makethatlouder.com/planner 00:00 Intro 00:45 Tip 1 - Headphones 02:31 Tip 2 - Drink Goblin 03:33 Tip 3 - Watching movies with the sound off 05:03 Tip 4 - Use limitations to your advantage 06:30 Tip 5 - Planner 07:15 Tip 6 - Backup Task 08:07 Tip 7 - Stop Multitasking 09:17 Tip 8 - Always Bargain Backwards 11:06 Tip 9 - Screen Delete 12:33 Tip 10 - Body Doubling

Don’t mind me, just watching this for like 5 secs to put it in my history and come back in like 2 months to fully watch it all.

Ahh... interesting. Add to "Watch later"... ;D

Bouncing to wav is a HUGE way for me to mentally move forward especially when it frees up CPU and you don’t hesitate to try things knowing things are going to get slower

"and just to keep it engaging, heres your Minecraft parkour speed run alongside the video"

The "disconnect from the internet" one has been huge for me - I just put together a retro-DAW area in my studio with a WinXP machine which is never connected to the internet (for obvious reasons), and it was shocking to realise how much more productive I am working over at that station than my main rig. And it's not just social media - even something as banal as having an email client open just puts a constant flow of non-music related information and time anxiety into your periphery.

So helpful. Can confirm body doubling works. I'll take months fine tuning by myself, but when my friend is working on it with me, we'll knock a whole tune out start to finish in one day.

Half of these I didn't even realize I was already doing, the other half I didn't realize how much I needed. Thanks dude!!

Producing with ADHD is actually amazing, IF you can hyperfocus. Music was the first thing I was able to hyperfocus on, and it led to me making a beat every day for two years, kick-starting my career.

Music is such a good skill for me with my ADHD because of how responsive and interactable it feels. I press a button, sound happens, i press a different button WOAH sound changes. It becomes almost a really creative fidget toy 😂 Unlike drawing or sculpting where feedback is minimal and most of the reward comes after a very very long period of "trusting the process" I personally need that immediate feedback music has for art.

This is possibly the most ADHD video on this platform, with the most ADHD reason for its creation. You're a gentleman and a scholar, and my ADHD brain thanks you.

I saw this thumbnail like a week ago and I never ended up watching the video, but ever since then every time I poured myself any sort of beverage in my head I'm going like I Am Become The Drink Goblin, The Gobbler Of Drinks

I work as a counselor at college education in sound design, this is very useful for a lot of my students. Thank you!

These are all great tips man. I'm so appreciative of knowing there are others out there with ADHD in a position I'm working so hard to be in. I never realized how having mini distractions, like a candle or say the Lava lamp were things that I was subconsciously using to help keep focused on the task at hand, as well as the drinks close by. Thank you for the vindication lol

Had to near-physically restrain myself to watch this start to finish, but I’m glad I did. As others said, I’ve been doing/thinking of doing some of these things and hadn’t put a name to it. Great stuff, thank you.

finally, someone I can relate to who gives great advice. great video man!

I highly recommend setting timers and picking tasks. If I know I only have a certain amount of time to do a certain or a couple certain tasks, I find i frequently am able to not only focus better, but I also end up working way longer than my timer because I get locked in. Sometimes I don't start because I "don't feel like it". Then I'll say "Ok, you only have to work for 30 minutes". End up working for an hour or two. Works wonders for me

Man, fantastic. So relatable with all of these things, like putting the focus in places that aren’t so distracting (mute tv etc) but just enough of a distraction to help between loading projects and tracks to export. Subscribed fo sho

It’s still long, but improving. Can’t really fault this guy anyway he is such a genuine person.

Your voice is hella calming

Thank you soo much ! You have legitimized my drink goblinhood and I can now refer your video to my concerned friends and family.

One cheap alternative to the second monitor that helped me was a digital photo frame. It's just a dia show of stuff you put on it and it's incredibly helpful with no effort. Great video and tips!

way to utilize viewer feedback mate! been enjoying your content and layout since I found y our channel recently keep it up g

This was helpful in so many ways beyond music production. A tip that helps me is to hit the F11 key (fullscreen shortcut in firefox) when watching tutorials like this to block all the clickbait.

