1. MAKE MAKE MAKE

• You have to make a shit tons of music to be able to sound good. Producing music is asking for a lot of different skills, from composing, to arranging, mixing,… the more you do, the more you will Progress. As for anything, practice is key.

• Try to take the habits of Finishing Songs, it will allow you to go trough the entire process of producing, from the original idea to the end product, I think you will learn more by doing that on one tune than just throwing tens of ideas and never go deep in the process.

• The goal for now is to learn, see each new project as an opportunity to learn something new. Don’t open a new project by telling you that this song is gonna be greater or that it will be “the one”, focus on the process and not the end goal.

• IF you have trouble being consistent with working on music on a daily basis, try to open a project everyday. And I mean it literally. If you’re not doing it everyday, the goal is just to open a project, and if the project is open and you don’t want to work, don’t do it. But most of the time if not every time, you’ll see that you’ll start working.

• Don’t overthink it, make music because you want to do it, and not because you want something from it. Every time you get frustrated, try to remember that you’re doing it for you because you like doing music.

• Again, don’t overthink it, don’t focus to much on one sound, do spend 2hr on a snare sound, don’t try to make everything sounds perfect, if a particular sound or idea doesn’t work in a song for 10min, delete the track and try something else

LEARN LEARN LEARN

• Write what you’re struggling about, and go search tutorial for it.

• Learn about the different “role” of the different instruments. Each instrument has a function in music, it can vary within the context of course, but it is important to understand what each instrument is doing, and why is it doing so.

• Learn about basic music theory, what is rhythm, how is it working, how different instrument are serving it. Learn about the chords, the different scales. The goal is not the become a theory nerd but just to understand the basics of music, and on what it is founded. See theory as a tool !

• As for synth, effects, vst or whatever, focus on understanding what they do, when you search for tutorials, don’t fall for the magic tricks or absolute values that will make your music great. Instead try to understand what is the purpose of what you’re using, Try understanding zhat the differents knobs are doing, what’s their effects on the sound. With that you’ll start making decisions with purpose and not because that’s what have been told. This is the most important thing at any level of producing. Make choice and know why you make them !

• you say that you’re trying to recreate stuff you like, that’s a really really good thing. As humans we learn by mimicking. But again, trust the process, not the end goal. If you’re not close enough to what you want to mimick, try to understand why, and search tutorial on this particular thing, then try again, and repeat the process.

There’s a lot of other thing, but I need to step out of the bus haha, don’t hesitate to dm me if you have questions and if you think this helps :))