I've held it off for long enough! I think it's time to put out all my arrangements that I've been performing and writing for 15 years. Plus the thought of selling my compositions would really motivate me to continually write music, not just when the need arises. Thank you for this video, it was really refreshing to watch and see all the possibilities of extra income!
@@MakeMusicIncome I feel ArrangeMe is abusive... 20 USD threshold plus you can get your money only every 6 months. And once you claim it, you must wait 1 month... Is there a better alternative?
I’m so glad to find this channel. I’ve sold physical music before but just a little and usually to people that I have either a teaching relationship or they are teachers looking to buy music.
Thank you for watching! Stay tuned and subscribe as I will have more content on sheet music sales soon. I am really working on getting more content in my Sheet Music Plus and Sheet Music Direct online stores. As a composer of all kinds of music, but a lot of piano and also classical, I hope for sheet music to be a bigger income for me in 2024.
Hello Eric! In fact, I find everything you share with us through this incredible tutorial extremely interesting. In my case, I worked for a long time as a sheet music copyist, however, taking into account these alternatives that you mentioned, I am actually interested in diving deeper into it to increase my income and opt for the sites of these publishers that you recommend, given that Here in Latin America, certain issues in this regard are usually unknown. In the same way, I would like to apply it with the scores of my own songs or adaptations of public domain repertoire. Greetings!
Excellent let me know if I can be of any help further. Check out our consulting if you'd like to speak me personally about a plan of success. makemusicincome.com/coaching/
Thank you very much Eric for your offer, I would love to, although I still lack mastery and fluency in the language, and it could still be by text for now. I'm still on the lookout there anyway! Greetings there!
I love sheet music. I like to design each measure so to make it as legible and pretty as possible. I might just open myself more to the sheet music market. Great info Eric.
Hey Eric. I am glad to have found this video and channel, and glad that you are discovering and presenting information I hope to be able to use. I write arrangments of public domain as well as copywritten tunes. I have a bachelor's degree in music so with Sibelius' help, it's not difficult or time consuming to do this. Thanks for doing what you do.
Cool video thanks. You speak of selling hymns etc. What are the copyrights as it relates to things Christmas carols. I’m guessing these are public domain songs right? Appreciate your response!
Yes, they have to be public domain. You can sell arrangements of copyrighted material on arrangement.com but you will only make about a dollar per song.
Was on Songbay for a year or so. Never sold anything. Maybe I give it another go. Selling the backing tracks with the music is a killer deal. Maybe get a member access page on the website to stop piracy?
Well, remember you are paying 50% for THEM to bring audience to you. This is standard in publishing. Sure you could sell PDFs yourself, but you’d need to do the marketing to get people to the site. That’s exactly passive.
I am a profesional notator,arranger and composer and this option fell on me in the last couple of days like a miracle:"finally something you can sell that you are actually good with!" Thank you for that, and I have to ask, what's your tips on how to sell such a thing and really make high level of sells and income and break through the void? Where would you market this sheet music selling? Social media doesn't sound like the right platform for some reason(or maybe I'm wrong).
Well, I think you have to remember that this is more about being where the people are who want sheet music. So the most important part is being where people can find you. I would say the other key is putting up songs that people are searching for for instance, if you’d like to make Holiday music, or choral music or unique arrangements of pop songs. It really just depends on the kind of stuff you make. I think I would also have a website with links to where you sell the sheet music. But I still think it’s important to think about genre and how people are searching for sheep music and what the customer needs.
I would imagine they do. That may help you get found on some of these platforms. Have you tried to do a search on them to see if songs can be found that way?
Hello I really like your videos! I was wondering if I sell my sheet music on musicnotes can I upload my original music for it to sell? Otlr does it have to be an arrangement of someone else's song?
Hi! New to the channel and loved your video! I write transcriptions mostly (drums and piano) that I share with my students and am thinking about selling them but the problem is they are mostly copyrighted songs and very few of them are public domain. Do you have any advice on what my options would be? I assume I would need permission from whoever owns the rights and am wondering how feasible that is and if doing this could be lucrative at all. Thanks!
Check out www.arrangeme.com/ and read their fine print. If these are exact transcriptions there may be trouble, but if they are original at all you should be fine.
