The #1 thing stopping musicians from succeeding
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- In this video I discuss what I believe to be the number 1 thing stopping musicians from succeeding and some strategies to overcome it.
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Chapters:
0:00 What is it
0:43 Common Examples
3:35 My Personal Struggles
4:30 Term for it
4:51 How to overcome it
7:04 The harsh truth
9:40 Try this 
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“Done is better than perfect”
"because perfect is never done"
Just don’t use this as an excuse! Do your best always, you don’t need to be way better every time, just get a bit better, song by song!
True that
good ol Neistat
So true! Progress over perfection 💕
I'm a text-book overthinker and I feel like it is the biggest reason that I haven't been releasing as much music as I am capable of. 2024 is gonna be different. Appreciate the insight.
You got this!!
To add onto the gear point: One thing newcomers to the music game miss is that limit breeds creativity. Cutting down my sample packs, plugins, etc. to the essentials that I have used and know I will use in the future helped immensely. Because I no longer enter choice paralysis as I don't really have that many choices. So now I need to get the sound in my head using the tools that I have available. Sometimes it results in trash, sometimes I'm on point, sometimes it comes out better than expected. That's all part of the fun.
Having a release schedule helps with overthinking. If you're like, I need to release "2 beats and 3 pieces of short form this week", that obligation is usually enough to get me to pull my head out of my ass and just do something. Even if it's not my favorite beat, or maybe I'm not the most stoked on how the short form turned out, that obligation to consistency pulls me out of my overthinking.
Great advice
The thing I do to not overthink is figure what needs to get done at that moment and break it down to bite size steps.
Also i write down what i did for the day to track weekly my habits, because its easy to forget what you've done throughout th week.
This is what I’m working on & it helps a ton
Seriously Bro your lines makes us motivated ....
I try my best 🙏🏾
And we love you !!@@LDreTheGiant
True!!!
I fr needed to hear this, I’ve been a producer for 8 years and completely rebranded and now I’m starting from scratch, I just got to trust the process and continue to make music because that makes me happy, it doesn’t matter if I don’t have the support that I used to, I know it will come, in time
The only thing i really overthink about is arranging because its so many ways to do it and i want to pick the best way. Im slowly overcoming that bad habit.
This resonate with me!!! I come from a family of super producers and musicians who are part of the gate keepers in the music industry!!! I battle with fear of competition because everyone I follow on YT I literally have the same skill level!!! My wife has been pushing me to not only start my dreams but finish them!!!
Who’s your family
Great advice not only towards music creation, but is applicable in many areas of life. 👍🎶
Glad you think so 🙏🏾
"Just do it" pops into my head so often and I hate that it's some corporate slogan, but fk it, it's the most important lesson for everything and they just happened to trademark the simplest way to say it
Also, incredible video, so simple and so true. Every artist and really just everyone in general needs to hear this. Overthinking, doubting, perfectionism, all that shit has cost me over a year of time now and this video perfectly sums everything up. No more wasting time, just going to enjoy the ups and downs and keep getting a little closer to my dream each day
So good. There are two types of producers: The ones who think and the ones who do. Only those who are not scared to make mistakes can grow.
Had to hear this bro, thank you! Have been following you for a while, and I really love your mindset bro! You’re the GOAT!
def appreciate you man and glad youre here
Been a big fan for the past two years. You inspired me to start making beats and this video inspired me to upload my first video. Much Love!! 🙏
Overthinking is a big problem. Thanks for reminding us. Love your vids, they're inspiring.
Great video - totally agree with the not worrying too much at the start. I overanalyzed early songs and def didn't help lol
i love you bro, literally so inspired by you 💐
Much love ❤🙏🏾
Thank you bro for your wisdom and content!! You inspired me to start making music and post them. Appriciate your help🙏
Legend! Preciate you bro thanks for all that you do! 🙏🔥💫
My pleasure 🙏🏾
I didn't know what was killing my creativity until I saw your video. I feel less lonesome. Thanks for sharing your experiences L. Dre!
I can relate a lot to this video! My day job is analysis so I naturally analyse all the time, especially when it comes to my music.
I've started the year well by planning better and I am a big believer in "just do it"! I have managed to do this on many occasions and it's very helpful to remember!
Great video and advice. 👏🏻
Keep up the awesome work, man! Hope everyone gets to have fun with their music, make dope stuff and be out there! Wish everyone all the best! ✌🏻
Great video bro! Droppin gems! I'm just now finally starting to see a tiny bit of traction on some of my original music here on RUclips. The first track I ever dropped on streaming services back in 2020 has about 250ish plays on RUclips and a track I put out on Friday got over 100 plays in one day, another 100 the next day, and another song released the same day performed similarly. I'm learning some things from experimenting with waterfall releases already and it's exciting! It turns out RUclips was suggesting my videos to a lot of people and some folks are commenting on them, liking them, adding them to playlists. Getting a subscriber or two every day and a follower or two on Spotify here and there, and now people are finding my original music via browse features. People are actually trying to find my music which is awesome! I'm gonna be putting out content to pair with my consistent music releases in hopes of pushing the numbers up and turning the trickle of water into a huge wave.
