BRO it’s CRAZY that you mention the “12 week year” because in the last month I’ve been planning and preparing for the first 12 weeks of 2024 with a specific strategy for my own content and music. If that a isn’t a sign I don’t know what is 😂🙏
I'm with you 100% on this! Release Radar (and growing followers to benefit from it) is such an underrated tool; particularly when you add in collaboration! If it's a single, you can all pitch and the coverage is even bigger. Good luck with your plans... hmu if you ever want to flip some video game piano 🎹
Honestly the “student of the game” part is the most validating part of the video for me. (Though the part about having many lists crammed with stuff to do is also relatable.) I’ve always been a melody player first and foremost, and wrangling samples and making beats and assembling actual tracks rather than recording standalone performances of melodies has been my goal I’m chipping away at. So to see you discussing the inverse, that you’re confident at assembling tracks but you wanna better express yourself with melodies, has reminded me that we’re always students of something and there’s always something to learn. Sometimes I’ve felt “lagging behind” my peers who learned FL as a teen or whatever, but this part of this video has made me reflect on how many of them say stuff about not knowing hardly any keys/modes and stuff like that. There’s no one right way to learn, but it’s actually helped me view my own musical history as a leg-up rather than narrowly focusing on the parts I’m just learning.
@@LDreTheGiant when I was a kid I thought it was unfair that so many advanced programmes required piano, because I had obtained a pretty high grade on woodwinds and only wind. But over the past few years of delving deeper into theory stuff for my own production (not just playing written music), I learned I really wasn’t taught about chords or bass (and how bass can impact the perception of the chord). Which are all core to the piano experience. Plus the piano covers both staves, and I can see how that helps for composing. That’s one downside to the “classical” type lessons I received (which feels weird to say because there was contemporary stuff in there, but the method was definitely classical) which definitely isn’t a problem in say jazz woodwinds programmes. You gotta know all sorts of chords for arpeggiating and stuff in jazz. But the classical mindset goes “that’s for the composer to worry about, the players just need to follow the music as written” at least at the primary and secondary level I played in. On the other hand, there was a ton of focus on rhythmic reading as well as practicing melodic lines “straight” to see how wrong they sound without various the notated micro-timings. And I notice a lot of pianists struggle with that compared to drummers, whereas of course a wind ensemble _must_ play in sync so that was drilled into me. And I think that’s definitely come in useful, both for avoiding super basic 4/4 stuff as well as feeling confident with not quantising everything. So there’s a definite give and take in terms of what I gained from learning music as a kid and what was actually closed-off from me by the same stuff. I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re more familiar with chord voicings than I am, at least by ear if not by name, for instance. But yeah, ultimately we’re all on our own musical journeys! I’m sure there’s a bunch of theory you’ve internalised but just don’t have the words for yet, and you’ll probably pick it up way faster than someone who hasn’t made tracks before. (Frustratingly, I often get bogged down in compositional decisions rather than just making a basic track haha. So I think having existing practice in just assembling tracks will help you avoid that.)
nic d is one of the smartest artist that i know. love him and his music. i try to watch any and every interview with him because he just spits facts like 100% of the time
Those are some solid ideas. Have you ever thought of creating like a battle. Where you release a beat and anyone from different genres competes to make a song out of it on whatever topic. Whoever gets most voted from your community (which increases engagement), that song would be released. Kinda Like (Connor Price) spin the globe challenge.
Love this bro! and you are 100% right about collabs, Brings out different sides of you and creates dope moments for the audience. When the Jimmy Timmy power hour hit it was the most hyped moment for us as kids and now we get to create those moments for others
I was the most productive I have ever been when I started a 12 week year plan. I honestly should have stuck with it but it was years ago and it took me years to really work on my productivity skills. I am in a very good spot now but you brining that up is getting me thinking about starting that up again. Thanks!
Yep sounds like we on the same page this year. Deep block scheduling and purposeful learning. Cutting time wasters out of my life and unhealthy life styles. Great inspiration vids L ✌️
There's some amazing nuggets in this videos and I appreciate you're ability to keep it real with how and why your pivoting your strategy. I look forward to implementing these things this year. Love the glasses as well! Very low profile and nice.