I'm gonna try putting these into practice, thanks for the tips!

I’ve got to be super honest with you. I’m still coming to terms with the fact that, I believe I have ADHD… as a creative, I always thought I had a superpower, but somehow just wasn’t functioning at my highest capability. This video spoke to me directly as a CREATIVE and I love it… Thanks you’ve earned yourself a new subscriber and hopefully a future, KZfaq content collaborator, or at least colleague.

Awesome, i've been doing nearly everything on this list already which makes sense because i struggle with ADHD. Some things I do are I keep a blank notepad window open on my desktop all the time to take my notes and a stagger my windows so all the relevant windows I need are already open and easy to see. Having a notepad app is better for me because I hate having piles of paper and notebooks getting lost or disorganized and I can neatly store everything in a file on my desktop and re-arrange my notes. Mark songs that are mixed but not mastered in bold, mark mixed and mastered songs with underlining, put an asterisk next to anything that still needs work. Plus it makes it easier to compile tracklists and re-arrage them I always put the computer in airplane mode while working. The secondary task I like when waiting for songs to load is playing Scrabble on my phone. I always have like 8 games going at once and people take a while to play their next move, so I only have a few minutes of time before I have to stop and wait for them to play again which forces me to go back to my music session. I also have lots of multicolored lights and posters on the walls to look at. The best part is that I am watching this instead of doing my chores which badly need to get done. I'm off to clean the house now!!!

Interesting video, gonna leave the tab open on my browser so I can "actually" watch it later (I have 63 tabs rn)

My biggest distractions with music production are usually my laptop being too slow or me getting stuck on some thing. And instead of finishing, I just start a new project while I keep thinking about it

You had me at effectively procrastinate productively ..

who else put on this video, started whistling a tune, got up and walked away to look for their coffee, got lost in thought deliberating over something that happened earlier, went out for a smoke, and then a minute later remembered this video was playing in the other room?

Followed step 2, took a shot of neat vodka ever time I was struggling to focus on the music production. Woke up in a parking lot at 4 am with strange Staines on my clothes and $40 in my top pocket. I can say a big Thankyou because I was only going to charge $20 for the beat anyway. Success!

Thanks for giving me something to procrastinate going live with

The headphone thing totally works! I'v recently been super productive and it's because iv switched to using headphones for almost everything (even mixing)

These are very genuinely helpful!! Similar to the first tip, I like to have aspects of my environment that I set a very specific way when I'm going into a prod session. Setting my lights to a certain color, lighting a candle, positioning my keyboard differently, etc.

Awesome tips. I get anxiety committing to a task like the idea that I might waste my time gives me anxiety. One of those type of days

I've been adding to watch later since I saw it drop. But now it is time. Time to watch and absorb.

I love you, you're so calm

The body double thing is so true, as long as they don't enable your worse impulses lol. I've definitely been working on mixes when the "have you seen the new ____ plug-in?" rabbit hole happens. Putting a name to it is super helpful. Great video!

this is so specifically fitted to what I needed. im not even diagnosed with ADHD but the fact alot of this is helpful and relatable makes me wonder too much.

Hey, I have ADHD and I made it through the entire video without pausing! (I did however read only a few comments before I started scrolling and reading them in a random order lmao). Awesome tips; liked and subbed.

You had me at “let it play in the background while [I] clean my studio” lol

My tip are set timers for a task it actives that last day reflex when u procrastinated long. Depending on what you're doing changing tempo and key often can keep it going. I used a varispeed device on ableton and logic has it built in.

Man’s trying to talk to me about adhd while he gets to the point as slowly as possible.

Thak you man, this is exactly what I needed advice for

Dude this is cool! I feel so seen and understood, and your content is greatly appreciated. Love the thought on productive procrastination. It’s easy to get into a self fulfilling shame loop when you have a task you know you need to do but can’t bring yourself to do it. Might as well improve the situation around you or learn something to help improve you. Thanks so much, much love!

