I used to take music too seriously and it was not very prouctive. Then I started to approach it as if it was a joke and the best ideas came along with that mindset , it changed my creative journey enormously, can highly recommend it lol!
Thanks for this reflection. Last week I entered this crisis in which I realized I had been not enjoying music at all as it became solving technical problems, deciding between tradeoffs and looking at manuals and features for every possible permutation of my setup to optimize for a balance between practicality and not damaging my musical vision, to what end? Not being a pro, meaning small concerts if at all, and abandoned Spotify albums. No more doing steps 1 to 7 if I know the path gets to depressing step 10, right? Yet music is a rare opportunity for adults to truly play and do for the joy of it. So you and the video bring key pieces to the why question.
This is a healthy piece of advice. I imagine it would be hard for a lot of people to follow, though, especially those who do it for themselves and the sake of art. It's like, "if what I do is crap, what's the value of me then?". The ego never sleeps :(
Did you ever play something, and then overdub a 2nd part to a new track... but completely turn down the volume on the 1st track, so you have to imagine the first part while you play the 2nd? It's a fun game, to see whether both parts fit together (maybe you have to nudge a note or 2... but if it would require more, then try again!) Even if you don't get anything good out of it, it helps to get the juices flowing.
on a spinning wet ball? only a cabbage head would believe in a Globe when Earth is clearly level and stationary. FLAT. planet is a sub section of a larger Plane.
The best song I ever wrote took like one evening on a whim, all my other songs I have been painstakingly refining on for years and they aren't as good.
Reminds of back when I started doing photography. I had a concept and model. We tried in vain to get the shot that matched what I had in but I just couldn't make it happen to my satisfaction. We both got frustrated and I was like "Hell with this. This feels like WORK." So took a break of sorts and just farted around and experimented with other shots. And, looking back, some of them were just better than my original idea. Because nothing you make is ever going to be as good as you imagined it in your head. But sometimes on that journey you might be hit with unexpected moments of brilliance. And it's not only way more fun and rewarding but one hell of a lot less work! So the moral of the story is very similar to the video. Just have an idea and START. Then see where it takes you.
I'm only about a month into music production. The one thing I've learned as a perfectionist is to not go in with a plan. I just sit there and mess around with different sounds and go with it. Also, don't focus on making full songs. Just make something. 20 second loop? Cool. 5 minutes of shifting pads? Cool. It's helped me quite a bit.
It's also important to just try to make music. I've only been experimenting with electric guitar hardware lately (during the New Year holidays, I made two videos about experiments on P90s), because I need to survive the last year of IT university, and music itself, according to my feelings, requires constant study and work on it. So I don't even do this "try", lol.
"junk energy" is what i strive for, almost like shaping garbage into patterns and arithmetic, take goofy sounds, throw them in the sampler, edit and tweak them a bit, 8 or so hours you may have something interesting sounding you never thought you could make.
This led me to a breakthrough in a collab I’m working on. Gonna go break some beats real bad. Bless you, beanie man, for putting this out , and bless ye olde algorithm for bringing me to it. Instant sub.
When you said “just smash the keyboard” I felt at home. I was like “I can do that”, and that’ll maybe get me out this “sample hell” that I been running circles in.
Inspired by this video, I made a deliberately silly dubstep track, with random melodies and simple patterns, and it unironically ended up being the most fulfilling and musically successful output in months! I learned a lot and found myself enjoying the process and result so much. I’m hooked now. Being serious never worked for me, so long to that notion!
That puts a different perspective on my vocals. Thanks. I'll sing like a cat spewing up a fur ball and take it from there! I love my voice as I record it, but loathe it afterwards; so I'll criticize it and hopefully learn something I didn't perceive before!
Just always remember your humanity through it all! People want to be musicians, without realizing they already are when comparing themselves to something other than the sound of another person singing in the same room without a microphone.
