Ableton makes Live, Push, Note and Link — unique software and hardware for music creation and performance.
APRA AMCOS Member Offer:
Get 15% off Ableton software - including for new licences as well as upgrades (excludes packs and education pricing).
Take advantage of this exclusive offer to APRA AMCOS members!
To receive your discount code, please email your APRA Membership number to:
Tom Cameron ([email protected]) if you live in NZ, NSW, QLD, ACT or TAS;
Ramsey Tawil ([email protected]) if you live in VIC, SA, NT or WA;
Rachel Huber ([email protected]) if you live outside of Australia or New Zealand.
10% discount
MusicWorks is New Zealand’s largest musical instrument and sound equipment retail chain, with over 30 stores nationwide.
MusicWorks offer excellent service and exclusive instrument brands. They stock a large range of instruments that cover everyone from beginner to professional. With the buying power of over 30 stores throughout the country, MusicWorks strives to deliver the New Zealand market the very best deals.
MusicWorks offers APRA members a 10% discount on all full priced products (excludes clearance and special price products).
For more information:
T: 0800MUSICW (0800 687429)
APRA AMCOS LA Creative Space is available on a short-term basis with a reduced rate for extended bookings. The fully equipped recording studio/writing room is located in Studio City, Los Angeles.
Members and their managers travelling to LA now have access to a creative space, as well as desk space at IgnitedSpaces in Hollywood.
APRA AMCOS member offer:
*Depending on availability
Studio engineer if required is an additional fee.
Special offer for APRA AMCOS members and festival promoter clients, as well as musicians who are members of other Australian music bodies: Virgin Australia is now offering the music industry a baggage allowance of 3 x 23kg pieces of checked luggage for individual artists travelling domestically within Australia.
This baggage allowance is available on Virgin Australia-owned and operated domestic services only and must be booked or pre-purchased at least 48 hours prior to departure. This offer applies to all new bookings and cannot be provided in retrospect, Virgin Australia will not refund normal baggage charges already paid.
Once you have booked a domestic flight with Virgin Australia, email [email protected] two days prior to your flight with your booking reference and your APRA AMCOS Membership number.
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QANTAS
Offer for APRA AMCOS members and members of other eligible musical associations: Qantas allows additional baggage allowance for domestic travel within Australia. See all the details and how to book on the QANTAS website.
NOTE: You may be asked by Qantas to provide a membership card to prove your eligibility. Your digital membership card is available in the APRA AMCOS for Music Creators App - available to download for free on the Apple App Store or the GooglePlay store, or get in touch with our member services team 48 hours before you travel and they will help you out.
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QT Hotels (Sydney)
Stay in style at QT Sydney.
Sydney's hottest design hotel, QT Sydney, is located in the heart of the city and more than just a place to lay your head, QT Sydney is a creative space to dine, drink and live.
APRA AMCOS member and music licence customer offer: a special discount on accommodation. To access your special rates, visit www.qtsydney.com.au, click on “Book Now” and use your corporate code APRA13 - along with your unique 6 digit APRA AMCOS member or client number.
For more information, call +61 2 8262 0000 or email QT
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Show Group
Show Group is a recognised leader within our niche market and has been operating since 1984. Because they understand that the entertainment industry doesn’t operate during standard business hours, Show Group provides a 24-hour emergency support number for after-hours attention.
Show Group is a market leader and offers the following services:
APRA AMCOS member and music licence customer offer: access to specially negotiated hotel rates and AVIS rental cars rates and reduced transaction fees. Contact Show Group on 02 9352 9999 or send APRA AMCOS' dedicated travel consultant Marijke an email if you would like a quote.
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The Standard Hotels (worldwide)
APRA AMCOS member and music licence customer offer: get a 25% discount* at any of The Standard Hotels and Bunkhouse Hotels around the world. Locations include London, New York, LA, Miami, Austin, Maldives, Thailand and much more.
To view a complete list of hotels and take advantage of this discount, head to The Standard website, click on the ‘Book Now’ button and plug in the code APRA in the ‘Promo Code’ field under the 'Special Codes' section of the booking engine.