Hi! Thank you for this video. But what about the copyright? If I for Example make a piano arrangement of a Taylor Swift song, is it legal to sell it? its gonna be my arrangement but its her music (or her label’s) thanks in advance
Here’s what ArrangeMe.com says: Through licensing agreements with music publishers including Universal Music Publishing, Sony Music Publishing, Downtown Music, Kobalt Music, BMG/Chrysalis, Concord Music, and many others, ArrangeMe allows for composers and arrangers to not only publish their own original compositions, but also their own arrangements of over five million popular, copyrighted titles.
@@simonarmitagemusic So sorry, misunderstood your question. When I do transcriptions for people the cost for what you are talking about is about $50-75. $2-5 is what you can sell each piece for online for that kind of arrangement,
Hi Eric, I want to arrange a song that has already been arranged on Sheet music direct and somehow it isn't up for arranging - although others have arranged it - do they limit the number of arrangements of a particular song - wonder if you know?
@@MakeMusicIncome When I go online there is no arranging symbol beside the song and when I call up the list of songs that can be arranged it is not on the list even although there are many arrangements of this song via SMD. So I wonder, if they limit the number of arrangements they sell for a particular song? Or maybe I am missing something!!!!
What sometimes happens is the copyright owner will withdraw their permission from Hal Leonard/Arrangeme. So songs that may have previously been available are no longer. My understanding is that when this occurs ALL arrangements are removed from the sales websites (sheetmusicdirect and sheetmusicplus). Whether or not this is what you are encountering I can't say.
SMP and ArrangeMe are great places to fill out a music income portfolio, and if you know your way around Sibelius/Finale then there are endless possibilities!
Can I sell music protected by copyright? Let's say a pop or rock song of an artist such as Coldplay. Do I need authorization to do so? Or the platforms take care of the copyright for me and I just get my part of the sales figures?
You’ll need to go through Easy Song Licensing or Harry Fox and pay for a license, and of course it will need to be a new reordering (not the original recording.)
How about arrangements of popular copy written songs? I’m a guitarist and have several solo arrangements of popular tunes that have generated some interest. Is there a way to legally upload that sheet music while still giving credit and getting a cut of the sales?
Obviously, not my intention. The first clip i found trying to finish up the video. And I don’t think the words were about intelligence anyway, but more about the time it takes to mess around with beats vs. the more involved process of engraving sheet music.
Great video, I found a cool app that actually works piano2notes it records while you play and you have the option to save and print the best part is its free so far!
I've held it off for long enough! I think it's time to put out all my arrangements that I've been performing and writing for 15 years. Plus the thought of selling my compositions would really motivate me to continually write music, not just when the need arises. Thank you for this video, it was really refreshing to watch and see all the possibilities of extra income!
Excellent! Yes, it’s time! I still have hundreds of compositions to get back to I’ve written over the decades!! We need to get to work! LOL
How does profit works if you’re making a piano cover of a song from a band? Any issues with copyright?
It depends on the site you sell on. On ArrangeMe.com you can do arrangements but only keep 10% of the fee. Read more here www.arrangeme.com/search
@@MakeMusicIncome I feel ArrangeMe is abusive... 20 USD threshold plus you can get your money only every 6 months. And once you claim it, you must wait 1 month... Is there a better alternative?
I’m so glad to find this channel. I’ve sold physical music before but just a little and usually to people that I have either a teaching relationship or they are teachers looking to buy music.
Thank you for watching! Stay tuned and subscribe as I will have more content on sheet music sales soon. I am really working on getting more content in my Sheet Music Plus and Sheet Music Direct online stores. As a composer of all kinds of music, but a lot of piano and also classical, I hope for sheet music to be a bigger income for me in 2024.
Hello Eric! In fact, I find everything you share with us through this incredible tutorial extremely interesting. In my case, I worked for a long time as a sheet music copyist, however, taking into account these alternatives that you mentioned, I am actually interested in diving deeper into it to increase my income and opt for the sites of these publishers that you recommend, given that Here in Latin America, certain issues in this regard are usually unknown. In the same way, I would like to apply it with the scores of my own songs or adaptations of public domain repertoire. Greetings!
