3 Myths that NEW Producers Believe (But Shouldn't)

I still remember the very first beat that I ever made at the time didn't really know what I was doing I was working on a pretty mediocre computer the speakers that I was using they weren't all that great I barely knew how to use FL Studio but nonetheless I was able to put a bunch of sounds together and I made what sounded like a beat but I didn't really know whether the beat was good or bad I remember at the time the alchemist who's my favorite producer of all time on his website he sort of had this form section where he could go on and post your beats and there are other producers in there and sort of give you feedback on whether the beat was good or not and I remember I posted my beat up and I sort of left this little message saying you know this is my very first beat don't really know what I'm doing I have a pretty awful computer that it made this on the speakers that I use it are pretty bad but let me know what you think now I've seen the back of my mind I'm hoping everyone's gonna be like wow this is such an amazing beat I can't believe this is your first beat every obviously a prodigy you're amazing but what actually happened was the opposite I remember this one person by the name of Vanderslice who's a producer that still makes beats to this day he says something along the lines of no one cares whether your computer is good or bad no one cares whether your speakers are awful all they care about is whether the beat is good or not and this beat that you got here it's not good and at the time obviously that's sucked or II didn't feel good but nonetheless I'm still glad to this day that he actually said that because I really helped me understand this first concept that I want to talk about and this is the idea of the gap this is an idea that I first came across from this guy named IR glass the idea is that when you first start out most likely it was an amazing song that you heard or maybe you look up to a really prominent producer and you think yourself I want to make something as great as that and so when you start out you had this idea in your head that you're gonna make something as amazing as your favorite producer all the way up here but most likely when you start you're actually gonna be all the way down here you're not gonna be able to make something nearly as great the distance between where you are and where you want to be that's called the gap and how you're gonna be able to deal with the gap is gonna be really important some people they're gonna be able to look at their music and think to themselves you know what my musics not all that great it's not at the level that I want it to be but if I actually just a work hard at it if I try my best to learn and try new things and experiment with my music slowly day by day I'll be able to get as good as my favorite producer is to me that's the right way of thinking about it and really that's the only way you have a chance at succeeding at this thing but there's gonna be other people that try to explain this gap an entirely different way they're gonna try to convince themselves that well they're actually already a great producer but the reason why their music doesn't sound as good is for a number of reasons my favorite producer they have expensive and fancy plugins that I don't have so you know what maybe if I go out and buy some of those plugins my musics gonna sound just as good as theirs my favorite producers they have access to these mixing engineers that take their music and just make it sound so much better and so if I go ahead and pay for the exact same mixing and mastering well my musics gonna be just as good as theirs my favorite producer they have an amazing computer and these amazing speakers and that's how they're able to make their music so much better than mine which is exactly what I said at the beginning now what's gonna happen is that first producer that I talked about they're actually gonna improve they are willing to accept that they're not all that good right now but they're gonna be able to do the hard work and try their best to improve every single day and they are gonna get better but that second producer their musics not gonna improve and why would it they already believe that they're good the only reason why their music doesn't sound as good is because all of these artificial impediments that they're gonna try to buy their way out of they think that they can close the gap by just paying for new hardware buying new sense and I think that's gonna improve their music but that's just not true the only way you'll be able to improve your music long-term is by practicing every day trying to learn new things and experimenting now see I don't really blame the people I choose to believe it's just because it's a really tough pill to swallow what you need to do is just really look at your own music and accept responsibility and say you know what my musics not all that good and that's a hard thing to come to terms with it's much easier to believe a myth or a fairy tale that you can just pay your way to quality and that's the way you're gonna improve but that's just not the way it works so if you find yourself believing in this myth what you really need to do is accept reality and really come to terms with the idea that your musics not all that great right now but that doesn't mean it's gonna be at the exact same level for ever if you work hard at it and you improve every single day eventually you'll be able to make music as good as your favorite producer the second thing that I want to talk about is the idea that you are not special it's just something that I come across a lot I hear producers say things like well I only make music when I feel inspired when I feel excited or they say things like well I make the best music at nighttime so I only work Fridays and Saturdays that's the only time I can stay up that late or they'll say things like well I only make good beats when it's a full moon out so I only work once a month so let's doing a little bit of a thought experiment here let me know the comments section below if this has ever happened to you so you're