Saturday, October 3rd. 6-8pm EST. On Zoom. I'm teaming up with Mathew Steele of SteeleSync for a live listening and feedback session. Mathew's been placing indie music in sync for 13 years. His roster has landed songs in Limitless , The Family, Parks and Rec, Sons of Anarchy, and more. SteeleSync now represents over 100 artists! This is a real shot at direct feedback from someone who represents artists and licenses music for a living. Submit your best track and me and Matthew will tell you what's working and what's not. How to join: Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81026372711?pwd=Km2KxNfNkQIItjiOWQFtwajYDamL6u.1 How to submit a track for feedback: Send your Disco.ac or Spotify link to steelesyncatlanta@gmail.com before the call. Open to all Sync Vault members. Bring your questions.

Doing a full brand refresh on The Sync Vault and I need your eyes on it. I've got 4 cover image options. Vote for your favorite in the comments (just say A, B, C, or D). Whichever gets the most votes goes live on the group.

Some of you may know, but some may not, but... I'm hosting a virtual workshop on 9/28 where Tim Starnes will be dissecting 4 composer's mixes. Tim is a world class music editor, mixer and orchestrator for moves as well as a former NYU/UCLA professor in music tech. His credits include Lord of the Rings, The Departed, Hugo and a bunch more great films. I worked with him on Blues Clues and his guidance on mixing was very insightful! Please try to make it if you can (yes there will be a replay!) https://luma.com/te6u4ags

https://s.disco.ac/axinerywxpgu Am I? Tell me what you hear in this updated mix. @Dawn Dineen @Glenn Macrae @Jennifer Crowe @Tim Jeffcoat @David Goode @Kaleb Blackard @Tyquan Griffin

I sent this video to a few people in the group this week. Robert Greene breaking down his really great book Mastery in 8 minutes. Here's the short version of his 6 steps: - Find your life's task. The thing your specific mix of experience and skill points you toward. - Go through an apprenticeship. Your 20s (or your first years in any new field) should be about learning, not earning. - Find a mentor. Not a hack, but the closest thing to one. Someone who already made the mistakes you're about to make. ✅ [you're already here so you've got it!] - Build social intelligence. You can be technically great and still get passed over because you're hard to work with. - Unlock creativity. Once you've put in the reps, you start making things nobody else could've made. - Fuse intuition with skill. This is mastery. You stop thinking and start feeling what comes next. - I shared it with @David Goode , and he watched it with a buddy of his. Dave's takeaway stuck with me: Once you get honest about who you are and what you're actually good at, that understanding changes what you put into your work. He didn't call it luck. He called it a kind of realization. Here's why this matters for sync specifically: Most people trying to break into sync licensing skip step one. They chase what's trending instead of figuring out what they're actually built to make. That's why they burn out or quit after six months. If you don't know your lane, you can't build a body of work that sounds like you, and sync supervisors are looking for a specific sound, not a generic one. Worth the 8 minutes to check it out below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KUEigk4JCA