Selling Sheet Music: Recent Episodes
Garrett Breeze
Learn the ins and outs of self-publishing sheet music from veteran composer and arranger Garrett Breeze in this podcast that dives into the art and business of getting scores from your head to the music stand. Featuring practical advice, successful business strategies, and interviews with industry professionals, this is a valuable resource designed for composers, arrangers, and songwriters of all varieties. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/garrett-breeze/support
It's Day Five of JW Pepper Week on Selling Sheet Music!
It's also the 50th episode of Selling Sheet Music!
To mark both occasions, JW Pepper's Isaac Brooks takes over the reigns as our first guest host, interviewing Garrett about his experiences as a composer and podcaster.
New composers can use the code "PUBLISH20" to get 20% off when they sign up for a MyScore account today!
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It's Day Four of JW Pepper Week on Selling Sheet Music!
Jennifer Moorhatch and Kelsey Hendler are two of the choral and classroom editors for JW Pepper, responsible for evaluating new music from publishers and deciding how and where that music gets promoted.
New composers can use the code "PUBLISH20" to get 20% off when they sign up for a MyScore account today!
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It's Day Three of JW Pepper Week on Selling Sheet Music!
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.
New composers can use the code "PUBLISH20" to get 20% off when they sign up for a MyScore account today!
JW Pepper Webinar on Copyright Issues
Copyright Resources from the MPA
Copyright Resources for Educators
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It's Day Two of JW Pepper Week on Selling Sheet Music!
Today I'm talking to Liam Thomas, MyScore Lead, about the new MyScore website and composer interface that is in the process of being rolled out and what composers can do to take advantage of it, including making better recordings.
New composers can use the code "PUBLISH20" to get 20% off when they sign up for a MyScore account today!
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It's Day One of JW Pepper Week on Selling Sheet Music!
Today we are on location at Pepper HQ in Pennsylvania with Liam Thomas, Kyra McEntee, and Isaac Brooks, otherwise know as Team MyScore. They are the awesome folks working behind the scenes answering e-mails, editing products, and doing everything else that needs to happen to keep the program running!
New composers can use the code "PUBLISH20" to get 20% off when they sign up for a MyScore account today!
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A podcast-sized reading session of three new works by Garrett Breeze featured in the 2024 JW Pepper Editor's Choice Catalog.
Aloha
Call of a Warrior
Tiny Voice
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Dr. Rob Deemer is head of composition at the State University of New York at Fredonia and the creator of the Institute for Composer Diversity. We had a great conversation about learning to compose, presenting your music in an effective way, and many of the trends happening in composition today, including the relationship between composers and ensembles, as well as issues of diversity and inclusion in programming.
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Today’s guest is Philedelphia based composer Melissa Dunphy. She is an award winning composer of vocal, chamber, and choral music, and is involved in many different initiatives advancing and advocating for the needs of composers and artists, as well as, believe it or not, arcaheology.
Our conversation was a little bit all over the map but kept coming back to this idea of things composers don’t get taught in school that they need to know.
Google results for Melissa will turn up many other video and podcast appearances where she shares invaluable information for composers and I’m very grateful to now add this episode to the list and be sure to stick around to the end of the episode to hear two examples of her recent work.
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Get a handle on your online presence by following these five steps:
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Google Yourself
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Set Up Home Base
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Claim Your Public Profiles
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Produce Content
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Schedule Maintenance
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This update was recorded Aug 27, and includes important new information announced after the original episode aired.
The music world was rocked yesterday by the shock announcement that Finale Notation Software had been officially discontinued. This special episode addresses what happened and the steps composers need to take to safeguard their Finale files.
Recommended Reading:
- A Letter From the President of MakeMusic
- After Sunset: Your Path From Finale to Dorico
- Finale Sunset FAQ
- Dorico Finale FAQ
- Analysis by Scoring Notes
- Why Switch to Dorico?
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The music world was rocked yesterday by the shock announcement that Finale Notation Software had been officially discontinued. This special episode addresses what happened and the steps composers need to take to safeguard their Finale files.
Recommended Reading:
- A Letter From the President of MakeMusic
- After Sunset: Your Path From Finale to Dorico
- Finale Sunset FAQ
- Dorico Finale FAQ
- Analysis by Scoring Notes
- Why Switch to Dorico?
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Today’s guest is Brittain Ashford, executive director of the Music Publishers Association, a trade organization focused on education and advocacy of issues pertaining to music publishing and print music. Their website, mpa.org has a wealth of free information and resources pertaining to copyright as well as information about their partnerships with other music organizations. We had a great conversation about the work of the MPA, the things self publishers need to know about copyright, and the massive debt we, as a society, owe to the player piano.
