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Music Composing Software - How to Compose Beautiful Music
By Michael Keynes

With music composing software you can compose beautiful music that lights up the spirit even if you don’t have a lot of knowledge about music therapy. Technology has made it really easy to express your creative potential and share it with the world.

Too many people take what is possible today for granted. If you reflect on it - just a couple of hundred years ago, the most people did not even have the time, let alone the means, to compose their own music - they did not know how to do it and they did not have the instruments to play music. And most of them did not even have the time to make music because they had to work all day long.

Nowadays, a simple computer program can help you to create the most amazing array of music. You can compose music on your computer and your sound card can emulate the sounds of all kinds of instruments, whether it is a piano, a guitar, a trumpet, a saxophone, a violin or whatever instrument you wish.

You can easily make changes and put several different tracks on top of each other to make the music sound fuller and richer. Music composing software allows you to easily take the melodies and musical ideas that are on the inside of your head and transport them in the outside world so that other people can listen to it too.

The challenge nowadays is to find the right kind of program, because there are so many. The best way to go about choosing a program is by setting your priorities straight. What matters the most for you?

Yes, you can get a professional music composing program for several thousand dollars that has all kinds of functions, but you will basically need the knowledge of an experienced sound engineer to actually use that program.

Instead, for most beginners it is much more advisable to start out with a program that is made for beginners. In the past that meant you had to accept “cheap keyboard sounds”, but nowadays even entry-level programs make it possible to create awesome, professional sounding music that you can easily convert into MP3 files that you can use in your own videos, turn into a CD, load on your iPod or mobile phone and share with other people on the internet if that is what you want to do.

For more advice on finding the best music composing software visit http://www.HitsComposer.com.

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Music Licensing Tips - Royalty Free Music Explained
By Aaron Davison

There seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the term “royalty free” music as it applies to the music licensing industry. Some believe that this means there is no cost at all associated with the music in question, which is not the case. Others believe that the music being licensed under this arrangement is “copyright free”, which is also not true. Different libraries will offer different types of deals and the agreements will vary to a certain degree, however, as a general rule of thumb, ¨royalty free¨ music simply means that the end user has purchased a “lifetime synchronization license” for a given song or group of songs. In other words, they have the right to synchronize your music with your audio and/or video productions an unlimited number of times without incurring any additional expense.

There are other types of production music licenses, these include “Needle Drop” licensing where the user pays a fee each time they synchronize a piece of music, and “Blanket Licensing” where the user essentially leases a group of music or CDs, and is able to use the music for a specified set of uses during the duration of the lease (typically a one, two, or three year commitment). Each of these licenses are actually more like renting the music than buying. While the end users don´t actually own the music with a buyout (royalty free) library, they do own a lifetime license to synchronize your music with their productions.

The other big misconception about royalty free music is that the creators of the music don´t receive performance royalties. Television broadcasters pay annual royalties to the Performing Rights Societies for the right to broadcast music on their shows. When music is broadcast on television or cable TV, it is tracked by something called a Cue Sheet. This is precisely where the term Royalty Free does NOT apply and can be easily misconstrued. Cue sheets determine where the royalties previously paid by the broadcaster get distributed. There are no costs associated with cue sheets and most Royalty Free music libraries require that cue sheets be properly filled out when the music is for broadcast use. A cue sheet is a paper trail that ensures writers get paid what is due to them out of the money that has been previously paid by the television stations and broadcasting entities.

In conclusion, a “Royalty Free” license means that the end user does not continually pay a “synchronization royalty” each time they use a given piece of music and instead only pay a one time fee upfront. It does NOT mean that the writer will not receive the performance royalty, or broadcast royalty, due him or her when his music is aired. This royalty has already been paid in advance by the broadcaster and should be distributed appropriately through the filling out and submission of cue sheets.

Aaron Davison is a Berklee College Of Music Alumnus who has been working in the music business for over ten years. His songs have been heard on a variety of television shows and he has performed live throughout the world. Visit Aaron’s website, http://www.howtolicenseyourmusic.com, for more information on getting your songs placed in TV and Film.

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iTunes - Music Online - iTunes Music Store
By Simon Dawson

The iTunes Music Store isn’t the only option for downloading tracks from the Internet. But if you use iTunes and an iPod, it’s unquestionably the most convenient, offering you instant, legal, access to hundreds of thousands of tracks for 79p/99c each. Unlike some of its competitors, the iTunes Music Store is not a website, so don’t expect to reach it with Internet Explorer or Safari. The only way in is through iTunes: simply connect to the Net, click the Music Store icon in the Source List, and after a few seconds the iTunes window will be taken over by the Store’s front page…

Logging in for the first time

Though any iTunes user can browse the Music Store, listen to samples and look at artwork, if you actually want to buy anything you need to set up an account. Which is easily done: hit the Sign In button (top right); press Create New Account (or choose, if you prefer, to use your existing.mac or AOL account details); and follow the prompts to enter your payment and contact details. If someone else is already signed in to the Store on the same computer, they’ll need to sign out first.

You’ll need your ID and password each time you want to but something, so keep them safe.

Navigating

You shouldn’t struggle to find your way around the iTunes Music Store. Like online CD stores such as Amazon, it lets you peruse by genre, look at “Staff Favourites”, “Featured Artists”, “Exclusives” and so on. But it also lets you use the various tools familiar from browsing your own iTunes Library. For example:

Searching

Once you are in the Store the iTunes Search field can be used to search the Store’s catalogue. The homepage also features a link to Power Search” where you can narrow your search criteria.

Browsing

The Browse function works in exactly the same way as it does for your own Library: hit the Browse button in the top right corner and then browse genres, artists and albums in the columns that appear.

Quicklinks

Whether you are browsing your own Library or the Music Store’s catalogue, you can use the grey circular Quicklink buttons in Song List to quickly access all the Music Store’s selections for a particular artist. Quicklinks can be turned on and off for your own Library in iTunes Preferences under General.

Previewing Music

You can preview thirty seconds’ worth of any track within the Music Store catalogue simply by double-clicking the song’s name in the Song List. You can also drag any previews into playlists on the Source List to listen to later. These previews will appear in the Song List all ready for you to click when you want to buy the whole track.

Buying music

Once you’re ready to buy some tracks, there are two ways to go about it. You could use the “1-Click” method, whereby a single click of a Buy Song button in the Song List will debit the payment from your card and start the track downloading to your iTunes Library. Alternatively you can shop using a “Shopping Cart”, which appears in the Source List. As you browse the store you add songs to your cart using the Add Song buttons; when you are done, click the cart’s icon in the Source List, inspect it’s contents and then hit the Buy Now button in the bottom right corner to pay and start downloading.

You can set which method you wish to use in the iTunes Preferences panel under Store.

Authorizing your computer

Music purchased from the iTunes Music Store can only be “authorized” for use on five machines at any one time. This way Apple hope that they can curb the unauthorized sharing of copyrighted music. Your computer is authorized to play music you purchase when you set up your account, or when you enter your ID and password to play a song that you’ve downloaded.

If your account is already authorized with five computers, you will have to deauthorize one of the machines before playing music on a sixth. This is done by selecting Deauthorize computer… from the Advanced menu in iTunes. Equally, if you ever plan to sell or ditch an old machine which has been used to play purchased songs, make sure you deauthorize it before you say goodbye.

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