I used your example in my example that’s all. It’s not so complicated.
Furthermore I think you have a very negative and conspiracy-laden outlook on the business. Which is fine but that’s not my worldview.
I will start by saying, it is a good track with commercial viability. Perhaps the melodic aspects might be too distracting, but it would also work well if you have an underscore too. But it is fine!
I will also say I’ve had 2 out of 2 submissions rejected. I have my music placed on BBC, Sky, prime time television etc, all over the world by publishers of production music libraries. I wanted to try stock sites during the pandemic while the publishers are out of office and not taking in new tracks at the moment. That is why I turned to AJ. I am also doing a PhD in music and have won composition awards, albeit in other areas other than library music. I see nothing wrong with your track to make me think it should be rejected. AJ are perhaps looking for a very specific brand/type of music (corporate motivational) that strikes a balance between being boring enough to avoid distracting viewers of video content, where the music is potentially being used, and being creative enough to sound a bit different to the other hundreds of similar tracks there.
I think your track would have been a good addition to the tracks available on AJ and I wish more tracks like this would be accepted.
he used the Lick so I would have instantly accepted it if I were reviewing 
Thank you for your thoightful respons. It’s great to hear the perspective of someone who works with production music libraries as well. That is a branch of the music licensing industry I want to get into as well. Yeah, it can be a bit hard to figure out what exactly it is that AJ does and doesn’t want in terms of originality of the music, besides the 1 million similar sounding corporate tracks.
Good luck with your music on AJ!
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That was exactly my thought as well!
This is my recent rejection. Trying to reach the 70% approved tracks threshold. Now I’m at 50% stage.
What??? This track was rejected??? In a case such like this, I would appreciate a detailed rejection reason.
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@SD_sound @Daydreamz-Studios . Indeed.Good track. The only thing that may be the issue is the brass swell interval at 0:28. Sounds a bit dissonant in the context.The EMaj -9. And again there are some subtle dissonances at 1:20. Maybe is the guitar riff or the piano but together they are forming some odd harmonic construction. But, again. Only the reviewer knows exactly the rejection reason.
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Thank you all friends! Yes this moment with flute/brass swell seems to me controversial, but at the time of writing the composition it seemed interesting )) This my problem! to complicate simple things, overload composition. Well maybe someday I will optimize this track, without experiments and try again
this sounds like a really solid track. The only suggestion I would have is if you’re going to use such punchy electro/synth style drums then the bass should be more powerful to match it. Otherwise I would use more acoustic sounding drums to match all the other acoustic instruments.
Right now it’s like a super organic funky groove but the kick and snare sounds like it belongs in an EDM track. That said I would have easily accepted this if I were reviewing
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Thank you for your advice! Yeah i think some stilistic divergence in this track. Need more suitable drums for traditional funk
HI, here is my new rejection track. let me know what you think!
thank you!