Hey everyone, Would i be right in that the Trailblazers 1 is a fuller course than what Alex started adding youtube a few months ago (the series called Free Trailer Music Course). Also, what is covered in part 2? Sorry if ive missed a post somewhere explaining this. Many thanks Jay

They teach you harmony. Orchestration. How to make your strings sound cinematic. Then you graduate or finish your course and the entire industry says: "Good luck. Hope someone finds you." The unspoken strategy is: post on social media, submit to libraries, and wait. Maybe network at a conference once a year. Maybe cold email a supervisor with a generic "here is my reel" message that goes straight to trash. That is not a career strategy. That is hope. I spent 20 years doing exactly this. Some years it worked. Some years it was silence. And I never questioned it because I assumed that is just how the industry works. Then I got into the automation world and realized something embarrassing. Every other industry has outreach systems. Personalized, automated, scalable. A sales rep at a SaaS company sends 50 targeted emails a day without breaking a sweat. Each one references the recipient's company, their role, their recent work. Composers send "Hi, I am a composer, here is my reel" to a generic info@ address and wonder why nobody replies. We are literally decades behind. So I built something. An outreach system that researches companies, finds the right people, and writes personalized emails that actually reference their projects. Their latest game. Their recent trailer. The show they just worked on. Because the system actually looked it up. Runs on your laptop. You own it. No monthly fees to some platform holding your contacts hostage. I have been setting these up for a handful of people and I am taking on a few more. If you want to see what this looks like, send me a message.

I probably asked this once but it's been quite a while and now I do need some insight to it: A videogame studio came up to me and said: we want you, the only thing we need right now is a document where you write down your charges for the tracks and SFX and its gonna be quite some work. Estimated he said 180 hours. And I'm not sure how to charge for SFX. Or in general. I made the mistake once and to bypass the law and taxes I said I wanted a mini-job (getting only 538€ a month) Germany has some really difficult paperwork. So now they offered me: Freelance job or monthly salary job. And I do want to do freelance to get more of it but I'm not sure how to charge it. I used to do per minute of audio but when a project needs more than just some tracks I'm overasked. They're gonna submit it to get money from the state for the project and they need me to prepare my numbers for it on a document. What should I do? What do I tell them?

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Hey guys my first album Ashes of Tomorrow has been released today with Amadea Music Productions! Here is the spotify link if anyone is interested https://open.spotify.com/album/0dHScPvQgKsFFBXhJyrAXf?si=nugVL4kmSvqGfwJ5BvdGPw