Why Music Producers Need to Take Action
In this week's Blog I wanted to mention an important thing for music producers to be doing as much as possible... Taking Action! But what does that mean?
Put Simply, taking action means taking real life steps towards doing what you want, for example:
Want to improve your mix, but find yourself lost watching tutorials? Learn some tricks, but then put more hours practicing as much as possible.
Want to play a gig but aren't motivated to rehearse? Go book yourself a gig and then you'll have a deadline to rehearse for!
Want to be released on Vinyl? Start sending out your demo to as many labels as possible. Let's say 50 labels. You can send 50 emails right? Maybe one person will get back to you. Acknowledging beforehand that it's likely not a lot will reply should reduce your fears of rejection. They're not rejecting you, they are just too busy with their own life and current artist roster! But at least you took action and got a reply!
So you can see how rather than researching skills, plug ins, or gear, this is more important. We learn by doing. We achieve things by doing them.
Research and tutorials are great, but remember if that is not balanced with taking the steps you need to, you are wasting time.
It is not worth just keeping it all in your head but never using that knowledge!
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The idea to write about this came to me after recording an interview with my brother James and our host Freddie about our album re-release.
In the interview I tell the story about booking our first gig we were self organising. And how scared I felt to do it. But then how easy it was!
And I felt like "WOW DOING STUFF IS ACTUALLY EASY
Ha ha which isn't always true...
But doing stuff I.E taking action will definitely move you forward faster on your journey as a music producer.
You can watch the whole interview above
All the best and Happy Music Making,
David
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