My advice has always been and will always be: Make music for yourself, and enjoy the process. Allow yourself to be shit at it.

I draw and animate. Recently I started exploring the musical world and I'm finding that the learning process feels very similar to drawing and animation. You fail a lot, you hit walls, you have to do a lot of research and it can become frustrating, but in the end the passion you have for it will always keep you coming back. I have a tendency to skip basics and dive head straight into the complex shit, so I often have to remind myself to take a few steps back.

My only gripe about being a new producer is that the more inlearn the more i regret that i didn't persue it earlier in life. I absolutely adore the learning process. Just today I was playing with bass arps and did some joyful pearl clutching over the results 🤣 It's just so much fun, even the mistakes. I am naturally self motivated and love to seek out information so i appreciate what you are saying friend!

Great advice! When I started learning to code the lead engineer used to delay answering my questions, I was so frustrated because I have now to spend countless hours reading about the technology details and trying to understand what’s going on. After a year I realized that the process of answering your question is where the knowledge at and not the answer itself, I feel that also apply to other things you learn including music.

This wasnt't just great advice for new music producers. It's great advice for life in the 21st century. I hope everyine is having a great weekend! ☮💜

It’s the answer no one, including myself likes to hear. But this is truly the most practical and honest advice. Producing is a lot of work and extremely frustrating. Especially, for those that are first starting. It’s best to be independent and put the work in to learn.

this is such a good take. being resourceful is a personality trait not a lot of people have. and I believe part of the "question" is moreso them wanting to be seen and not as much them needing the question answered, maybe 50/50. great video man!

Literally learning aspects of producing as you upload this. Perfect timing and makes me feel like on the right path. I appreciate your advice

this is the formula for life... you just start, run into problems, and then solve them. problems bring growth so just know every time you run into a wall its an opportunity to get a little bit better.

Indeed, for beginners there's no clear and straight answers. As a beginner in beatmaking myself I've been on sponge mode for the last month (and managed to publish a few beats) mostly by finding hidden nuggets of know-how within long form uncut tutorials rather than topic-specific videos/tutorials. Which was why I'm esp thankful for your 3-part uncut beatmaking process series 👍 That helped me complete and publish my first beat!

yo this was incredibly well put! The articulation is exactly how people need to approach this stuff! Don't ever feel entitled to information! You gotta be humble and go looking!

Thanks Taetro! Really appreciate the sharing of knowledge & experience, Much respect for the perspective your teaching from!

Thank you so much man, I’m actively looking to try and make some music so I’m just wandering through KZfaq watching videos and I really appreciate your advice. I really hope that all of your music you produce goes well

Definitely taking in the information! I’m enjoying the melodies I can now create with learning the keys. Thank you

Such an important video. Best advice. Thank you for recognizing a need and simply answering it as clearly and relatable as always.

HAHAHA, you are so right on with your analogies and suggestions. This is how I discovered you, your music and your channel. I Goggle a lot, I always have ( I'm a self sufficient, mostly independent, self starter kind of guy) I even access Reddit to get answers. Another funny thing here is you mentioned how one should watch a video, pause and look up something they see / don't understand then continue on with the video. I'm following your Music Theory series, your Ableton Live for Beginner series and your Melodic Beatmaker Bootcamp series. It's literally taken me about an hour to go through each of your videos because I'm constantly looking up stuff you mentioned or I've seen in your video and want more info. I find this all a bit funny because I figured everyone was doing this already. I had no idea people were bombarding content creators with specific questions all the time. I'm learning lots from you. Keep it coming!!! Cheers!

You inspired me to upload my first (lofi) beat to my channel! And you helped me with all the tips! :D

You put in a ton of time to make amazing, thorough, comprehensive and accessible videos. It bothers me to no end that people won't do the work and just ask you the easy questions that you've already taken the time to answer. I hope it doesn't discourage you from doing what you do - because there are tons of us that are following with great interest and learning a TON from you.

Thank you Taetro! I just bought a mpk mini last week and all of these videos have helped a bunch!

Great advice man. Super helpful info for beginners of any kind

Thank you for putting this wisdom into words. Such amazing advice!

This is not just the advice for being a producer. It's an advice for any skills that you want to learn.

i love your channel man, genuinely you give great advice and insight

Great video! It's important to realize the age of information we live in today. Oftentimes, I have expected there to be a laid out process about how to learn things, and sometimes there are, but I still need to be proactive in finding those sources and independently branching out to other sources of information that help me learn what I need to solve my problems. Thanks TAETRO!

I agree with this 100%, answers are literally a few clicks and types away, everything is accessible now. Whoever you are keep going!!!

Great advice for social media in general. So much you can quickly check you self. You tube is amazing for learning, do your own research and it is faster. Good work dude.

