LOADS of fun on this Adam Wakeman (Rick’s son) Interview: cool stories about working with Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Annie Lennox, Travis, Atomic Kitten, Headspace… the brilliant genesis of Jazz Sabbath, dark days during the Pandemic, getting into music licensing and starting ThePerfectMusicLibrary.com, 6 ways to get your music accepted by music libraries, running as a catharsis, happiest moments of his life, most important lesson his dad Rick Wakeman taught him, parenting, valuing his time and more fun stuff. Really cool and very open convo!

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Adam Wakeman’s been the keyboardist and rhythm guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne & Black Sabbath band since 2003. He’s a founding member of the prog rock band Headspace & the jazz rock band Jazz Sabbath. He also plays keyboards and guitar for Black Sabbath and has toured or recorded with Annie Lennox, Travis, the Company of Snakes, Strawbs, Will Young, Victoria Beckham, Atomic Kitten, and Martin Barre (Jethro Tull).

Adam owns a production music library, called The Perfect Music Library, which creates and licenses music for film, television & other media. The company has placed music across most major TV networks in the UK, including the BBC, ITV and Sky.

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Here are some real world stories of several music artists who CRUSHED it in Music Licensing. How did they do it? I’ve done a lot of research on this topic and explain the steps these artists took to achieve their goals! Obviously producing great music is important but there are some other steps that are also crucial to jump-starting your music career with music Licensing.

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There’s nothing like having your song in a successful motion picture or Television show to catapult your artist career to the next level. The artists I mention in this video have Music Licensing to thank for exposing their music to a wider audience not mention the extra income from music licensing can be quite substantial!

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On this Jeff Rona interview: Jeff gets in-depth and personal, sharing his journey to the top, and it definitely wasn’t easy. Getting turned on to soundtracks and the career and musical doors this opened… how he got session work and ultimately ghostwriting for movies. Starting and growing his Music Library, Liquid Cinema… Types of music that get licensed most… when you’re most “qualified” to do pretty much anything… Cool stories about working with Hans Zimmer, Barry Levinson, Maurice White, Don Ellis (very cool!), Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, and others… How he markets his production company, KEY things you need to know about working with and forming healthy and productive relationships with producers, directors, and music supervisors… Questions to ask that help you determine how to write your scores. A terrible tragedy his parents dealt with, low points in his life and how he dealt with them. AWESOME convo, super sincere, tons of insight into the licensing business!

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JEFF RONA owns one of the biggest music production companies (music libraries) in America, Liquid Cinema. He’s also an an award-winning music composer for film, TV, and video games, as well as a recording artist and producer. He was initially an in-demand studio musician, arranger, sound designer, synthesist, and music programmer working in Los Angeles and New York. After working with legendary record producers such as Maurice White, David Foster, Albhy Galuten, Malcolm Cecil and others, he collaborated on film music with Philip Glass, Mark Isham, Lisa Gerrard & Basil Poledouris. He’s had longstanding relationships with composers Hans Zimmer & Cliff Martinez.

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Jeff’s scored dozens of film and TV projects with filmmakers including Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Wong Kar-wai, Robert Altman, Steven Soderbergh, Mark Pellington, Stephen Hopkins, Jonathan Demme, Frank Darabont, and many others.

Movie soundtracks Jeff’s scored or contributed to, include Black Hawk Down, Mission Impossible 2, Generation Iron 1 & 2, Traffic, The Lion King, The Thin Red Line, Prince of Egypt, The Net (Sandra Bullock), Sea of Life (Documentary), Shelter Island, Toys (Robin Williams), The Fan and literally dozens of other major motion pictures

Jeff’s written music for video games: God of War 3, Far Cry 4, Marvel vs Capcom Infinite, Transformers, Resident Evil 2, Crossfire, Devil May Cry 5 & Bright Memory: Infinite

He’s toured with Brian Eno, Lisa Gerrard (solo) and Dead Can Dance, and composed music for the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. His music appears in numerous Oscar, Peabody, BAFTA and Emmy award-winning projects, as well as countless film festival honors. He is a three-time recipient of the ASCAP Film and Television Music Award

Why is Music Licensing so Mysterious? John DeFaria co-founder of Music Licensing Profits explores his struggles 30 years ago getting into Music Licensing. What is a SYNC contract? Who do you need to get your music to to get placements? How do you register for Royalties owed you? How do you make your music more licensable? John goes over tips and tricks he’s learned over the years.

