Great advice, my friend. I'm a studio musician in Nashville, and have played on over 300 albums in the last 10 years. I got 'in' by believing in myself, long before I was as good as I really needed to be. However... the allow me to present the other side of the coin for balance. My dad (also a recorded musician) gave me this advice: "If you can't hook it, don't book it." One catastrophic failure can KILL your reputation, preventing future opportunities.

David I have a similar story. I had a friend refer a country band to me recently for a recording session. I mainly have recorded hard rock and voice-overs and wasn't sure how to record a country band. I told them I could do it and we started to record a week later. I live mic'd their sessions and mixed everything in Presonus Studio One Pro. They loved the results and ordered 100 CD's that I'm doing all of the artwork for. So your point is valid. I wasn't sure if I could do it so I just did it!

Hey David, I have become a big fan of this site over the last couple of months! I am a music producer who hasn't had the opportunity to do any industry work yet, but I am VERY confident my turn is coming soon! Your posts are very inspirational David, keep doing what you do...

pretty awesome David, its am important point about assuming the identity of your goal...if you dont really believe it, no one else will ever!

I think that advice is really good for beginners and I might swap it on to my community aswell. Im making tutorials on the terms of DJing, playing music for people in nightclubs, equipment, ideas, how to etc. Sticking my nose into production and really want to learn it. Got me Logic Pro and watching tons of tutorials. Hope one day Ill be able to produce my own Drum n Bass and Dubstep tunes! Cheers mate, thanks! Fabian

Best advice not only for music, but for life !!

This is what I needed to re-affirm what I already knew. Thanks for sharing your story.

thank you, you are so inspiring. Humble and solid knowledge from a fellow south african who has made it in an industry that seems so scarily impossible to crack. Thank you

Hey Dave, I truly love your insights. I'm an aspiring music producer. I'm 28 years-old already I've been doing music for 7 years now and I took the decision to infiltrate the industry since last year. As for now, i'm starting to get couple of customers in here in Canada and in the United States. Also, i'm definitely gonna use this tip because I lack of confidence which is undesirable. Thanks Again!

Thank you for your tips & your honesty! Smiles to you! I'm off to listen to more!

@DavidCamposComposer btw Thanks for the comment and for your compliments :-)

Awesome and inspiring video and love the book also...keep helping I'm sure many of us greatly appreciate you mate!

great job david givin us new producers hope and good energies. great advice very cool thanks george

Thanks for the tip. I'm just getting started and everything from the business side down to composition is giving me stress. These tips help ease some of that. BTW, the audio book ROCKS!

@volksbahn Thanks bro for the comment. I am doing that more these days because you are right the content is more important.

Thanks David, GOD bless your soul.

Thanks dave, i learn something new every video, thanks alot !

versus lying about his ability to deliver. At the same time everyone has to start somewhere; so I think the Fake it until you make it applies more when the person has some experience that they rely on and just understanding that this project may be different, but doable. So it is important to portray confidence in that scenario that they can deliver. David's Dad had the experience and was not afraid to portray confidence that he can deliver on a music project that was just a differnt genre.

Great job. Great video. Awesomes story. I agree with the person up above in terms of Fake It until You Make It does not always apply. I also agree with David in terms of how important confidence is and portraying that confidence. I would however add how confidence is built with experience and education. I think when a new person like your friend expresses lack of confidence, but are open and honest with the client, some clients are willing to give him a shot versus lying about (see next post)

YOUR VIDEOS HAVE HELPED ME AND MY TEAM LOOK AT THIS BUSINESS IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT... ON BEHALF OF ALL OF US HERE AT OMERDER STUDIO THANKS.!!!

GREAT JOB I LOVE YOUR ATTITUDE YOU ARE HELPING ALOT OF PEOPLE!

First of all, thank you very much for sharing your video. It's excellent and truly enthusiastic. According to Indian Philosophy, if someone can achieve something excellent he'll have great power even in his advice so that people will be bound to follow it. Here I see a great example of it. Your video has enormous potentiality to encourage people and drive them to the right way. You are truly gifted and lucky enough to have such a great father like yours. My regards to your father and you.

you sir,have had an awesome dad!

Thanks For Those Tips ! Id' Like To Say .. I Loved Your E Book .. It was Amazing ! Im' Into Music Production For A While now ,so I knew Majority of That ,But It Defntly Cemented Sme Gaps In There ! I wish You Had Released It Couple Of Yrs ago :D Way To Go David ! Musical Regards ! PS. lookin Forward To Adv Music Prodn !

David great teacher and best person

Now I'm happy. THANKS MAN!!

lol I was so annoyed by your ADs, but you do have good content thank you

thank you ,very useful.

