Music Habits
The Mental Game of Electronic Music Production: Finish Songs Fast, Beat Procrastination and Find Your Creative Flow
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Zachary Dylan Brown
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Jason Timothy
About this listen
Music production can be an elusive art form for many, and the challenges that face someone who is new to this can easily create overwhelm and lead to complete paralysis. The goal of this book is to cover music production from many different angles in a way that will change your thinking on the subject and build your confidence.
Music making is a very mental and psychological game, and more often than not, all the technical stuff can hold you back from achieving your goals if you don't have the right creative habits in place first.
With all the information available with a simple Google search, I wanted to really get to the heart of things that aren't being discussed nearly enough. I want to clear out all the garbage you may have been told and replace it with the essentials you can put to immediate use. Many people new to music may dive into forums and mindlessly watch video tutorials attempting to gather more and more information until they think they have enough to get going (hint: You never feel like you know enough).
That would be like reading a whole encyclopedia and then being asked to recall only the important things that will get you from point A to point B. Even worse, much of the information you get will contradict the last thing you read. It's like finding a needle in a haystack only to be told it's the wrong needle. There is a much better approach. It's an approach that doesn't require you to know a lot to get started. You only need to know enough to get to the next step in your process.
There is truly nothing stopping you from becoming a music producer. The ones who are successful now are the ones who started from nothing and chipped away at it until they found a way to express their unique voice. There are no gatekeepers making decisions on who is worthy and who isn't. The determining factor is you, your habits, and your confidence in yourself.
This book can be listened from start to finish, or as a “choose your own adventure”, going directly to what you think can help you most right now. Don't get caught up thinking you have to devour everything before getting started. That isn't necessary, and isn't the point of the book.
The core concepts in the book will come up time and time again which should help you retain them and be able to recall them when the need arrives. By exploring these concepts from several angles, you should gain a broad view of their many uses.
My hope is that this book is used as a toolbox. You simply find the right tool that moves you forward and get back to work. So few people, who have more than enough information in their heads, ever start. Of those who do start, even fewer finish what they started and are satisfied with the results. I want you to be in that small group of finishers.
Let's get started.
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- Anonymous User
- 26-01-24
The best book for music producers
This book has the best advice for both new and seasoned music producers. It helps builiding the habit of finishing tracks, which in my opinion is the most important thing for a producer.
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- peter hincks
- 19-05-22
Wow
I wasn’t looking forward to listening to this book as I just got it to use up a credit.
As it turns out - it’s the best book ever - all within the first few minutes.
This has made a huge difference to my approach to recording music. I’m already a lot more productive.
I also like the narration - he swears just the right amount.
Brilliant.
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- Mr. Jean-loup Rebours-smith
- 01-02-22
Excellent advice and not just for electronic music
If you're struggling to find that motivation to start making music, this book is for you. It tells it like it is and it's a refreshing take on the usual self help guides you might find out there.
My only down mark is on the narration which didn't completely work for me but then again it is non fiction...
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- Bicey
- 12-03-21
Very useful and worthwhile
As someone with plenty of creativity but absolutely zero structure and organisation skills I found this really useful and with some real life tips that I will be putting into practice.
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- Mr G
- 28-10-21
Lots of interesting tips and ideas
Lots of interesting tips and ideas for approaching electronic music production. Audio quality was ironically a bit poor but in a way this was in tune with the message to “get it out there” rather than be perfectionist.
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- aaron sandy
- 06-03-21
must buy
really good ebook full of ideas and suggestions. its really helpful and worth the money to invest in yourself if you want to move forward
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- Notmyname
- 28-12-22
Useful hints despite poor execution
Contains some useful tips that will make me more productive and inspired.
Ironically poor production given the subject matter. I bought this with a free credit, but I might be more bothered if I'd paid.
There were several obvious typos that the narrator read verbatim rather than correcting them.
The narration lacked any emphasis. This didn't actually bother me that much except...
Section headings were not emphasised at all. Many had no significant pause before them and some even sounded like part of the previous sentence. This was confusing and impacted comprehension. It seemed to improve as the book progressed or I got used to it.
Glad I read it despite the lack of proof reading, editing and narration quality.
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- Sally-ann dodson
- 28-05-21
A great read, but truly terrible production!
I first read this book a couple of years ago, whilst struggling with with my production skills and found it a real eye opener and an inspiration. UNFORTUNATELY this audio book sounds like it was recorded in a public toilet by Artificial Intelligence, HAL or Marvin the paranoid android! Wooden, boring narration, totally uninspiring and pretty much unlistenable. Such a shame
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