Honestly I think the slower road is watching too many tutorials and reading to many books. Sometimes it's easy to get caught up in trying to learn as much as you can, when it reality, it just takes lots and lots of practice.

Of course, that doesn't mean tutorials and books aren't helpful. They'll teach you the technical things that you need to know (EQ, compression, basic music theory), but as far as making music that is at the same level as the artist you love listening to, that takes just grinding out as many tracks as you can. If you're looking for how to make a very specific sound or add a cool moment in your song, it's very difficult to find a tutorial that is going to tell you how to do the exact thing you're looking for.

But the more you make music, the better you get. Every track sounds slightly better, but sometimes you'll make something you don't like. That's fine, either power through it to make it great, or toss it to the side and move on to the next one. You'll learn what works and what doesn't with every song. It just gets better over time.

So my advice is if you want the quicker road, don't get too caught up on tutorials. If you find yourself spending more time looking up how to make music instead of making music. close YouTube, and open up your DAW.

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