Culture could really use an insane competition to make the "worst" possible music right now. When I was young some scenes were almost like that-- but they still took themselves too seriously as avant garde, or noise, or free jazz or punk. People weren't willing to embarrass themselves enough---and tended to hide behind technology and walls of saturated distortion. But with this generation's more sophisticated sense of humor I think a wild rush to really get in there an make the most ridiculous -- and worst--- and most chaotic -- and embarrassing sounds. Especially Melodyne now has a feature where AI can "stretch the grid" so that the midi tracks can follow the rubatto of a live performance ---- really a chance to break out of the bland safety of the click track grid.
Great discussion! It sounds like the kind of thing Seinfeld may advise. My approach is to try to learn or cover a song but, because I don’t have the ability to make it sound good, in the end it ends up being something completely different and I am praised for my originality.
Can’t believe your talking about Captain Beefheart. Crazy. I grew up with that music in the 70’s and you’re talking about it now. That says something about!!!! They even still made albums in 2012ish crazy. You’re talking about a band I listened to 50 years ago!!!
Hella true, just wrote something I felt sucks but personally liked it, if that makes sense and actually posted it as an ig clip cause my vocal chain sounds nice haha I get the point, it’s hard to make good stuff so don’t try so hard.
If think you think of it, many mega hit songs were written and recorded VERY quickly according to interviews. Might it be a good exercise to try different projects with the intent to do bad music or least not try to overthink things and just do what comes out and just get it out there.
I've tried to just make something intentionally bad, but it always ends up unintentionally bad. Kidding aside, I always start with an inspiration of a melody or something simple and I have no idea where its going to go. I haven't really stuck with a genre yet.
I've done this for like a year now lmao and it worked great for me, it was so funny hearing those sounds and also sometimes that fire idea came from bullshitting
Yeah the best song I ever wrote took way less time and effort than any other one of my songs, it’s a much more radio friendly song than anything I ever wrote which speaks volumes on how pop music is made as opposed to more “interesting” music imo.
Good music is personal taste. What sounds like shit to others may sound amazing to someone else. I make music on guitar all the time and post it on my channel and on other social media websites and I am told by people that it sucks and by others that it's good.
Yeah, I agree 100%. If I wanted to make music that appealed to everyone but me that would mean I was only trying to do it for status...popularity...and money. Reddit has a lot of assholes on there who are super critical of metal music if it doesn't sound a certain way. Like...I made a song last night on my channel about autopsies with actual footage and played/recorded like 8 or 10 riffs for the song and I had someone on reddit tell me that there were "too many autopsies" in my video LOL.
@@devilsoffspring5519 So many people are retarded and think that if music doesn't sound similar to what's trending or popular that it sucks. They have zero creativity or imagination and usually don't make music themselves. If they do, ...it sounds too similar to the shit they like. Don't get me wrong, nothing the matter with making music similar to what you like at all ....but some people want to sound exactly like other bands and even go as far as to buy expensive guitar pedals to sound like them or they go out and buy the same exact guitar model that a dude in a band used...lol.
I literally did this. I noticed I had accidentally impulse bought Sonar X3 back in the day on Steam, and once I figured out what I had actually purchased, I decided to use it to make shitty music. I think it's way better now, but I was kind of the "weird music guy" in high school, so I am in no position whatsoever to judge this. 😁
@@sleepfieldro They don't make it anymore. Try Reaper instead, that's what I use when I use a DAW. Or Renoise, which I also bought, but still haven't figured out yet.But that one's weird. :D
Author friend usually deletes the first 30'000 words and starts again when they have a feel for what the book wants to be. That makes a lot of sense to me.
Das ist interessant. Danke! Und man kann es auf jede Art von Kreativität beziehen. Einfach machen! Just do it. Sobald man zu viel plant und zu viel nachdenkt geht alles schief und man steckt fest. Das Ergebnis wird sowieso subjektiv wahrgenommen. Also, einfach machen und sehen was dabei herauskommt.
Man…… I used to get offended/saddened that my friends would say my very self-satisfying beats were “video gamey”. I couldn’t rap over them personally, and I couldn’t seeing anyone else use them. It got me down for a while. Until I realized, I like video game OSTs. I could see my once disappointing beats in JRPGs I play like Persona or Phantasy Star. This flipped my mental state. Be proud of it if you like it. You are the audience.