Thank you for this helpful advices !

This is making waaay too much sense

i have adhd and this video was engaging enough for me to stay. good work.

Dude…. This video is VERY helpful. You pretty much 100% called out all of the dumb shit I do (some of which I wasn’t even aware of fully until you said it) so thank you. Videos like this make me hopeful for KZfaq content (cause most people are narcissist and doing it for the wrong reasons) thank you very much 👑

Can you just make this a list and email it to me so I never read it? Thanks.

O…M…G…I never knew someone době this content…THANKS A LOT!!Means a lot…Wish you the best!!!!

Definitely a lot of tips I managed to slowly figure out in my own over the years. But a few new ones I could try out. The backup task has been huge for me, but then the backup tasks becomes the only tasks I actually get done. So still working on the process : P I’ve even tried overwhelming myself with distractions on other screens and it sometimes helps. Like having a visualizer on one screen, some show I’ve seen a thousand times on another. And maybe even be in a discord group call. I manage to get work done but only for short bursts as it can sometimes be very draining

Thanks for the great insights!

Sped this up ngl

Yes to the planner!!! I’ll be buying as soon as they’re available.

Proud of you making a planner and a physical one for printed version :))

✨ #4, #5, #6 and #10 ✨

Not 100% sure if I have ADHD as I haven't been diagnosed yet but many of these things were relatable to me. I have really hard time focusing on things usually my thoughts feel like they are racing to find different things that I could be doing when doing a task, and then I subconsiously start multitasking, but not actually because I am awful at actually multitasking and get easily distracted. But I actually can hard focus on a task but if I do that I will usually start at like late evening maybe 8-9 pm or something and just work on the task til like 4 am. I guess I just feel most productive at that time, although I can sometimes also overfocus on a task and forget to take real breaks, and it happens pretty often. But I can also so easily lose my concentration on a task and get easily overwhelmed by the task, which kind of connects to the constant racing thoughts or screens thing. Also I already do the headphones thing and it helps, since I get so easily distracted by background noise. It's all quite infuriating... But yeah enough of my rambling, these are great tips, great video! Keep up the good work! :)

This is a great video! I love how you go into using what was originally a roadblock, into a means for productivity or inspiration. Good job!

I might subscribe just for that fantastic tache.

Bitwig is REALLY helpful for keeping organized. Not only is it really easy to keep track of and arrange stuff you can bounce in place without losing the original midi and having to have more than one track.

Good shit. This is exactly what I was looking for. Need some more strict regimen in my process. Thank you for making this (and the templates) The best feeling is adapting to a habit or process after a couple of days and things become lightwork and stuff is just constantly being made. Thanks once again, looking forward to check out the rest of your content and your future works!

Damn, you're good. I am, too, using similar hacks since childhood, not knowing until last year I have ADHD. There's still a lot here to discover. Thank you.

you are a legend bro this is actually getting me trough a foggy drought

the algorithm really popped off w/ this one 😮‍💨👍

S’kudah wuz here. Thanks for the tips man it’s a struggle for real.

bought a moleskine legal pad to take notes. no longer taking notes on mobile. i always saw ovo40 do physical notes, makes so much sense now. the cheap and small notebooks will suffice. just start with a 0.5mm fine pen and then go up in thickness if necessary, thanks for reading.

These tips resonate loads! Thank you for sharing!

got myself some DT 1990s last year, i feel like, since then the quality of my music 4x'ed xD best decision i ever made

This is a godsend

We need one of these for somebody with these issues plus a full time job (so minus free time, energy, and ambition). I love to fantasize about utilizing some of these tips all day at work and have all these ideas and plans for when I get home... but then I get home and still have other responsibilities to tend to, so once I have time for anything I want to do, I lack the drive to do anything that takes much energy. By then it's usually time for bed anyway, and I get to go through the cycle again.

