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I'm sorry, I don't have my old contract anymore (my account with all my documents was deleted when I was let go), but my contracts with musicians were basically:

- Names of both parties involved, hereinafter referred to as "Company" and "Contractor"
- Description of work, including exact # of songs to be composed and # of sound effects requested, whether to be created or just purchased on our behalf
- A cost breakdown, provided by musician to be agreed upon in the contract, of price per song, and price for hourly work applied toward sound effects, with an estimate of how long that would take
- A clause making it clear that additional work requests from the Company would require an additional statement of work
- A statement of how soon we were expected to pay once the work was delivered, and if we were to pay any portion up front

Usually in these contracts, we would only be responsible for paying the final total amount calculated in the contract, even if the musician ended up doing more work. If they hit their limit of what they estimated and needed to request more money, they would have to come to us to reevaluate the contract / make an amendment before doing more work, to guarantee they would get paid.

Basically, my advice is this: don't ever feel like you are being too difficult to work with, just because you are requesting proper contracts and documentation of the work you'll be doing. It's business. People do paperwork all the time. If anything, it shows them that you are professional and you take your work seriously. If they don't want to deal with contracts, you need to ask yourself whether you want to work with people that won't treat you like a professional. That choice is up to you.

Hope that helps.

I have actually done game music contracts in the course of my career, having hired independent composers to do music for games I was producing. I'll see if I can dig one up to show you guys.

because if someone asked you why you listened to some other genre of music, and you said anything other than "I like the way it sounds," I'm pretty sure they would consider it to just be a novelty.

and maybe someday chipmusic won't be a novelty any more.

This is a nice release but man you really don't know how to post a link on the Internet. It's scary.

http://drtreble.bandcamp.com/album/gaia-ep

Book one in the r^2dr universe written and composed by Dr. Treble begins when R, troubled astro-archaeologist-for-hire awakens to the brig of an unknown ship. Travel with him in the first 5 chapters of his story where he battles lost memories, a corpo-cratic organization, and changes he can't control in a sprawling galaxy of neo-colonized planets in the far reaches of space.

Stream / Download

"Quote" to see how I did that.

This is some really cool, fun melodic chill stuff. I like.

feel so cool being aware of this