by MemberMouse Reports | Sep 2, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, productivity, songwriting
How Long Will it Take Me to Sound Like ______ ? This is a question I get asked often from new aspiring producers. They often ask me this after they have purchased a training course from me or joined my Producer’s Playground, so given their current mindset,...
by MemberMouse Reports | 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 MemberMouse Reports | Mar 6, 2014 | Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting
9 Things I’ve Learned from 3 Months of Daily Music Making This post is from an experiment I did years ago that completely changed the path of my music making, lead to the release of 10x the music I was making previously AND the quality of what I was making improved...
by MemberMouse Reports | 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...
by MemberMouse Reports | Apr 27, 2013 | creative mindset, productivity, sound design
Write a song in 24 hours – Ableton Walkthrough If you didn’t read my last post, I challenged myself to create a song from scratch & finish it within 24 hours. You can read my last post for all the guidelines but generally speaking, I built the song...
