An awesome music production article

Happy New Year everyone!

So it's kind of random, but I've been thinking a lot about improvement lately, and that thinking has been spurred on by this article. It's actually really awesome; it talks about different "stages" that a producer goes through (though these stages are really just how we improve in any craft, not just music). One of the major stages it mentions is what they call "Exponential Growth." I'm in that stage, and I'm learning a lot of stuff with every song I make. One of the major things that the article says about this stage is that people in that stage need to strive to do a ton of songs. Not make them perfect, but get them done, because in the end, that's the faster, better, and in my opinion, more fun way to get to mastering the craft. That's why, if anybody's been curious, I've been putting out tracks quickly - because it's the fastest way to quality stuff and it's super freaking fun. And so far, it's working like a charm. :)

I just figured it'd be nice for others to know. :D

1/7/2018 EDIT: I think I'm starting to slip into stage 3... DUN DUN DAAAAA!

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EMBL3M 2018-01-01 21:04:14

I'm starting to enter 3
Its terrible.

and its early in my career as well; I've been making music for less than a year, and I'm going through the kind of stuff that 3 describes

Hippokopter 2018-01-01 21:04:14

Oof. Good freaking luck!

Xtrlua 2018-01-03 19:28:44

I'm still at 2. I would like to skip 3, cuz who wouldn't. Also, what you said to me, you're talking about doing Epicness over Quality?

Hippokopter 2018-01-03 19:28:44

What I mean is that you should make a large number of songs and not get totally consumed by trying to make each song perfect.

472 2018-01-06 22:32:17

i wonder what stage i am on... ah shit i'm almost at 3. I'm already feeling the symptoms, I'm already beginning to produce less. Can you people help me through it, should i end up in it? I've produced for almost 2 years and I don't want to end up stopping.

Hippokopter 2018-01-06 22:32:17

I've found that getting out of a slum is as simple as listening to a few dubstep songs and saying "Hey, I can use/do this thing that this song uses/does!" Or, just hop into Serum, pull up basic shapes on both the oscillators, and go nuts with FM, octaves, combs/allpasses/reverb/bandreject filters, hyper dimension, short delay, unison detuning and 0 random phase, and a bazillion other techniques that could spark the imagination. Or, you could use some other synthesizer.

Or, just do something crazy with the chords - make them all major, make them alternate between major and minor, make some arbitrary pattern of major and minor, make them all seventh chords, whatever. Or literally anything you can imagine.

Once you remember how fun it is, stopping is the challenge.

Another way to think about it is that there's a certain amount of time that you'll need to spend making songs to get from stage 2 to stage 4. The article says something about a certain kind of love that comes with mastery. Look forward to that kind of enjoyment. I do. :D

In the meantime, please stop cussing. :)

472 2018-01-07 00:24:12

ah, sorry. I kinda grew up with it though, and it's actually hard to control my urges to repress it.

And thanks.

Hippokopter 2018-01-07 00:24:12

I understand. It's hard to stop something like cussing, but it's not impossible, right? :p

Just watch your words a lot closer for a little while. Or, just come up with some replacement words, e.g., s*** could be replaced with crap.