My many FAILED ATTEMPTS at a MUSIC PRODUCTION CAREER

i've made this video to show you guys that the vast majority of years of time that i put into music just failed miserably i had to try a bunch of different things in order to find the one that fits me and the one that works what's up everyone this is atlanti how are you guys doing so as you can see i'm not in the studio the studio is being renovated right now we had to break down pieces of the wall we're rebuilding it should be really fun but we have to paint we have to change the flooring new furniture coming in i'm going all out this is gonna be crazy but it will take a couple of weeks so i'm upstairs right now this is kind of like my dad's office music room whatever uh today since we can't use the studio i'm gonna take you guys on a little bit of a different journey so the idea for this video is part a couple days ago when i posted a tweet that said every single one of your idols sucked at what they did at some point i think that it's so important to remember that that person started from zero they started that they sucked at what they were doing they learned how to do it and then they tried to apply it they failed multiple times and eventually they found something that worked for them and found their own success whatever that means for that person so for today i wanted to take you guys on a little journey back in time to tell you about some of the elves that i had to take in order to be where i am now let's get into it the first chapter of our story starts around 2008 i was a young 16 year old ed tilenti i was going through high school i hated every second of it and my parents had the brilliant idea of buying me a drum set that was my first introduction to music even though my family has always been kind of musical but personally that was the first instrument that i was mine i put my time into it i dedicated a lot of effort into trying to get better i fell in love with it and i decided that all i wanted to do for the rest of my life was play drums just like every other 16 year old i wanted to be a mega super rock star i wanted to be the biggest drummer in the world i wanted to have a band and tour the world and do all these crazy things so i somehow convinced my parents to send me across the world to go to music school music college in la that was a big decision but they supported me i graduated in 2013 and i have an associate's degree in drums and percussions so at that point my main focus really was to be in a band and i started a band called perceptionist we did a bunch of things we did a music video we did an album played a bunch of shows we started to get a little bit of buzz so for a good year and a half two years that i really thought that perceptions was gonna be just my full-time career it was gonna be the one thing we were starting to make a little bit of money we did a successful kickstarter we did the album we were planning on touring all this great stuff and then the band fell apart so that was the first big l where i was like damn i really thought this was gonna work out it didn't what do i do now and this is where we get into the second chapter of the story which is the session player musician phase so at this point in time i was in l.a i hired my music degree the band thing failed but i accumulated a bunch of experience in studio and like doing shows and stuff like that i wanted to go the drummer route i wanted to play for artists eventually maybe get on like a bigger tour and start like really touring being a session player now i don't know if anybody out there is familiar with this but the session player life in la is brutal there's a lot of competition a lot of auditions like huge auditions like a hundred drummers all competing for the same gig only one guy gets it and there's a lot of just like it's just intense paired down with the fact that there are a ton of music schools so there's a lot of musicians and they're all very very good even with those conditions though i was able to make a living i was able to put together my circle of like working musicians do like weddings and events and parties and things like that and just make enough to like live off of that i wasn't rich i wasn't successful but i still had this dream of kind of like reaching the upper level of like touring and touring like arenas or something someday the reality of it though is that six seven months one year went by and i was still kind of in that middle phase making a living but having a hard time not really seeing any growth so i started going on craigslist this is the beginning of chapter three my composer phase so i hadn't really abandoned the session player thing i was still trying to do it i was still doing my gigs and my studio sessions and i just trying to push on that front but at the same time i was like i need a plan b i need something else that i can at least try to get into and try to like i don't know just find another route because this is not really working i'm not gonna lie this third chapter is one of the darkest ones because i was just feeling so lost and depressed and like i was in my early 20s i had moved all the way to l.a i had abandoned my family to pursue this dream and it wasn't working out and i spent all this money doing this my parents money and then some of mine when i had it it was a really frustrating phase and it was the phase where i got the closest to giving up on music for a couple times there i was like that close to just taking a job at starbucks and just being but i didn't do that and i stuck with the craigslist thing and i still have some of the emails dude they were desperate i was i was reaching out to anybody even like things that i had no business being into like music licensing anything like that i knew nothing about that but i was still trying to apply to every single music job in the la county i just wanted a job so it was a random day just like any other day i went on my craigslist thing i started looking for all the music gigs and i found one that said composer assistant i had applied to a million of these already but i had my email pre-made with like all the links all my things copy paste send i was so used at this point to getting no response to any of my emails like ninety percent of them that i just didn't even expect anything so i kept doing my thing one day two day three days after four days i got an email response back from the one composer