by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Sep 1, 2015 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
Turning your Loser Songs into Winners We all have them Maybe they were 8 bar loops that you took to the arrangement stage. Or maybe you didn’t even get that far. Either way, something about your idea just isn’t sitting right with you so you send it to...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Dec 3, 2014 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
How I wrote 49 Songs in 1 Year & How You Can do the Same (tl:dr – skip to the “my advice” section to get straight to the tips) 2014 was a tremendous year for me so far. It’s a testament to taking on goals that seem bigger than you can...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Nov 26, 2014 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, Uncategorized
80/20 Your Music Production For those not familiar with 80/20 principles, welcome to the principles that will give you your life back. I mean that quite literally. The principle was suggested by management thinker Joseph M. Juran. It was named after the Italian...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Aug 15, 2014 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting, sound design
Music Lessons from a Viral Blog Post Many of you may now be aware of my recent post that went viral called 10 Things they Don’t Tell Music Producer’s ‘Til it’s Too Late As of this writing, it has received over 11,000 likes & tons of shares....
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Aug 9, 2014 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
10 Things they don’t tell Music Producers…. til it’s too late If you are new to music production, or even if you’ve been poking around for a while, there are a number of things that you haven’t been told about making music. Depending on...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jul 16, 2014 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
Just focus on not sucking When making music, especially in the beginning, there is a LOT of pressure that artists put on themselves. Their first priority is usually to make music that all their friends will like. This can be a very slippery slope & I’ll let...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jul 1, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting, sound design
Find your creative strengths, borrow the rest As a veteran producer, I am not great at everything & you shouldn’t have to be either. In another life, I was a guitarist in a Goth/New Wave band. I wasn’t a great guitarist, but I knew what I was good at...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | May 7, 2014 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting, sound design
How to create “Head Candy” sounds in Ableton So you’ve put together a basic song arrangement in Ableton or your DAW of choice, stretching out your 16 bar loop to something more songlike but you’ve run into a snag. Your song sounds repetitive,...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Mar 6, 2014 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
9 Things I’ve learned from 3 Months of Daily Music Making As of March 3rd, it has been 3 months of producing music everyday, for at least an hour. I can’t say that is completely true as there has been 3 occasions that I found myself away from home &...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Feb 18, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting, sound design
Attack Of The 8 Bar Loop So there you are, staring at your computer screen. 12 tracks of brilliance, or at least 15 seconds of it. You sit there listening to the loop on repeat over and over again, trying to convince yourself that you are being creative, instead of...