Here are some costly things that have helped me. 1) A sit-stand desk with a little exercise bike. Added bonus: you lose weight and have more energy. 2) Scheduling breaks. I take a 5 to15 minute break every 45 minutes. 3) Setting my phone and computer to DND. I check to see if anything earth shattering happened during my 45 uninterrupted minutes of work and deal with it as needed. You’ll definitely get messages from clients, but it’s pretty unlikely it can’t wait until you turn off DND and check messages.

I dont know why but it's so refreshing to see a video with such few cuts

Enjoying your channel. Thanks for sharing all your insights.

wait you make videos for adhd music producers, yes pls. you know i been googling stuff like "music theory of adhd people" and "orchestation for people with adhd" or "music lessons for adhd" and i can't find a single thing. i only found your channel just now by chance. i'm trying to learn to compose for games. I make game mods and place music and sounds in them using FMOD but i'm still so clutter brained when trying to produce actual songs. I make this comment before even watching your vids. i will for sure enjoy these thanks .

thank you so much! intuitively I discovered some of this tricks by myself, but actually having them + others organized in a video really makes me feel less anxious about the whole thing. also, thank you for the drinking tip! I currently apply it with having multiple vapes around and hitting them, and that’s not good is it? 😂 subbed ✌🏻

Dude thank you

Multi tasking and some of its wins, have screwed up my life well into my late 30s , I feel silly not stopping. glad I vape weed once in 5-7 days to reflect on how I feel, answer hard questions at hand to myself, observe what I avoid, observe my past reactions for the week , then share with a friend or partner or both but I ask them just to listen.

A lot of this is great advice for any kind of work from home situation. Excellent tips.

This video is exactly what i needed. I used to be so prolific. Now im lucky if i get a loop out before completely disassociating Ill let you know if it helps

I became the drink goblin, but for beer. Helped get some great music out, but productivity dropped by about 100%. I significantly cut back on drinking and will prob do the seltzer trick

I didn't see the amp heads last video, and I just wanted to tell you we're tone homies now. Have a good day! EDIT: got to the part of the video where you say this isnt the studio you daily drive so i gotta revoke tone homie status but i did sub so theres that lol

Another tip is take breaks and stop trying to overdo things you’ll fuck up so much of a track if you have this mentality of being a perfectionist. Also limit yourself on plugins just have less makes things much easier. I love the max 4 live device cartographer it’s so much better than listening to a stupid metronome over and over again also don’t be impulsive and keep buying the newest version of something you’ll find that the more less you spend the better you’ll feel in the end.I’m still on Ableton Live 10 suite and I’m happy just using that version I don’t need more stuff that distracts me from making better music.

This helps me even though I donˋt have adhd. Thanks man

Yoooo this is what’s up man! Great video - I’ve struggled with a lot of these things whilst producing/freelancing - great tips!!

you sound great in 2x speed man just letting u know

the fact that I had to watch this video twice because I zoned out lol. great video though.

Might want to add chapters my man lol

OMG where have you been all my career

That reminds me, I need to go finish that side table I’ve been working on 😂

Yeah, I'm serious about being hands-on with music too. Also NeuroDivergent. I hear ADHD is a spectrum too now (like ASD).

Very helpful. Thank you

Having ADHD and make music, i can relate to this

Tip 9 is something I did long ago, it's crazy how less anxiety I feel now. I did it because of life rather than production.

Its funny beaucoup i used to do a lot of these tims without even realizing it

This is probably the best advice I’ve ever seen anyone give about anything.

im gonna watch it later ,interesting thank u mate

Hey for me the first tip kinda works oppositely for me, I get TOO engaged on the mixing part of things which takes my time off creating and actually adding elements to polish my track. Instead I get super tied to “how different compressors sound on this synth” and next thing I know its 3 hours later and past my bedtime.

Liked and subbed. Just a hint that may help considering your audience and the type of ppl we are. Timeline bookmarks for ppl like me who skip from point to point, and if unable to, may just decide not to bother. Maybe that's just me tho, so ignore, if i'm the only one saying it. Good luck.