@@LDreTheGiant no problem! If you don’t mind me asking, what are the brand of glasses you have? I’m literally looking for some new ones to replace the ones I just broke 😂
This is amazing, thank you for this. I'm gonna definitely implement some of these tips into my new year because I want to be more active than last year.
Hey men, nice video. What do you think about make multi music generes in a same Artist profile? I make Indie Rock and this year i want to Go out Electronic music but i dont know... I had to make a new artist profile or not?
Thanks king! I got a lot of value out of this. Advice on learning piano. Get a music theory book and think of it as math using tones. That will speed you up
L Dre can I get to work with your team? I'm working on shorts, I'm getting 1k streams every 24 hours on Amazon music. 24k monthly listeners, didn't pay for promo , all from TH-cam... My music is experimental. I need a team.
Okay, I'll say it. I know that I can write good music. And I want this to bring me income. I also understand that this will not happen right away. That I will release one river and it will immediately gain a million plays. That for this you need to try every day and work every day. But every day I seem to avoid it. I'm doing something different. I surf the Internet and watch videos. I understand that many people have the same problem and not only with music, but in order to start doing something that they really want or need to do. I need to force myself to do this. Because I don’t want to end up working in a useless job all my life and never accomplish anything. This comment is more of a cry from the heart. My inner voice just says what I need to start doing, but it’s not that easy. In any case, thanks to the author for his videos, I always feel a little better after watching them.
a little advice: don’t tell people this stuff. basically tricks your brain into feeling satisfied in a way that is similar to actually doing the things you described. best for your brain is to remain silent about this stuff and dig deep to find the will to take action. promise yourself to work on music for 5 minutes. doesn’t need to be more than that. but do it every day.
Thank you for your advice. my first reaction was - This guy forbids me to talk about my problems?! (rage) You are absolutely right and I understand it, it’s like with dualingo and learning languages. Or do push-ups on the floor. If you can’t do it 100 times at once, start with what you can. You just need to do it and do it. Nobody gives guarantees that something will work out. But at the same time, the possibilities for success are endless.@@floracash
Great video man - I make pop songs into metal by using original song samples, but am I correct that I couldn’t release them on Spotify because they include samples of the original song? Any workarounds?
Thanks for all the advice. Question about remixes. You mentioned doing more remixes. How are you getting permission to do them? That seems really time consuming to contact all of those artists or cartoon companies or whoever own the rights. Or is there some sort of easier way to do that? Steven Universe for example? Or are you just releasing them as covers?
I've pitched more than 35 songs to editorial Playlist consideration but they've not accepted any of them yet. I've been pitching my songs since February 2022 😔
L. DREEEEEEEEEEEE! Peep my channel one day. Also just copped distrokid and put my first mixtape on all platforms thanks to your encouragement. Thank you for the sauce, G
I don't believe this strategy works. There is a guy who literally release a song a week following Russ's advise, since he started all this mess, and he did it religiously for 365 days, and he didn't gain major track nor gain new followers at all. Quality gets you the retention. Quality also gets you more subscribers, shares, likes, comments.
Wish you all the best in the upcoming year bro, I hope the numbers will go all the way up☝❤🔥
Likewise 🤞🏾
@@LDreTheGiant Thanks brother 🔥
BRO it’s CRAZY that you mention the “12 week year” because in the last month I’ve been planning and preparing for the first 12 weeks of 2024 with a specific strategy for my own content and music.
If that a isn’t a sign I don’t know what is 😂🙏
We making 2024 the best year for our music! 🔥🔥
I'm with you 100% on this! Release Radar (and growing followers to benefit from it) is such an underrated tool; particularly when you add in collaboration! If it's a single, you can all pitch and the coverage is even bigger.
Good luck with your plans... hmu if you ever want to flip some video game piano 🎹
I was wondering about this style of release. glad to see you're doing it and that it works. I'll try this out in 2024 and see what happens
such good info bro!! Definitely been wanting to release more of my beats. This helped give me another perspective of how I should release.
Just finished making my first LoFi Project. Thanks for the vids and inspo King.
This is really good information, let's keep improving!!!! Let's Go iii💪🏾👍🏾
Always!
Honestly the “student of the game” part is the most validating part of the video for me. (Though the part about having many lists crammed with stuff to do is also relatable.)
