Ep 9 How To Choose The Best Publisher To Work With- With Grant Borland

In this episode we take a deep dive into different ways your music can be placed, and how you should approach choosing the right publisher for you. There are a lot of super practical tools in this episode so make sure to collect them gems!

Grant Borland is a full time composer. He has placements in netflix, discovery, apple tv, Peacock, Universal & more. He talks publishers, how to choose them, and what to watch out for. We talk about the importance of connecting and genuine connection, we also talk about what editors want, and how to 

 

2:30 How grant started making music for labels

 

6:26 Grant’s background and unique introduction to Sync

 

7:14 first lessons learned about sync, Know rules to break them

 

10:55 How music can convert and get to different placements you don’t expect

 

13:40 Know who to give your tracks to and how to research publishers

 

17:53 Red flags for choosing labels

 

19:09 Community and it’s importance

 

21:32 Collaborating on the higher levels

 

27:40 What Grant do if he started from scratch with $500 and a laptop

 

31:00 Creating unique sounds and why you should do it

 

35:22 What music editors like

 

40:28 The Job of a music supervisor

 

 

Grant’s site

 

https://www.grantborland.com

 

Sample packs (freebies as well)

https://www.grantborland.com/store

 

Raum Reverb:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/effects/raum/