Masterclass was always super obvious to me but i gained some really cool insights for music production learning so thank you

Good advice Taetro, I work on a beat one day then stop for a few days.. still trying to find the consistency to work everyday before n after work 👍🏽 good stuff man

love this message on autonomy!💗

My man this advice is good for beginners at literally every single skill in the history of forever and the future

You are right. There are so many skills out there in the internet and they are waiting for to be used.

Definitely great advice! When I started learning to record music, I was using a tascam and an Alesis drum machine, my first hardware ever, along with a guitar and bass. It was about 1995, and the internet was fairly new to most people. We definitely didn’t have the resources then that we have today. I had to buy books and magazines, read manuals, lol. And lots of trial and error. Today there’s such a wealth of information at our fingertips, its actually baffling that you even needed to make a video to talk about it. I would think everyone would just know that Google and KZfaq are our friends, lol. But I guess people take that sort of thing for granted. It’s amazing how easy it is to learn, and how much more affordable it is to have a small studio, and how much higher quality the home recordings are today than they were when I was getting started in my 20s. I took several years away from music, and now that I’ve come back the past couple of years, I’ve learned so much new stuff! Like how to dial in a sound from scratch on a synth, for instance. I never really understood how they worked until I got back into it and devoured every KZfaq video I could find. Now if I want to make a bass patch or a pad or something, I can make it happen. And I’ve learned a ton of stuff from this channel about recording techniques, so I thank you for all the effort you put into this!

Thank you Taetro 🙏💛 🌱

Love this! Asking a creator questions isn’t a problem but doing so without conducting thorough research prior to creates a bad counter productive habit. Imagine what else can be learned along the way!

Thank you very much for this video!!!!. Really useful

Good advice applicable to any skill you want to learn :)

This is by far the best answer I've heard. Thax bro. You have just moved me foward.

This video is essential for, I think not for only music production but also any creatives or anybody wanna learn anything these days!!!

Thank you for all your advice.

This is great advice. I started learning how to play bass not too long ago. I wanted to get more into the composing and producing part of music. I'm always googling stuff and watching videos and then I hit a wall. I would say the music terminology/equipment and basic music theory are 2 things that will help a lot. My lightbulb moment was digitally recreating my favorite songs on a DAW. I feel like I learned more about music in the first week of using Cakewalk than I did the whole year prior.

Two months back I didn't even know what a DAW was 😂 Last week I just made my first track (Almost one 😂) on Abelton using my komplete kontrol m32, inspired and learning from guys like you. Thank you. Still a looot to learn, but with all these free information available online I guess there's nothing to worry.

Taetro, you nailed it!!! This is exactly what I do when I'm stuck and have a questions. Google is my friend and now Chatgpt is also my friend. I enjoyed your most recent video where you asked chatgpt to create the bladerunner type sound and the kalimba dreamy sound. I had a chuckle when watching the video as I did this as well out of curiosity but don't have enough knowledge yet to be able to constuct a song. I'm still in the " loop " phase😂

Very well said! Thank you! Keep it up😬🙌🙌

Great piece of advice, absorbing info is the key, even if you didn’t have the question related to a video, article, podcast etc. Every one shouldn’t rely on content creators and other more “educated” people to ask a question that probably was answered. Internet is a place that has the answer for every question, but you have to look for it! Amazing video, as always. Thank you for what you do @TAETRO!

6:00 thank you for that, it really changes my perspective

Great advice! 🔥

really really really good advice!! thank you

I stopped doing music for a while and picked it up recently again and experimenting with different styles. One thing I've learned is research and documentation reading is super important. I'm a web dev and it has helped a ton with my productions. What I wish is more plugin makers create online documentation.

That’s great advice I did that from the start how I learned most of my knowledge

This is probably the best advice on making progress as beginning music producer.

Loved this video

really like the videos man thanks for all ur time !!!! -new viewer

It's funny how having tools to learn more and satisfy our curiosity or doubts, we simply continue asking as if the answer was not just a click away. It is entirely due to the fact that we believe in the immediacy that social networks give us, for example, without the need for much effort.

Great advice, not just for music but for just about anything in life.

Such good advice and points! I get the same type of basic questions on my channel. I’m from the generation of having to do research on my own…in books!!😆 to my fellow humans…take pride in researching and problem solving on your own. 😎👍🏼

Great video. There are two reasons I have got into music production. 1) I love listening to my music genre 2) i love learning. So being able to produce music I like is key. People want to know “the answer” whereas the answer is really a string of questions that lead you to your knowledge. Also newbies; try not to buy too many things like presets… much better to learn through yt how to create your own presets as then they are free AND you learned some sound design knowledge! Free gets you more!

excellent advice for life in general. figure that shit out , man

Thank You ! !

Great advice::: Thank you 👍🏽

This is high IQ game. This gonna go over 95% of people’s heads. Appreciate it bro 💯💪🏾

bravo!!!! great advice!

fantastic video - all the answers are out there !