I’ve always been a melody player first and foremost, and wrangling samples and making beats and assembling actual tracks rather than recording standalone performances of melodies has been my goal I’m chipping away at. So to see you discussing the inverse, that you’re confident at assembling tracks but you wanna better express yourself with melodies, has reminded me that we’re always students of something and there’s always something to learn.
Sometimes I’ve felt “lagging behind” my peers who learned FL as a teen or whatever, but this part of this video has made me reflect on how many of them say stuff about not knowing hardly any keys/modes and stuff like that. There’s no one right way to learn, but it’s actually helped me view my own musical history as a leg-up rather than narrowly focusing on the parts I’m just learning.
Truth! In hindsight I really wish I paid more attention in all the music classes I had growing up music theory is essential
@@LDreTheGiant when I was a kid I thought it was unfair that so many advanced programmes required piano, because I had obtained a pretty high grade on woodwinds and only wind.
But over the past few years of delving deeper into theory stuff for my own production (not just playing written music), I learned I really wasn’t taught about chords or bass (and how bass can impact the perception of the chord). Which are all core to the piano experience. Plus the piano covers both staves, and I can see how that helps for composing.
That’s one downside to the “classical” type lessons I received (which feels weird to say because there was contemporary stuff in there, but the method was definitely classical) which definitely isn’t a problem in say jazz woodwinds programmes. You gotta know all sorts of chords for arpeggiating and stuff in jazz. But the classical mindset goes “that’s for the composer to worry about, the players just need to follow the music as written” at least at the primary and secondary level I played in.
On the other hand, there was a ton of focus on rhythmic reading as well as practicing melodic lines “straight” to see how wrong they sound without various the notated micro-timings. And I notice a lot of pianists struggle with that compared to drummers, whereas of course a wind ensemble _must_ play in sync so that was drilled into me. And I think that’s definitely come in useful, both for avoiding super basic 4/4 stuff as well as feeling confident with not quantising everything.
So there’s a definite give and take in terms of what I gained from learning music as a kid and what was actually closed-off from me by the same stuff. I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re more familiar with chord voicings than I am, at least by ear if not by name, for instance.
But yeah, ultimately we’re all on our own musical journeys! I’m sure there’s a bunch of theory you’ve internalised but just don’t have the words for yet, and you’ll probably pick it up way faster than someone who hasn’t made tracks before. (Frustratingly, I often get bogged down in compositional decisions rather than just making a basic track haha. So I think having existing practice in just assembling tracks will help you avoid that.)
Thanks Bro. Consistency is everything. Lets make 24 a great year for all Listeners.
Let’s get it!!!
Love the energy you bring for 2K24 ! Let's gooo !
Inspiring 💪💥 good luck 🤘🤘
Thanks bro!
Thank you bro, I will definitely use these tips, I’m a rapper and would like to use some of your beats just for tik tok and instagram
You've inspired me to release my very first Lofi project man, thank you so much for your amazing work.
nic d is one of the smartest artist that i know. love him and his music. i try to watch any and every interview with him because he just spits facts like 100% of the time
Facts!
let's gooo, 2024 gonna be a great year! good luck everyone, let's flip the switch!
Those are some solid ideas. Have you ever thought of creating like a battle. Where you release a beat and anyone from different genres competes to make a song out of it on whatever topic.
Whoever gets most voted from your community (which increases engagement), that song would be released. Kinda Like (Connor Price) spin the globe challenge.
Yoo that would be sick!!!
That's dope! But where would people have to vote. That reminds me of Kenny Beats "Beat battles"
That would be interesting to see 🤔
I don't think it's possible
Love this bro! and you are 100% right about collabs, Brings out different sides of you and creates dope moments for the audience. When the Jimmy Timmy power hour hit it was the most hyped moment for us as kids and now we get to create those moments for others
YOU DID NOT JUST BRING UP A CORE MEMORY LIKE THAT!! CROSSOVER IF THE CENTURY 😂🔥
Bro said Jimmy Timmy Power Hour 😆
@@FatTonyTheSkippermight be top 5 crossovers in tv history fr though
As an artist who hasn’t “Blown Up” I’m also feeling I need to add to the catalog to attract my audience. Big Ups 2024 !!
