selling my beat (question cus they are samples)

ok.... so lets say i manage to sell me a beat. to some local rapper or just someone on myspace, and lets say i sell the beat for about 30 dollars, and the beat has a sample in it.

do i gotta tell them what sample i used? do i gotta be worried about the samples artist hunting me down? or if sell him/her the beat he/she has to worry about that kind of stuff??

help me!
just sayin.....

You shoul look on line for some contract's and then make one of you own based off that.
Most of the time the artist who is buyin the beat is the one that has to pay for sample clearence. So yea you gotta let'em know what you used.

As far as I know.


PZ

a contract... yeah. would i have to mail that to them? and have them sign it?

or just send them letting them know whats up?


oh and to rephrase my question

its not a beat with a sample. it is a sample.


thanks skinny for the good info.

**valentin** wrote: lets say i sell the beat for about 30 dollars

and a contract is your biggest worry?

what is the rec company gonna do? take u to judge judy?


LMAO

yeah your a bit under their radar to be honest.

so i should have no worries then? go ahead and sell it.

so if im under the radar then should i even worry about telling him what i used?

thanks guys for your responses

Yea go ahead and sell it . Just let who ever's buying it know they have to take care of all the right's and what not. You'd be surpized , Labels come after big fish and little fish. It's all a matter of money and if they think they can get it.

And 30 buck's for a beat, I'd have to hear somethin first, but it sounds like your sellin yourself short.......... Don't be affraid to get paid!

PZ

Not to hi-jack the thread, but I think this relates to the thread- how does one know what to charge for a given beat? I've seen soundclick pages with dollar amounts on beats and have laughed at what people are charging, but that's just due to my choice in music. OTOH I've given beats away to emcee's and have been told by a handful of people I should be charging...makes me go Hmmmmmm

just sell em or give em away which ever way you go nobody's gonna care unless u makin sumthin that pumps on MTV or the likes n if that happens you already been ripped of cos you only charged $30 for it so let the buyer worry bout that stuff.

ive sold beats for 300 bucks with samples on em.

no contract for them. just give me the money, i give you the beat, and you credit me as the producer. Thats for people i know.

i have used contracts for heads i dont know, just to make sure i get credit.

it's a lot easier for artist to get clearance than you if you're not big time producer.i wouldn't worry about it i would go with contract so you have some sort of protection.

if you sell a beat with a sample , you should at least inform the customer of the sample and enough information to work with , to get it straight. some people play around and "make beats for their headphones" others take it seriously. those of us that do (yeah you) stay straight laced . which is why you asked . check out music powers .com and donald s passmans book all you need to know about the music industry.

hash brown wrote:if you sell a beat with a sample , you should at least inform the customer of the sample and enough information to work with , to get it straight. some people play around and "make beats for their headphones" others take it seriously. those of us that do (yeah you) stay straight laced . which is why you asked . check out music powers .com and donald s passmans book all you need to know about the music industry.

thanks.

as of current, i no longer sample. so i dont have to worry about the whole sample clearance thing. ive totally switched gears in my music.

thanks to everyones reponses!

^ Dont let that keep you from sampling. Just do what you feel and whatever follows.

As for charging for beats, Ive been thinking about charging an hourly rate to start off.

For example, say a beat takes 6 man hours from concept to completion...say x 30/hr $180

I think that may be a good start to figuring out how much to charge, and would make sure you get compensated for your time, BUT! What if you come with a absolute hands-down, mack daddy, rump shaking, fist pumping, super dope, neck' movin', jump around song in an hour? You can't let that go for $30! How would one figure out how much to charge?
I guess one should charge whatever he/she can get for it as long as they feel the artist recording on it is right for it, right?