Research and development.... yep? 100 % ! Great advice. I'm not a producer per say, but I'm constantly trying to improve my guitar studio on a low budget. Using an interface outputted to a stereo receiver. Probably not the best set up , but over last 10 years, that's what I've used into a guitar software sim. I can get some decent sounds through my pioneer 160w speakers, however my next quest will be what kind of speakers to upgrade next; not sure if something like KRK's rockets would sound smaller?

a real talk which was much needed..haha

I’m still in highschool so I got so much free time I might as well invest my time into something I love. Boutta start my journey

Fantastic, fantastic video. So very true.

thank you brother this video hit the right note, i hit the technical wall, i will be more active in searching the doubt in google, take care

This should be pinned at the top of every single music production Facebook group. Very well articulated T!

Like this idea thanks Taetro👌😎

So this is great advice in life in general. There are times when I come across a question on post in Facebook and the answer is there is Google. There are times where I copy their question and paste the results. Then I tell them that they can do the same thing i did.

really good and understandable video ty for this and sry for my hurry

thank you so much

THANKS TAETROOOOOO-CHAN 🥺❤

This was actually great and valuable advice and quite frankly, it should be applied to other aspects of life as well. In order to truly make progress, you have to be willing to put in individual work instead of waiting for others to guide you.

I sub'd for another vid but This One? .....Daaammm💯 I Feel everything you're saying.

Thank you

In not having a physical person to call a music mentor on certain things, I've been googling & tubing non-stop the last 2 months. I'm definitely going to be googling what certain plugins do. i never even thought to, with the weight of all the other searching im doing at any given time lol

Came here to learn about more music production tips. *Leaving life advice*

This is seriously great LIFE advice.

Time management is a good tool for doing this type of stuff on a professional level

This was very important.

Haha dude, you nailed it. I consumed ALL the production interviews of Finneas and other artists btw in the past 😂 And i haven't even really started yet

skin in the game!!

Well said 😁

Of course, it makes sense. seems a smidge obvious, beings underneath videos is the place for information / products there in, and comment section is for just that to leave a comment. A smidge crazy in this age of Bing, google etc... Sponge is again a bit obvious, but solid advice for anything one is learning absorb all information filtering accordingly. Your videos are extremely mild mannered and paced and presented well for learning hard to believe any gripes or lack of responses to the obvious exist at all.

The problem well defined is half solved. Google helps you define your problem. Awesome advice!

Hey Taetro please drop an IG story of all your star wars collectibles im dying to see that 😂 great vid brother keep it up 🔥

I like that advice. I remember an old teacher of mine. Back in the 80s.. Quote: " 'I didn't know that' doesn't count anymore. The information is there. It's your task to look for it."

4:22 “if you’re not super lucky, you won’t have a lot of luck.” So real

i learned this skill from working on my own cars LOL the feeling of finding that one 10 year old thread after hours of searching that has your solution or answer is always a rush

Nice!

Awesome advice! It's very applicable to other issues/questions as well. Thank you for sharing!

I got a question for anyone that is wiling to answer. So I've had this midi controller for almost a week now. I am not gonna get too specific, but beforehand, and even afterwards, I searched the internet for any tutorials and any videos that would help me start making music with it as fast as possible. But unfortunately, there is one problem with my midi that seems to have no solid answer too. Occasionally a key or multiple keys on the piano bed plays at an extremely low velocity. As far as I know, they still work. It's just that, other keys around it will make a sound, but that one or group of keys will play at the lowest velocity possible. To be a little bit more specific, eventually if I press on it again, the key will make a sound . I have searched and searched all over and have not found a single solution. I have a MPK mini Mk3, and I have already tried the hold on Full Level button trick. As far as I know its not a latency problem, so I don't know what it is.

Thats why I study and learn how to use my plugins to get different sounds

thanks, i needed that. hi

This is great advice! I hoped onto a stream by Bound To Divide and he had an app at the top of his screen with all the metering tools visible and I thought what is that? Turns out he had it labeled because everyone asks that question and a google search later I've spent $10 and now I use Minimeters on every project because its constantly tells me info about my music!

That’s not a music advice, that’s a straight up life advice !

your videos are inspiring.

I'm a Reaper User, now we all know how reaper doesn't really have that much tutorials compared to other days, people end up complaining that Reaper doesn't have resources and it's hard but for me it's been a walk in a park because of exactly what you just said for the technical aspect there is almost always an answer out there dedicated to Reaper but for the creative aspect I get it literally every where else

This video solves a lot of questions. I couldn't say it better myself. BUT...yes, there's a big BUT. People think u, as a streamer or whatever, are the master and they want to know exactly how u do it bc they want that exact sound. Sometimes it's better to google it as u say, and to try and play on your own. That's often the better sullotion bc u still want to create music that's your own, you own kind of sound... Sometimes that's the best way to learn how to do it, by practicing, a lot. I can admit that I want to master all the things that I want to learn right away, I don't want to figure it out by myself, I don't want to try. But that's just fact. U need to practise to get better.