assistant job now at this point being on craigslist and everything i didn't know what kind of job it was i didn't even know if it was a company or an individual i knew nothing about this but i was like hell yeah let's do it so it was the day before the interview when i asked the detail about like what time it was because they didn't really specify it that they responded with the official email and i realized that this was a composer's assistant job for a guy called magnus fines now if you look at magnus fines he's a composer he's got his own wikipedia page he's ray finds brother voldemort the actor that plays voldemort he that's his brother he's like a guy with a lot of success behind and he was looking for a composer assistant on craigslist i was very confused by the whole thing but it seemed legit it seemed like it was actually him so i went to the interview i showed up and there he was he opened the door for me that was his house where he has his studio we did the interview it was like really chill he asked about some of my experience he said this was a sort of unpaid job at least at the beginning was kind of like an internship but i was gonna learn everything about the business so i said yes he hired me and i started now if there is one job that truly changed the course of my life that's the one i learned so many things working next to this guy i learned a lot about like music licensing about like making music making cues for like tv shows which is the bulk of what we were doing i learned a lot about like working with artists because he worked with shakira he was the music director for a world tour i learned a lot about just everything things that i had no idea how they worked i didn't make a lot of money with this i was still doing the drummer thing but at the same time it really opened up this old music production music like just making world that i had never really looked into so anyway i kept doing this job for about a year and a half and one day i got an email that brought me into chapter four of the story this was an email coming from a family friend of mine that was opening a music school in my hometown bologna he kind of knew that i was having a hard time in l.a so he just kind of threw it out there if i needed a job they were looking for a drum teacher let's do it let's move to italy let's take a chance try it out take the job and let's see where that takes us and so we did we moved back to italy i got the job as a drum teacher and i was able to sustain myself and my wife pretty comfortably and also i was able to have a lot of free time now thanks to the experience that i had accumulated in la like working for magnus i was able to just kind of like start producing music and i started getting into hip hop and trap and like just producing beats and then just that whole world and that moment right there takes us into chapter five the last chapter we're gonna talk about today and the only chapter that i consider a win real quick before we get into the next chapter of the story there are only like a hundred copies left of the pharaoh cymatic drum sample pack i'm out of breath this is honestly the best sample pack that they've ever put out in my opinion it's huge there are so many sounds it's totally worth the price and there's only a few left available in fact if they're sold out by the time this video is out i'm gonna also leave a couple of their free packs so you guys can just go download them and enjoy them either way actually even if it's still out you can still go down with the free packs and just enjoy those oh yeah this is what the studio looks like now by the way um tomorrow we're gonna start painting and then the day after we're gonna do the flooring and then new furniture is coming and then one day we'll be done all right back to the video so like i said i was working in the afternoon making beats in the morning it was starting to get better and i decided to start posting my stuff online i tried making some youtube videos they failed miserably i tried posting on instagram and it failed miserably and i just kept trying different things i didn't really know what i wanted to do with my music there was one day specifically i got really frustrated the studio looked like and i didn't know where to place the camera to make it look good and i was like you know what i'm here in italy one of the perks of being here is that it's pretty outside i'm gonna go outside shoot the beat outside like make the little video and post it on instagram that post got a little bit of views a little bit of comments on instagram and it just showed me it just gave me hope that that was a path that i could even try to pursue now keep in mind at this point i had a lot of experience behind me a lot of losses but also a lot of things that i had learned i knew a little bit of video editing from my band phase i knew a little bit of photo editing for my band phase i used a little bit of music composition and production from the job as a composer's assistant i knew a little bit of like marketing and self-promotion from when i had to promote my band i had learned all these random skills and this is the point where they kind of all came together if i didn't take all those losses if i didn't go through all those failed chapters i would lack the instruments to do what i was trying to do i've made this video to show you guys that the vast majority of years of time that i put into music just failed miserably i had to try a bunch of different things in order to find the one that fits me and the one that works the moral of the story if there even is one is to keep trying if you try enough things one of them is going to work it just has to all right i hope you guys enjoyed the video if you did don't forget to subscribe about the notification bell hit the thumbs up i hope this video is going to be ready soon so i can go back to just making regular videos but in the meantime let me know if there's anything that you want to see anything that you want to talk about and either way i'll see you guys in the next one peace [Music] you

Channel: EdTalenti

Views: 28,049

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Keywords: ed talenti, edtalenti, failed attempts, music production, career, story, failure, truth, music production career, music career, producer, music, production

Id: 7oBF1AoEc8M

Length: 10min 57sec (657 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 29 2020