Book a room or find out more on The Standard website or Instagram @thestandard.
*This offer may not be available during peak times
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DHM Rooms (Nashville)
Looking for short-stay accommodation in Nashville?
APRA AMCOS member offer: Dan Hodges Music (DHM) is pleased to offer APRA AMCOS members the opportunity to stay in historic Music Row.
The space: Each room at DHM headquarters features comfortable furniture and a warm, welcoming vibe.
Rooms are equipped with Murphy Bed (full size) that pulls out of the cabinet on the wall, couch, and small table
US$100 per night, per room
Cable/TV, free internet
Free parking behind the building
One block from good restaurants (Taco Mamacita, Edgehill Cafe, Barcelona, Bella Napoli)
Contact DHM Rooms
Bandzoogle makes it easy to build a stunning website and EPK for your music in minutes. Choose from dozens of mobile-friendly templates, then customize your design and content in just a few clicks.
All the features you need for a professional website and EPK are already built-in, including:
APRA AMCOS member offer: receive a 3-month free trial, plus 15% off membership! Plans start at just $8.29/month (USD), which includes hosting and your own free custom domain name.
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Jaxsta is the world’s biggest database of official music credits – that is, credits that are sourced directly from the official owners of that data such as record labels, publishers and industry associations. None of Jaxsta’s credits are crowd-sourced. In short, you can trust the credits on Jaxsta as one source of truth.
Jaxsta receives data from more than 290 Data Partners, who have provided Jaxsta with more than 223 million credits – and that number grows by about 700,000 credits per day! Spread across 65 million pages, Jaxsta is bigger in page count than Wikipedia. It’s what they do with those credits, the deep-linking and the data-led insights they provide music creators and businesses, that really powers solutions for the music industry.
There are three Jaxsta memberships:
CREATOR: An extensive and evolving suite of features designed to empower music makers and the industry professionals who represent them.
BUSINESS: For companies such as record labels, publishers, managers, and agents. Get everything in the Creator plan plus a suite of features designed to save time, provide data-driven solutions, find revenue and build the careers of your clients.
ENTERPRISE: For organisations that require accurate data to enhance royalty identification and increase opportunities for their rightsholder members or clients. Enterprise delivers a comprehensive metadata solution.
Book a free demo or meeting with the Jaxsta team.
View the pricing page for each membership here.
Why sign up to Creator?
As an artist, musician, songwriter, producer, engineer, or studio professional you’ll have verified credits on the platform. Creator empowers you to:
To take advantage of a special APRA AMCOS member offer, quote the coupon code JAXSTA-APRAAMCOS when you reach the the final stage of the Creator sign-up to receive a 20% discount on the yearly membership. That’s less than one dollar a week!
To see how your claimed Jaxsta profile could look, check out the profile page of APRA AMCOS ambassadors The McClymonts.
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Sorrento Strategic Solutions
Sorrento Strategic Solutions Pty Ltd provides accredited Self-Managed Super Fund advice and bespoke Financial Planning Services across various growth profiles depending upon your circumstances and financial goals. As an Authorised Representative of Akambo Pty Ltd trading as Accountants Private Advice (APA - AFSL 322056), Kylie Thompson is now one of a minority of Australian accountants legally licensed to offer Accredited Financial Planning Services.
Sorrento Strategic Solutions is proud of its partnership with APA – a leading self-licensed private wealth firm. As recent winners of the IFA Award for their investment expertise, APA currently manages funds in excess of $500m across a base of 750+ clients Australia-wide.
APRA AMCOS member and music licence customer offer: $500.00 discount off the preparation of a Financial Plan Statement of Advice or Self-Managed Super Fund Advice.
To navigate the world of advice and investing, call 08 9246 7504 or email Sorrento Strategic Solutions
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Sorrento Strategic Music
With more than 25 years’ experience specialising in the specific needs of musicians and those associated with the arts and entertainment industries, Sorrento Strategic Music understands musicians and provides specialist financial advice and taxation services tailored to the industry.
