The flashy world of the entertainment industry-Music Production and Beat Making.
Sometimes it becomes so attractive that beginners forget that hard work, failures, mistakes, and a constant learning attitude works in the back of the glamor.
It’s the reality of the music industry that seldom attracts people. However, the biggest truth in music production is that most beginners make some common mistakes for a long time before they figure them out.
What are they?
Well, if you’re a beginner and want to go ahead by years in your account, this article will expose you to some of the biggest mistakes that go unnoticed.
We have all gone through this, and we see a lot of people doing the same.
Here is an article where we have listed 10 such mistakes. Read the article completely and say yes every time you see a mistake that you make.
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1. Spending in Costly Music Equipments Unnecessarily:
By far, this is the most common mistake among beginners in the industry. Especially in these times when everything seems possible, technology and a flashy world is all around you, understand that music production and beat making is still about creativity and artist’s skills. The equipment only offers practical enhancement to your ideas.
You will create better music if you have some specific equipment that is not true at all. Spending thousands of dollars without focusing on your skills and musical understanding will lead you nowhere.
More to that, your room size also determines the right gear. If you have a small or midsize studio, buying big speakers is unnecessary.
2. Not Listening to New Music:
Remember that old school song by Elvis Presley? They were really gold; timeless pieces that still touch the hearts of millions.
We understand the urge of yours wanting to make music like that. But the truth is they might not work in today’s time.
Music is constantly changing with time. People have more versatile tastes and, even in country music, you will find a taste of the modern touch.
It will be a mistake if you don’t listen to new music genres and recently released hits.
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3. The Urge to Add One More Track:
Yes, we have all made this mistake. It’s natural human nature to make good things better. But this can lead to havoc, and you won’t find yourself stopping at anything.
‘It sounds so good, but you know, adding one more beat will sound nice’.
Stop right there. You don’t need to. Missing tracks will always be there, and you must fill the necessary tracks but follow your heart to stop at one point.
You’re a beginner, so don’t be discouraged if others find a missing beat in your tracks. Learning is a process.
4. Not Finalizing Your Tracks:
One fine day, you were humming a new music idea and started working on it. Days passed by, and you are still in the first stanza of the music.
Seldom have we seen such music compositions getting a final release. Music is infinite but your tracks must.
Getting a start and not finding a middle ground and not knowing how it will end will never let you finalize your ideas. Well, you will get a chance to release that.
5. Using Formulaic Beat Programming:
It is a nice idea to use programmed beat patterns to enhance your song. However, it doesn’t work all the time, big guy. Crafting your ideas and adding new beats to the tracks keeps it refreshing. Try a wonky, loping hip-hop hi-hat house kick, or use a DnB beat on a live MIDI controller. Anything would be great for creativity. Just understand your gut feeling and make it good. Having a glorious library of original drum sounds to use later isn’t that bad of an idea though.
6. Not Listening to Ears:
Let me ask you a question-what’s the most important thing in music production?
Your ears must love it.
Modern music has a lot of instruments to tell you that your composition is going right. However, don’t trust your monitor when it comes to music. Trust your ears.
If your ears love the composition, it’s good. If they aren’t, you must change them irrespective of how great they look on the screen.
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7. Ignoring People’s Advice:
Collaboration brings out the best from you. Once you start your journey in music, you will find people like you and seniors, of course.
Even if you’re not in their classroom or enroll in their online course, just sitting with them will teach you loads. Observe how they work and how their team keeps the decorum while creating new tracks? How do they create fun out of their everyday job? How do they understand music?
And when you get a chance to get some hot advice from these guys, note them down and follow it.
8. Not Using Real Sound:
Programmed sounds are everything on the internet. So what makes your music simple yet raw? For being the raw music producer, understand that rawness comes from only the real-life sound elements.
True music geniuses create music out of anything. A coin, a ball, a cricket, or a switch board. Often they do it with the purpose of bringing raw music into the game. And guess what, it works most of the time.
9. Not Learning Music Theory:
Not learning music theory is one of the trendy music mistakes you can ever make.
It sounds so boring!
Yes, it does, but it’s important because not only does it give you a ground to create your music on paper, but also to make the people in industry understand your ideas.
Moreover, it will strengthen your fundamentals in music and no more will you struggle to find the right beat in between. It offers you guidelines for creating and analyze music of all types.
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10. Not Getting Into Business Skills:
Besides your excellent music skills, keep yourself open for the business that comes along. Most artists are not business-friendly. That’s why their managers are there, to look over all the finance & management. But today’s time will not allow you to be out of the blues completely.
Podcasts, promotions, and marketing are something that you can’t say No to them all the time.
Your audience wants you to come out and be with them at some level.
Conclusion:
Why do you want to become a music producer? To be famous and give autographs or to dedicate yourself to making good music all your life?
If your answer is the second one, be careful about how you are progressing on your journey. There are countless lessons coming your way. Some of them are listed in this article as common mistakes. These are the ones whom we have done and seen others doing them.
Be like Tony Stark and see if you’re also making the above mistakes.
Learn, grow, and see how dramatic your next track is going to be.
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