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You may be composing great songs and/or great music, but how do you make it more licensable for Film, TV and Streaming? On this video I go through several techniques I've used over the years. These techniques I learned from making over 9700 music placements in Film, TV, Commercials,Trailers, Streaming and Social Media. 

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You'll learn some simple techniques to make your music more licensable in Songwriting, Commercials, Trailers and Composing Underscore. The whole trick here is to make your music as useful as possible to Film Editors, Music Supervisors, Trailer Houses, Commercial Agencies and Production companies. There are also certain styles of music that are really great for licensing that you may be missing. I point this out too!

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John DeFaria, co-founder of Music Licensing Profits on 3 Ways to get your music into the right hands of show producers and Music supervisors… What “Music Licensing” actually means… what happens AFTER you make your placement… the types of royalties you can expect to earn… and why there's never been more of a need for great quality music in a variety of genres and styles that add that polished production value to music licensing media… how to get paid well in today’s day and age of meager streaming payouts… Understanding how emotions in scenes dictate the type of music you need to create in licensing… why “there’s a seat for all music creators” in licensing…

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On this Kari Kimmel interview: bouncing back after getting dropped by TWO labels and one publishing contract… the determination that carried her from potentially nowhere, to incredible success. How she handles rejection (and yes, she still gets tracks turned down more often than you might think), and her secret ingredient to pressing on. Her primary talents & attitude that allows her to succeed. BIGGEST MISTAKE composers make when approaching music supervisors & shen making track submissions! Cool stories about working with Ringo Starr, Al Pacino… why you need to respect everybody & LOADS more cool stuff. AWESOME information if you want to get into licensing:

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Kari Kimmel is an Independent Artist, Songwriter & Producer who’s had incredible success licensing her music in over 1,000 films, television shows, trailers, video games & commercials. Films include Blockers, World War Z, Southpaw, and The Duff... TV shows Big Sky, New Girl, Charmed, America’s Funniest Home Videos, and Lucifer... trailers for Cobra Kai, Fortitude, Dirty John and The Walking Dead.

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She has written an astounding 25 theme songs, most notably “Where You Belong” for The Fosters, as well as She-Ra, Spirit Riding Free and Rhyme Time Town. Her songs have been recorded by major artists such as The Backstreet Boys, Kesha, Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato, and Gloria Gaynor. She’s sang BGV with Ringo Starr, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Pharrell & others.
In 2014, Kari founded Glow Music Group, a music licensing company that represents performers. Recent Glow placements include Gatorade, Coke, Michael Kors, Seal Team, Riverdale, All American, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Grey’s Anatomy. Glow represents over 400 bands from all genres & time periods.

Over the last 20+ years, John DeFaria, co-founder of Music Licensing Prorits, has made over 9,700 music licensing placements. On this episode, he talks about his career in Music licensing and how he’s made Over 9700 licensing placements in the last 25 years. John talks about how he got into licensing… his music career as a touring and session musician before this… how he missed his family and wanted to get off the road but at the time, wasn’t sure how to do this… how he felt like he was starting over every time a tour ended… learning what it took to score music to picture in a way that would enhance the storyline… and most important, why he’s enjoyed this work.

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You’ll also find out how he got gigs through production companies,music libraries, publishers and commercial agencies… how royalties changed his life, and how he’s been able to place some of his tracks over and over again… how he finally STOPPED living week to week… and how and why the opportunities in music licensing today, are just exploding all over the world, and why the business today is so much easier and so much more accessible for everyone who wants “in,” and much more

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