2nd video i saw from you and its great! Now im going to watch the rest =)

David, Your talk is very valuable...way too valuable to get masked/distracted by BG music. Could you please consider pushing down the volume if not turning it off completely. I invite you to listen to one of your own videos without the BG music and see what a relief it will be to pay attention to one auditory stimulus at one time. Thanks for indulging, as well as sharing your skills.

Thanks for the video, I really like it and very clearly understood

he he he that was the first thing I noticed about this video. A music producer and the music in this video is very anno-ying. Thanks for pointed out.

i am madly into the music industry, but i wanted to make a little more money so i started screen printing. recently a customer came up to me saying if i can make a shirt with more than one color for him, he said "if i dont like it, im not paying" i reassured him he will like it (ofcourse after watching this video). the thing is.. i never done more than one color. well, we'll see what happens. =]

Love you David!

GREAT GREAT & TRUE !!!!! thanks david

Thanks for uploading this great video.

@DavidCamposComposer totally agree! infact i was kinda emplying this tactic before i even saw this video. not too fake, and not too overkill. just enuff to bring em in. - JNp The Speshaliss UK Brilliant channel homie.

so inspirational i might have cried just a bit .

ha, first time in a while i'll have dusted off my printer to get your book onto my KT (kitchen table:)), sorry, couldn't resist .. and (i'm guessing here) .. what a sountrac to illustrate the point! big respect for your altruistic nature "... Ro..ll another one .. just like .." shucks, you probably way beyond all that, huh !!

thank you..your my new inspiration,,

THANK YOU MY FRIEND A VERY INSPIRING VIDEO....

You seem like a nice guy David, one peeve about this video: after about 4 seconds that guitar loop gets very very irritating... It's sounds like maybe it was setup for a lead vocal? The drums help... but not enough, once the strings came in everything was fine -but IMHO everything came in way too late and should probably have been potted down along the way to be used for this as background music to your dialog.

really great advice thanx so much :)

thank you very much dude :) some good info here.

cool! thank you for posting that!!!!!!

inspiring! thanksssss

im inspired by you! great vid

@bbuck822 great !! Dont ever let your fear limit your potential !!

just been wondering, did your dad ever tell them that that was his first country track? i imagine that it would be quite funny to see their reactions to that.

reflects the populous. In the USA, R&B,Latin, Rap/urban and lastly country dominate the mainstream. Sadly, the days of great Rock and Roll in the mainstream are long gone. If you wanna pursue a music career in in, Independent is the only way realistically.

Thank you so much.. it helped me a lot.. : )

@PlatinumJerker True !!

very inspiring thank you

What a champ!

@StratMatt777 I am probably oversensitive to obvious looping - I've just grown sick of it from so much exposure to it - to the point where it sounds blatantly mechanical to my ears. I agree about the content - DC seems like a great guy.

Real Talk

Love it mate :-)

Very Informative, Thanks Songbay :)

Great Video!

haha this is how i started a 2 year business :)

Thank you. God Bless you. Wish me luck Sir :)

Good job!

Thanks!

that background music is pretty annoying. tough to stay on subject, but the subject is pretty important - fake it till you make it works in many aspects of life.

@Smurf431 You must be careful but I think you get the point from the video .

super cool.......thx

@DxRxOxMusic I would go for it bro.... 7000 will definitely put you in the right place

@TheGrreatDane Never limit yourself my friend :-)

Nice guy!

@Kushalxe AMP is gonna be awesome

@lovewords Its a pleasure bro

@themuzic No offense taken bro :-) What is your story ? I would love to hear your experiences

Good stuff! Do you have any connections for me?

@OMERDERSTUDIO Thanks

nice..

Great! lol Brain surgeon "Fake it till you make it"

the music in the background is annoying, it keeps going up and down in volume...good advice tho

Hey i Have a Question for you. How would i go about finding a composed classical score and get it on too Logic 9 and have it in individual tracks?

@SplinterCell37 Go for it !!

solid

lol always say yes yes yes :p

@TefLdn Thanks and It's all true :-)

@greeny1200 Dont give up ! Winners never quit & quitters never win .

There is a difference between confidence & lying about your ability's....the flip side is if you do this & it blows up in your face your name will be mud....things get around quick in the music biz world.... Take this advice with a grain of salt folks.....the chance for this too backfire is immense!

Do u know a record company tht would sign me

@themuzic 1st of all nobody gets paid in this business upfront. not normally. second , I would rather see 1 or two "screw ups" in my life then dozens of " I should'ves" :-) rather try and fail .

i'm ferdinand lazarte from philippines..i want to become a singer and have an album,,can u help me..i know how to sing,,

@lastdaysguitar Didn't bother me since I was so interested in teh story I was only listening to what he was saying. And I'm the type who gets annoyed easily by things like repetitious music! :)

Im a brain surgeon haha!

@mikemillennium Keep me posted :-)

@pitolove71 Thats very funny dude !!

@DJSeasho Thanks bro, message me :-)

turn the damn music off