Excellent let me know if I can be of any help further. Check out our consulting if you'd like to speak me personally about a plan of success. makemusicincome.com/coaching/
Thank you very much Eric for your offer, I would love to, although I still lack mastery and fluency in the language, and it could still be by text for now. I'm still on the lookout there anyway! Greetings there!
I love sheet music. I like to design each measure so to make it as legible and pretty as possible. I might just open myself more to the sheet music market. Great info Eric.
Awesome Jose! Go for it!
It is good valuable information as I have a large folder filled with sheet music!
Go get em!!
Hey Eric. I am glad to have found this video and channel, and glad that you are discovering and presenting information I hope to be able to use. I write arrangments of public domain as well as copywritten tunes. I have a bachelor's degree in music so with Sibelius' help, it's not difficult or time consuming to do this. Thanks for doing what you do.
Awesome, thank you for watching! And good luck with your sheet music.
Your videos are getting more and more professional! Congrats!
Awesome, thank you!!
Hi Eric, This is very helpful and encouraging. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Cool video thanks. You speak of selling hymns etc. What are the copyrights as it relates to things Christmas carols. I’m guessing these are public domain songs right?
Appreciate your response!
Yes, they have to be public domain. You can sell arrangements of copyrighted material on arrangement.com but you will only make about a dollar per song.
Finally got around to list some of my choir compositions on ArrangeMe and MyScore. Starting to see a few sales. Need to get the rest of them up.
Yes!
Was on Songbay for a year or so. Never sold anything. Maybe I give it another go. Selling the backing tracks with the music is a killer deal. Maybe get a member access page on the website to stop piracy?
Is 50% profit good? Is there a storefront or way of selling music that allows us to keep more of the sale? I just don’t know what the standard is.
Well, remember you are paying 50% for THEM to bring audience to you. This is standard in publishing. Sure you could sell PDFs yourself, but you’d need to do the marketing to get people to the site. That’s exactly passive.
I am a profesional notator,arranger and composer and this option fell on me in the last couple of days like a miracle:"finally something you can sell that you are actually good with!"
Thank you for that, and I have to ask, what's your tips on how to sell such a thing and really make high level of sells and income and break through the void?
Where would you market this sheet music selling? Social media doesn't sound like the right platform for some reason(or maybe I'm wrong).
Well, I think you have to remember that this is more about being where the people are who want sheet music. So the most important part is being where people can find you. I would say the other key is putting up songs that people are searching for for instance, if you’d like to make Holiday music, or choral music or unique arrangements of pop songs. It really just depends on the kind of stuff you make.
I think I would also have a website with links to where you sell the sheet music. But I still think it’s important to think about genre and how people are searching for sheep music and what the customer needs.
Thank you so much for your wonderful Explanations in your Videos. To me it was a Enlightenment.
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching!
Another superb production 👍👍
Thank you!
Thanks for the video and info! Do you know if those sheet music selling platform support other language of lyrics? Thanks!
I would imagine they do. That may help you get found on some of these platforms. Have you tried to do a search on them to see if songs can be found that way?
Hello I really like your videos! I was wondering if I sell my sheet music on musicnotes can I upload my original music for it to sell? Otlr does it have to be an arrangement of someone else's song?
What is your average annual income from commissions per published arrangement if you mind me asking?
Don’t have the data for that yet. Not even enough up there to say. A dozen or less titles.
should I include MP3 sample on arrangeme when I upload the music?
if so, should it be demo or couple of second of the music
Thank you
You can actually sell an MP3 on ArrangeMe.com
Hi! New to the channel and loved your video! I write transcriptions mostly (drums and piano) that I share with my students and am thinking about selling them but the problem is they are mostly copyrighted songs and very few of them are public domain. Do you have any advice on what my options would be? I assume I would need permission from whoever owns the rights and am wondering how feasible that is and if doing this could be lucrative at all. Thanks!
Check out www.arrangeme.com/ and read their fine print. If these are exact transcriptions there may be trouble, but if they are original at all you should be fine.
Great idea
Thanks!! Good luck to you!
What percentage of the sales price do you keep when posting on Sheet Music Plus?
I think it’s about 50-50.