Copyright Resources for Music Educators
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Known as the Father of Contemporary Acappella, Deke Sharon is the man responsible for bringing contemporary a cappella music into the mainstream. Perhaps best known as the music producer for the Pitch Perfect Trilogy and NBC’s The Sing Off, which launched the career of the now multi-platinum Grammy winning group Pentatonix.
He has also written more than 2,000 a cappella arrangements and created many of the organizations that are fundamental to contemporary a cappella today. This summer he released an updated version of his book on arranging called A Cappella Arranging 2.0 The Next Level and he is here on the show today to talk with me about the a cappella sheet music industry.
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Quick Tip #18: Separate Your B2B Marketing and Your B2C Marketing
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The past two years have seen enormous growth and development at ArrangeMe, and today on the show Scott Harris is here to break it all down and talk about the future of the program. We hit all the big topics: the acquisition of Hal Leonard by Muse Group, the expanded distribution of ArrangeMe titles through the Pass Program, the redesign of the Sheet Music Plus website, Artificial Intelligence, and much more!
Join the world's largest self-publishing community at ArrangeMe.com today.
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Scott Harris, program director of Hal Leonard's ArrangeMe is back on the show to introduce ArrangeMe PRO, a new subscription which unlocks new features for users including a higher royalty rate, expanded distribution on the InStore network, publisher profile pages, and more!
Join the world's largest self-publishing community at ArrangeMe.com today.
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Today I’m talking with Nikki Loney, the founder and CEO of Full Voice Music whose mission is to challenge teachers to redefine what a singing lesson looks like for a child. She shares her story of what it was like starting the company and how she overcame obstacles to become a leading figure in young children’s vocal music education. She is also the host of the Full Voice Podcast, available on all the major podcast platforms and publishes original songs, workbooks, and other music at fullvoicemusic.com.
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This week's Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Give As Much Credit As You Can.
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My guest today is Oriol Lopez Calle, the founder and CEO of My Sheet Music Transcriptions. He tells the story about how he turned his side job of transcribing music into a remarkable company that has since delivered more than 30,000 transcriptions to clients. This conversation is full of important lessons for anyone starting a business, transcribing music, or using notation software.
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This week's Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Have a Better Backup Plan
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Dirkjan van Groningen is a professional, drummer, percussionist, composer and arranger from The Netherlands. He's the owner of Percussion Books, Show & Marching Music and Band Music Center. We had a really great discussion about the differences in band music between Europe and the United States, as well as what he’s learned as someone working on both sides of the ocean.
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This week's Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Plan For Long-Term Growth
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This week I am on location in the Nashville office of Musicnotes.com to talk with the hosts of their brand new podcast "Behind the Notes," Lucas Koehler and Jillian Shively!
In addition to their podcasting duties, Lucas works for Musicnotes as a Product Management Specialist and Jillian as a Content & Production Assistant. They had a lot of great insights to share from their years of helping composers (like myself) publish their music.
Composers, Arrangers, and Songwriters can visit the Musicnotes Marketplace to sell their scores on the Musicnotes website, and artists on YouTube can also look in to becoming a Musicnotes Signature Artist.
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This week's Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Make Your Website Dummy Proof.
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One of the best things you can do to help this show get discovered is RATE and REVIEW it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Podcasts.
So I’ll make you a deal.
Send a screenshot of your review to garrett@breezetunes.com along with the score pdf and mp3 audio of a piece you would like me to look at and I will be happy to share my thoughts and provide some feedback.
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This week's episode is a refresher on how to self-publish sheet music for those wanting to learn how to do it on their own! If you're a student or new to the podcast this is a great place to start!
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Today I have the privilege of welcoming percussionist and composer Dave Black to the podcast for the first of a two-part series. He is the former Vice President of Alfred Music where he worked for 35 years in a variety of roles including Editor-Chief of school and pop publications. He is also one of the best selling percussion authors in the world with combined sales of over two million units. In today’s episode we talk about the do’s and don’ts of submitting music to publishers.
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Today I have the privilege of welcoming percussionist and composer Dave Black to the podcast for the first of a two-part series. He is the former Vice President of Alfred Music where he worked for 35 years in a variety of roles including Editor-Chief of school and pop publications. He is also one of the best selling percussion authors in the world with combined sales of over two million units. In today’s episode we talk about the do’s and don’ts of submitting music to publishers.
Visit sellingsheetmusic.com for episode transcripts and additional resources for publishers and composers.