Sorrento Strategic Music can help you turn your music endeavours into a viable business. Services available -
APRA AMCOS members and music licence customer offer: an exclusive discounted accountancy package, including -
Call 08 9246 7504 or email Sorrento Strategic Music to take up the offer.
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Rolling Stone Australia
Rolling Stone Australia, published by The Brag Media, is bigger and better than ever! Divert your eyes from the screen, put down your phone and lock into the joy of long-form journalism with more music, more politics and more culture.
APRA AMCOS member and music licence customer offer: simply use the discount code APRA20 when locking in your annual subscription to Rolling Stone Australia magazine to receive 20% off. $5 of your purchase price will go towards ensuring Support Act can continue its important work for musicians and industry professionals in need.
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Living With A Creative Mind
Living With A Creative Mind is not just another book about how to be more creative, it is a book about how to survive the experience: it as an operating guide to being creative, and living and working with creative people.
Drawn from the latest research, and the thoughts of successful songwriters and artists from around the world on how they live with their gift - combined with personal experience, including a 16-year tenure as a music educator: Living With A Creative Mind is a bold new way of understanding songwriters, and creative people of all disciplines - and what it is they are trying to do all their lives.
About the authors:
Jeff Crabtree is a songwriter/performer with APRA. His current project is the composition and production of the score for an LA-based feature film.
Julie Crabtree is a psychologist in private practice in Sydney. Julie’s current project is a PhD in creativity and mental health.
APRA AMCOS member offer: receive a 20% discount off the physical or e-publication book. Quote the code 20APRA20 when purchasing the book via their e-shop.
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Rhythms magazine
Rhythms Magazine has established a reputation as the bible of roots music in Australia. A refuge for anything blues, folk, Americana, soul, country, jazz and world music, Rhythms is totally unique, and cherished by its readers for its authority, credibility and diversity.
Now owned by your fellow APRA AMCOS member, singer/songwriter Catherine Britt, this bi-monthly magazine is available in a digital version for all platforms.
APRA AMCOS member and music licence customer offer: Prigital (print and digital) subscriptions for the price of print alone - $65. Subscribe online or email the Rhythms team your details and they'll contact you.
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Alphabet A-Z Rock'n'roll Photography by Tony Mott
450 pages of over 1,000 bands and artists shot over 30 years .
APRA AMCOS member and music licence customer offer: $100 including postage for a mammoth limited edition hand signed and numbered book.
Contact Tony to place your order.
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The Songwriting Labyrinth
"I’ve been a songwriter, session musician and composer for over 40 years - tasting my first songwriting chart success at age 19 - and I’ve been writing rock, funk, jazz, swing, and soul songs ever since. An APRA member since 1976, with over 300 registered works, I’ve written and produced music for 15 albums, 9 feature films, and 13 television series; had my music broadcast in over 80 countries worldwide, and for a time, was one of Australia’s highest royalty-earning composers. A member of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers since 1988, I also spent 8 years on the AGSC executive and 5 Years as President. For the past 6 years I’ve been ‘passing it forward’; lecturing BMus students in songwriting and performance - currently at Macquarie University." - Author Clive Harrison
This book is not a quest for a magic formula for writing a hit song, for that would be nonsensical – it’s the result of PhD research into Songwriting Creativity conducted through the University of Newcastle, filtered through knowledge built up over a long and successful career, and written in the hope that songwriting students and educators can apply it to their song development.
APRA AMCOS member offer: $39.95 (that's 20% discount off the full price of $49.95)
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The Open Tuning Chord Book For Guitar
First published in 1994 and now in it’s third edition The Open Tuning Chord Book For Guitar by Brendan Gallagher gives guitarists working in standard tuning a basic introduction into open tune playing. Though commonly used for slide playing open tunings have become increasingly popular for their unusual and rich voicings. The book contains chord shapes for over 300 chords in the two most popular tunings – Vastopol (or Open D) and Spanish (or Open G) – with a page per key. For example, turn to page 17 and there are twelve chords in Open D tuning in the key of G – major, minor, 6th, dom 7th, diminished, augmented, minor 6th, major 7th, minor 7th, 7th sus 4, 7th flat 9 and 11th.