I got an annual subscription for Distrokid recently to release a single I had for a while, so I've been wanting to get an EP out for a while, and this *might* be what I need, I think. Thanks
One of my favorite things is to make a single sound. A handclap, a cymbal, a guitar tone, some abstract thing or a single bass note, whatever I am in the mood for. Suddenly it is all about the timbre. You can spend a good bit of time just creating the ultimate cowbell. Or the worst cowbell ever. Or the most obnoxious cowbell that is so bad and irritating and sounds like some bunker fixture and has distorted components and overly loud even harmonics in it that actually grate your ears. Or the tiniest little tinkercowbell for a sprite. Or a cowbell the size of an oceanliner. Commence the mayhem.
I purposely let it roll out and just add more to it. Just let it flow and don't be too hyper critical. I was working with someone who was so rigid that we just didn't mix. Ideas are great but, sometimes you just have to create 💩 before you make the one you really love.
damn ur contents been popping recently congrats man. ill be here till the day comes that you do a backflip off the deli counter of the convenience store you one day own
no thanks, i've made music that's now good enough that i myself would listen to it even if i weren't the person who would make it, now i'm trying to get to the point of it being so good that if i myself heard it for the first time my head would fucking explode because of how good it is
Hi. I am 19 and have had a bit of a delusional dream of making music. I am not even a month into learning guitar for the first time and am an fl studio beginner. Your videos kinda help me see my delusion as more of a possibility.
Yeah I def have a decent amount of haters on my music lmao. Obviously they're not the target audience then. But tbf I don't think about target audience when writing, it's just how I want to make it.
Some of my most pleasant surprises have come from intentionally using "goofy" or "wrong" sounds, or trying to subvert the natural progress of the song or genre.
Hear is my 2 cents on how to make great music. these rules/guidelines can be broken and the music can still be magic but if you stick to all of these rules it is guaranteed to be great. There are many reasons music has been getting worse, it is EZer to make great music now than ever there are just so many ways to mess music up the chances of anyone actually doing so are slim to none, but follow these guidelines and it is guaranteed to be your own kind of magic. First off if you don't understand music theory get a book called THE CHORD WHEEL, that explains music simply, than get a book on how to play whatever instrument you are playing. Great music is Human Intention at Maximum sound quality. Maximum sound quality is everything the human ear can hear, So make sure every sound you make is triggered by a human, not a computer, Music is a language and just like an actor can read a line and make it more interesting than a robot can so musical statements sound better when people make them. of course it takes practice to learn to play a musical instrument but once you do, no one else sounds like you because every human is different., it just takes tones of repetition, than it will get smooth, than it will start to feel great, and you will sound like you, while every computer sounds the same. So just practice up a song than record it with no quantizing, no snapping to a grid, and for the verry best results don't even play allong with a metranome. It is better to hear a drummer play the beat the way he feels it and everyone sync up with him, than to listen to a drummer sycn up with a metronome that feels nothing. also dont copy and paste parts of your song, but let every part of the song be its own take, variety is interesting, even if you sind the exact same thing it will sound different. ok so once you do that you just need to get the magic mix, listen and move those faders, panners and maybe EQ until it sounds great, than you should never compress the track any more than the lowest setting on landr. Medium and High sacrifice sound quality for more volume. people have been doing this since the mp3 player came out in order to be louder than others on a playlist and they sacrifice so much sound quality for more volume that it doesnt even sound good cranked on high quality speakers anymore. be verry careful with compression in the mastering process, do not use any more than the lowest setting on Landr, wich will master your track for you. But compression is not the only way music tracks have been sacrificing sound quality. MP3s , Spotify and RUclips, are only giving you one tenth or one 30th of what the human ear can hear. this makes people wonder were the magic went. Be sure you are listening to the music at 44.1 khz 16 bit, this is everything the human ear can hear no more no less. if you listen to music more than double that sample rate it might make your brain tired, and if you listen to less than that you will probably be wondering why it does not sound as good, you will subconciously be wondering where the magic went. CDs , wav files and Flac files are 44.1Khz 16 bit, though most masters after year 2000 compressed the sound quality out of the track and started quantizing actual bands. Qbuz is a streaming service that streams at 44.1khz 16 bit so if you listen to an album recorded before 2000 on Qbuz the magic will be back. If anyone records a song following these steps it will be there own kind of magic. of course it is possible to break these rules a little hear and there and still make magic. but if you follow all of them it will be guaranteed to be your own kind of Magic because you are human, every human has a unique soul, and no one sounds just like you. : )
Interesting . You have to out smart yourself . LOL . My most recent tune i posted was intentionally created with a raw recording in mind given the content and lyrics . Not everyone's going to like it but I got my point across . Enjoyed the Vid
Nice talking point but definitely “bad music” is a poor description of what you’re trying to describe. great for viewership and such though. great work for putting this conversation out into the aether because music is much more nuanced than people think. hello 👋
I used to take music too seriously and it was not very prouctive. Then I started to approach it as if it was a joke and the best ideas came along with that mindset , it changed my creative journey enormously, can highly recommend it lol!
