🏋️ Composing Careers Need Practice, Too

If you’re trying to make composing a full-time profession, your practice routine needs to change.

Think of it like exercise. 💪

The left side of your body is your craft...

• 🎹 Composing
• 🎻 Orchestrating
• 🎚️ Mockups
• 🎬 Scoring

... and the right side of your body is your business:

• ☕ Networking
• 📣 Marketing
• 💡 Pitching
• 🤝 Negotiation
• 🗨️ Communication
• 📂 Project Management

Most composers tend to focus on the left side only, spending their practice time on their craft.

But to build strength in your career, you need to strengthen both sides of your body.

So what stops us?

😨 “I’m not ready.”

I've coached hundreds of students over the years, and here's the most common objection I hear:

"My music isn't good enough to start looking for work."

Here's why I don't agree. ❌

When I started looking for composing work, I was 14 years old.

Here's what my music sounded like:

Does this sound “professional” to you?

It wasn’t good enough to get paid for, and it’s definitely not good enough for the kind of projects I work on now.

But I still looked for ways to find work anyway. ✅

I reached out to directors, animators, composers, and mentors every week.

I posted my work online constantly.

And I treated myself like I was already part of the media composing industry instead of waiting to feel "good enough" to join in.

But it didn’t happen overnight.

🐢 Results Take Time

It took a lot of trial and error to figure out what worked and what didn’t.

I spent over a decade trying to figure out how to make a career making music.

The first few gigs I got were student films, paying between $0-$200 per score.

Those gigs gave me real-world experience. And those experiences led to more connections, a work portfolio, and better music.

My YouTube channel began to attract attention, and soon clients were reaching out to me (instead of the other way around).

The network I’d built began paying off, and composers began offering me overflow from projects they were too busy to handle.

After 10+ years of hard work, as of 2021 I’m so proud to say that I’m a full-time composer.

I absolutely love what I do. ❤️

In fact, I now have more opportunities than I can handle, and could continue to say yes to more work.

But I’m equally passionate about teaching, and want to give composers the tools I wish I had when I was starting.

I made the Composing Career Bootcamp to teach you how to compose for a living, too.

👞 The Bootcamp

Over my 6-week program, I'm sharing the exact framework I used to:

• ☕ Build my network
• 📲 Market myself online
• 🔎 Find and initiate work oppotunities
• 🗨️ Negotiate deals
• 📁 Manage projects and deliver professionally

These are the skills I practiced every day for years to transform my hobby into a profession.

We’ll be doing weekly Q&As and assignments, and you’ll have lifetime access to 60+ video lessons, our student portal, and a Notion toolkit packed with templates & tools for your career.

If you’re ready to start strengthening the “right side” of your career, this is the course for you.

Our 50% pre-sale is live now, but ends November 30th, so don’t wait too long if you’re interested.

👉 Enroll Now and Save $500

Whether you join or not, just remember:

Your music doesn't need to "sound professional" for you to start networking, marketing, and offering your composing services.

Start strengthening both sides of your body. 💪