Our January meeting will be held on Monday, the 26th at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. Our guest speaker will be Chris SD from SyncSongwriter who will talk about how to possibly get your music in tv shows, commercials, and the movies, how much it pays, and the importance of this to your musical career.
This session is designed to equip songwriters with a clear, actionable understanding of the sync world — how it works, what music supervisors are really looking for, and how artists can prepare and pitch their songs with confidence.
Info on how to join the Zoom meeting is listed below.
Key topics include:
- How sync licensing really works: An overview of the industry, key players, and how music gets placed.
- What makes a song syncable: Common qualities of songs that get licensed—and mistakes to avoid.
- The role of relationships: How to build connections with music supervisors, libraries, and decision-makers.
- Metadata, rights & registration: The essentials every songwriter needs to know before pitching.
- The artist’s perspective: How to protect your creative integrity while opening up new revenue streams.
- Next steps: Tools, tips, and mindset shifts to help songwriters start building a sync strategy today.
When you license your music:
- You instantly get a huge fanbase
- You get millions of eyes and ears on your music
- People are Shazaming you
- You get a massive bump in downloads
- You get paid a sync fee upfront
- You usually get backend royalties
Chris SD is an award-winning music producer, CEO of SyncSongwriter and a JUNO Award-winning producer and Recording Academy member with a deep passion for helping independent artists succeed in sync licensing. and has been helping indie songwriters get their music into movies, shows, and ads for over 15 years through Sync Songwriter.
Imagine the number of new fans you will get when your song is in front of potentially millions of viewers. You can also make thousands of dollars with one good placement. Why have songs gathering dust in music libraries when Chris can introduce you DIRECTLY to the right people in the industry. Discover how by joining the live music supervisor panel.
His approach is always grounded, generous, and focused on giving songwriters the tools they need to succeed without shortcuts, gimmicks, or gatekeeping. He is also offering this program 100% for free as an educational tool and a form of giving back to the songwriting community.
The meeting will be moderated by Jamie Krutz with Todd Caron moderating the Chat Room!
Put these events on your calendar now!
Monday, February 23rd at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom: Few Burglaries are Solved in Colorado Each Year. Here’s How One Lakewood Musician Got His Stuff Back Anyway! When Bret Dallas went to the shed outside of his Lakewood home to follow his routine and lift weights one October morning, the 46-year-old could not believe what he saw. Or didn’t see. In that shed were all of his tools of the busking trade including thousands of dollars worth of electric guitars, speakers and pedals. The incident reports from the Lakewood Police Department also listed stolen bikes and tools.
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Monday, March 23rd at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom: Our guest speak will be Nick Sullivan who was a studio owner at The Keep for 11 years, started a publishing company, Consonance Publishing, that has had quite a few sync licensing agreements, An artist, a producer/engineer who worked with Los Lobos, as well a Colorado native from Steamboat Springs. He will speak about our current situation that our community faces with their music as well as how to be more engaged with what it takes to have some success in today’s market place. This meeting will be moderated by Clark Hagan, COMBO’s sound engineer board member.
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