Beaubeats
Beau Beats
Battle Points: 3
The million dollar question.
With the little time we have here in our short lives, why do you make music/beats?
If we can learn the "why" it's easier to find the "how".
Put it like this. Some time ago I started seeing the world differently then I did as a kid. Lots of poor life choices, wrong paths chosen and hard lessons learned are likely the only reason I have the perspective I do now. Bare with me, shits going to get weird for a minute. I use a reverse engineering approach now which requires me to look at my funeral. Thats right, as a fly on the wall. From a perspective of dying tomorrow up until I am an old man. I picture the people who may or may not be there based on how I may have lived my life. I use this approach to make sure I give my family the love they deserve despite any issues I may have with them along the way. It is a way of forgiveness that benefits my soul, so I don't carry a burden of hate, anger or resentment that will deteriorate me slowly from the inside. It works wonderfully and helps me focus on my actions alone and only what I can control.
What does this have to do with making beats/producing or being a creative?
The same technique can be applied to how we spend our time while we are here. It is very simple. When you are out of time what will you regret? What decisions in your life will you wish you made differently? I have had many things to regret but have given myself forgiveness for all of that nonsense and self hatred years ago. It has freed my mind to be able to access potential I never knew I had, shit, no one knew I had it except for my grade school teachers with the "doesn't use his potential" comments on my report cards my entire school career. I started to put effort into growing instead of thinking about the past.
For me the answer is not simple and I did not find it easily. For my long ass story, read the green. For the shorter version, skip the green. It really isn't required to get the idea of this post.
I always denied caring what other people thought of my art, paintings, my music...or anything else I put effort into. I was lying to myself. I was afraid that I wasn't a good enough artist, my beats weren't worth showing people and just full of self doubt and fear. It ate me alive and killed my creativity for many years in my life.
Then I started to look at it more realistically. I started to pay attention to the way things work and I tried new things. Scary things. Quite a job of twelve years to open a company to compete with a multi million dollar company who was surely going to fight me tooth and nail. I spent six months doing research, planning, setting up and I was already knowledgable about my trade. Everyone doubted me. I doubled down. Everyone projected their fears onto me (especially my wife). We fought about it here and there but she watched me work towards a goal, one brick at a time. I could tell she still didn't believe in me. So I worked harder. When It was time to make the move and quit my job I was terrified. Filled with fear and visions of being a failure. But I did the work. Inside I knew it was the only way I would be happy doing that job anymore.
It worked, for a little while. I was very successful at it my first year. Second year 105% growth, third year 150%. My happiness was fading and how could this be? I had done exactly what I set out to do but I was even more miserable than I was at my old job.
The one real mistake. I did not listen to my heart and just listened to my head. I went for financial success and control over happiness. It started to weigh on me that I was not fulfilling my potential and I was so far from what I want to be. It ate my time and added stress to all aspects of my life. I started to clearly see how that same potential could be used in other areas of my life.
That is when I realized I need to follow my musical heart. I need to create music and art and I want people to enjoy it. I want to work next to artist who have an original voice or style that people have yet to hear. I want to help people who already have a style retain that style and keep working it, growing it and expressing themselves the way people already enjoy from them. My business skills and ability to research and learn with my creativity will unlocked doors that I know I can get to if I apply all the same efforts in this field as I did in my work career. For the first time in all my life I am starting to clearly see my future as a professional and successful music producer. I am on a long road that just started last summer and I am playing the long ball. Overnight success has no value to me. I want it the hard way. I want to learn everything I can before I make big moves. I want to be great at production. All production. All genres. Movies, video games. The sky is the limit and if i live 50 more years I can learn more than I ever thought possible as a boy.
It is very simple.
If YOU produce because you enjoy coming home from work and having a nice relaxing hobby to practice and play with, make what your soul wants to hear.
If YOU produce to cater to a certain sub genre or specific style of music then stay doing you, especially if likeminded people are enjoying it and it is making you a living already.
If YOU produce to be original, experimental and explore the unknown, stay weird.... lots of the best things come from their eventually.
if YOU produce because you want to be the next biggest producer, stay learning and practice. Stay studying what the greats have done (in their time) and watch what the charts do. Look for trends and try to recognize what is working and what is not in todays market. Watch tutorials in your free time. Study the legal side of music as that can be the very factor that determines how successful you can become. Know whats yours and what is not. Take constructive criticism every chance you get but make sure you filter it first. Always be careful of the source of it as that will greatly impact how they judge the work. Over all else, don't get romantic about anything. When people honestly gauge your work take what they say into consideration and try to improve. Start studying how you can get better. Keep it business when it needs to be and set small achievable goals so you can always see the progression. There is no shame in changing with the times. The term sellout or the like is usually only spoken by people who are not capable of such a drastic and controlled process of direction and dedication. Make what you need to to get noticed. Gain momentum.
Above all else, keep an open mind and respect other peoples opinions and where they come from. Mutual respect goes a long way in todays world because of how many lack it, especially on the internet.
