🎵 Music Licensing Guide

Turn Your Music Into
Lasting Income

The Step-by-Step Guide to Music Licensing Success in Film, TV, Games, Commercials, and Beyond. Written by Farnell Newton.

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10+ Years in Sync
A&R Marmoset Music
600+ Placements
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What You'll Learn

Everything You Need to License Your Music Like a Pro

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Catalog Readiness & Organization

Build a professional, sync-ready catalog with properly tagged metadata, stems, instrumentals, lyrics, artwork, and organized delivery systems like DISCO & SyncFlow.ac.

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Getting Placement-Ready

Learn exactly what sync supervisors and music libraries are looking for — and how to format, deliver, and tag your music to their standards.

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Consistency, Systems & Career Growth

Position sync not as luck, but as a scalable business through regular music output, strategic planning, deadlines, and sustainable catalog development.

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Building Industry Relationships

Discover how to effectively pitch to libraries, agencies, supervisors, and brands while building authentic long-term relationships that create recurring opportunities.

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Catalog Into Revenue

Strategic frameworks for organizing your existing catalog and creating multiple income streams from music you've already made.

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Worksheets & Tools

Actionable worksheets, checklists, and real-world organizational tools drawn from years of professional sync experience.

Farnell Newton
Senior A&R · Marmoset Music Co-Founder · Formation Sound Award-Winning Producer

The Author

Farnell Newton

Trumpet Player · Producer · Sync Licensing Expert

Farnell Newton is one of the most versatile musicians in the game — a trumpet player, award-winning producer, and Senior A&R at Marmoset Music with deep roots in jazz, funk, Latin, soul, hip-hop, and lo-fi. As co-founder of Formation Sound, Farnell has helped hundreds of artists break into the sync world with confidence.

His catalog has been placed in commercials, film, and TV globally. Sync Your Sound distills everything he's learned across both sides of the table — as an artist and as the person doing the licensing — into one practical, actionable guide.

Performed alongside

Jill Scott Bootsy Collins Aretha Franklin Stevie Wonder George Clinton Lettuce Karl Denson George Duke Portland Cello Project

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    Catalog Review

    Get direct, honest feedback on your music and learn exactly what changes to make to become placement-ready.

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    Pitch Strategy

    Build a targeted outreach plan to get your music in front of the right music supervisors and sync libraries.

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    Sync Roadmap

    Walk away with a clear, actionable plan tailored to your catalog, goals, and timeline.

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    In the Portland, OR area? Check out Formation Sound's live SyncUp events for the local sync community.

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Sync Your Sound — Complete Guide

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  • ✦ Full step-by-step music licensing guide
  • ✦ Worksheets & organizational tools
  • ✦ Real-world pitch frameworks & templates
  • ✦ Insider insights from a Marmoset Music A&R
  • ✦ Film, TV, games & commercial strategies
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