Your doing better than so many others, keep going
Love this style or videos, definitely applying some of the things you mentioned to my own life 🙌
Thanks bro!!
Happy New Years ❤❤❤❤
Question: does Release Radar help you get onto Editorial playlists?
Daaamn you seem to have grown so much mentally! Can feel you going big again 😍😍
Thanks for the info L. Dre! Very insightful
I was the most productive I have ever been when I started a 12 week year plan. I honestly should have stuck with it but it was years ago and it took me years to really work on my productivity skills. I am in a very good spot now but you brining that up is getting me thinking about starting that up again. Thanks!
Thank you so much for your videos. I am just starting my journey as a LoFi producer and your videos inspire me to continue on this interesting path
No one puts L.Dre in a box except for L.Dre lol
😂😂
Hes the only one boxing lol
yeah
Thanks for the information L.Dre
so good!!!
You have always motivate me with those videos! Love it
Yep sounds like we on the same page this year. Deep block scheduling and purposeful learning. Cutting time wasters out of my life and unhealthy life styles.
Great inspiration vids L ✌️
There's some amazing nuggets in this videos and I appreciate you're ability to keep it real with how and why your pivoting your strategy. I look forward to implementing these things this year. Love the glasses as well! Very low profile and nice.
I appreciate that!
@@LDreTheGiant no problem! If you don’t mind me asking, what are the brand of glasses you have? I’m literally looking for some new ones to replace the ones I just broke 😂
thanks for this vid man, helped reassure that we're all going thru self-improvement & reflection, definitely going to give the 12 week method a try
The goal is to always be improving 🤞🏾
I'm using your video to study English and music production, thank you today you expanded my horizons🤝
That’s amazing!
Love your honesty and advice. Especially the 12-week year. Good luck with the New Year bro!
Needed this today!! Thanks bro 🙏💫
Make more beats like "L Dee" and "yeah", man, I love those. Happy New Year Dre, God Bless You 🔥
I’m on it!!!
@@LDreTheGiant Cool 🙌
@@LDreTheGiant I'm listening to "Break Time" Right now ❤️😁
L.Dre! Have you had any reflections on this current strat almost 6 months down the track?
I'll have to use that 12 week year
every beat youll release in 2024 i will put in my official playlist "Beats by Humans" on spotify 👍 🔥🚀
You’re awesome 🙏🏾
Do you have some Rock Playlist ? 🤩🤘
then put me on
@@thechillspott-18 im subscribed to your chanel now - chill vibes
This is the best, if you like my beats, you'll love the stuff im dropping on spotify soon
another video yessiiiir!
Happy new year!
This is amazing, thank you for this. I'm gonna definitely implement some of these tips into my new year because I want to be more active than last year.
Thank you for the wisdom ❤
Nahh…bros comeback will be in the books on god🤞🏽
Let’s get it!!
Hey men, nice video. What do you think about make multi music generes in a same Artist profile? I make Indie Rock and this year i want to Go out Electronic music but i dont know... I had to make a new artist profile or not?
Transparency!🙌🏾
Thanks king! I got a lot of value out of this. Advice on learning piano. Get a music theory book and think of it as math using tones. That will speed you up
2024 is gonna be great! Dope video
Dope man. Hope to hear a lot more from you. The lofi remixes def work for you brother.
They're definitely doing good for him I'd think
Great video man. The 12 week year is a bloody excellent idea! I’m adopting that myself.
Good shit homie. Thanks for the game as always.. Would love a full unpack of the 12 week year!
Consistency over anything
😈😈
L Dre can I get to work with your team? I'm working on shorts, I'm getting 1k streams every 24 hours on Amazon music. 24k monthly listeners, didn't pay for promo , all from TH-cam... My music is experimental. I need a team.
Okay, I'll say it. I know that I can write good music. And I want this to bring me income. I also understand that this will not happen right away. That I will release one river and it will immediately gain a million plays. That for this you need to try every day and work every day.
But every day I seem to avoid it. I'm doing something different. I surf the Internet and watch videos. I understand that many people have the same problem and not only with music, but in order to start doing something that they really want or need to do.
I need to force myself to do this. Because I don’t want to end up working in a useless job all my life and never accomplish anything.