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Today I’m talking to Jon Burr, an accomplished bassist, composer, Finale expert, and founder of arrangerforhire.com. We had a great conversation about a lot of practical things musicians sometimes overlook or take for granted and I’m excited for you to hear it.
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Today we are happy to announce the launch of sellingsheetmusic.com, the new home of the Selling Sheet Music Podcast!
We'll be back next week with full episodes, in the meantime, please check out the new site and share it with your friends and colleagues.
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This week's Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Write Like an Entrepreneur.
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This week's Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Take Advantage of Your Digital Real Estate.
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This week's Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Make Marketing Personal.
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My guest today, trombonist and arranger Christopher Bill, is the most subscribed brass musician on YouTube. His all-trombone content has amassed more than 85 million views and over 500,000 followers. He is an active educator on the trombone festival circuit and publishes sheet music of his arrangements on his website classical trombone.com. I really admire the approach he’s taken with his career and he had a lot of things to say that I think will be extremely helpful to anyone trying to build an audience online. We also talk about what it really means to go viral, how to take advantage of vertical video, and at the end of the episode we’ll listen to two of his arrangements.
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This week's quick tip from Selling Sheet Music: Compose with rhythms first.
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Jacob Winkler joins us today to talk about an amazing productivity tool for Finale users: the JetStream Finale Controller and shares tips and tricks for working in notation software.
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In this special joint episode, Philip Rothman (of Scoring Notes) and Garrett Breeze (of Selling Sheet Music) take a deep dive into all the complexities of printing music at a professional level. For any composer or self-publisher considering DIY printing, this episode is a must listen. For everyone else it is a detailed peek behind the curtain showing all the work that involved taking music from the computer to your music stand.
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We're kicking off the new year by answering YOUR questions!
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Is it even worth it to arrange copyrighted music if you only get 10% of the sale price?
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What are the biggest pros/cons of using a big publisher?
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What's the best way to pitch big publishers?
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How can foreign composers break into the American education market?
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How do I format multiple songs into a book?
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Your weekly Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Write Short E-mails.
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Paper may have finally met its match in Boian Videnoff, my guest today, the co-CEO and co-founder of Enote, a music technology startup in Berlin developing powerful AI-technology capable of digitizing sheet music into fully interactive musical scores. It’s an ambitious company with the end goal of ultimately replacing all physical sheet music. There are some insanely cool things that the company is working on and as I told him, I am equal parts excited and terrified to see what will come of it. Who knows where all this goes, but the potential of what might change in the next 5-10 years as the result of AI is really mind blowing and I think you will find this conversation to be extremely eye-opening.
Also check out Episode 11 of the podcast which talks about how text-based AI like ChatGPT can help composers with some of the mundane tasks involved in marketing music.
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This week's quick tip from Selling Sheet Music.
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We're going to end the year with a special Q&A episode on December 19th. Submit your questions by Dec 15th to have them answered on the air. Email garrett@breezetunes.com or send me a message on Facebook or Instagram.
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On Dec. 4, Hal Leonard was officially acquired by Muse Group.
For an in-depth discussion of the deal and the history of the two companies, read this article from Scoring Notes.
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Part two of my interview with Andrea Pelloquin.
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Joining me today for the first of a two-part series is music educator and copyright advocate Andrea Pelloquin. This week's episode focuses on copyright from the perspective of the composer.Copyright Resources• U.S. Copyright Office – www.copyright.gov• Public Domain Information – http://www.pdinfo.com• Copyright Alliance – www.copyrightalliance.org• Music Publishers Association – www.mpa.org
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Your weekly Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Proper File Management Will Save Your Life
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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
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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
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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.
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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: Borrowing Cultural Appropriation in Music 2: Knowledge Cultural 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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Australian composer and founder of songlibrary.net, Glyn Lehmann, comes on the podcast to talk about his experiences in the industry, how to write for children's voices, and the extraordinary challenging of getting people interested in original songs.
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Your weekly Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: The best way to network is to hire people.
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Yesterday saw a major update to J.W. Pepper's "MyScore" system with the unveiling of their new uploader and Isaac Brooks is back on the podcast to walk us through it.
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Your weekly Quick Tip from Selling Sheet Music: Learn to write faster.
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This week, we venture into the world of show choir with composer and arranger, Garrett Breeze. We track his musical journey from Indianapolis to Nashville and how he got into the show choir scene. Learn also about his podcast, Selling Sheet Music, where he gives tips and tricks to self published composers.
Pieces featured on this episode: "There is a Green Hill Far Away," "The Place Where Lost Things Go," "Sing Loud," and "Still, Still, Still."
