I kept myself from producing for years cause I was scared and almost preemptively disappointed I wouldn't be able to recreate what I heard from my favorite artists, but super happy to say I'm finally going for it. Lots of encouragement from friends and thinking about how it would be more disappointing for me to keep putting off making music
The basic 8 bar loop is where I'm stuck the most. I started college for production which is helping but I don't feel it is focused on electronic music production so I am still finding myself in a funk.
Mmmh I see... If you're stuck on loops, I have a free 8 step guide to take a song from start to finish, maybe try to follow those steps to get out of it ? Otherwise "from start to finish" tutorials on youtube are great for that! Hope it helps!
Well, I am quieted flashed. Your mentality is crazy! You are really incredibly inspiring. I started end of March with FL. Effective I would say I worked with it 2 month. The other months I only did short, short sessions and then played video games out of frustration. And I hate the learning curve. I really hate it. And I am not quite sure, what I really want to produce. I started with some dancehall tracks, because I listen often rap-dancehall tracks. But for some reason I didn't had fun doing it. And now I am trying Trap. I am still not happy with it, but I have the feeling I can learn the most of it with that genre. My main issues are chords. I watched music theory videos, but the thing is I undertood them, but I am not able to implement them into my production. I had to pick always chords vom YT videos or midi melodys. I am really sick of it. Basically I really enjoy the producing stuff, but the successes are always so damn small, that I often really want to give up. But I will try your plan, maybe it will help me. And sorry for the grammar, but I am from Germany, so English is not my native language 😁
I went to a regular academic school...LoL BTW in my case trying to replicate my favorite songs really helped me to learn a lot of things about music production
my tip would appose system one though. Make SURE whatever you learn write it down physically and then practice it for the rest of the day and then through out the weak.
I love that you have sound treatment on your walls, I know not everyone can treat or afford to treat their room, but I find it odd that some creators have thousands in gear, trying to tell me how to eq a vocal - when the room has more echos then a canyon 😂😂
Hahaha you have NO idea for how long before I wanted to do it....! Unfortunately, not having the money to treat the room doesnt mean they dont know how to EQ ;) But yeah... Im happy I got that sorted 😍
your progress is amazing in such a short amount of time! literally wow! I've been producing for a couple of years( not consistently, unfortunately) but my music still sounds amateurish lol but thank you for sharing your process :) now practice, practice, practice!
Wow thank you for your message, it put a smile on my face today 😃 If you are just consistent with it you'll get the same progress as me or even more!!! Good luck you can do it!
@@musicbyplv yes that's the goal to be consistent i had purchased your 1-year roadmap because again your progress is amazing..sometimes have to restart at the beginning and enjoy the process.
I find that my biggest hurdle is that I’m bad with mixing and because my mixing doesn’t sound good it makes me lose motivation. even after practice for 4 years. Mixing had always been my weakness
Just started watching your content excellent advice, and I don't feel like you're beating me up for the mistakes I could be making while producing lol thanks.