This comment is more of a cry from the heart. My inner voice just says what I need to start doing, but it’s not that easy.
In any case, thanks to the author for his videos, I always feel a little better after watching them.
You got this!!!
a little advice: don’t tell people this stuff. basically tricks your brain into feeling satisfied in a way that is similar to actually doing the things you described. best for your brain is to remain silent about this stuff and dig deep to find the will to take action. promise yourself to work on music for 5 minutes. doesn’t need to be more than that. but do it every day.
Thank you for your advice.
my first reaction was
- This guy forbids me to talk about my problems?! (rage)
You are absolutely right and I understand it, it’s like with dualingo and learning languages. Or do push-ups on the floor. If you can’t do it 100 times at once, start with what you can. You just need to do it and do it. Nobody gives guarantees that something will work out. But at the same time, the possibilities for success are endless.@@floracash
Looking forward to the 12-Week Year vid!
Some great advice
Nice content, thank you!
I’m trying to make music this year , seeing this is like Life telling me I’m doing the right thing
You got this!!!
@@LDreTheGiant safe, maybe we can work together one day, lemme send you an email with Uganda as a subject, its where im from.
Just do it
Bro Preaching with that 12 week Plan 💪🏾 I’m on it too bro !!
great video as usual! searching for the 12 week year now
great video bro! do you have any resources for learning piano?
Great video man - I make pop songs into metal by using original song samples, but am I correct that I couldn’t release them on Spotify because they include samples of the original song? Any workarounds?
Hey King! I need to ask, How come you are able to use the melodies of these themes and such for copywritten content?!
My song long time just did 100k in 45 minutes wow thanks for the information bro
Inspiring tips bro, thanks 🫶🏽
respect this vid. the business side definitely takes over when you are full time and you loose creativity, so i started blocking out like you.
Thanks for all the advice. Question about remixes. You mentioned doing more remixes. How are you getting permission to do them? That seems really time consuming to contact all of those artists or cartoon companies or whoever own the rights. Or is there some sort of easier way to do that? Steven Universe for example? Or are you just releasing them as covers?
Day 4 of asking L.Dre to let me rap on one of his Lofi beats
op?!
Love this video, L.Dre! you provide nothing but value here :)
Also, whoever is reading this comment, I wish you success, health, love and happiness 💖
Great info g, thank you! But also, what's the ID on the hoodie lol? Looks criiiiisp
Heather brown essentials hoodie from Abercrombie
Nice! Do a remix of a tune from one my Lofi Classical Piano albums 😉✌
🎉🎉 sounds like my son
I think lonely dance is your best beat 👍
Waiting on that Nic D vid lbs.
do you use marquee on spotify ever? do you think its useful?
It feels like now the Editorials are just based around labels and who knows who rather than good music :(
I've pitched more than 35 songs to editorial Playlist consideration but they've not accepted any of them yet. I've been pitching my songs since February 2022 😔
Don’t stress it took a few years to get on my first one and I only got on it because my song went super viral on TikTok
please, can you make a video on how to make merchandise?
What distributor are you using?
Dope.. Tell Distrokid to pay their artists its been over 2 weeks! Smh
Bro can I purchase with debit card Visa international card??? In Distrokid
Can you help me with bandlab man?? I just realized when i record, my headphones not recording but my phone is?? I don't understand
ok
Do you make packs dwaq
Inde artist here. Id love to collaborate with you.
I also came across the 12 week year recently
We getting new content from the garage fam?!?!?
🤔🤔🤔
Drop the video with Nic D you did!
i trust anyone that uses a lewitt mic
mmm
Let me know if I wanna study keys with a Berklee cat 🐱
L. DREEEEEEEEEEEE!
Peep my channel one day.
Also just copped distrokid and put my first mixtape on all platforms thanks to your encouragement.
Thank you for the sauce, G
I don't believe this strategy works. There is a guy who literally release a song a week following Russ's advise, since he started all this mess, and he did it religiously for 365 days, and he didn't gain major track nor gain new followers at all. Quality gets you the retention. Quality also gets you more subscribers, shares, likes, comments.
What’s your email in case I want to like get a beat or vocals done especially vocals that’s my big problem
Best of luck to you this year🫡🙌🏾
Likewise bro!