For more information about Garrett and his music, visit https://garrettbreeze.com/, https://breezetunes.com/, or https://holidaychoirmusic.com/.
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The first in a new weekly series from Selling Sheet Music, shorter episodes featuring a single topic that will help composers and arrangers market their music.
This week's tip: how to use YouTube videos to make sharing your music easy.
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I'm excited to let you know about a new podcast I’m hosting called Show Choir Sessions. The first three episodes dropped this morning and if you are a choral musician or involved in music education in any way, I’d really encourage you to go check it out. Look for new episodes each week during the summer and then monthly during the school year.
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Today marks the one year anniversary of the podcast and we’re celebrating with a special episode featuring success stories and music submitted by seven of our listeners: Anthony Susi, Dan Bennett, Eric Copeland, Marc Paquette, Stepehen DeCesare, Connie Boss, and Steve Danielson.
Music Featured in this episode:
A Joyous Sleigh Ride
Mingulay Boat Song
Hope For Planet Sea
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Summer Rain
Lost and Found
Take Me Back
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I often see composers just spamming their music on social media without any plan, spinning their wheels and getting frustrated. So today we're going to be talking about how to build an audience and how to communicate with them effectively.
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Three weeks from today is the one year anniversary of the podcast and I want to mark the occasion by doing a special episode featuring you, the listener. I want to hear your success stories in self-publishing (or traditional publishing). Pick a piece that you’ve composed or arranged and tell me about it. However you choose to define success is fine, maybe it’s something that sold a lot of copies, maybe it’s just something you’re really proud of, just make it something that will encourage and help others, especially new composers.
All you have to do is record a voice memo (or if you have a studio set up use that) and submit it to garrett@breezetunes.com along with a recording of the song you’re talking about. I’ll play the audio of both on the June 27th podcast episode.
Start your recording by stating your name and where you’re from and please limit your story to five minutes. As for the recordings of your piece, send us the best quality audio that you can. It doesn’t have to be a live recording, and it doesn’t have to be perfect, but keep in mind that this episode will live on the internet forever.
And for the arrangers listening, unfortunately the recording you submit needs to be in the public domain or something you have personally acquired the rights to so that the episode doesn’t get flagged and taken down due to copyright.
The deadline to submit is June 20th.
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Alison Gillies is an ArrangeMe power-user, cellist with the Welsh National Opera, and founder of quartetpad.com, the premiere sources of wedding music for string quartet. We had a fantastic conversation about adapting pop music, writing for strings, and connecting with your audience. Check out Alison's music at quartpad.com and youtube/quartetpad.
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Today I’m speaking with Johan de Meij, a Dutch composer and conductor who has been self-publishing his music ever since the premiere of his symphony number one, based on the Lord of the Rings, which premiered 35 years ago this month and catapulted him to fame within the world of wind orchestra music. We had a fantastic conversation about Tolkien, creative orchestration, marketing compositions through unique titles, the history of wind orchestra music, what to do with success, and a host of other topics. His music is distributed through Hal Leonard, and a new edition of the Symphony Number one will be released next month.
Download “Trends and Changes in Today’s Wind Orchestra Scene” by Johan de Meij
Music referenced in this episode:
Symphony No. 1: “The Lord of the Rings”
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Gandalf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MAf3K0SYfs
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Lothlórien https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=060j5MQgv4Y
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Gollum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbptS62Az_c
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Journey in the Dark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzyV1sJjDis
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Hobbits https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0KLTU5vrxw
T-bone Concerto
I. Rare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMNzn-o2mtU
II. Medium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9riaNmm8haQ
III. Well Done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f2c-YbC6UU
Fellini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itG9hSrR_sQ
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In this episode we're taking a deep dive into the various revenue streams associated with publishing sheet music. Follow these seven steps to make sure you're not leaving money on the table!
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Recorded live at the Hal Leonard Booth at ACDA Cincinnati, I talk with Luke Talen (Creative Director of Choral Publications for Hal Leonard), Liz Groch (Head of Growth for Sheet Music Plus, and Scott Harris (Program Manager for ArrangeMe) in a wide ranging conversation about choral music and what composers can do to make their music stand out.
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In this bonus episode taken from my YouTube channel (@breezetunes) I go through the basics of how to navigate the arrangeme.com website, how to upload and manage products, and other tips and tricks I've picked up along the way.
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I resisted making an episode about AI for as long as I could, but after I started playing around with the technology I just couldn't help it. There are some really cool tools out there that have the potential to make lives way better for composers and arrangers. I'm sure this episode will age terribly, but I'm excited to share what I've discovered so far.
