for some really interesting and powerful networking and income effects. In this episode, you find out how I did it, what changed and how you can do it too.


    🔗  The link to Tiago Forte's article: https://fortelabs.co/blog/the-rise-of-the-full-stack-freelancer/


    WANNA BE FRIENDS: 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://thecomposerclass.com/newsletter

    🌍 My website / blog - https://thecomposerclass.com

    📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/sebwatzinger

    🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SWComposer

    👕 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/composerclass

    WHO AM I:

    Hello, hello 👋, my name is Sebastian Watzinger, a film and media composer from Germany, living in Mexico with my family.

    I share my best advice, on how to start, build and grow your business as a film and media composer.

    GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email me at [email protected]. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭

    PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

    Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/composerclass )

    26 min
  • 3 Ways on How to Kickstart a New Track

    Not knowing what to compose or where to start, what's the first note? What's the start with a rhythm or with a plugin? And then I went down this whole rabbit hole of looking for sounds or like, Is this some better or how does this piano sound or the strings Oh my gosh.

    But fortunately, I didn't experience this in a long time, when I discovered these three simple strategies to overcome writer's block, as we call it.
    And in this episode, I will break down the steps for you. So you can create stress-free, even on a tight deadline.

    🎁 Grab the music starters here: https://thecomposerclass.com/trackstarter


    WANNA BE FRIENDS: 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://thecomposerclass.com/newsletter

    🌍 My website / blog - https://thecomposerclass.com

    📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/sebwatzinger

    🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/SWComposer

    👕 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/composerclass

    WHO AM I:

    Hello, hello 👋, my name is Sebastian Watzinger, a film and media composer from Germany, living in Mexico with my family.

    I share my best advice, on how to start, build and grow your business as a film and media composer.

    GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email me at [email protected]. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭

    PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

    Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/composerclass )

    20 min
  • Do Not Miss These 5 Essential Things to Get Picked Up by A Publisher

    10 years ago I discovered that processes to reach my business goals are undeniably the best way to take the stress out of my business, which we always strive for, right?

    We don't want to have stress in the business all the time. And on top of that, these processes make the whole marketing and PR approach as part of the business much less painful, sometimes even fun, and much more successful at the same time.
    And in this episode, I will show you and I will break down my exact five-step process, how to approach connect with and successfully deliver to production music publishers and labels.


    WANNA BE FRIENDS: 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://thecomposerclass.com/newsletter

    🌍  My website / blog - https://thecomposerclass.com

    📸  Instagram - https://instagram.com/sebwatzinger

    🐦   Twitter - https://twitter.com/SWComposer

    👕  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/composerclass

    WHO AM I:

    Hello, hello 👋, my name is Sebastian Watzinger, a film and media composer from Germany, living in Mexico with my family.

    I share my best advice, on how to start, build and grow your business as film and media composer.

    GET IN TOUCH: If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email me at [email protected]. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren't enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭

    PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

    Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/composerclass )

    22 min

About The Production Music Insider - Weekly insights to get your music licensed, placed, and profitable.

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Weekly insights to get your production music licensed, placed, and profitable. Join Sebastian’s data-driven analysis, music supervisor interviews, and proven tactics to grow your library income. Perfect for composers and producers seeking to escape the client hustle and unlock steady sync revenues.