How can i progress fast in music production?

[DJ Warmonger]

Make music everyday

This.

Learn something new (books, tutorials), then practice. Don't expect your first track to be a success. Do what you can, finish it and start another one.

I'd recommend not even attempt to make a full track until you are sure you will finish it.

[Zexila]

I found some useful sources like trancemusicmastery.com , where can i find more sources like that ? I use FL Studio 12. How can I progress faster ?

Stick to them (trancemusicmastery.com) for all around trance learning source and than look for specifics if there's a need (for example some techniques or effects), my advice is to learn FL better, so find some good in depth tutorial, that's really rewarding.

But as many said, just work and practice as much as you can, invest in your music theory knowledge and start playing, also trance is heavy on sound design and production techniques, so you will need to cover those basis and evolve to truly get from one level to another, so don't fall part when your stuff doesn't sound like stuff you hear on "radio", many years went into that, if you come close, that's achievement for itself.

Buy ONE (1) synth and learn all the ins and outs of it, ignore all the shiny new plugin threads at KVR or wherever else. If you already have more than one synth, select one and unisntall the others.

I wish someone told me this three years ago

Second this, use one that makes most sense to you and learn synthesis on it, you don't need some 7 headed beast synth to make trance, Spire would be my warmest suggestion for trance or maybe even Serum with this nice Splice rent-to-own model.

[lectrixboogaloo]

be a rock star by making actual songs.

[V0RT3X]

Why rush good art?

Patience & Practice

[billcarroll]

Make music everyday

This.

Learn something new (books, tutorials), then practice. Don't expect your first track to be a success. Do what you can, finish it and start another one.

I'd recommend not even attempt to make a full track until you are sure you will finish it.

+1000

Make music every day, and finish a ton of songs. Stop worrying initially about quality. You grow with every song you finish.

[murnau]

How can i progress fast in music production?

Fixed the question. The answers still fit.

[chk071]

Where's the "sound good" button?

[xoxos]

How can i progress fast in music production?

Fixed the question. The answers still fit.

there are some erudite responses in this thread

burroughs.. "every gunslinger has their time, to draw and shoot, you can't beat your time, the trick is to take your time, and not be tricked into trying to beat it" roughly..

speed is relative.. fast, compared to what? nothing pertinent.

dunno about you, but after absorbing large amounts of new information, i find it takes time to parse, assimilate, naturally integrate and resolve in the better insights. reducing panic and stress and accepting that things happen when they happen.

lately i find myself reminding people a lot that a big part of making music is actually being alive, so you have something to make music about. if you bone up on music theory, mixing, production, synthesis and such, your overall tone and demeanour may modulate to a point where your musical expressivity isn't what you once imagined it would be

[tibah]

Fast is very relative and shouldn't be a concern, if you ask me. This isn't a race, nor a competition. Taking your time to actually fail in something may overall lead to discoveries you otherwise wouldn't make and therefore could "faster" lead to your "own" sound. I think nowadays people are too afraid of failure and tools make it easy, too easy sometimes. So, yea, if you want to make the next, best, whatever, I guess you could hammer away on tutorials, get some templates for whatever software you are using and make another copycat of whatever genre you are into... OR you could skip all the tutorials, templates and experiment.

The most important time producing was when I started out. No internet, no nothing. Maybe a magazine once in a while.

[Zexila]

How can i progress fast in music production?

Never think outside of the box, stick to the generic formulas, use as many shortcuts as you can or ultimately pay a guy and tour the world DJ-ing.

[stillshaded]

Tons of good advice in here.. I think the "finish tracks constantly" mentality is pretty much it. They will get better and better, that's just how it works.


Here's another tidbit that is in the same vein. Don't get too attached to the way you do thinks and liberally try new approaches.

If you're trying to get a certain sound and you're going about it a certain way, don't be like "well, this is the way the tutorial said do it, so I guess I'll just doing it like this."

No... for one thing, the person who made the tutorial probably has different taste than you, so you might be expecting different results. Also, there might be something you don't understand going on with a specific approach that is throwing a monkey wrench in the whole thing. Try something else. Find the methods that fit your own personal style.


There's one thing all the good producers I know have in common. They have trained their ears, and as a result they know when to STOP. If you find yourself tweaking for one hour, you're probably gone past 10 good sounds but you were too out of the moment to realize.


I hope my rambling helped

[dlawlis]

Practice, practice, practice.

[Akanishta]

Formal classes are a great way to go. For musicianship, take some music theory and piano classes. You need to know how to think musically in order to make good music.

For engineering, I'd say don't even bother with a lot of stuff online. As time has progressed, there's a lot of 'nonsense tech' and pure misinformation out there. You can take some engineering classes online with places like Berklee.

[Guenon]

Echoing what xoxos said, from a somewhat parallel perspective: in addition to "music theory, mixing, production, synthesis" and so on... also listen to a wide variety of interesting material - where ever you might happen to hear it, music and non-music alike

[Numanoid]

I got into music production a few months ago. I have produced some progressive house newbie tracks. I have less time per day for music production for some more time, as i have to work too.

It is good to work by milestones, setting goals for yourself.

I would suggest participating in the KVR One Synth Challenges, you will get a lot of feedback and all tracks will be voted one so you can see how you are progressing.

You might end up winning a lot of cool gear as well.