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Is sheet music worth more than a cheeseburger? What's the value of sheet music and how do we combat the devaluation of music in society?
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A conversation between Eric Copeland and Garrett Breeze on the Make Music Income podcast. In this video we talk about how Garrett makes income, where to sell sheet music, how to make and distribute sheet music, the parallels to stock, sync, and Spotify sales, and much more.
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Today's podcast features the legendary Roger Emerson! With over 30 million copies sold, Roger is the most widely performed composer/arranger of popular choral music in the world. He has more than 900 titles available in print through Hal Leonard, but is also involved in self publishing music through his website rogeremerson.com which makes him the ideal person to talk through both sides of the industry.
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A conversation between Dr. Emily Williams Burch and Garrett Breeze from the Music (ed) Matters Podcast about the need for commercial music education and how teachers with a classical background can incorporate elements from the music industry and popular styles of music into their curriculum.
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Teaching Arranging in the Choral Classroom (FREE course) https://garrettbreeze.com/teaching-arranging-in-the-choral-classroom
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In the US, it’s consistently the biggest shopping day of the year, and yet most sheet music publishers don't take advantage of Black Friday. In this episode, we’re going to take a look at various strategies you can use to give your music sales an extra boost heading into the holiday season and the end of the year.
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Isaac Brooks is the manager of J.W. Pepper's MyScore, a platform that lets composers sell their original compositions as both digital and print-on-demand products through the J.W. Pepper website. He's an extremely hands-on manager, working with thousands of composers to help promote their music and he's got a lot of great insight that I'm excited to share with you today.
Start selling today by registering at https://www.jwpepper.com/myscore or reach out to myscore@jwpepper.com.
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Today I’m talking to Philip Rothman, founder of NYC Music Services, and one of the world’s foremost experts in music preparation and music notation. He is also co-host of the podcast Scoring Notes, which covers news and developments of all things related to music notation software. Be sure to check out Notation Central, where Philip offers a treasure trove of free and paid resources for users of Finale, Sibelius, Dorico, or Musescore.
We talk about all the work that needs to happens after a composition is finished to prepare it for publication, the differences between music copying, music preparation, and music engraving, as well as how to get the most out of music notation software. It’s an eye-opening conversation that sheds light into a corner of the music industry that doesn’t normally get a lot of attention.
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Today I’m going to share the most comprehensive list of ways to market, advertise, and promote sheet music that’s ever been assembled - 100 ideas that will help you get your music in front of more people.
If you have an idea that's not on this list, head over to garrettbreeze.com and send me a message. If I get enough submissions I'll do a special bonus episode and update the list.
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In this episode I'm joined by Scott Harris, the program director for Hal Leonard's ArrangeMe.com, a self-publishing platform used by more than 40,000 independent music publishers, including myself. Our conversation covers a lot of ground, including how to get the most out of the platform, ideas for establishing yourself as an independent publishing company, setting expectations and evaluating success, and how the ArrangeMe program supports songwriters. Scott's position at Hal Leonard gives him a unique vantage point for understanding the sheet music industry as a whole and self-publishing in particular and I think you'll really enjoy getting to know him and hearing what he has to say.
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Today we’re going to take a deep dive into the non-musical content you need to effectively market your music. Things like product descriptions, cover pages, videos, and more. I’m not going to sugar coat it, this is the boring part of self-publishing, but what’s not going to be boring is this podcast episode, because we’re going to talk about some really great systems you can set up to make this process easy.
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This week I'm interviewing Jacob Tingen: a lawyer and business consultant who is also the designer and webmaster I use for all of my sites. It's a wide-ranging conversation that includes the basics of how to set up and maintain a website, how to get your content to rank highly on google search, how to effectively market yourself through social media, the number one trombone website in the world, and how recipe blogs have destroyed the internet.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Google Webmaster Guidelines
Moz SEO
Quicksprout Online
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Today's episode is all about how to develop a strategy. Self-publishing isn't easy, nor is it a "get-rich-quick" scheme. If you don't have a plan you can end up wasting a lot of time spinning your wheels without getting anywhere. On the other hand, selling sheet music is a great way to generate passive income while promoting your business and building an audience all at the same time.
We'll talk about the pros and cons of self-publishing, ideas about how to incorporate sheet music sales into what you're already doing as a musician, and my eight step plan for finding your niche.
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A preview of Season One of the Selling Sheet Music Podcast with Garrett Breeze.
Subscribe to learn the ins and outs of self-publishing sheet music for freelance composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
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EPISODE ONE drops June 27, 2022!
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