YouTube Artists
Do you put countless hours into creating amazing covers and original compositions on YouTube? You might be leaving money on the table. One revenue stream that frequently gets ignored is sheet music. Have you had people in the comments ask where they can get the sheet music, but you don’t have the time or skillset to create it yourself? Your fans love your music, and they want to play it too. That’s where we come in.
We Make It Easy
With our YouTuber Artist program, we make it so easy for YouTubers to add to their revenue by selling sheet music of their arrangements and covers. We do all the work, from transcribing to publishing, and the only thing you need to do is add a link to your video. You could be making hundreds or thousands of extra dollars per year on each of your covers, depending on the size of your audience, with only two extra minutes of work on your part per video.
YouTube Artist FAQ
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Step 1: Tell us what song we are going to be working on. We have to make sure we can clear the rights to sell sheet music for it.
Step 2: You send us the audio or video of your cover or original song.
Step 3: We create sheet music for it.
Step 4: We publish the sheet music for the song.
Step 5: You link to the sheet music on your video / socials.
Step 6: We electronically send you your income from the sales each month.
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Not much! You will sign a contract enabling us to create and publish sheet music on your behalf for an individual song, a group of songs, or your catalogue of recordings. Once we create and publish the sheet music, you just link to the store listing on your video and other media and collect monthly payments from us on the sales!
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There are a lot of factors, such as your audience size the popularity of the song you are covering, how saturated the market is for the song/instrumentation in question, and what additional measures you take to market the music to your audience. We estimate an RPM of $1-5 USD; however, this is only a rough estimate and will never be guaranteed.
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For YouTube Artists, we like to make life easy and do all the heavy lifting on our end to create and publish the sheet music. This helps you focus on what’s important: creating more great content for your audience. We will publish through our store and/or 3rd party distributors and use a profit share model. This means you won’t pay anything up front - we make money when you make money. We usually split profits 50/50 with the artist, but this is negotiable based on the size of your audience.
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There are a couple great benefits of hiring us to create sheet music for your content catalogue.
You get an instant, additional revenue stream from your hard work, without having to do more work.
It provides another mode of discovery for you and your brand/content. When your sheet music is uploaded to distributors, it will have your name on it, as well as links to your video, website, and other media you want to funnel new audience members to.
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Of course! Here’s an arrangement we published a couple years ago, before Fermata Media was launched. It uses the same sales strategy that we offer now. We can also customize visuals such as the sheet music covers to match your branding.
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We go above and beyond to use our transcriptions to capture the details that make your arrangement unique. That includes things like fingerings, dynamics, and other expressive elements that accurately capture your exact performance.