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He says
"Oh yeah. That sounds like a lot of work. Making music is a lot of work. Cry me a river."
I'm definitely not going to argue that statement. But there are people like me who bust their asses trying to make their music sound better. I'm not a closeminded person and understood 90% of that blog before I even read it.
The problem is I have no frame of reference for ANYTHING. I've never met a competent producer in my life, not a lot of people in my area even really like trance, and when you have to learn everything on your own you wind up wasting too many valuable hours learning nothing. Going through youtube it seems 95% of the shit on there is utter garbage. I just got done watching a "professional mastering video" that said to throw soundgoodizer on your master. That was the ENTIRE video.
I have to stream through endless heaps of garbage just to find 1 jewel. It seems logical in one respect but it doesn't seem right when you look at the bigger picture.
I found an article on here a few days ago about layering bass sounds and it was EXACTLY what I was looking for. In depth, concise, comprehensible, and to the point. I found another article I think beatflux posted about "hit factors" or w/e. ANOTHER great read. But I NEVER find these articles searching the internet on my own. I dont even find these articles in the master tut list. I find endless hours of video that don't apply to me. And you have to watch the entire video before you realize it was a complete waste of time.
And I don't even think its about a certain blog or tut being relevant to a select group of producers, it seems that theres just sooo much information out there thats outright irrelevant no matter what group you fit into. Whether your a newbie or vet, the tuts have no SUBSTANCE to offer.
I've learned everything I know by tuts, time, and practice. The better tuts that I can find, the better I can practice, and the quicker I can learn. But because the internet is full of SO MUCH garbage, it feels like I have to learn at a slower rate simply due to the amount of morons out there. Like how is a tut about layering basses not relevant to everyone? There was pieces of information in that tut that could be used by almost everyone because it had a certain frequency of useful information. I just feel a lot of my problem is not finding information, but finding quality information.
Like that blog was good, I understood what he was saying. But its still at the end of the day a waste of a read. He merely provided examples in an almost freestyle fashion.
Focus on melodies more
Focus on rythm more
Focus on harmony more
really? NO SHIT. What the hell does this guy think I do all day? Are producers REALLY that bad... or is he just blowing it out of proportion and providing no real useful information himself?
That entire blog could have been written in 2 words. "Be creative". He really didn't provide one original way to do it. Like please, "alternate between shuffle and straight" "vary syncopation" like does anyone NOT try that in their first year of production?
And the funny thing is I myself don't know shit about music, but I know enough to realize that so much information out there is just useless. And THAT is truely sad.
Great I'll go do something spectacular now cause I'll focus on preproduction.
I already focus on enough, the last thing I need is more shit to focus on. I need to sit down with Aly & Fila for one day and just watch them make a track. Its funny that I can prob spend about 3 years reading tuts and still not learn as much from one day with a competent producer. Thats what pisses me off the most about music, is I always feel like I'm on my own and don't have a quick enough way to get the answers I want.
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