by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Oct 21, 2016 | Blog, productivity
Doing The Unnecessary When it comes to making music there many unnecessary things we do that end up being more of a distraction from the goal than something constructive. Agonizing over every sample or preset in your library is one example or aching over 1/2 of a db...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Uncategorized
How DJs & Music Producers Survive The Constant Ringing in their Ears Since April 2016, I’ve been holding a bit of a secret from my online readers. I was worried about what it would mean for my Producing & DJing career. I have tinnitus. Tinnitus is...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | May 12, 2016 | Blog, productivity, songwriting
Writer’s Block & Breakdowns Songwriting and music production is going to be hard, especially for anyone who is just starting their music journey. Anyone who says differently is not doing you any favors. This is not to say that you can’t simplify the...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Apr 28, 2016 | Blog, music biz
Scoring a Beatport # 1 Today, I find myself with my 1st #1 release on Beatport. As I write this, it’s been #1 in Minimal releases for 4 straight days. Something completely unexpected. I’ve hit the top 5 a couple of times for a day or 2, but never topped...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jan 16, 2016 | Blog, creative mindset, Promotion, songwriting
Deconstruction Time Deconstruction Time – track by track I’m going to do my best to give you a bit of background on each of the songs. Most of these were written between...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
Making & Finishing an Album The process of making an album is like standing on the bottom of a mountain and trying to conceive a way of reaching the top. From this perspective it seems a near impossibility. It’s hard enough to finish 1 song you are...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Dec 31, 2015 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
“Sometimes I feel my sound will never get noticed so why not just do pop remixes?” If this sounds familiar to you, you aren’t alone. As I see it, here is where you are at. And it’s brutal, so be prepared…. You...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Dec 12, 2015 | Blog, productivity, songwriting
How to Finish songs faster. An easy to follow outline Of all the challenges I hear from music producers, perhaps the biggest challenge is finishing songs. In most cases, starting songs & getting to a cool 8 bar loop is easy, but then the brain starts to...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
How “stealing” can make you more creative, not lessBorrowing, repurposing, stealing. Whatever you call it, overall it’s the same thing. Taking something you heard elsewhere and incorporating it into your own work. Many people consider this cheating...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Nov 12, 2015 | Blog, Video/video tutorials
The Ableton 9.5 Upgrade Walkthrough This is kind of a big deal. Although Ableton hasn’t yet made the jump to Version 10, 9.5 has some game changing features. Although I won’t be going into how incredible Push 2 is yet (and it IS really impressive),...