awesome! it definitely can be a big help
So true !
Thanks for this reflection. Last week I entered this crisis in which I realized I had been not enjoying music at all as it became solving technical problems, deciding between tradeoffs and looking at manuals and features for every possible permutation of my setup to optimize for a balance between practicality and not damaging my musical vision, to what end? Not being a pro, meaning small concerts if at all, and abandoned Spotify albums. No more doing steps 1 to 7 if I know the path gets to depressing step 10, right? Yet music is a rare opportunity for adults to truly play and do for the joy of it. So you and the video bring key pieces to the why question.
Whenever i write a dumb song real quick for a joke, that's the only time when people ask to hear it again and again
lol same! i made a silly song called "strawberry creamcheese on a plain bagel" and my whole family loves it
@@sleepfieldro mmm breakfast
Intent is poison to creation
interesting take!
This is a healthy piece of advice. I imagine it would be hard for a lot of people to follow, though, especially those who do it for themselves and the sake of art. It's like, "if what I do is crap, what's the value of me then?". The ego never sleeps :(
i think this is a good tool to try and get "unstuck" instead of a way to create every time. glad you enjoyed the vid!
Did you ever play something, and then overdub a 2nd part to a new track... but completely turn down the volume on the 1st track, so you have to imagine the first part while you play the 2nd?
It's a fun game, to see whether both parts fit together (maybe you have to nudge a note or 2... but if it would require more, then try again!) Even if you don't get anything good out of it, it helps to get the juices flowing.
@@GizzyDillespee yes i do this often! its a great technique
There are 8 billion heads of lettuce on the planet. Someone will vibe. Even if it’s only you.
haha great analogy!
on a spinning wet ball? only a cabbage head would believe in a Globe when Earth is clearly level and stationary. FLAT. planet is a sub section of a larger Plane.
perfect timing for this to appear
glad you enjoyed!
I love my music. It’s mine.
love this!
sometimes I stack a bunch of effects over a regular instrument, most times the result is crap, but a few times the result slaps real hard
great technique!
The best song I ever wrote took like one evening on a whim, all my other songs I have been painstakingly refining on for years and they aren't as good.
its all perception! but i think listeners can pick up on the natural flow in certain songs
Reminds of back when I started doing photography. I had a concept and model. We tried in vain to get the shot that matched what I had in but I just couldn't make it happen to my satisfaction. We both got frustrated and I was like "Hell with this. This feels like WORK." So took a break of sorts and just farted around and experimented with other shots. And, looking back, some of them were just better than my original idea.
Because nothing you make is ever going to be as good as you imagined it in your head. But sometimes on that journey you might be hit with unexpected moments of brilliance. And it's not only way more fun and rewarding but one hell of a lot less work!
So the moral of the story is very similar to the video. Just have an idea and START. Then see where it takes you.
I'm only about a month into music production. The one thing I've learned as a perfectionist is to not go in with a plan. I just sit there and mess around with different sounds and go with it. Also, don't focus on making full songs. Just make something. 20 second loop? Cool. 5 minutes of shifting pads? Cool. It's helped me quite a bit.
this is huge! having this mentality will take you far, best of luck on your music journey!
