Let me preface this by saying I never planned to be a musician. I played some keyboard when I was a teenager and got into playing some guitar when I was 21, but I never thought a music career was an option. About three years ago I was getting high, watching guitar videos on youtube. I noticed some of these guys made their own beats and backing tracks and stuff, and I wanted to do that. So I got some free music software, and would get high and play with it. Then one day I was really stoned and thought, "I bet I could buy music software and make any kind of music and sell it to commercials for a living and quit my job." I was high as shit, and it seemed like a good idea so without thinking I spent my entire life savings on music equipment, pro software, speakers all kinds of stuff. I spent my entire bank account, which was over two thousand at the time. I basically ordered a recording studio, not even caring that I had never written music in my life. So I had to watch youtube tutorials for each piece of my equipment, dozens of them before I could use the software properly. I essentially learned audio engineering from youtube. I didn't know how to write music, so I just thought I'd study it and figure out how it works. So I started studying music. I mean really studying it. I started learning popular chord progressions, time signatures, tempos etc. Then I started studying classical music, and learning about consonance and dissonance, creating emotion in music. I knew I had to get attention so I called myself TWICE AS NAKED because it catches your eye, plus it doesn't make sense so you stop for a second, and it has a good keyword. For my cover picture I took a photo of a nude breasts with hands on them, and added my name in bold hot pink letters. I started making music, and I would base each song off a generic theme. Like Jewelry Commercial, Movie Date Scene, Movie Defeat Scene, Futuristic Car Commercial, Jungle Scene, TV Friendship Montage etc. I would try to make the most cliche music for those scenes that I could. I registered with the ASCAP, and started submitting my tracks on sync licensing sites. I got a few small licenses, my first was background music for a nightclub scene on an Italian soap opera (which I've yet to be paid for). I kept producing and submitting for three years, trial and error style. Yesterday I signed a contract for a 7 year publishing deal with a top Hollywood publishing house. My songs will now be featured on major motion pictures, network television, and video games. I will be making very nice up front royalties. I actually became a musician because I got an idea when I was stoned and spent my life savings online.
I never planned to do it, just got stoned one day and decided I was gonna suddenly become a musician lol. Here is my latest track, it's called Springtime. https://soundcloud.com/twiceasnaked/springtime
Cool to here. Make more music. Icemelt sounded nice everything else IMO, mehhh... Springtime foes sound Sims-ish Goodluck out the OP
Yeah Icemelt is doing very well for me. You would be surprised at some of those "mehh" songs getting licensed in stuff like mobile games and indie movies. I don't like most of my music, sometimes I'm shocked I'm like REALLY THAT SONG? lol
Oh, I believe it. Alot of your stuff is good commercial music. I could see them on some book store/literature app commercials easily. N I know EXACTLY what you mean. Lol My arts are more visual, n some of my shit smells like roses to folks. Hahaha Chime sounds in the background are like ecstasy btw
Sounds Beasters dude. I've been playing instuments my whole life. But when i wanted to pursue it as a career they told me, I was stupid. I actually got accepted into Berklee one of the best music schools in the world. but i couldn't go cause i didn't get enough grant money.
Yeah I've done a lot of research into consonance. It's weird how music can make your brain feel good. You can still do it without college if I can get where I am. I learned from youtube videos in a couple of years.
It takes a lot of practice. I didn't really want to do studio works, cause i enjoyed playing physical instruments. I always thought of being a music instructor
Do you get royalty's? Actually as an add-on. Cause everytime they use your verse then you should get a small royalty.
Not at first. A lot of times they don't tell you what it actually is until the cue sheet is submitted to the ASCAP. I guess they wait to purchase the license until the last minute in case the scene is cut or changed. It depends on what it is and how it is used. Having a song in a commercial or a small part in a TV show will usually get about $1500-$2000 plus residuals. If its a feature song in a big budget movie it can get anywhere from $4,000 to $30,000. Yea there is the license fee which you get paid up front, and then you get the backend P.R.O. residuals. The license fees are paid to you directly from the publisher who collects the fee from the content provider, and when the content provider submits the cue sheet to the ASCAP they collect the royalties on your behalf and pay them out.
Gratz on your contract! I have to admit, I allow your avatar to bother me. Is that a man dressed up as a woman? Or is that an actual woman? If it's a woman, and she cut her hair and put on a fake moustash, She would have me completely duped. Looks like John Lithgow dressed as a woman. If thats actually your pic, then I apologise if I have insulted you.
It's a still from the 1982 film The World According to Garp, in which John Lithgow has a role as a transsexual former football player. I think it's funny lol.