It's hard to say nowadays whether music school (or any other kind of music education) is relevant nowadays for the producers. I am leaning to say that it is more of an important thing, than non-important, but it strongly depends. I went to music school as a kid, then to a music high school (11-12 grades), later - jazz bachelor and now I'm about to graduate Master's programme "The performance of contemporary and improvisational music". My instrument is sax, but only recently, just 1,5 years ago I started producing. Aaaaaaaaaand would I be able to produce music the same way if I didn't have that type of education? I think not. I'd have to spend the same amount of time learning music if I hypothetically chose to only do producing without getting a degree. Interestingly enough, I only realised, that all music is actually about MUSIC when I started to study contemporary and improvisational music (you might not like those aesthetics, but I STRONGLY recommend giving it a shot, as it opens your mind DRAMATICALLY. Also, people studying it are the most open-minded people I've ever met in the music world). When I was studying jazz it was all about jazz. I see classical musicians studying classical and it's all about classical for them. But not about music. For producers - often times it's about the "plays" or "hooks" or "sales", but not about the music itself. I see many interesting people producing completely generic stuff. I know a guy from my hometown with whom we exchanged ideas a couple of times and he was like "dude, but I want people to want to listen to my music, you know" and continued creating the type of beats that at best could make it to the "best chill tropical northern lights ez generic-hop" type of compilation on youtube, where, let's be real, listeners don't really care neither about the producer, nor about the creation, usually it's just a background music. And the given dude isn't able to tell a dominant chord from other chords. But that's just technicality and a matter of methods, you can learn that, that's what this video is about anyway, I think. However, what most of the people don't realise, is that together with that theoretical educational stuff comes other stuff - musicality, authenticity, creativity and taste. And exactly those aspects are the ones that many people without music education are lacking. Also, interesting thing - you never know when you lack them. I might be lacking them, you might be lacking them, but something inside you just tells you - something's missing. So focus on those things, you can always learn technicalities later. Like, turn on Ravel's "Bolero" and tell me in the comment section - why and how does this piece function? What's the key musical element, that is so crucial, that you cannot change it, cannot throw it away, while you COULD get rid of other elements of this piece and the essence would remain unchanged? Thank you if you made it this far, I appreciate that, really. It also means that the 30 min of my time I spent on sharing those thoughts of mine aren't gonna get lost in the void of the comment section and maybe someone will think about them.
I think the best way and fastest way to learn something is by reading books and doing it. There are a lot of good books about music production, and they are way better than any TH-cam tutorial video or any Udemy course. People need to give more attention to reading.
@@itsarqum8086 1. Hewitt Music Theory for Computer Musicians 2. Hewitt Harmony for computer musicians 3. Hewitt Composition for Computer Musicians. 4. David Gibson The Art of Mixing 5. Bobby Owsinski The Mixing Engineer's Handbook 6. Bob Katz Mastering Audio 7. Donald S.Passman All You Need to Know About the Music Business. I think if you finish them all, they put you in a good place but If you say I'm a music theory nerd I can recommend more books about Jazz Theory, Tonal Harmony, Modal Harmony, or more mixing, and mastering books.
Thank you Melissa! Actually no I don't have such video yet, it's an interesting one! I don't really have too much to be honest except a couple years of guitar lesson when I was a teenager and 2 years of music theory/choir when I was 6 😂
Producing music has never been easier. Just grab some sample packs and puzzle your shit together, watch some yt vids, get into synthesis if you'd like. There are plenty tutorials for everything. Shit is easy!
I was looking for a roadmap, in which there is detail explaining of day to day work to be done to achieve the Goal and l found your video but I am from India and would not be able to make money transactions possible , so if you could help then It would be great…..
Oh it really depends as I spend a lot of time towards creating content for YT and IG 😅 But I'd say a good 5 hours consistently, sometimes more, sometimes less
I kept myself from producing for years cause I was scared and almost preemptively disappointed I wouldn't be able to recreate what I heard from my favorite artists, but super happy to say I'm finally going for it. Lots of encouragement from friends and thinking about how it would be more disappointing for me to keep putting off making music
That's the spirit!!! Congratulations for not giving up, you got this!!! 🔥
The basic 8 bar loop is where I'm stuck the most. I started college for production which is helping but I don't feel it is focused on electronic music production so I am still finding myself in a funk.
i want to go to college for music to
Mmmh I see... If you're stuck on loops, I have a free 8 step guide to take a song from start to finish, maybe try to follow those steps to get out of it ? Otherwise "from start to finish" tutorials on youtube are great for that! Hope it helps!
Well, I am quieted flashed. Your mentality is crazy!
You are really incredibly inspiring.
I started end of March with FL. Effective I would say I worked with it 2 month. The other months I only did short, short sessions and then played video games out of frustration. And I hate the learning curve. I really hate it. And I am not quite sure, what I really want to produce. I started with some dancehall tracks, because I listen often rap-dancehall tracks. But for some reason I didn't had fun doing it.
