If you’re experiencing writer’s block as a music composer, here’s a helpful technique I learned in music school: In the early 90’s my college brought in acclaimed jazz pianist/composer Kenny Werner to spend a full week with students as an all-around clinician. It was sort of like having Henry Kissinger hang around your high school […]

Location: Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom Member Since: March 10, 2010 Tracks in Portfolio: 111 (Click here to see all tracks) Tracks We Like: “Road Trip” Road_Trip.mp3 “Street Lethal” Street_Lethal.mp3 “Start a revolution” Start_a_revolution.mp3 The Interview: 1. High profile projects or clients you have worked for? Movies “The Wrestler” “Couples Retreat” & “Valhalla Rising. Commercials for […]

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States Of America Member Since: May 1, 2010 Tracks in Portfolio: 148 Tracks We Like: Catch_Me_If_You_Can Dark_Cry_Of_The_Soul_full Science_Friction The Interview: 1. High profile projects or clients you have worked for? Boeing, Microsoft XBOX 360, Toyota. 2. Primary instrument? Guitar was my first instrument and the one that still feels the […]

This week we reached 8,000 tracks on MusicRevolution! Hundreds of musicians from all over the globe have uploaded tracks in every style and genre and we feel truly honored to represent such an amazing community of production music talent. To commemorate the occasion I thought I’d highlight tracks from our collection that are perfect for […]

In an interview last month with the New York Times, the President of BMI said the first assortment of data generated by their new digital rights management tracking system revealed a higher usage of library music than they previously realized: “Debusk pulled up a screen detailing a list of nonsongs with generic names like “Graceful […]

There is an old Chinese proverb that says, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” That’s a helpful nugget to remember for the non-Chinese production music library that endeavors to expand their business into China. The “nail” in this example is not said music library, mind you, but rather mid-sized businesses, based in China, […]

As a way to give something back to the community, we’ve launched our Free Music Program for qualified schools, educational institutions and non-profit organizations (https://www.musicrevolution.com/free_music/). Since our launch in April, we have had a tremendous response from musicians to contribute their music and participate in the MusicRevolution.com online marketplace for production music. The MusicRevolution.com production music […]

Years ago, high tech music guru Craig Anderton wrote a tutorial for Keyboard magazine outlining one of his very effective approaches to creating electronica music. Anderton was the editor of Electronic Musician until 1990 and has reviewed thousands of high tech music products. Though I am unable to cite the exact issue, the simple concept […]

We’ve launched our discussion forum https://www.musicrevolution.com/forum/, which is focused on the various aspects production music, to provide an additional resource to serve the community of professional and aspiring musicians that fuels MusicRevolution.com. Our objective with this forum is to create an online meeting place where our musicians can share their knowledge and experiences, and collaborate […]

This blog article links to three play lists containing the type of production music I see used most often in TV commercials and video presentations. By “type” I don’t necessarily mean specific music sub-genres (punk rock, progressive trance, etc.) but rather moods or energy levels most often required by a video editor trying to tell […]