@@sleepfieldro Appreciate you. Thank you.
It's also important to just try to make music. I've only been experimenting with electric guitar hardware lately (during the New Year holidays, I made two videos about experiments on P90s), because I need to survive the last year of IT university, and music itself, according to my feelings, requires constant study and work on it. So I don't even do this "try", lol.
whatever works for you for sure!
"junk energy" is what i strive for, almost like shaping garbage into patterns and arithmetic, take goofy sounds, throw them in the sampler, edit and tweak them a bit, 8 or so hours you may have something interesting sounding you never thought you could make.
yes i love this!
What you think it is is not what everyone else is going to think it is. Gold.
glad you enjoyed!
This led me to a breakthrough in a collab I’m working on. Gonna go break some beats real bad. Bless you, beanie man, for putting this out , and bless ye olde algorithm for bringing me to it. Instant sub.
that makes me so happy haha, glad you enjoyed!
I personally think this is the solution to beat block
its definitely helped me many times
When you said “just smash the keyboard” I felt at home. I was like “I can do that”, and that’ll maybe get me out this “sample hell” that I been running circles in.
haha go for it! sometimes all you need is a little shake up
I myself love cheap equipments, its inviting and creative same as being fast with a new idea.
same! ive never had expensive nice stuff lol
Inspired by this video, I made a deliberately silly dubstep track, with random melodies and simple patterns, and it unironically ended up being the most fulfilling and musically successful output in months! I learned a lot and found myself enjoying the process and result so much. I’m hooked now. Being serious never worked for me, so long to that notion!
Nietzsche said the best things are created from many small previously created pieces.
this makes sense to me!
Great advice!! This is my favorite video of yours so far!
haha thank you! im glad you enjoyed the vid :)
hold up, dude has a point..
lol thank you!
That puts a different perspective on my vocals. Thanks. I'll sing like a cat spewing up a fur ball and take it from there! I love my voice as I record it, but loathe it afterwards; so I'll criticize it and hopefully learn something I didn't perceive before!
lol it might be a good exercise!
Just always remember your humanity through it all! People want to be musicians, without realizing they already are when comparing themselves to something other than the sound of another person singing in the same room without a microphone.
Culture could really use an insane competition to make the "worst" possible music right now. When I was young some scenes were almost like that-- but they still took themselves too seriously as avant garde, or noise, or free jazz or punk. People weren't willing to embarrass themselves enough---and tended to hide behind technology and walls of saturated distortion. But with this generation's more sophisticated sense of humor I think a wild rush to really get in there an make the most ridiculous -- and worst--- and most chaotic -- and embarrassing sounds. Especially Melodyne now has a feature where AI can "stretch the grid" so that the midi tracks can follow the rubatto of a live performance ---- really a chance to break out of the bland safety of the click track grid.
this is great perspective i love it! definitely inspiring to make some off the wall shit
This is music philosophy, my brain needed this. Thank you !
thanks for watching!
Great discussion! It sounds like the kind of thing Seinfeld may advise. My approach is to try to learn or cover a song but, because I don’t have the ability to make it sound good, in the end it ends up being something completely different and I am praised for my originality.
ooo i love this! i plan on making a video about cover songs soon
Can’t believe your talking about Captain Beefheart. Crazy. I grew up with that music in the 70’s and you’re talking about it now. That says something about!!!!
They even still made albums in 2012ish crazy. You’re talking about a band I listened to 50 years ago!!!
haha youre the one who told me about them!
relatable.
I don't make music, but I write stories. And this message holds true for that, as well. Great message. Subbed. Can't wait to listen to your beats.
thats awesome, thank you! I have some music on my channel :)
It's my process. A lot of self hate is needed to do better.
lol crazy take but if it works it works!
Hella true, just wrote something I felt sucks but personally liked it, if that makes sense and actually posted it as an ig clip cause my vocal chain sounds nice haha I get the point, it’s hard to make good stuff so don’t try so hard.
nailed it! the more natural it feels the more likely it will be good to your ears
Best advice, this unlock world’s 🤘
haha hell yeah!
