So i recently read about half of the Cymatics & Your EDM - The Art of Music Production E book and found a lot of really good tips.
The only thing that bugs me is that nearly every artist they interviewed has the same answer to the question "What is the best thing you have ever done for your music career?"
- Stayed committed for hours, days, months, years.
- Made a move that was for the better.
- Lost my job and/or had enormous pressure to make better music.
How does someone just do these things?
I have dedicated 8 years to mastering my sound and promoted all over the web and irl. At one point I nearly made it, but had to abandon my rise because I ran out of money and was nearly homeless.
I don’t get how someone can say be dedicated, but also don’t care about the money. I have bills, so do most people; do I just live out of my car to eliminate said bills? Then how do I practice and produce other than out of headphones, which sounds doable albeit not ideal.
In my exact situation, I have a car, I have a gf, I have a dog, and I have payments on all of them. My dream is to play the main stages, yet all of the producers interviewed seemed to have lucked out. I work on music daily, I send out emails and demos. There’s nowhere locally I can network (Indiana, USA) with the genre I produce (dubstep and trap rule here,) so I can’t pass along my music or collab with the DJs here. And the icing on the cake is that the DJs here think playing a festival is never going to happen, and that I should be happy I played a few nightclubs and give up.
Sorry for the rant, but reading the book gave me some insight on production, but nothing other than what I’ve been doing or looking into doing on the marketing side. Now i just feel like unless I move and uproot my life now, nothings ever going to happen.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be welcomed and appreciated. Zak
Submitted May 09, 2017 at 04:07PM by djzeuus https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/6a7jpg/getting_out_of_the_studio_and_how_its_done/?utm_source=ifttt