This is so right, i wish every musician could see this cause i really needed this today... thank you
You got this 🙏🏾
It's easy to say, but just doing things is what needs to be done. I recently lost my father and so I'm feeling quite unmotivated and a bit lost. But I force myself to work on content and carry on, and afterwards I feel better. It's a hard road but if you love it, it'll always be worth it
Sorry for your loss brother glad to hear you’re keeping your head up 🙏🏾❤️
@@LDreTheGiant Appreciate that 🙏
That second one was me to a tee and just changed the way I see shit definitely putting music out soon 💯 Thank you for the wake up my man !
Great video ! Thanks
This is great advice love it!
I’m actually guilty of making heavy metal and Lofi music just enjoy creating regardless of genres.
Thank you for making great content!
This is what i needed to hear. 'Overthink less and produce more'. Thanks L.Dre. Keep up the great work, you inspire people like me, who are just getting started on the producer journey quit alot.
My pleasure! 🙏🏾
I genuinely appreciate your advice, tips, tricks, and educational content L.Dre, hope to collab with you on a Lofi song down the road
Facts just start doing it! Good Video!!!
Always
Thank you bro, you dont know how much this helps man foreall
Happy to help 🙏🏾
Mannn seeing you mention the beat battle hit me with memories as I was the one who won that battle you showcased! I appreciate this vid so much L.Dre 🔥
8:51 the reverb has me cracking up 🤣💩
😂😂😂
honestly I think I have the opposite problem, of sometimes making a beat in one day, sending it to a label the same evening and then being dissatisfied with the mix when it comes out a few months later, but also listening to it again months after the release appreciating it for its authenticity , and it was a piece of what led me today to have the numbers I have, not insane but not disappointing enough to have to radically change my approach
while the second point: that nothing really has too much importance, this too has always been a mantra of mine, I have always been someone who doesn't give much weight to certain things, especially material or aesthetic ones in people, but I believe that they are two focal and important points and the video is and will be very useful for many people!
L Dre we need more book recommendations. I’m on my second read of think grow rich, but it’s been super great
Thank you for these tips. Definitely got to work on “doing” the work. Love the Sno-Fi V2. Use it when I’m reading to keep the vibe right.
Great video again L dre,my thing is, put your experiments out there and see which one slaps.peace bro
@L.Dre Bro can you post the full interview with Nik D please? Super hyped to hear the full thing! Plus this video is straight 🔥
Hell na Dre! We ain’t on no spinning rock and you for sure ain’t no dust bro ❤
Wow great work you are doing ❤
Thank you 🙏🏾
3:18 omg the beat battle part hitting me deeply with nostalgia lmao and was what? 2 years ago maybe? ahah Ty L.Dre very cool video, love this kind of video for both very new and more expert musicians in any genres
Good times haha
preach brotha
If you're scared to make content, just remember how YOU watch youtube video's. You don't care about how it's edited, the person in it. You just watch it. It's the same thing with releasing music. It can only help you grow. Just do it yeah, nobody caresss. I think we all know this but it's the 'being a human' that makes us overthink. We want to be accepted by the growd. We want to be a part of something. Great video @L.Dre !
Yo crazy to see you here lol 😂
My old name used to be DJN011AN if ur confused
@@VelVibezWhy haha?
Overthinking is sooo true
this is what I need on time
This video was great. I feel like i'm right in all of these situations right now, so it's nice hearing someone who's done it give the advice. Also would love that full Nic D interview!
It’s coming this week!
Can't wait! @@LDreTheGiant
I released some lofi in Spotify too even though I don’t know whether im good or sucks, I was overthinking so much and got me stressed a lot from just thinking about it, I am a self taught producer and still learning everyday, at the end I released it on Spotify thinking that I lose nothing , why not 😂
Yo, I’d love to see how you organise / schedule your days/weeks/months etc. such as: what do you use to schedule? How do you use it? How often do you update it etc? I think a lot of people would benefit from this sorta video👊🏼😁
Great video bro, ya never know how your journey will turn out if you never start!
You got that right!
We all do it, and this applies to products too in business, we want it to be perfect but it will never be.
