If you had to describe your current mood as a song title, what would it be? 🎧

Hey! Welcome to the Audio Artist Rise Community! This community helps music composers improve, optimize, and inspire themselves as they enter or progress in the audio industry. Step #01: Introduce yourself in THIS thread below! (✄ copy/paste template 👇) What are your goals? What is your current demo reel? What immediate help do you need? **Please DO NOT make a new post, as those clog up the feed (they will be removed). ------------------------------------------------------------------ Best practices in this community: • Level up by posting insights and thoughtful comments. • Help others level up by liking 👍 good posts and comments. • Be kind • If you want to reply to a post, make sure to use REPLY instead of creating a new post • If you need quick help, you can also ask the community 🤝

Some of you here aren’t just making music — you’re also starting to treat your career more like a business. Maybe you’re teaching, selling courses, offering coaching, or simply looking for better ways to promote your music. Usually, that means juggling way too many things: - Emails & newsletters - Social media content scheduling - Websites, demo reels or landing pages - AI chat bots trained on your content - Client pipeline - Scheduling calls or lessons - Taking payments - Managing contacts, fans, or students - Hosting courses or memberships - Automating almost anything available in the system It’s messy. It’s time-consuming. And honestly, it pulls you away from what you actually want to do: making music. 👉 Now imagine if there was one single tool that handled all of this. Even better: imagine if you could choose between setting it up yourself or having it done for you with personal support. That’s what I want to ask you today: 1. Would you actually find something like this useful? 2. Would you be willing to pay for it — and if yes, how much (monthly/yearly) for the system? 3. What if there is also a "done for you" service available. I’d love to hear your honest thoughts — drop them in the comments 👇

As we know, the purpose of trailers is to sell you the movie, which is why the music in it is also important. So which movie trailer whose track made you want to see the movie? For me, it was the trailer for “2012” directed by Rolan Emmerich which featured Two Steps From Hell’s “Master Of Shadows”. The combination of the music with the scenes fascinated me. It also is one of the reasons it made me want to produce trailer music.

Does anyone here have their own contracts? I've refused to sign, or made amendments to contracts that have had things in it like "Artist does not have an absolute ownership right in their names or likenesses." I've seen other things in contracts that have made me uncomfortable as well. I realize that when working with a larger business they'll provide their own contracts, but I think I might feel more comfortable not signing away too much when working with a smaller company. Any thoughts on this? Thank you in advance!