“Thanks for helping me get up out of the pit.  As you recall, the first question I asked you was should I just hang it all up and quit.  You really were my last ditch effort, and look at me now:  A 12-song album signed, and 2 songs on the BMG Halloween album.  It’s what I have wanted to do for a long time, but I was beginning to think it was just a pipe dream.  Again, thanks for your encouragement and help.”
– Eli – Composer Partner

Thank you for your interest in Positive Spin Partners

Being a partner means we are working together towards developing music for the focused reason of licensing music. Our goals will be getting music into television shows and movies, film projects, the lucrative world of advertising, and also video games and other media.

There are several ways to do this including pitching music to exclusive sync libraries, pitching directly to sync agents, and also pitching directly to music supervisors and other music buyers.

Our Main Goal

We have one job here: to create very high-end music productions that get accepted into music libraries and/or monetize quickly and for years to come.

Other Possibilities

You also become part of my weekly network of composers, arrangers, and producers I share the briefs I get from libraries that are specifically sent to me from libraries. Usually this is time sensitive material and we need to move fast to get songs accepted.

“Through Positive Spin Partners, I have had seven albums accepted into sync libraries. Eric has been invaluable in providing timely, insightful feedback on my cello arrangements and in offering access to industry connections I would not have had otherwise. I highly recommend working with Eric for anyone pursuing opportunities in sync licensing.”
– Allida – Composer Partner

What You Get With Positive Spin Partners

• An exclusive group of composers, producers, and musicians
  This is not a free for all where anyone can join. I hand pick about 30 composer/producers to work with me. Right now we are about at that number.
• Help compose and produce hundreds of songs per year
  All the music we compose, produce, pitch, and place weekly comes from Positive Spin Partners.
• Placements in exclusive and non-exclusive libraries 
  We have 2 BMG Production Music exclusive libraries, several paths to Warner Chappell Music including directly to the head of production in LA, 6-10 other exclusive libraries we serve, a few non-exclusive, and probably most exciting, our own new sub-label on a large indie library in LA.
• Placements and involvement in library requests and briefs
  Every week there are new projects for partners to be involved with, some that fit particular talents.
• Monthly One on One phone/Zoom with Eric Copeland
  I have personal regular meetings monthly with each composer/producer as needed. We can talk through Zoom or phone. And of course endless emails. Just not text…please…
• Positive Spin Songs Weekly Spin Up – 1 hour Zoom
  This is our regular Monday Morning Zoom to talk about new things (and there are always new things!) recap last week, talk about what we are focused on this week, and talk about what I need from writers and producers for albums in production, or requested by libraries. (see below)
• Personal Monday Morning Update Email
  For several decades I have been sending an email to each client and now partner at 8am on Monday morning to talk about what we are personally working on. And each partner usually has things we are working on together that we may or may not work on with the other partners.
• The Big Board
  This is our “company bulletin board” where I list new briefs, talk about how certain projects are going, and post wins for our partners.

If you are interested and would like to talk further, contact Eric at PositiveSpinSongs@gmail.com

How This Works

Costs and Royalty Splits

My goal with composers, artists, songwriters, and associate producers is to work together towards many more quality albums like this. Each partner should be prepared to commit to working on an album or EP at a time with me. I know that sounds like a lot, but to get to a place where you earn the fastest in sync, you need quality and quantity.

In many ways this is a production deal as well as a co-composing arrangement. I’m also offering my arranging talents of adding to the songs, mixing, mastering, pitching, and then doing all the work for the library, getting final mixes, tracks, and stems ready, etc., working on contracts with the libraries, and negotiating our deal with them.

I charge $275/month for Composer/Producer Partners and $399/month for Artist/Songwriter Partners and that includes producing/mixing/mastering of your songs, pitching them to libraries or putting them in our own sub-label at a library, as well as negotiating all the deals.

That means you can concentrate completely on writing music and let us do the rest, producing your music to our high quality bar, and getting the music to music libraries for use ion TV, Film, Ads, and more.

Other Possible Costs

Songs could also require players that fall out of each of our talents (ie. real drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, vocals, and in some cases mixing.) More on all that later, but partners may be required to pay for these as part of your ownership in the songs. (Thanks to my relationships in Nashville, we also have the option to bring some players and engineers in as partners in royalties if we’d rather not pay them, but that would bring down our percentages too.)

Important Note. This is Not a Pass Through Service

I only accept songs that I think I can work with by co-writing, co-arranging, and personally producing to the quality standards libraries expect from Positive Spin Songs. It’s how we’ve gotten this far: on our quality. Only once it’s been produced to my quality standards, do I pitch the songs to libraries or other opportunities.

Royalty Splits and Return on Investment

Usually we split everything in the backend 50/50 (since I am co-writing, co-arranging, and co-producing AND I am also the one working on all the pitching). It’s mandatory that you be signed up as a member (writer) of a PRO like BMI if you aren’t currently affiliated with one. This will allow you to have 50%-100% writer’s publishing for exclusive and non-exclusive licensing deals we may get. (You can sign up as a writer with BMI now for free!)

We’ll sign publishing deals especially if we sign with libraries. They will get the publishing, and we will split the writer’s side. In some deals we also may will split the upfront sync royalties with the libraries that we get from any deal as well. There may also be contracts we co-sign with libraries.

If we don’t sign the songs to libraries, but keep them non-exclusive and pitch them, we can register them with our PROs and that will make sure we both get paid any royalties owed. Then we can pitch to non-exclusive libraries, put up to streaming, and pitch to other music buyers and music supervisors,

There isn’t much need for us to sign a bunch of contracts together, especially if things are spelled out in our PRO catalog registrations and most exclusive libraries sign both of us officially into contracts.

Note: Splits may change with our own sub-label Creative Soul Records as I become a publisher on those albums. I may be able to offer 75-100% of PRO writers royalties, depending on my involvement in the writing/arranging of the song.

Interested? Get in Touch?

If you are interested and would like to talk further, contact Eric at PositiveSpinSongs@gmail.com

Thanks so much for reading and hope to speak to you more!

(If you are interested in learning more about sync licensing, I suggest you watch the playlist of videos on sync licensing here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhhyJp8xL87OM4H4FLCCPrMMWLPiv6r-G&si=ARsIka-OSWPU3apU)

If you haven’t listened to the music we make yet, you need to go to the home page at https://positivespinsongs.com/ and take a long listen through the Positive Spin playlists. You’ll hear the quality I produce and why I’ve had success getting many of these songs into licensing, but this does not always come cheaply.

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