All language subtitles for 57 ways to earn money in the music industry

yes 57 ideas in no particular order

let's begin

create better audio examples for plug-in

companies they can pay you because these

audio examples will help them sell their

products plug-in developers aren't

usually the best songwriters and they

aren't usually up to date on the latest

trendy sub genres either

if you speak multiple languages

translate tutorials and help

documentation

knowledge of the technical music

production words and the context

surrounding them is critical to proper

translation plus you get to learn lots

as you do it

if you hear a podcast with audio

processing mistakes maybe clipping intro

music lots of plosives or maybe it's a

bit too quiet

charge them a few hundred dollars to

show them how to fix it i suggest

sending them a corrected audio file in

advance to prove one that it's a problem

that needs solving and two

you know how to do it

royalties from track sales and streams

on platforms like spotify looking one of

the releases on my label you can see

that three million streams equals about

two thousand pounds which is about two

thousand dollars after the distributor

takes their cut

become an influential music curator on

something like spotify and charge people

to be featured in your playlist actually

don't do this i've just found out to

violate spotify's terms and conditions

although it definitely happens the trick

here though is to create hundreds of

playlists to determine the best title

and artwork combination then regularly

change the songs in the playlist to keep

the algorithm happy

if you have a microphone and an

acoustically treated room and you know

how to record and post process vocals

consider voiceover work websites like

fiverr or upwork would be a good place

to start

in fact websites like fiverr have whole

categories specifically for music

production this guy will write

captivating pirate music for you

i should hire him

become great at digging up public domain

audio and packaging into marketable

products

if i'm familiar with the term public

domain this means there is no copyright

and so you can do anything you like with

it including sell it

make music for platforms like

premiumbeat these are platforms that

license royalty free music to filmmakers

and youtubers

others include epidemic sound art list

music vine soundstripe

filmstro pond5 and ben sound

mastering this ends up being more of an

exercise in

marketing

rightly or wrongly

affiliate income if someone buys

something using your link you receive a

percentage of the sale amazon has an

affiliate scheme as do marketplaces

selling digital things like loot masters

and splice

if you let youtube place ads on your

videos they pay you each time someone

watches one however this pays about 10

to 100 times less than if you arranged

something yourself so naturally that's

what i did

today's video is sponsored by la la la

la la uses ai to separate audio into

stems choose a separation type choose

your audio file wait a few moments and

download the separated audio files in

this case one file with just the vocal

and the other with the vocal removed

everybody

so come on let me see

leverage your knowledge of realty free

sample pap platforms and labels to find

music for successful youtubers and

filmmakers outside of music these people

rarely know about the sample pack world

maybe you could even do basic looping

arranging mixing and mastering for them

too

write to better user manuals for plugins

and sell them to the developers

lots of companies have truly awful

written documentation

create content for an established audio

company i create something that can be

used to promote a company's products a

good way to make money is to help

someone else make money

sell a gear you don't need any more

easy money

find sample pack or tutorial work for

successful artists and take a percentage

of the fee you could even do the work

for them an artist could send you an

unorganized hard drive full of samples

and unfinished songs which you could

then curate and organize to create a

pack to sell to loot masters or splice

or maybe you could edit the raw video

footage they record for tutorial course

this is what wyatt from our in the door

series did for au5 turning it into the

successful business donation

create tutorials in one medium maybe

podcast or video from a reference source

in another medium for example ableton's

help documentation covers pretty much

everything and is extremely well written

it would be

pretty easy to paraphrase it in audio or

video

form

not that i would ever do that

send long lists of everything you're

struggling with everything you don't

understand to tutorial course companies

create this list organically as you're

producing for example

if you're not sure what sub bass notes

to choose to match a chord progression

add this to your list when this list

reaches 100 see if you can get a few

hundred dollars for it this information

is valuable to the tutorial horse

companies

so they'll pay you for it

if you're using a plug-in and something

doesn't quite work properly or there's

something you don't understand again

write it down similarly to the previous

example see if you can sell this

information to the plugin developer for

a few hundred dollars again it's no

extra work for you just write these pain

points down as you encounter them

grants free money from the government

i'm pretty sure this is a thing

i'm not sure how you get it how much

money there is or how much paperwork's

involved but it's probably worth

spending an afternoon one day to see if

your country gives our grants to those

in

the arts

we're in the arts there's some art on

the wall that makes this the room art

it's the arts now this is

art's happening right now this is an

arts experience

video editing tutorial courses tightly

editing a three hour long course is a

giant pain

so many platforms and creators hire

video editors to do the bulk of the work

as a bonus you get to learn lots

excellent

consult for audio companies to help them

modernize their marketing information

often you'll see them using outdated

terms like edm or hands in the air

moments the people running these

companies can be surprisingly out of the

loop and behind the times

naturally though as you're usually an

older person by the time you build a

successful company

copyright every possible melody and sue

everyone for copyright infringement

these guys did

kind of they did it as a bit of a stunt

to demonstrate one of the many

fundamental flaws in copyright law

super interesting stuff

become an influencer like me and get

paid to show products to your audience

speaking of which today's video is

sponsored by la la la the payment isn't

for positive review so i'm allowed to

make a correction like this the

separation works very well but the

separation isn't 100 perfect quality

saying that i literally spent three full

days testing this against izotope rx

ripex deep audio and splitter.ai's two

stem pro model and la la la was

definitely the best others have tested

it against other stem separation options

and similarly found la la la to be the

best overall specifically it made less

mistakes and the separated vocal stems

sound more natural compared to the

competition

[Music]

[Applause]

