You should be making ideas in your sleep
Most creators miss this
The elite take full advantage
The brain works as you rest - Alpha state
Schedule inactive time or let it come to u
go walk - go 💩 - close ur eyes - shower in dark
Go hard - Recover hard
Work by not working
I wish I worked like this
3hr 30min block
90 mins focused work
15 minute break
90 minutes focused work
15 minute break
1hr block
45 mins focused
15 mins break
Repeat
For every hour you optimize your focus
Watch your output double
Your journey is a lonely path
Mathew 4 21-22
Brother John and James were mending nets with their father Zebedee on a boat
Mindsets - comfort - traditions - even family
Everything comes with a cost
When they were called to move, the boat the nets and their pops were left
When you stop creating you stop living -
It was the first gift given to man
Creative comes from the soul
Mathew 17-20
They left their nets immediately
Growth doesn’t happen it’s created
What’s your net
I wish I knew this starting out
Stay ready
Every day, make a small list of relationships to nurture
Keep Dropbox iCloud open at all Times | Load Directly after cooking up
After making beats, write down the labs you need to send
Make a list of discord servers to send in
When consistency meets patience you get leverage
Work smarter not harder
3 beats a day
1 sample a day
2 starters a day
1 song a week
100 beats a month
30 samples
60 starters
4 songs
Multiply your output
Instantly Level up your melodies 🎹 -
Create an invisible melody
- “Spend time decorating what’s around it”
Virgil
Build around
- tension
- silence
- Qualities and charterer
- atmosphere
Add B Sections
- Same story different perspective
| Hero vs Villan
You can’t fully step in your gifts if your scared to swim
I read Mathew 3 today John the Baptist felt not worthy for his calling
Yeshewa replied -, “Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness.
- Be like water
- Get out of ur own way
Why can some create good things so fast
Quality is Quantity
- You haven’t put in the reps yet
Song 1 vs 1000
Detachment
- Trust the first note or word. The next one is always there even when the idea is ugly
- A system
They produce art even when the moment isn’t ideal
These 3 questions will force you to level up your sound
•Why am I do I like this sounds
•Whats the intention of me adding this
•Is this pulling me closer my vision
If not — It gets cut - Simple
Simplicity is a result of you of declining thousands of good ideas
You’ve been hearing music wrong…
See music as if your building worlds
Who's the main character?
Who are the supporting characters?
Who's just there just for the vibes?
Every sound or decision should serve the same story.
Singing ur heart is actually hurting you
- most artist miss signal flow
This is the 1st foundation to recording
- more emphasis doesn’t make it sound better
- your voice and the mic are a conversation
If you know issues you should know how to react to them
Understand Mixing
Levels of control/Volume manipulation
Busses/Groups
- same thing
Bus - stereo
Aux Bus | groups individual fx
Reg bus | holds Fx regular takes
Send | Fx application
Individual - mono
Input tracks | Channels
Controls - raw signal
- These get grouped
Am I the only one who doesn’t remember all the beats they made, but when u hear something u know it yours in the first 2 seconds 🤧
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