Tracey Marino - Hey! Thats My Song!: A Guide to Getting Music Placements in Film, TV, and Media

Tracey and Vance Marino are a husband-and-wife music-writing and -producing team who met at a concert at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, California. They started talking with each other after they realized they had been stood up by their friends. But it soon became clear that they could work withand learn fromeach others various musical backgrounds. They are full-time composers and songwriters with two Pro Tools studios in San Diego, south of Los Angeles.

Tracey is a singer, keyboardist, and classically trained pianist who studied with the late Grammy -winning concert pianist Earl Wild and with John Garvey, composer and conductor of the La Jolla Music Society.

Originally from Boston, Tracey received a BA in liberal arts and sciences with emphasis in journalism from San Diego State University. While at SDSU, she studied music composition with David Ward-Steinman, student of famed Parisian music teacher Nadia Boulanger. Tracey also studied jazz piano privately with SDSU professor Rick Helzer, and she plays many different types of keyboard instruments. She also earned a graduate paralegal certificate at the University of San Diego. She was a vocal coach and staff piano accompanist at MiraCosta College and Palomar College where she studied harpsichord, tracker organ (steam calliope), pipe organ, MIDI, music production, and choral performing arts. Tracey is well versed in hymnody of nearly all denominations and still directs choirs. She has performed in Finland, Russia, Latvia, Estonia, and Sweden. Tracey was a member of the invitation-only Monday Night Group in Los Angeles, led by songwriting teacher, author, and mentor Jai Josefs.

Vance Marino, a seasoned rock, blues, and country guitarist, is originally from O'ahu, Hawai'i, and studied music performance and theory at Kamehameha Schools and Leeward Community College. Vance performed with bands for many years throughout Hawai'i, Arizona, and California. He played classical guitar at the famed Rancho Bernardo Inn resort for eleven years. Vance spent seven years directing and arranging music for a ten-voice contemporary youth choir and a 25-voice traditional choir. For years Vance has been teaching songwriting and music lessons and continues to do so. Several of his students have become successful in the music industry.

In addition to guitar, Vance sings and plays bass, drums, percussion, keyboards, ukulele, resonator guitar (Dobro), banjo, mandolin, guitalele, banjolele, bouzouki, and other stringed instruments.

Tracey and Vance studied lyric writing with hit songwriter Marty Panzer at UCLA Extension. They also studied film and TV synthestration composition with Emmy-winning composer Matthias Weber and studied music in film with composer, author, and member of the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences music branch, Charles Bernstein.

Tracey and Vance are regular contributing columnists for music newsletters and have been panelists at music conferences in San Diego, Nashville, Los Angeles, and around the world. For many years they have been judges for the San Diego County Fairs annual Music and Singer-Songwriter contests.

As a way to give back to the songwriting community, they became coordinators of the San Diego Chapter of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). They are members of Songwriters of North America (SONA), the Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL), the SCL SongArts Committee, the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP), the Production Music Association (PMA), the California Copyright Conference (CCC), Friends of the Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS), and several other music organizations.

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Jingle Bells

By James Pierpont / Sammy Songwriter / Lydia Lyricist

VERSE 1

Dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh

Oer the fields we go, laughing all the way

Bells on bobtail ring, making spirits bright

What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight, oh

CHORUS

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way

Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh, hey

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way

Oh what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh

VERSE 2

A day or two ago, I thought Id take a ride

And soon Miss Fannie Bright was seated by my side

The horse was lean and lank, misfortune seemed his lot

He got into a drifted bank and then we got upsot, oh

CHORUS and INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE

BRIDGE

Now the ground is white, go it while youre young

Bring your friends tonight, and sing this sleighing song, oh

CHORUS

1857 Snowglobe Music Publishing, James Pierpont, Sammy Songwriter, Lydia Lyricist

For licensing, contact the administrator: James Pierpont at

[NOTE: Personal contact information below may be omitted.]

Website:

Phone: (617) 555.BELL / Mailing address: 19 High Street, Medford, MA 02155 USA

[The following information is helpful for Film/TV pitches but only if it is true and correct]

One-stop clearance and licensing available. The publishing, composition, and master recording are owned and controlled by James Pierpont (BMI 34%, IPI #000.00.00.00), Sammy Songwriter (SESAC 33%, IPI #100.00.00.01), and Lydia Lyricist (ASCAP 33%, IPI #200.00.00.02).

TYPES OF NECESSARY SYNC MUSIC AGREEMENTS

Note: In the sync world, its imperative for music users to know who wrote the composition (the Song) and what the percentages (splits) are for clearance purposes. Split percentages may be assigned to anyone and for any percentage amount, as long as these terms are signed, dated, and agreed upon by all parties. Below is one example of how a songwriter split agreement may be done. Always get qualified legal help with contracts. This is to be used as a guide only.

This agreement is made and entered into on [Month/Day/Year] ______________________ by and between or among the following Songwriters regarding their original Song composition titled ______________________________. Songwriters agree to the following song split percentages:

Name: ____________________________________ / [optional] Title: ______________________________

Applicable Percentage [Spell out amount] ________________________ percent [Numeral] (________%)

Name: ____________________________________ / [optional] Title: ______________________________

Applicable Percentage [Spell out amount