00:00yo what's up guys so I don't know why
00:02but I just felt the urge to make this
00:03video right now um I'm working on some
00:06music and stuff and I was kind of
00:09dabbling in a collab that I got coming
00:10up pretty soon and I'm just thinking
00:13like I just worked on it for two hours
00:15and it's practically done how did I get
00:18to the point where I could work on music
00:21for two hours and practically have it be
00:24finished there's a super important topic
00:27that not a lot of people talk about uh
00:29when when it comes to production and
00:31making music and whatever I'm just going
00:33to stick to like the dubstep rhythm
00:35genre for now cuz that's what I make
00:38but there is a lot of different ways to
00:42get good and I'm not going to say get
00:44good at one specific thing whether it's
00:46like mixing mastering sound design
00:48whatever just getting good all around
00:52good there's something that not a lot of
00:55people say and whether they didn't
00:58realize it or didn't think about saying
01:01it or wanted to gatekeep it or whatever
01:04but the most important thing that you
01:07guys have to work on is your ears
01:10because you're using your ears to make
01:13all of your music and I'm not going to
01:15sit here and say like wear ear plugs uh
01:19clean your ears out get them clean
01:21profession no no no that's not what I
01:23mean I mean you need to be able to
01:26understand where everything needs to sit
01:28in a mix so I just pulled up this song
01:31that I worked on on a live stream sounds
01:37this I'm going to say that's pretty well
01:40mixed and I didn't sit here for hours
01:42fixing the mix or anything I I mean I
01:44honestly didn't even mix it I just made
01:47it and mixed it as I went the only
01:49reason that I'm able to do that is
01:51because I have spent so long making
01:55builds in drops like this
01:58and it's a certain combination of making
02:02a build in a drop that's super important
02:04so if that made no sense this is what I
02:06mean you have to challenge yourself in a
02:09way that's different every single time
02:11so with production there are so many
02:13things to learn that you have to find a
02:15way to challenge yourself as many
02:16different ways as possible so just to
02:19help you guys out I want to give you
02:22some homework to do if you're watching
02:25this video and you genuinely want to get
02:27good because only the people that
02:28genuinely want to get good are going to
02:30do this homework and this is for you so
02:32what I want you to do is spend a week
02:35make an entire song or build to drop
02:38whatever you want to do if you're fresh
02:40starting out make a build in a drop
02:42every day for 7 Days force yourself to
02:45do it dude I did this one week I got
02:47home at 1:00 a.m. and I sat on my
02:48computer for 30 minutes half asleep and
02:51still made the track I don't want to
02:53hear any excuses I don't care you have
02:56to unless you die you have to make a
02:59build and a drop for this week or a week
03:01or whatever what if you want to do it
03:03next month whatever it is make a build
03:05and a drop or if you can and you're able
03:08to make a full song every single day
03:10doesn't matter production quality
03:11doesn't matter anything I want you guys
03:13to do that once you guys have done that
03:15and it seems fairly easy for you to do
03:19consistently I want you to then
03:21challenge yourself to make something in
03:24a different genre um if you don't sound
03:28design then force yourself to own sound
03:30design if you just picked up Ableton and
03:32you're trying to learn it I'm not even
03:35I'm not talking about like the basics
03:36and stuff of like commands or whatever I
03:38just mean like once you figure out the
03:40basics and then you're going into like
03:43uh what does operator do what does wave
03:44table do stuff like that force yourself
03:47to use it so one thing that I think I'm
03:49personally lacking in is sound design I
03:51don't have serum and I I only use vital
03:53so what I'm trying to do is mainly use
03:56syns to make my bases sometimes I do
03:59sometimes I don't I just got pretty good
04:02at manipulating already made samples to
04:05be sounding very new and unique um a lot
04:09of people don't like that they don't
04:10think it's real producing whatever you
04:11can think whatever you want but now I
04:14try not to do that so this one was a
04:17song that was like that I started from
04:20100% I'm trying to find it but I guess I
04:22deleted the midi I swear to God I'm not
04:25lying um I made it oh yeah right here so
04:29that's one patch that's another patch I
04:32made this on live yes it's right here
04:34okay now now I have proof
04:40gone so I made that and then turned it
04:45into the whole point of me saying that
04:47is I'm lacking in sound design so I'm
04:50sound designing and forcing myself to
04:52what this you know with doing that that
04:55helped make a brand new sound that I
04:57would never come upon if I didn't sound
05:00design this so whatever you guys think
05:02you're you're lacking in if you can't
05:04work with samples then work with samples
05:06if you can't sound design then sound
05:08design if your flows are trash then only
05:11flows and just keep you know cycling
05:16through okay this week I'm going to make
05:17a build and drop every single day next
05:19week I'm going to do some challenges
05:21right um one big big thing is if you
05:24guys have any producer friends do
05:27challenges with them do uh what I do
05:29with my friends is 45 minute um
05:32challenges whether it's a remix
05:34challenge a bootleg challenge a sample
05:36challenge a stock Daw challenge um
05:41pretty much if it's a remix or bootleg
05:44you're just taking stems or the original
05:46song and remixing it uh for 45 minutes
05:50if it's a stock Daw um challenge then
05:55you can only use what comes in the doll
05:58so only the samples that come in the the
05:59do only the SS that come in the do
06:02nothing third party in this slightest
06:05and then the sample challenge is you get
06:06your friends together they each send in
06:08their own samples um and then you use
06:11those samples to make a song out of it
06:12in 45 minutes so that's just some ideas
06:17so my biggest thing right my biggest
06:20thing that I tell everybody is first it
06:24takes consistency you need to be
06:27consistent as possible to actually get
06:30good and let's say you get good right
06:32and then you take 2 months off you're
06:34not going to be as good as you were 2
06:36months before and I'm not saying you
06:38have to produce every single day the
06:40whole takeaway from this video the whole
06:41reason why I wanted to make this video
06:43is because so many people are trying to
06:46get into producing because it's so easy
06:48and it's so much you know there's so
06:50much information out there and blah blah
06:51blah blah blah yes you can go on YouTube
06:54and you can find a bunch of information
06:55or whatever the the best thing that I
06:58did was sit in the do and just have fun
07:02and just be consistent um that's how I
07:06kind of found my style that's how I
07:08found my workflow that's how I made my
07:10own Ableton template whatever it is you
07:13will figure out your workflow but you
07:15have to put in the work and you can't
07:17expect to be doing this for 3 four five
07:20months and get good it just isn't like
07:23that so another thing I'm not going to
07:25break down this track in the slightest
07:27but look how small it is dude it is it
07:30says right here like 30 but even there's
07:32less than 30 tracks in here and it
07:41full obviously there's more things that
07:43I can add into it but I just want you
07:45guys to physically see this project so
07:47when you look at yours and you have 150
07:49tracks you can understand that is 100%
07:53unnecessary and the only reason why 150
07:56tracks would be necessary is if you're
07:58adding so many small elements around the
08:01song that it makes it really cool and
08:02unique but if your base group is over 30
08:06to 40 tracks you got too much my boy so
08:10I got four playing at the same time
08:12actually I got one main one which is
08:15this that's it and then this guy and
08:23this two of them are the same sound yeah
08:26that's it I'm not really going to teach
08:27you guys how to produce or at whatever
08:29this kind of just some words of uh
08:31inspiration and motivation that's it
08:34though if you guys got any questions if
08:35you guys got any video ideas or whatever
08:38leave it down below peace man