moving through the rhythm moving to the

rhythm everybody's

my rule is always present the sponsor in

a positive light but only recommend the

product if i genuinely think it's the

best i rarely say a sponsor is best in

category but here

i'm pretty confident it is you can try

it for free a few times if you don't

believe me so give it a go

create better audio examples for sample

back companies sound designers aren't

usually the best songwriters and the

demo tracks often a last minute

afterthought

if you're awesome writing songs but

don't have much of an audience or

marketing machine behind you

try

ghost producing send a few completed

tracks to the management of some big

artists email management because one the

email is easy to find and two unlike the

artist management will actually read

your email sometimes instead of payment

the artist will release the track as a

collab with you they might make some

minor tweaks they might not in this

collab arrangement they get a great song

and you get to leverage their audience

there's an equal exchange of value

if you know the best in search on really

like tracks in the world approach video

game companies to help them curate their

playlists the video game industry is by

far the biggest entertainment industry

and therefore have plenty of money for

this kind of stuff it's useful to them

to know what the best songs in a certain

genre are and so they'll pay for it

you could even explore the idea of sound

designing for video games it's just like

making a sample pack except you're

making a sample pack for a specific

video game theme

only fans

ghosts produce tracks for celebrity djs

i.e people with a famous name but who

are music producers don't limit yourself

to pitching to celebrities who already

dj maybe you'll pitch past the idea in a

manager's head to get their celeb djing

they're probably already doing

appearances at clubs and getting paid

for it so it's not a big step from there

to djing

create custom music for vloggers and

youtubers they don't want to use the

same realtv music as everyone else

approach only the biggest channels as

only they will have enough money to pay

you well

create the demo tracks ideas and

examples for tutorial course creators

often those with the best knowledge in

music production and those who know how

to make videos and explain things well

aren't the best songwriters

yup that includes me

if you have a hard drive full of samples

you've made or track work in progresses

but don't fancy turning it into a sample

pack yourself see if any sound designers

or sample pad labels will buy it off you

for a few hundred dollars it's their job

to turn this sort of stuff into

marketable products

you could help popular youtube and

soundcloud channels find curate and

manage the music they post it's a job

that needs doing and the big channels

have money to pay you

audio repair declipping denoising

de-clicking and so on for filmmakers or

podcasters so dropton is doing and

chances are you're better is than them

mixing many people don't like the

technical process of mixing a song

they've written in fact many of the best

artists in the world don't like it or

maybe are better at songwriting and so

pay someone else to do the mixing look

at the credits on popular releases for

example there's a lot of people involved

here

i made 500 one afternoon by generating a

sample pack

i took a collection of sounds i've made

previously i duplicated the audio track

20 or so times on each track applying a

different audio effect obviously pick an

effect that completely transforms the

sound bounce it all to audio and pick

the best sounds from the stuff you've

generated this is called a generative

workflow and as an interesting way to

generate audio you could use today's

sponsor la la la the drums and newly

launched synthesizer separation types

work well for this

go on tour with a successful artist to

film or vlog their life an artist called

sav from zazumbuyer and then fight club

got his big break this way offering to

travel around filming skrillex on tour

by vintage analog gear as an

appreciating asset i.e buy it now hoping

you can sell it for more in the future

it's not my area of expertise but i'm

pretty sure it's possible

alternatively create a market of

derivative financial contracts to profit

from the price of vintage analog gear

going down again not my area of

expertise

djing and performing live if performing

as an artist is the girl a promoter will

book you if having your name on the