Great video. I'm terrible for over-thinking stuff. I like your Nike reference. We had a similar one at a company I worked for, the initials were JFDI. Similar to the Nike one but I think you will guess what the F stand for 😝. As for the mentor part of the video, I totally agree with that. I contacted Mondo Loops and told him I'd unofficially adopted him as my mentor as I watched loads of his videos and learned a lot from them. The good news now is that we have worked on a collaboration together under his new alias which will hopefully be out soon. Keep the videos coming please as they are a great source of inspiration. Cheers.
Apart from that a great video, hope you're having a good year! ;D
Thanks! You too!
I think the larger problem here is that this overthinking doesn't even come from us. We're only influenced to overthink when we don't stand for anything, don't trust in ourselves, and place too much emphasis on our passions, rather than our own personal growth. Because of this, we look to people on social media to solve these issues for us, when the problem that's being ignored is our relationship with ourselves; our strength and determination. We end up looking for someone else's guidance, when we really need to develop our own strength and principles that will keep us looking/moving forward.
And the thing is, a lot of these unanswered questions in our mind will only be solved by REAL life experiences and action. The question to ask yourself is, what are you ignoring in your own life that will take you to the next level. Thanks for this video, helps a lot.
Thanks for the advice, overthinking is something me and my friends struggle with. I have been making a habit of producing or rehearsing first thing in the morning by default, even if it’s a little bit. As well as scheduling and planning releases.
That’s a good idea maybe I should try that
Hope it helps, let us know@@LDreTheGiant
I get “analysis paralysis” writing lyrics. Eventually I just start jotting down whatever gibberish comes out my head, maybe track some of it, and turn out HALF of what I thought was a crap chorus was actually really good. The context may just be missing from the other half. Maybe change a couple words or rewrite the bridge into it so it makes sense. You don’t succeed until you just DO.
“Sea shanty” is prob the term you were looking for!🏴☠️😜 but I will say, planning and optimizing your schedule sometimes seems like a waste of time but once you get it right it makes such a big difference… it’s a constant balancing act - it’ll shift throughout different phases of life and you’ll never get it “right” but it is worth it to work on! 👊🏻
1:20 FACTS!! ✔️
i spent 1 year out of music to make some money, and i made some raw songs that i considered trash, but i sent to my friends whatsapp anyway, so 1+ year after that we were making a BBQ and one of my friends had 2 songs, BAD recorded that i made that past year in his playlist really listen to it on his car and since then i really stopped judging my stuff so hard. IDK why but a lot of people like raw recordings.
1:15 literally me rn.
The best is to only 'overthink' your future goals while very disciplined producing stuff like a maniac. In that way you can adjust your future goals while your trail of material is already rolling out and it will mostly tell you where to go, what to stop, what not and what to add or change.
rite on
Can you make a video on automation features and how to use automation properly?
Love all your content! Awesome I have an overthinking problem that I would like your take on. How do you handle copyrighting your tracks? Do you copyright and pay for each song or don’t copyright at all? I’m always overthinking this? Should I?
Agree ❤❤❤
Bro, I've been the same until like 2 years ago when I kinda started from scratch. I just put like 90% of the music I make out there even though I'm still growing and I know it's not the best yet.... 2 years later I've uploaded over 350 songs and I just started two more Spotify accounts because I was putting out too many different generes on just one account. For me it's still all considered practice but some people may actually like what you did also you aren't completely satisfied.
Exactly you never know who’s out there that’ll like whichever style you’re making. And you’d never know at all if you never put stuff out!
aighttt time to do some pirate music now!!
👑
We over thinknin fear of over work. But the best thing to do is go swim…
I'm a martial arts instructor and it's the same in my main field dealing with people.
It's funny @L.Dre. This has been the exact same topic of discussion on Navie D's - Discord server. So many people tend to overthink the process, including me.
And the problem is that it often restricts us from even starting. Once you analyze some the largest music producers out there, you'll realize how simple most of their songs are.
When in doubt, stick to the KISS method and just create man. Don't let what-if's hold you back. Go out there, bust your ass, and in due time you'll surely be rewarded.
Bro, overthinking is it. I have a ton of music projects started, and like, nothing stalls me out more than over-complicating where to go from there. If I just kept it simple, I would at least have something over the finish line (as the spirit moves, remix later, amiright?). But yeah, I get super stalled out with like: I need to consider ALL THE THINGS. Often burns me out, and I bail and go do something else for a while.
I'm more of an illustrator on the creative front, and the best advice I have put into practice, and always advise others is to just draw. And keep drawing. Don't let 'all the things you want to master ever' slow you down, or prevent you from simply just: drawing. All those things will come in time, and with just a constant mindset of drawing (creating).
Thanks L.Dre, now I have existential crisis instead
Overthinking can be the end of someone. Stop it!! Lol for real tho.