If think you think of it, many mega hit songs were written and recorded VERY quickly according to interviews. Might it be a good exercise to try different projects with the intent to do bad music or least not try to overthink things and just do what comes out and just get it out there.
I've tried to just make something intentionally bad, but it always ends up unintentionally bad. Kidding aside, I always start with an inspiration of a melody or something simple and I have no idea where its going to go. I haven't really stuck with a genre yet.
just keep trying stuff, youll find it! and the process always changes
I've done this for like a year now lmao and it worked great for me, it was so funny hearing those sounds and also sometimes that fire idea came from bullshitting
haha thats awesome hell yeah!
I swear the best beats i make come from fucking around with friends haha.
lol exactly! the best music i make is always fun to make
the things we thing are perfect just end up being what we see as the most human or most relatable
very true!
Yeah the best song I ever wrote took way less time and effort than any other one of my songs, it’s a much more radio friendly song than anything I ever wrote which speaks volumes on how pop music is made as opposed to more “interesting” music imo.
it all depends but its definitely much easier to catch a vibe if youre working quickly!
Good music is personal taste. What sounds like shit to others may sound amazing to someone else. I make music on guitar all the time and post it on my channel and on other social media websites and I am told by people that it sucks and by others that it's good.
as long as you like it thats the most important thing!
Yeah, I agree 100%. If I wanted to make music that appealed to everyone but me that would mean I was only trying to do it for status...popularity...and money. Reddit has a lot of assholes on there who are super critical of metal music if it doesn't sound a certain way. Like...I made a song last night on my channel about autopsies with actual footage and played/recorded like 8 or 10 riffs for the song and I had someone on reddit tell me that there were "too many autopsies" in my video LOL.
Yes! And I can't believe you have to point that out :)
@@devilsoffspring5519 So many people are retarded and think that if music doesn't sound similar to what's trending or popular that it sucks. They have zero creativity or imagination and usually don't make music themselves. If they do, ...it sounds too similar to the shit they like. Don't get me wrong, nothing the matter with making music similar to what you like at all ....but some people want to sound exactly like other bands and even go as far as to buy expensive guitar pedals to sound like them or they go out and buy the same exact guitar model that a dude in a band used...lol.
My boy love that Captain Beefheart record
lol ever since my mom put me on!
I literally did this. I noticed I had accidentally impulse bought Sonar X3 back in the day on Steam, and once I figured out what I had actually purchased, I decided to use it to make shitty music. I think it's way better now, but I was kind of the "weird music guy" in high school, so I am in no position whatsoever to judge this. 😁
haha being the weird music guy is a good thing id say! ill have to check out Sonar X3
@@sleepfieldro They don't make it anymore. Try Reaper instead, that's what I use when I use a DAW. Or Renoise, which I also bought, but still haven't figured out yet.But that one's weird. :D
Just gotta let your brain cook and you’ll get the flow back
true!
A lot of great stuff here :) thanks for this
thank you, glad you enjoyed!
I put a time limit on making music. Aside from maybe very final 'mixing and mastering' if I can't finish a song in a day, I just move on.
same, its hard for me to revisit a song unless im just touching it up
Author friend usually deletes the first 30'000 words and starts again when they have a feel for what the book wants to be. That makes a lot of sense to me.
ooo interesting! apparently prince did something similar when recording albums
Das ist interessant. Danke! Und man kann es auf jede Art von Kreativität beziehen. Einfach machen! Just do it. Sobald man zu viel plant und zu viel nachdenkt geht alles schief und man steckt fest. Das Ergebnis wird sowieso subjektiv wahrgenommen. Also, einfach machen und sehen was dabei herauskommt.
Thank you
my ears like my music but other people don’t. imma double down ill find people that like it eventually 🙏
as long as you like it , that matters more than anything!
Man…… I used to get offended/saddened that my friends would say my very self-satisfying beats were “video gamey”. I couldn’t rap over them personally, and I couldn’t seeing anyone else use them. It got me down for a while.
Until I realized, I like video game OSTs. I could see my once disappointing beats in JRPGs I play like Persona or Phantasy Star.