With the little time we have here in our short lives, why do you make music/beats?
If we can learn the "why" it's easier to find the "how".
Put it like this. Some time ago I started seeing the world differently then I did as a kid. Lots of poor life choices, wrong paths chosen and hard lessons learned are likely the only reason I have the perspective I do now. Bare with me, shits going to get weird for a minute. I use a reverse engineering approach now which requires me to look at my funeral. Thats right, as a fly on the wall. From a perspective of dying tomorrow up until I am an old man. I picture the people who may or may not be there based on how I may have lived my life. I use this approach to make sure I give my family the love they deserve despite any issues I may have with them along the way. It is a way of forgiveness that benefits my soul, so I don't carry a burden of hate, anger or resentment that will deteriorate me slowly from the inside. It works wonderfully and helps me focus on my actions alone and only what I can control.
What does this have to do with making beats/producing or being a creative?
The same technique can be applied to how we spend our time while we are here. It is very simple. When you are out of time what will you regret? What decisions in your life will you wish you made differently? I have had many things to regret but have given myself forgiveness for all of that nonsense and self hatred years ago. It has freed my mind to be able to access potential I never knew I had, shit, no one knew I had it except for my grade school teachers with the "doesn't use his potential" comments on my report cards my entire school career. I started to put effort into growing instead of thinking about the past.
For me the answer is not simple and I did not find it easily. For my long ass story, read the green. For the shorter version, skip the green. It really isn't required to get the idea of this post.
I always denied caring what other people thought of my art, paintings, my music...or anything else I put effort into. I was lying to myself. I was afraid that I wasn't a good enough artist, my beats weren't worth showing people and just full of self doubt and fear. It ate me alive and killed my creativity for many years in my life.
Then I started to look at it more realistically. I started to pay attention to the way things work and I tried new things. Scary things. Quite a job of twelve years to open a company to compete with a multi million dollar company who was surely going to fight me tooth and nail. I spent six months doing research, planning, setting up and I was already knowledgable about my trade. Everyone doubted me. I doubled down. Everyone projected their fears onto me (especially my wife). We fought about it here and there but she watched me work towards a goal, one brick at a time. I could tell she still didn't believe in me. So I worked harder. When It was time to make the move and quit my job I was terrified. Filled with fear and visions of being a failure. But I did the work. Inside I knew it was the only way I would be happy doing that job anymore.
It worked, for a little while. I was very successful at it my first year. Second year 105% growth, third year 150%. My happiness was fading and how could this be? I had done exactly what I set out to do but I was even more miserable than I was at my old job.
The one real mistake. I did not listen to my heart and just listened to my head. I went for financial success and control over happiness. It started to weigh on me that I was not fulfilling my potential and I was so far from what I want to be. It ate my time and added stress to all aspects of my life. I started to clearly see how that same potential could be used in other areas of my life.
That is when I realized I need to follow my musical heart. I need to create music and art and I want people to enjoy it. I want to work next to artist who have an original voice or style that people have yet to hear. I want to help people who already have a style retain that style and keep working it, growing it and expressing themselves the way people already enjoy from them. My business skills and ability to research and learn with my creativity will unlocked doors that I know I can get to if I apply all the same efforts in this field as I did in my work career. For the first time in all my life I am starting to clearly see my future as a professional and successful music producer. I am on a long road that just started last summer and I am playing the long ball. Overnight success has no value to me. I want it the hard way. I want to learn everything I can before I make big moves. I want to be great at production. All production. All genres. Movies, video games. The sky is the limit and if i live 50 more years I can learn more than I ever thought possible as a boy.
It is very simple.
If YOU produce because you enjoy coming home from work and having a nice relaxing hobby to practice and play with, make what your soul wants to hear.
If YOU produce to cater to a certain sub genre or specific style of music then stay doing you, especially if likeminded people are enjoying it and it is making you a living already.
If YOU produce to be original, experimental and explore the unknown, stay weird.... lots of the best things come from their eventually.
if YOU produce because you want to be the next biggest producer, stay learning and practice. Stay studying what the greats have done (in their time) and watch what the charts do. Look for trends and try to recognize what is working and what is not in todays market. Watch tutorials in your free time. Study the legal side of music as that can be the very factor that determines how successful you can become. Know whats yours and what is not. Take constructive criticism every chance you get but make sure you filter it first. Always be careful of the source of it as that will greatly impact how they judge the work. Over all else, don't get romantic about anything. When people honestly gauge your work take what they say into consideration and try to improve. Start studying how you can get better. Keep it business when it needs to be and set small achievable goals so you can always see the progression. There is no shame in changing with the times. The term sellout or the like is usually only spoken by people who are not capable of such a drastic and controlled process of direction and dedication. Make what you need to to get noticed. Gain momentum.
Above all else, keep an open mind and respect other peoples opinions and where they come from. Mutual respect goes a long way in todays world because of how many lack it, especially on the internet.