For those of you scared to post, I was in the boat, but every time i post i get better and better. Don't be scared to suck at first you will improve quickly! 😊
The pirate music is referred to as sea shanties
The number 1 reason is the odds. Even if you're amazing the odds are way against the majority of artists trying to make it.
That’s because majority of these artists trying to make it fail to act on what “making it” looks like to them.
If you’re trying to make a living off being an artist, what are the 3 most lucrative ways musicians make money? 1) Events 2) Music Retail and 3) Music Placement for Film, TV, and Ads.
If you’re not pursuing these sources on your own … why bother being in the business? This side of the coin takes a lot of WORK. Stay a hobbyist if you’re not ready for all that✌️
Just do it
69th comment. posting this for myself as much as i am others. the only thing in your way from getting where you want to be is yourself. shut up and release your music. don't "hold on" to great songs because you want to perfect them. the perfect song doesn't exist. progress is what you should be after. it is January 17th, 2024 right now. release as much as you can in the next three years and then see what happens. i love you. you got this. get off RUclips and get to work.
yours, now and forever,
the blu adonna
Man i just keep posting and making music i like, it's therapy if ya like it cool if not that's cool too .
Powerful mindset
Thanks for all the nuggets of the game you drop .@@LDreTheGiant
lol I made a couple pirate shanty beats, they actually did well
That’s the name 😂
3:47 what software u use for scheduling?
That is just google calendar. I use the to make up an “ideal week” it’s not my actual schedule but I use it as a guide of how I want my days to go. Still struggling to follow it but it’s been helping
Lofi metal pirate shanty core. New genre?
🔥🔥🔥😂
D.O.T.S
Facts
Just got of my blanket
So I just got diagnosed with adhd and depression yet I love music so much and I can can talk about it 24/7 like literally not stop anyways I struggle to even get up out of of bed unless ofc I need to work but it’s like dude wtf like you either go to work or you get fired but my problem I struggle to pick my guitar or my mpc that I bought maybe like 6 months ago and yea you’ll tell me well it’s just that your lazy but dude I try to do fucking hard and I can’t I hope there is atleast some people that can’t relate but I struggle to much like it made me so mad the other day because I practice on my 12 string for a about and hour a day and he judt said nah it’s cause some people just want it more then you and I was like dude wtf you don’t you you don’t understand like I literally struggle with it and like you can’t tell and talk to me that I’m a bitch and be like nah man just practice and it just doesn’t work but when I feel like it and enjoy it I can definitely l learn it just hard for learn for me I guess I’m a lil slower then most
Manz got harmonic distortion on his video vocals
Pharrell made the Grindin beat
I just assume no one cares so I have nothing to lose
дякую бро за мотивацію, привіт із України ✌🇺🇦
Wait wait wait, 'Yewwttewwb'....Baltimore?
These a human problems not a music problem. Get better at being a dope human. Then watch what happens.
Keep up the hustle brother. I’m going to start posting more on TikTok and insta too. My stuffs in the dumps too but gotta keep going
I wish you nothing but success🙏🏾
Disagree with posting whatever. That puts little pressure on just making something and it can kill the vibe. We are not the slaves of the algorithm...we do this to taste a little bit of freedom, not get stuck in this like a 9 to 5....
I agree with that but the message is more so for people who put too much pressure on deciding what to post while they could just start by posting anything they want
@@LDreTheGiant got it...makes sense. Content is content...
bruh this video could have been 2 minutes long
Maybe
“Nothing matters”- makes a universal truth claim while denying the possibility of universal claims. Love the content but man this is lazy and really self refuting philosophy.
Hey I did preface that part by saying don’t do this it’s just what works for me. The truth is that thinking about how small I am in the world helps ME not overthink as much. Just sharing my own thought process
@@LDreTheGiant I gotcha man. Love your work please keep it up!
For a beginner wanting to make income from music is it better start of trying to grow RUclips channel, post on tiktok and sell something (not sure what?), post on IG and sell (???) struggling to figure out what and how to monetize something just to kickoff... even if it's as low as $1,000 per month to start. Just don't want to waste time figuring things that don't work until I have traction to play and test.
That’s a tough one cause I’d say it takes a long time to start making $1k a month unless maybe you run ads for a product. But if the actual goal is revenue starting a RUclips channel and a product is likely the best move
@@LDreTheGiant Thank you, struggling to wrap my head around content and product, without thinking about throwing stuff at the wall, only cause I want to be serious about replacing my salaried job in the near future. And I know that means I need to be intentional and drastically unique from 680 other producers online who are posting daily with 0 views. Perhaps it will need to be something else infused with music, like meditation or personal development. GAH, so lost... anyways, I love consuming your vids!
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