Hi Folks
Any music shop you go into has rows and rows of books full of arrangements for guitar, piano etc of Beatles songs, Stones, Zep, you name it but there's nothing for 3 string guitars. There are countless youtube videos, most of which are pretty basic, but there is still no substantial resource of material for our instrument.
I'm looking at remedying this situation with a series of quality arrangements such as this one.
The thing is that I'm not prepared to rip off the copyright owners and so there's a considerable up front cost in licensing the original works. Hence my question.
Would you pay $20 to $30 for a book of 10 arrangements? Given the licensing costs I can't do them for much cheaper/
If so what would you prefer? Classic Rock, Blues, Country? Which artists?
Thanks in advance.
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No interest then?
I've had a few suggestion of making arrangements available as single songs, would that help?
I'd pay @ $20.00 just to add to my collection. Not much printed stuff out there, and most of it is about building or history...
Thanks Wolf, appreciate the feedback.
It seem a considerable amount for just 10 songs. What if you were too do singles like the i-tunes deal...where you post them individually, that way people can buy them one at a time time, as well as have a choice too which song they would like in their repertoire?
Thanks Reeds. A few people have suggested that so I'll definitely see what I can do. A lot depends on the licensing requirements, which is also why it seems a bit pricy. I have to pay around half the purchase price for each song in copyright and that's up front on a minimum of 50 sales each song, then renew it everytime I hit the 50 mark. Doing it per song sounds like a nightmare but I'll investigate.
If ya' haven't contacted them already, get in touch with The Copyright Company in Nashville, TN (USA).
http://www.thecopyrightco.com/about.html
Tell 'em you want to be a print music publisher, and see what kind of suggestions they can come up with. They make money off of both the songwriters and the publishers, but their services can be invaluable.
I also know that some print publishers mingle their copyrighted material with out-of-copyright folk, sacred, etc. so they can offer books with more titles and not have to pay royalties for all of them.
Oh, and thanks for patronizing a Tennessee business!! (We need the money.)
TN Twang
PS $20 is way too high. Make it $19.96 and it'll fly.
$2 a song seems like a good deal. $ 20 for a book of 10 songs...seems like the same math. But, I would prefer to buy single songs.
Mmmmm. At $2 per song I'm paying $50 upfront to license 50 downloads. Paypal takes a cut and I end up with $1.65c out of every sale. Take out the $1 it cost me in the first place and the profit is .65c per sale. Then I have to fork out another $50 for 50 more downloads.
Given the amount of work in counting the numbers, keeping track of what licences are where, finding the copyright owners etc.
May not happen.
Looking at ebooks for sure.
To do this properly I'd need to license the songs, even if I write the arrangements. I know there are tabs everywhere but they are breaking copyright laws and I'm not into that.
Looks like the best way to go is to make it a premium product with complex arrangements for more adventurous players, a whole lot more than listing the chords and leaving the rest to you, or anything that's currently on youtube. This reduces the target market quite a bit but fits into the overall plan a lot better. I'll keep the simpler stuff free on my youtube channel.
Thanks heaps for helping with this folks. Any more ideas plaease keep them coming.
I would like to say, Patrick, that I appreciate your attention to the legal niceties here.
There is no doubt that copyright law has serious problems, not just in the USA, but world-wide. But the way to address those problems is not by violating licenses and making copyright protest seem sleazy.
As for how much I would be willing to pay for a book of blues/country/class-rock song tabs for a 3-string fretless slide tuned open G? Considering how much time it would save me in trying to read music or tabs, and translate to something my fingers could manage, I think the $20-$30 range is not completely unreasonable.
The idea that several have mentioned, of bulking up the book with public domain works, would only make it more attractive to me.
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