Learn to Produce Music 10X FASTER... (no one does these)

Truth!

Diligence official here couldn't agree more thanks for sharing 💯

a lot of good tips in here

#2. is a direct call out for me, and you're absolutely right! I always watch tons of videos about songwriting and music theory, but i tend to not always apply them, and just "try " to store them in my memory and hopefully access them when i'm writing something next. I should stop watching these videos late nights because everyone else is asleep, but i'm always way to active that time haha.

One of the absolute best things that kicked my production chops up a notch (aside from getting feedback) was to do the Arrangement Exercise (basically active listening, but you create a template in your DAW out of the track). Take a track you like or find interesting, put it in the DAW, tempo sync, then start marking places, intro, build, drop, break, verse, chorus, etc. Then keep going through it and concentrate on one element at a time, make channels for all the sounds you hear and make MIDI clips (could even write in the notes) for all the elements, hats, kick, snare, percussion, cymbals, bass, lead, piano, synth, bass 2, bass 3, etc. Then when you're done you have a template you can fill in with your own compositions.

it took a while to learn ADSR, pitch, song construction and i've been doing with eq many times, what i could have done with a multi-band compressor and with better results. i''m just really getting there to the next step in mixing-- learned subtractive eq and i know how to use the compressor now, i'm just starting to apply it in practice recently. i understand the reverb, it think reverb is very simple to get if you just play with it. Everything else is effects, panning and automation and bus compression after that right? stage gaining is what i completely ignore btw

Look a Nathan. Such a hard working producer.

this is soooo boring

What if I'm on a exactly genre

Thanks for the "Quantity over quality" tip. It's not an obvious thing but it actually helped me a lot

Your video title says “learn to produce music 10x faster” but in the first few seconds of the video you say it will teach viewers to “learn, 10x faster, how to produce music.” You are abusive for lying/not speaking English properly.

Hi Nathan, I always wanted to learn music production. I took a big step today, by purchasing your course (1st installment). I have done piano grade intermediate level earlier. And I have been
writing and imagining music and songs for almost all life. Trust you bro.
Hope I will not be disappointed.

Good job Bro , thank youuu !

Now I am going to watch more of your videos

The photography one resonates with me as someone who has done photography.
If you go out and take a single photo - what if that photo doesnt work out the way you wanted because of settings, angle, lighting etc?
Take multiple and then select the few that are good to edit.
Because of external factors like lighting, camera settings, focus etc, having 10 photos of the same subject is a whole world better than having 1.
Just from a probability standpoint the chances that your 10 photos all have issues that cant be fixed is a lot lower than the single photo.

There's also that creativity is born of boredom. Nuance is in the weeds of normality.
If you take 1 photo of a subject you will have captured one simple, direct image of the subject.
If you take 10 you'll have different angles, perspectives, manipulations of that subject that are far more interesting.
A picture of a tree flat on is boring. A picture of a tree leading up the sky more interesting. A fish eyed picture of a tree aiming up at the sky more interesting still. A picture of tree, with a path leading to the tree in a fish eye angle where the sky curves around the top of the tree even more interesting still.

The same can be said for any creative pursuit.

My first song didnt have any bass. So my next one did.
My next song was muddy, so i added more high notes to contrast.
That song didnt have enough dynamics, so i messed around with adding harmonies and doubled vocals/leads.
Something still felt off so i revisited the structure of the song to get a better understanding of how it should lay out.
Now I need to work on balancing the audio levels so the parts i want to sit forward do and the parts that sit back do, with changing dynamics based on elements of the song like a drop or a crescendo.

I Respect your Honesty. That's what I want to Hear💯❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥🎶

I've been trying to produce music for like 2 years, and i always was getting stuck on demos because i felt like it doesn't sound professional enough so i kept messing with the effects and plugins instead of just writing notes and somewhat structured tracks. I really needed someone experienced to tell me that i don't need to make my first songs very professional, and you just did. Now i'll be confident leaving a project if i can't make it sound better with my knowledge and move to the next one, or just make not so perfect melodies and sounds for just learning purpose.
I really like how you went honest with this and i can see you are. I'll give you a sub for now. Thank you for these tips.

I accidentally stumbled into this video and my god, this was actually a wake up call 😅👌Thank you very much for your advice!

This the realest music production videos ive watched so far

Dude you have so many rules and thoughts you’re just gonna be musically constipated

I taught myself -if you have a good ear you don't need to read music.i found it easy on my 8 trak

thank you very much❤

Sick❤

I don't agree with quantity

BECAUSE
One quality track can bring an award
BUT
19 Non quality tracks can't

Quality takes time
It's Less expensive
But higher returns

Dude you are smart ! I love your videos. I totally agree with you about the first thing you said right away. Quantity versus quality at first.👍👍👍good advice

thanks man

Thank you ma. Its helpful.

Great tips. I'm actually doing all of these things now (literally all 5) and I've probably improved more in the last month than I did in the year before that.

The more music you make the more you will get better. The only way to get actually good is to practice.

Well a photo is taken in 1 second whereas finishing a track takes hours, days or weeks

THIS PART 🔥‼ 100%

Fantastic info. I’m going to watch all your vids now!

Your honesty actually got me subscribing to your channel ❤

spitting facts

How much are production classes? irl. I wanna take private lessons but not sure how much the average price is… or is there group lessons?

Your advice is always so useful! Thank God for putting you on this planet. 🎁

where can I get a studio desk like that ?

i did animation once and some kind of drawing illustrating stuff, and what Nathan said about take a look to how babies learn speaking is accurately on point about how to do visuals art faster!

imitating is one of a biggest part of practicing

The irony is, folks, he has no background music for this video lol

you are a beautiful man

Protip: Use Moises AI to split all tracks of a song, import it all into your DAW and try recreating it, track by track. You can instead use the tracks as a template for creating your own song. Use the song's structure to create your on top of it, pay attention to the way each element relates to the song as a whole, pay attention to the effects and so on.

I needed this. I have the framework for an album worth of tracks that mean a lot to me, but I'm not ready to release them yet/can't even finish them because I need to put in the time to make a lot of crap before I can be too precious about things.

Thank you so much

I found a person who can be my "master" but He uses Ableton Live to produce his songs, I saw that you teach using Logic Pro would that be a problem?

Great advice!

I love that active listening tip!! One thing that has helped me a lot this year was not just using reference mixes, but coming to understand what those references were doing in the different freq bands by isolating them, and then applying those arrangement/balances in the professional mixes to my own mixes. It's weird how just isolating one section of the freq band can really open your ears to mistakes in your own mix!

I just don’t know what I need to learn or what I need. I have amazing lyrics and talent but they are just words on a page. I simply want to make my creations come to life & telling me to just do it doesn’t help if I can’t see the starting line.

Lots of great advice for someone who has just started! Thanks