I think about it everyday. The constant thought in the back of my mind, even as I write this blog is "I should be making music instead of this" all day, everyday. Was this my passion? I mean, I know I said it was. I thought I lived and breathed music.
I watched and listened to tons of tutorials and podcasts about music production but made zero music.
I spent tons of money on concerts and festivals I dreamed of playing but made zero music.
I went to music lectures at Pyramind, left inspired to change my life....made zero music.
I bought a computer, some new studio monitors, midi keyboard, studio headphones, audio interface and STILL made zero music.
I get distracted easy, mostly by friends, any excuse to get out of house hang out with friends, I'm there.....
not at home where my music baby making machine is at. The one thing where I feel I feed my soul a bit, like music therapy, especially when I'm trying to re-align my priorities in the pursuit of happiness. I know for fact making music daily is a step in the correct direction.
I mean Halloween is 52 days away and after seeing yesterdays escape line up announcement, 49 days til I go to Escape. So many artists I love and look up to on this lineup. There's no way I'm missing JoyRyde this time. I missed him at edc earlier this year.
49 days til I go to escape. Thats 7 weeks away.
Somewhere someone highly recommended the ill.Methodology workshop and so I watched part 1 online
and loved it! It made me realize I had a huge workflow problem and what direction I needed to be headed in.
Soon after I came across the NGHTMRE lecture where my mind was constantly blown with golden nuggets of information.
I bought Music Habits - The Mental Game of Electronic Music Production: Finish Songs Fast, Beat Procrastinatoin and Find Your Creative Flow and devoured the first half.
After the first half I went to his website an found a Make an EP in 30 Days course and immediately signed up.I FINALLY FOUND the course I've been looking for. In the the past it was all videos watching other people make music and I'd take hand written notes that would never be seen again and followed along in Ableton so I could get some sort of hands on experience. I ended up with a bunch of shitty songs I didn't really like and/or really want to make in the first place. No offense to those songs because I did feel myself learning. Each time there'd be less questions about what the instructor was talking about because I was understanding more and then I got to the point where I understood most of the basics and wanted to hear more advanced things like sound design. That's how I thought I was gonna teach myself and I was having fun but I wanted to create and not follow along.
With the EP in 30 Days course you have a lecture of an hour or so and then he gives you homework to do. When I first got the program a little over a month ago I got to day 10 and only missed a few days. I loved the program. I love taking what I just learned and applying it. Sometimes you get a teacher that teaches you in a certain way and things just click and with this program it was clicking. Then I went to Cancun and broke the streak. I came back and a month went by without opening Ableton til yesterday where I finally did Day 11.
Between Cancun and yesterday I did discovered a Zhu documentary "52 to Zhu". It wasn't too long but at the end I felt incredibly inspired again. Basically its about him making a song a week for a year. I only found the first part, not sure if they ever made a part 2 but part 1 was motivating enough to journey down the road of making one song a week. Challenge Accepted.
If I take what I'm learning with the EP in 30 Days and try Zhu's one song a week, in one year not only will I have put in a ton of work and completed 52 songs but I'll also be learning the best possible way to learn when it comes to music production, by jumping in and doing!
Yesterday as I was watching more videos about making music but not actually making music, I watched this deadmau5 video giving advice and he says this,
"thats so important, to just take in information, not watch tutorials and fucking how to make phat beats yo and fucking watch shitty fucking edm artists fucking jerk themselves off on future music about "and heres how you put together a beat". No fuck that, YOU GOTTA DO THAT SHIT, CAUSE THATS HOW YOU LEARN, thats how you make you, not you fucking clone the fucking clone of a clone"
It was like I kept hearing the same thing on repeat but with different words by all the producers I looked up to.
What my sound is at this moment in time I don't know.
I know I want to express myself through music and this 52 week adventure will hopefully help me find my voice and at the same time have a ton of fun doing it. There's no way I'm releasing 52 SLAPPERS.
I can't imagine myself being happy doing anything else but music and lately I feel like I'm running out of time. I need to dive in and make that 200% effort.
Today the adventure into music starts.
My daily goal is to spend at least 1 hour a day watching a mentor video and a minimum 2 hours a day making music in Ableton for a total of 3 hours a day dedicated to music. If people can take a class in college for 3 hours a day, I can dedicate AT LEAST that doing music production
My weekly goal is ONE song a WEEK.
If Zhu can do it, I can do it, si se puede.
Hopefully in 1 year I'll be able to look back at all my earlier tracks and hear some sort of progress.
For now my goals are to make 7 songs by Escape.
It's time to overcome that fear of sucking at music. I just gotta start putting in the hard work today which will lead to me never working another day in my life because I'll be doing what I love!
#1yearPlan. Then I go back to college and play life by life's rules. But in my free time, my hobby will be music and thanks to this one year dive, I'll already be well enough with music to be able to hop into Ableton and just do some creative music making, for me if no-one else. I'll do this the rest of my life, even if just for fun, for me, for my soul that craves music.
"thats so important, to just take in information, not watch tutorials and fucking how to make phat beats yo and fucking watch shitty fucking edm artists fucking jerk themselves off on future music about "and heres how you put together a beat". No fuck that, YOU GOTTA DO THAT SHIT, CAUSE THATS HOW YOU LEARN, thats how you make you, not you fucking clone the fucking clone of a clone"
It was like I kept hearing the same thing on repeat but with different words by all the producers I looked up to.
What my sound is at this moment in time I don't know.
I know I want to express myself through music and this 52 week adventure will hopefully help me find my voice and at the same time have a ton of fun doing it. There's no way I'm releasing 52 SLAPPERS.
I can't imagine myself being happy doing anything else but music and lately I feel like I'm running out of time. I need to dive in and make that 200% effort.
Today the adventure into music starts.
My daily goal is to spend at least 1 hour a day watching a mentor video and a minimum 2 hours a day making music in Ableton for a total of 3 hours a day dedicated to music. If people can take a class in college for 3 hours a day, I can dedicate AT LEAST that doing music production
My weekly goal is ONE song a WEEK.
If Zhu can do it, I can do it, si se puede.
Hopefully in 1 year I'll be able to look back at all my earlier tracks and hear some sort of progress.
For now my goals are to make 7 songs by Escape.
It's time to overcome that fear of sucking at music. I just gotta start putting in the hard work today which will lead to me never working another day in my life because I'll be doing what I love!
#1yearPlan. Then I go back to college and play life by life's rules. But in my free time, my hobby will be music and thanks to this one year dive, I'll already be well enough with music to be able to hop into Ableton and just do some creative music making, for me if no-one else. I'll do this the rest of my life, even if just for fun, for me, for my soul that craves music.
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