There's something I realized recently that has been bothering me. For background, I started off producing music when I was 11 or 12 because my dad had a copy of fl studio. This was 6-7 years ago now, and I would say I became fairly proficient with the program after a few years. I learned a little more slowly being so young, but I watched tons of tutorials, read about the software, studied other peoples music, etc. At some point since then I stopped doing this. It's not that I considered myself above learning new things, but I thought that I had transitioned from needing to learn about the program itself to learning about composition and writing. I struggled to progress for a while and became unmotivated and unhappy with what I was producing. Only recently I took the plunge back into watching tutorials, and have been incredibly happy with the results. Each video I watch I pick something up about my software, or about certain techniques, and find myself using those techniques immediately in the music I'm creating. This is not to discount the importance of music theory, understanding songwriting, or any of that, but getting out of the mindset that I was somehow beyond things like video tutorials was very helpful. I would also add that getting into that sort of mindset in the first place happens over time, and you might not notice it. Even if you're capable of creating professional sounding tracks, I would suggest being aware of how much you can still learn, even from the most basic of tutorials.
Submitted January 20, 2017 at 08:40PM by morecake3 https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5p7h0f/recently_ive_realized_something_about_myself_and/?utm_source=ifttt