lineup means someone to buy a ticket so

this should be your focus also it's

better to have 4 000 fans in one city

than 40 000 fans spread around the world

if your name is selling tickets you can

pretty much live off onset a week if you

live quite cheaply

if you're on the cutting edge of

underground and trendy genres consult

with big multinational companies and the

marketing or media houses they use to

educate them on what sounds good this is

information they need and will be

willing to pay for

remember watching an advert and

wondering why they've chosen such an

awful insert genre you like background

song it happens all the time and it

really shouldn't it's i mean it's

important for them that their song

resonates with the audience send 500

good emails and you should get some

clients

imagine charging them maybe once every

six months for an update and what sounds

good in the genre you know about

convince netflix or amazon to pay you to

make a tv show about music stuff they

have lots of money and teams of people

looking to fund new shows

sample packs and tutorial courses these

have historically been the biggest

two-income streams for me if the market

feels saturated that just means you need

to produce higher quality work to stand

out find out what you're better than

everyone else at and do that

one-to-one teaching and coaching using

something like skype or zoom

you only really need to know a little

bit more than the person you're teaching

you could always get a normal job

working for say a big corporate like

ableton in some sense it's lower risk

than the self-employed digital creator

life if i spend a week working on

something and it doesn't work i don't

get paid i'll say it again if i spend a

week working on something and it doesn't

work i don't get paid

start a business customizing audio gear

for example imagine an ableton push 2

but in a different and more unique

enclosure a successful artist has plenty

of money to pay for this kind of stuff

ba middle man like a pr company or a

social media marketing agency

at least from the dozens or so i've

interacted with over the years

most get paid for doing very little work

i say this because most didn't spend

more than about half a second looking at

my channel before trying to send me

something or paying for sponsored video

that's how this monstrosity of a gear

will happened in the previous studio

essentially they charge a fee for

spending someone's marketing budget

patreon it's kind of like receiving

donations but also kind of just selling

stuff with some added warm and fuzzies

since the patreon is supporting a

creative and artistic endeavor i

shouldn't be cynical the community is

good and it's a significant income

stream for some

organize an event in your city as a meet

and greet workshop type thing for

successful artists great day for

everyone involved plus you get to meet

some great people

working retail selling music-y stuff

whilst i didn't do this directly i did

work briefly in the apple store

part-time review is before my music

career really started taking off and i

enjoyed it much more than you might

expect i was surrounded by tech i loved

and great people friends in fact i mean

now i'm friends with the microphone

hello friend

join adventure batch startup i hear from

friends that work in venture capital

that there's a lot of money in the

system and that means lots of music

startups get funded and that means lots

of music roles that need to fill in and

there are whole websites dedicated to

this

if you know the business side of uber to

the music industry inside and out

venture capitalists will pay you lots to

do due diligence on investments they're

considering in the space they can't know

everything and so pay experts like you

to verify all the market specific

details

drop websites those big aggregated

platform type places i'm sure there are

some music industry jobs floating around

on there i think in the uk it's websites

like indeed maybe

monster in america

nfts of all the imaginary things you can

think of why sell an actual product or

service to your fans or ask for

donations

if instead you could convince them that

a fancy url equals

ownership in some useful sense

yeah

learn how to create an ai algorithm that

generates millions of excellent songs

upload them all to spotify and hope a

handful of them get picked up by the

algorithm resulting in royalty income

once again this video was sponsored by

lalalai links to everything will be in

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