10 Lessons on “Breaking In”

I often get asked for a checklist of things one can do to break in to the business. Here is my personal “top ten” of lessons learned.

Ghostwriters

Oh…. we HATE to say it! That “dirty word” in composing that we prefer to avoid, yet it comes up in conversation almost daily. Every successful composer says they will not do it, but most of them do it anyway. Most composers, working or not, condemn the idea, but there seems to be no way around it and it almost feels like a necessary evil if you want to be successful at this gig. I recently attended a panel where a group of popular TV and film composers were assembled to talk about their work and answer questions from a hungry crowd made up mostly of new people wanting to break into the industy. The…