feeling super inspired you feel really excited you can't wait to get home from school or work or wherever you are eventually you get home you open up your da you start making a beat you've been working on it for four or five hours and it just sounds amazing you're just super inspired you're really in the zone you have the beat on loop and it just sounds completely amazing you think to yourself I have arrived I am the greatest beat maker of all time so you finish the beat you go to sleep you wake up the next day you play it back just because you are so excited to hear what you made and you're wondering where did that amazing beat go because the thing that I'm listening to right now it's a piece of trash and so right then and there right in front of us we have direct evidence that the amount that were inspired how excited we are has no correlation with the Equality of music that were able to make because well we were super inspired at the very beginning and yet we're still able to make a real piece of junk so how do you know the opposite isn't true because for me there's plenty of times I just feel like sitting on this couch and not actually working but nonetheless I forced myself to get up sit on my computer and actually get to work and so I'll be going through samples I'll be going through sounds different presets not really feeling all that engaged but all of a sudden I'll hit that one key or find that one right sample and all of a sudden I'm super excited about this beat and I feel great about it and I'm making an amazing beat and this is really important the stories that you tell yourself to avoid working and let yourself off the hook they're gonna be really detrimental to you once again this is your mind playing tricks on you because you've gone through the experience where you feel super inspired and super excited and you still ended up making a piece of junk and that's a painful experience to go through after you go through this enough times and you have enough negative experiences what's eventually gonna happen is your brain is gonna start telling you a story to help you avoid actually getting to work and do the hard thing of trying to make a beat just because in the past you've had so many negative experiences that maybe it's not a good idea to put yourself through that again there's this book by this guy named Steven Pressfield called the war of art it's just a book that I randomly came across when I was young and I'm super thankful that I did so if you're someone that struggles with the idea of motivation actually get to work I'd really recommend reading this book because the people are actually able to get to work no matter how they feel they're the ones they're gonna actually be able to improve a lot quicker and actually succeed as you guys know you have to get through the bad ideas to get to the good ones so if you're someone that's able to work you're gonna be able to cycle through those bad ideas a lot more quick whereas if you're one of those people I just wait for inspiration to come by before you get to work things are just gonna move a lot slower for you and finally the last myth that I want to talk about this is something that I'm definitely guilty of and it's the idea that your art will not speak for itself for me I've been making beats for more than ten years now it's only recently that I started a YouTube channel this channel is only like a year old right now I have like pretty much no activity on any of the other social media platforms and the reason why is because I chose to believe a lot of these ideas that people tell you like if you build it they will come if your quality is good enough people are gonna be knocking at your door wanting to work with you that's just not true eventually I was able to understand what my mind was doing and this is something that said your running theme in this video just the different ways that your mind will have you believing things that just aren't true what I was able to understand eventually is that my mind was just trying to protect me from a negative experience because it's a really scary thing to go online and post your work and ask someone hey what do you think of this because there is a chance that they'll come back to you and say you know what I don't really like this I don't like the way this sounds this doesn't really sound good to me I don't want to hear it anymore and this is a tough experience to go through so your mind is gonna do what it can to protect you and have you believe things that are just gonna prevent you from going through these types of experiences so what you might end up doing is posting your beats on YouTube not really being proactive and reaching out to people you turn off the comments section because someone says something mean to you once but honestly going through these negative experiences are really important not everyone's gonna like your music but the sooner that you put your stuff out there and really push yourself forward into the world the sooner you'll find the people that actually do like what you do and so going through these negative experiences and really understanding that rejection and failure it's not the end of the world everyone goes through it there isn't a single artist that succeeded that hasn't failed before it's just part of the game so the sooner that you put yourself through these negative experiences and you realize they're not a big deal and you're able to power through them the better off you'll be hopefully you guys have found this video helpful let me know in the comments section below if any of these myths sound familiar to you really everyone goes through them like subscribe all that good stuff and I'll see you guys next time

Channel: Navie D

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Keywords: things i wish i knew, beatmaking advice, beatmaking tips, how to make a beat, beat tutorial, beginner beatmaker, beatmaking myths, navie d, fl studio, fl studio things to know, music production things you never do

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Length: 8min 46sec (526 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 09 2020