by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | 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 Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | Jul 1, 2014 | Audio engineering, Blog, creative mindset, productivity, songwriting, sound design
Find your creative strengths, borrow the restAs 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 and...
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 MakingAs 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...
by Music Software Training & Ableton Live Tutorials | 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...