And now I am trying Trap. I am still not happy with it, but I have the feeling I can learn the most of it with that genre.
My main issues are chords. I watched music theory videos, but the thing is I undertood them, but I am not able to implement them into my production. I had to pick always chords vom YT videos or midi melodys. I am really sick of it. Basically I really enjoy the producing stuff, but the successes are always so damn small, that I often really want to give up.
But I will try your plan, maybe it will help me.
And sorry for the grammar, but I am from Germany, so English is not my native language 😁
I went to a regular academic school...LoL
BTW in my case trying to replicate my favorite songs really helped me to learn a lot of things about music production
Yes that's a great one actually!! You learn from the best :)
As an old man I’m following my dream too make music. You gave this old dog some much needed inspiration. Ty
I'm so happy to hear this, you're welcome 🤗✨
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my tip would appose system one though. Make SURE whatever you learn write it down physically and then practice it for the rest of the day and then through out the weak.
I love that you have sound treatment on your walls, I know not everyone can treat or afford to treat their room, but I find it odd that some creators have thousands in gear, trying to tell me how to eq a vocal - when the room has more echos then a canyon 😂😂
Hahaha you have NO idea for how long before I wanted to do it....! Unfortunately, not having the money to treat the room doesnt mean they dont know how to EQ ;) But yeah... Im happy I got that sorted 😍
your progress is amazing in such a short amount of time! literally wow! I've been producing for a couple of years( not consistently, unfortunately) but my music still sounds amateurish lol but thank you for sharing your process :) now practice, practice, practice!
Wow thank you for your message, it put a smile on my face today 😃 If you are just consistent with it you'll get the same progress as me or even more!!! Good luck you can do it!
@@musicbyplv yes that's the goal to be consistent i had purchased your 1-year roadmap because again your progress is amazing..sometimes have to restart at the beginning and enjoy the process.
im doing the exact same route as you id say im above average now but still so much to learn good video
Never stop learning haha you got this!! 🔥
Love your videos and your music
Aww thank you so much 😊 🧡 Will release more veeery soon!!!
wow, very cool video, thanks for important information! ❤
Of course, you're welcome! :D 🧡
I find that my biggest hurdle is that I’m bad with mixing and because my mixing doesn’t sound good it makes me lose motivation. even after practice for 4 years. Mixing had always been my weakness
Just started watching your content excellent advice, and I don't feel like you're beating me up for the mistakes I could be making while producing lol thanks.
Taking Notes!!!
Good call! :)
I think you’re awesome young lady. And I’m definitely going to be getting your 1 year ROAD MAP. Thank you
Thank you so much!!! That's a smart decision, I hope you enjoy it as much as everyone else :)
Really helpful for beginners 👍
Nice to hear, that was the goal!! 🔥
It's hard to say nowadays whether music school (or any other kind of music education) is relevant nowadays for the producers. I am leaning to say that it is more of an important thing, than non-important, but it strongly depends. I went to music school as a kid, then to a music high school (11-12 grades), later - jazz bachelor and now I'm about to graduate Master's programme "The performance of contemporary and improvisational music". My instrument is sax, but only recently, just 1,5 years ago I started producing. Aaaaaaaaaand would I be able to produce music the same way if I didn't have that type of education? I think not. I'd have to spend the same amount of time learning music if I hypothetically chose to only do producing without getting a degree. Interestingly enough, I only realised, that all music is actually about MUSIC when I started to study contemporary and improvisational music (you might not like those aesthetics, but I STRONGLY recommend giving it a shot, as it opens your mind DRAMATICALLY. Also, people studying it are the most open-minded people I've ever met in the music world). When I was studying jazz it was all about jazz. I see classical musicians studying classical and it's all about classical for them. But not about music.