The book includes a short history of the origin of open tuning, tips on tuning and string set up, a glossary of favourite chords and recommended listening plus music scores for four popular songs using open tuning chord shapes. It’s 30 cm x 10cm (12 inches x 4 inches) size makes it a snug fit in the neck of a standard guitar case.
Over the years The Open Tuning Chord Book For Guitar has found it's way into the guitar cases of musicians like David Bowie, Peter Buck (REM), Lee Ritenour, Arlo Guthrie, David Hidalgo (Los Lobos), Daniel Johns (Silverchair), Paul Kelly, Paul Weller, PJ Harvey, Chris Cheney (Living End), Murray ‘Red Wiggle’ Cook, Lloyd Cole, Tim Rogers… and everyday guitarists from Ireland to Lithuania.
APRA AMCOS member offer: purchase a copy for $15.99 and get free shipping anywhere in Australia & New Zealand.
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Do you suffer from writer’s block? Do you struggle to find time to write songs in your busy schedule? Do want to be a better songwriter?
I Heart Songwriting Club is a totally online songwriting club for all songwriters. Yes, this club is about writing songs, it’s about getting unstuck, it’s about becoming creatively free, but it’s even more than that. This is a global community of songwriters supporting each other to keep creating, to share music and to be totally creatively satisfied. And the result of all this is amazing songs that can change your life. Don’t believe us?
“I LOVE I HEART SONGWRITING CLUB! It shook me out of my writing block and taught me new ways to write. I have it to thank for most of my songs on my latest album (that was nominated for a 2018 ARIA Award!).” - Mama Kin of Mama Kin Spender
Imagine how it would feel to be writing songs every week, sharing them with peers, getting feedback and being a part of something bigger. Don’t do this alone. Do this with I Heart Songwriting Club.
APRA AMCOS member offer: join I Heart Songwriting Club now and receive 30% off your first 10-week term.
*Applies to your first 10-week term of The Club.
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Songwriting Courses For Kids and Adult Beginners
Enrolments are open for the next term of I Heart Songwriting Club's fully online and mentored songwriting course for kids and adults.
These courses were created by the team at I Heart Songwriting Club for people who wanted to write songs, but didn't know where to begin. The program is aimed at absolute beginners and will give them the tools, support and confidence to write their first 10 songs - complete with bite-sized video lessons, real time mentorship and community.
“I just wrote 10 songs in 10 weeks - my first songs ever!! It’s life changing. A few times I had tears of wonder and joy when I listened back to my song. I am now, at 50, a song writer. No one showed me how as a child. They have now. I have a goal to write 50 songs in 50 weeks.” - Adrienne (Brisbane)
“All of the lessons and changing themes allowed me to learn the skill of songwriting quickly and write what I felt at that time. My favourite part was receiving the encouraging constructive feedback from my mentor. I tried to take that feedback and use it in my next song. I even wrote a song for my dad during the week of Fathers Day which he loved. It was an amazing experience, I enjoyed all of it so much! I can’t wait to do it again!” - Emma L. 12 year old songwriter (Ipswich)
APRA AMCOS members offer: enrol in I Heart Songwriting Club’s Songwriting Course and receive 20% off. That’s a huge $100 savings!
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School of Synthesis
Learn Music Production at School of Synthesis. Compose and create your own music, produce and remix others or simply explore the creative possibilities of Modern Music Production using Digital Audio Workstations such as Logic Pro and Ableton Live. Or take your music to the next level by studying Music Theory, Sound Design, DJing and Mixing and Mastering using powerful software and hardware taught by industry professionals.
Whether you’re a composer, DJ, garage musician or aspiring producer, School of Synthesis courses are designed to get you working smarter and deliver results. The school is Australia’s only Ableton Certified and Native Instruments certified training centre.
APRA AMCOS member offer: receive an exclusive 10% off all School of Synthesis individual courses. Send an email with your full name and 6-digit APRA member number and they’ll create a coupon code for you to claim 10% discount on any School of Synthesis course.
Find out more about the School of Synthesis and their courses.
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