Hi! Thank you for this video. But what about the copyright? If I for Example make a piano arrangement of a Taylor Swift song, is it legal to sell it? its gonna be my arrangement but its her music (or her label’s) thanks in advance
Here’s what ArrangeMe.com says: Through licensing agreements with music publishers including Universal Music Publishing, Sony Music Publishing, Downtown Music, Kobalt Music, BMG/Chrysalis, Concord Music, and many others, ArrangeMe allows for composers and arrangers to not only publish their own original compositions, but also their own arrangements of over five million popular, copyrighted titles.
But I think you only make 10% on covers.
Hi there Eric. Where do you usually go to get your tracks transcribed to sheet music?
I can do it, or have my team do it.
Ok, so what's the going rate for say a 2 minute piano piece roughly for a professional transcriber?
@@simonarmitagemusic If just solo piano probably in the $2-5 dollar range?
@@MakeMusicIncome wow 😲I've been paying between £50 and £70 for each piece.
Are you getting quality transcriptions for that price?
@@simonarmitagemusic So sorry, misunderstood your question. When I do transcriptions for people the cost for what you are talking about is about $50-75. $2-5 is what you can sell each piece for online for that kind of arrangement,
hey, great videos. btw i'm a pro music arranger and planning to sell my sheet music also. thanks for the tips :)
Excellent! Glad it helped!
Hi Eric, I want to arrange a song that has already been arranged on Sheet music direct and somehow it isn't up for arranging - although others have arranged it - do they limit the number of arrangements of a particular song - wonder if you know?
What do you mean it’s not "up for arranging"?
@@MakeMusicIncome When I go online there is no arranging symbol beside the song and when I call up the list of songs that can be arranged it is not on the list even although there are many arrangements of this song via SMD. So I wonder, if they limit the number of arrangements they sell for a particular song? Or maybe I am missing something!!!!
Are you talking about on arrange me.com?
What sometimes happens is the copyright owner will withdraw their permission from Hal Leonard/Arrangeme. So songs that may have previously been available are no longer. My understanding is that when this occurs ALL arrangements are removed from the sales websites (sheetmusicdirect and sheetmusicplus). Whether or not this is what you are encountering I can't say.
Incredible content! As a beginner piano player, could you guys recommend me some free resources for classical scores? Thank you!
Here’s a great place to start! imslp.org
@@MakeMusicIncome ❤❤❤
SMP and ArrangeMe are great places to fill out a music income portfolio, and if you know your way around Sibelius/Finale then there are endless possibilities!
Thanks Dave!
Can I sell music protected by copyright? Let's say a pop or rock song of an artist such as Coldplay. Do I need authorization to do so? Or the platforms take care of the copyright for me and I just get my part of the sales figures?
You’ll need to go through Easy Song Licensing or Harry Fox and pay for a license, and of course it will need to be a new reordering (not the original recording.)
I've been selling my sheet music on Sheet Music Plus for several years now under my Publishing Company, Twintastic Music.
Great to hear! Thanks and good luck with it!
@@MakeMusicIncome Thanks! 🎼
Have you made many sales and how long did it take? Are these originals or arrangements?
Do you think you sell more arranging other peoples music or selling your own originals ?
I will have to look. I would assume that once I get more out there that arranged Music will sell more.
How would you sell something that was the last one on the planet? - 1857 Music Score- "Hunting Song" by German Composer Felex Mendelssohn
Sounds like that would go to auction houses or schools? I’m not really sure.
How about arrangements of popular copy written songs? I’m a guitarist and have several solo arrangements of popular tunes that have generated some interest. Is there a way to legally upload that sheet music while still giving credit and getting a cut of the sales?
Some sites allow this. Check out ArrangeMe.com, JWPepper, and Music Notes for more details and what they allow.
@@MakeMusicIncome Thanks for the info! Will check them out.
OMG, that's racist! You put a black guy in there doing beats and talked about a person whom can't do sheet music because of lower intelligence. 🤔
Obviously, not my intention. The first clip i found trying to finish up the video. And I don’t think the words were about intelligence anyway, but more about the time it takes to mess around with beats vs. the more involved process of engraving sheet music.
Great video, I found a cool app that actually works piano2notes it records while you play and you have the option to save and print the best part is its free so far!
Very cool!