This flipped my mental state. Be proud of it if you like it. You are the audience.
ur timing is perfect
glad you enjoyed!
taking yourself too serisously it ends up being corny so try everything
great point!
Sick Tech Decks, my dude
lol thank you!
if you don’t see ur self listening to ur own track and would listen to it on a weekly basis ur song is not objectively good
great point! its important to be a big fan of yourself
I got an annual subscription for Distrokid recently to release a single I had for a while, so I've been wanting to get an EP out for a while, and this *might* be what I need, I think. Thanks
hell yeah, drop that EP!
One of my favorite things is to make a single sound. A handclap, a cymbal, a guitar tone, some abstract thing or a single bass note, whatever I am in the mood for.
Suddenly it is all about the timbre. You can spend a good bit of time just creating the ultimate cowbell. Or the worst cowbell ever. Or the most obnoxious cowbell that is so bad and irritating and sounds like some bunker fixture and has distorted components and overly loud even harmonics in it that actually grate your ears. Or the tiniest little tinkercowbell for a sprite. Or a cowbell the size of an oceanliner.
Commence the mayhem.
haha this sounds like a great exercise!
Grindcore dudes be like "okay"
😭😭😭
I purposely let it roll out and just add more to it. Just let it flow and don't be too hyper critical. I was working with someone who was so rigid that we just didn't mix. Ideas are great but, sometimes you just have to create 💩 before you make the one you really love.
absolutely! i always prefer to work fast
was this the nickleback theory
haha, maybe!
yep!
ive been making bad music for years now!
lol i guess were on the same page!
Good advice
i feel like i could use this
glad i could help!
In the procees of making steel, you have to.tap.off all the slag before you get to the molten metal.
ooo great analogy!
i get where you’re coming from but if i personally put it in for myself for my music to sound shit then its going to sound shit
haha its part of the process!
I agree with this!
Yeeesss!
This is what i have decided to do. Can't make good music, so I'll make bad music.
its definitely a fun exercise to try!
I love your content man. I dont even make music. But you gotta Wisdom. Thanks for sharing your view off the world!
thank you, that really means a lot!
damn ur contents been popping recently congrats man. ill be here till the day comes that you do a backflip off the deli counter of the convenience store you one day own
lmao thank you! ill start practicing now :P
Excellent take. I got two words for everybody:
Wesley Willis.
rock and roll mcdonalds!
This is my way of life
if it works, it works!
same my noisecore brother
That hat with that hair is your thing now.
haha i love my new hat!
Random whatever’s are creative endeavours
ooo i love this!
ok but factss
:)
no thanks, i've made music that's now good enough that i myself would listen to it even if i weren't the person who would make it, now i'm trying to get to the point of it being so good that if i myself heard it for the first time my head would fucking explode because of how good it is
im glad your music is amazing, congrats!
Hi. I am 19 and have had a bit of a delusional dream of making music. I am not even a month into learning guitar for the first time and am an fl studio beginner. Your videos kinda help me see my delusion as more of a possibility.
thats awesome! delusion is important sometimes, you gotta blindly believe in yourself before anyone else will. keep going!
Love the video bro.
thank you!
Yeah I def have a decent amount of haters on my music lmao. Obviously they're not the target audience then. But tbf I don't think about target audience when writing, it's just how I want to make it.
exactly! i always say create for yourself, share for others
There's good pop though. Tiandaland Magic - Stripped is worth a listen.
i personally love a lot of pop music!
pop is hard. respekt
agreed!
Okay thank you
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thank YOU!
I promise I will
Some of my most pleasant surprises have come from intentionally using "goofy" or "wrong" sounds, or trying to subvert the natural progress of the song or genre.
i love this!
Facts
Honestly making shitty music on purpose is ofc shit but it's honest so it's less "cringy" imo
i can see this forsure!