For producers - often times it's about the "plays" or "hooks" or "sales", but not about the music itself. I see many interesting people producing completely generic stuff. I know a guy from my hometown with whom we exchanged ideas a couple of times and he was like "dude, but I want people to want to listen to my music, you know" and continued creating the type of beats that at best could make it to the "best chill tropical northern lights ez generic-hop" type of compilation on youtube, where, let's be real, listeners don't really care neither about the producer, nor about the creation, usually it's just a background music. And the given dude isn't able to tell a dominant chord from other chords. But that's just technicality and a matter of methods, you can learn that, that's what this video is about anyway, I think. However, what most of the people don't realise, is that together with that theoretical educational stuff comes other stuff - musicality, authenticity, creativity and taste. And exactly those aspects are the ones that many people without music education are lacking. Also, interesting thing - you never know when you lack them. I might be lacking them, you might be lacking them, but something inside you just tells you - something's missing. So focus on those things, you can always learn technicalities later. Like, turn on Ravel's "Bolero" and tell me in the comment section - why and how does this piece function? What's the key musical element, that is so crucial, that you cannot change it, cannot throw it away, while you COULD get rid of other elements of this piece and the essence would remain unchanged?
Thank you if you made it this far, I appreciate that, really. It also means that the 30 min of my time I spent on sharing those thoughts of mine aren't gonna get lost in the void of the comment section and maybe someone will think about them.
Your doing a wonderful job ✌️🎶
Thank you so much 😊
I think the best way and fastest way to learn something is by reading books and doing it. There are a lot of good books about music production, and they are way better than any TH-cam tutorial video or any Udemy course. People need to give more attention to reading.
Yeah books are really good too but they won't make you practice so time in the daw is also priceless :)
Book suggestions please!
@@itsarqum8086 1. Hewitt Music Theory for Computer Musicians 2. Hewitt Harmony for computer musicians 3. Hewitt Composition for Computer Musicians. 4. David Gibson The Art of Mixing 5. Bobby Owsinski The Mixing Engineer's Handbook 6. Bob Katz Mastering Audio 7. Donald S.Passman All You Need to Know About the Music Business. I think if you finish them all, they put you in a good place but If you say I'm a music theory nerd I can recommend more books about Jazz Theory, Tonal Harmony, Modal Harmony, or more mixing, and mastering books.
These are some really great ideas on how to improve, thank you PLV!
Glad you like them! ❤️
Thanks for all the motivation and good advice !
PS : tbh the cyberpunk song doesn't sound that awful ^^
You're welcome!! Hahaha thanks 😅
You are amazing 👏
Thank you so much 😀
Great video 👍, and yes we just through forward by practice and practice
Yeah that's the only way, there's no cheat ;)
Awesome info! Thank you.
You're welcome :D
What the hell? The Cyberpunk track was rad, I liked the melody and it would fit in the game or the anime.
Haha it’s funny this track just popped back in my head a couple days ago and I was thinking I should finish it or make a video with it 😅
Good stuff.
Glad you liked it :)
@@musicbyplv 😎
AMAZING ( As always )
Thank you! 🔥
Great video! Wondering if you have any videos talking about your prior musical knowledge/background?
Thank you Melissa! Actually no I don't have such video yet, it's an interesting one! I don't really have too much to be honest except a couple years of guitar lesson when I was a teenager and 2 years of music theory/choir when I was 6 😂
I m interest your videos😊
Been wanting to make my music what are the software programs you use.
I use Logic Pro! Im sure you can, just get started :) Happy to help if you need !
which music production discord do you recommend?
Producing music has never been easier. Just grab some sample packs and puzzle your shit together, watch some yt vids, get into synthesis if you'd like. There are plenty tutorials for everything. Shit is easy!
I was looking for a roadmap, in which there is detail explaining of day to day work to be done to achieve the Goal and l found your video but I am from India and would not be able to make money transactions possible , so if you could help then It would be great…..
Oh yes that's because there is another store for people located in India, there you go :)
musicbyplv.gumroad.com/l/aadqw
Hi PLV, how Much time per week Do you dedicate to learn and/or produce ?
Oh it really depends as I spend a lot of time towards creating content for YT and IG 😅 But I'd say a good 5 hours consistently, sometimes more, sometimes less
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