Guide
Guidesfrom the curators.
Everything the short pages point to, written out properly: how the application works, how artists are paid, what a track needs to hold a work block, and how to keep your rights in order.
For artists
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How to submit instrumental music to Music For Work
Two or three links, a square photo, one line about how you made the tracks. A curator plays them end to end during a real work block and answers within seven days, either way.
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What makes a track work for deep work
A focus track disappears. It holds one tempo, carries no words, stays flat at low volume and can be joined at any point. Here is how each of those is judged, and how to check your own track before you send it.
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How listening-minute earnings work
Your earnings follow the minutes your tracks are actually played inside sessions. Each session has a pool, split between the artists on it in proportion to those minutes, calculated in US dollars.
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Music rights basics for emerging artists
Every track carries two rights, the recording and the composition, and a handful of identifiers and agreements sit around them. Knowing where yours stand is what keeps them yours and makes a licence simple when someone asks for one.
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How to build an artist page people actually read
Your artist page is four things: a square photo, a bio of 60 to 400 characters, your links, and every session your music appears in. Each one is small, and each one is read by someone who just heard your track and wants to know who made it.
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Free account, five short steps, an answer within seven days.