Hear is my 2 cents on how to make great music. these rules/guidelines can be broken and the music can still be magic but if you stick to all of these rules it is guaranteed to be great. There are many reasons music has been getting worse, it is EZer to make great music now than ever there are just so many ways to mess music up the chances of anyone actually doing so are slim to none, but follow these guidelines and it is guaranteed to be your own kind of magic. First off if you don't understand music theory get a book called THE CHORD WHEEL, that explains music simply, than get a book on how to play whatever instrument you are playing. Great music is Human Intention at Maximum sound quality. Maximum sound quality is everything the human ear can hear, So make sure every sound you make is triggered by a human, not a computer, Music is a language and just like an actor can read a line and make it more interesting than a robot can so musical statements sound better when people make them. of course it takes practice to learn to play a musical instrument but once you do, no one else sounds like you because every human is different., it just takes tones of repetition, than it will get smooth, than it will start to feel great, and you will sound like you, while every computer sounds the same. So just practice up a song than record it with no quantizing, no snapping to a grid, and for the verry best results don't even play allong with a metranome. It is better to hear a drummer play the beat the way he feels it and everyone sync up with him, than to listen to a drummer sycn up with a metronome that feels nothing. also dont copy and paste parts of your song, but let every part of the song be its own take, variety is interesting, even if you sind the exact same thing it will sound different. ok so once you do that you just need to get the magic mix, listen and move those faders, panners and maybe EQ until it sounds great, than you should never compress the track any more than the lowest setting on landr. Medium and High sacrifice sound quality for more volume. people have been doing this since the mp3 player came out in order to be louder than others on a playlist and they sacrifice so much sound quality for more volume that it doesnt even sound good cranked on high quality speakers anymore. be verry careful with compression in the mastering process, do not use any more than the lowest setting on Landr, wich will master your track for you. But compression is not the only way music tracks have been sacrificing sound quality. MP3s , Spotify and RUclips, are only giving you one tenth or one 30th of what the human ear can hear. this makes people wonder were the magic went. Be sure you are listening to the music at 44.1 khz 16 bit, this is everything the human ear can hear no more no less. if you listen to music more than double that sample rate it might make your brain tired, and if you listen to less than that you will probably be wondering why it does not sound as good, you will subconciously be wondering where the magic went. CDs , wav files and Flac files are 44.1Khz 16 bit, though most masters after year 2000 compressed the sound quality out of the track and started quantizing actual bands. Qbuz is a streaming service that streams at 44.1khz 16 bit so if you listen to an album recorded before 2000 on Qbuz the magic will be back. If anyone records a song following these steps it will be there own kind of magic. of course it is possible to break these rules a little hear and there and still make magic. but if you follow all of them it will be guaranteed to be your own kind of Magic because you are human, every human has a unique soul, and no one sounds just like you. : )
alot of great info here, thanks for this! i actually have a video coming out this weekend where i talk about mixing and similar stuff to this :)
@@sleepfieldro ya it took 23 years for me to figure out where the magic in music went. lol glad i found it again.
Pretty sure MGMT did that too.
yes great example!
Interesting . You have to out smart yourself . LOL . My most recent tune i posted was intentionally created with a raw recording in mind given the content and lyrics . Not everyone's going to like it but I got my point across . Enjoyed the Vid
exactly! thanks for checking out the vid
I already do this 🤣
haha a step ahead!
Hi Weaver. Looking forward to you making click/ragebait from this video.
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There's a bunch of "I made 6000 songs in 60 seconds" videos. Is there a decent song among em?
i think its more about the exercise of it than making the best song possible imo
I totally disagree with this. I'm hyper focused and stay on a feeling until it's there. If something is off I take time to figure why it's off.
everyones different i suppose! i very much "burn and learn"
@sleepfieldro I actually love your video and will try it. It has a strong point. I just know good discussion comes from disagreements. Good shit man.
Nice talking point but definitely “bad music” is a poor description of what you’re trying to describe. great for viewership and such though. great work for putting this conversation out into the aether because music is much more nuanced than people think. hello 👋
thank you! i always try to leave room for nuance so im glad its coming across
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Can we please make an album together? 😃
hop in the discord! plenty of dope producers in there
no, your music sux! :3
haha, sometimes it does!
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Record a fart and make it sound beautiful. It's possible. Seriously.
id be lying if i said ive never done this lol (use autotune and pitch it down to make an 808)
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whats with the stupid hat though
i like looking stupid🤓
care to elaborate? lol