I know I can't be the only one with a folder filled with big ideas that don't quite make the cut. I'm talking trash music, projects that should have never been ctrl-s'ed. But in a moment of weakness, they did. In this music production class were cutting the chaff. Let me show you how to unf*ck your music production folder.
Finishing songs is hard, and it's one of the reasons people struggle to make better music. Whenever a project is left unfinished, they tell themselves it was never good enough and it never gets revisited.
What ends up is a folder full of files and wasted time. I'm on a mission to give people time back and get them confident in their music productions, even if they only have a small amount of free time.
Anyone can become a professional music producer with the right mentality, tools, and mentor. But where do we begin with this?
Let's start by sorting out that folder of unfinished projects you have sitting there collecting digital dust! I want you to sort through the entire folder, check every project as if it were a sketch, and decide whether it's good enough to finish or a lost cause.
When I did this, I ended up with approximately 30 or so ideas that were worth finishing, and my project folder was a lot easier to manage and navigate, as the rest were all deleted.
Now that you have your folder of winners. Work each one from the idea you have and turn them into full arrangements.
Try to not get bogged down with mixing and mastering, at this stage just try to get all of your tracks written to at least 3-minute tracks and only use effects that are necessary to enhancing the song, like creative effects or sidechain for ducking purposes.
Now you're sitting with all of your tracks written. We can look at mixing and mastering.
When your mixing and mastering I want you to set up a few reference tracks that you can refer back to periodically.
This is like having Google Maps on when driving.
Try to get your reference track at a similar volume to yours when you A/B other wise this will skew your judgement.
An analyser will help with this so grab one, free ones are perfect so hit up Google.
Things will pop out and you will be able to make your track comparable. This will give you unbelievable confidence and it's a step that cannot be missed in the production phases. Literal cheat code. You're welcome.
Get these tracks exported put in a folder and move the file folders into a new folder marked finished. Back this up on a hard drive weekly and your golden.
Few weeks from now you'll be sipping champagne on a golden sandy beach while your Spotify streams picks up the tab...
Well maybe not, but you will be a much better, more successful and a thousand times happier music producer.
With that I bid you farewell, but if its wisdom nuggets your after, jump into a session with me or the other tutors and get your questions answered.