Collaborative Songwriting: A Quick and Dirty Introduction to Using Split Sheets
Don’t let a “handshake agreement” destroy your chances of collecting royalties on a song that goes viral. Here’s how to protect yourself.
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5 Ways to Reinvest Your Royalties for Growth
5 professional tips for reinvesting the passive income you’ve got coming in from your music royalties or merch, to help you continue growing!
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Things I Wish I Knew Before Becoming a Professional Songwriter
Notes from a professional songwriter and Soundfly mentor, lessons learned throughout a career of fortunes and misfortunes.
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Did Lorde Rip Off George Michael?
Thoughts on Lorde’s new single, a familiar ’50s rock groove, and the hyper-litigious state of the music industry’s copyright law.
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Why and How to Copyright Your Original Music
In this climate of increasing lawsuits, protecting your intellectual musical property is becoming an essential tool in the songwriter’s toolkit. Learn more.
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5 Tips for Making, Marketing, and Monetizing Holiday Music This Season
Making special music for the holidays is a great way to deepen your engagement with fans, bring in a bit of extra dough, and help people simply feel good!
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5 Music Copyright Cases Every Songwriter Should Know About
Take a tour of 5 important copyright infringement cases in music history to learn about the decisions that helped shape how we look at songwriting today.
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What Is ‘Subconscious Plagiarism?’ Just Ask George Harrison
+ Improve your songwriting with Soundfly! Explore our range of courses on emotional chord progressions, basic songwriting technique, songwriting for producers, and many more. Subscribe for unlimited access here. Late in the summer of 1976, as a matter of fact it was 42 years ago today, the man known as the “quiet Beatle” made quite a stir when he was […]
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An Examination of the Songwriter and Music Publisher Relationship
+ Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. We will now examine the music publisher and its exclusive publishing agreement with a songwriter. In addition to the standard exclusive publishing agreement explored below, there are […]
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7 Key Members of Every Artist’s Team
Being a musician is a full-time job. You chose to pursue this journey because of your desire to write, experiment, and perform — not to chase club promoters or make pitches to media outlets. And while being an independent artist is empowering, it doesn’t mean you have to do it alone. As many artists start […]
