Music Habits

The Mental Game of Electronic Music Production: Finish Songs Fast, Beat Procrastination and Find Your Creative Flow

De: Jason Timothy

Narrado por: Zachary Dylan Brown

Music production can be an elusive art form for many, and the challenges that face someone who is new to this can easily create overwhelm and lead to complete paralysis. The goal of this book is to cover music production from many different angles in a way that will change your thinking on the subject and build your confidence.

Music making is a very mental and psychological game, and more often than not, all the technical stuff can hold you back from achieving your goals if you don't have the right creative habits in place first.

With all the information available with a simple Google search, I wanted to really get to the heart of things that aren't being discussed nearly enough. I want to clear out all the garbage you may have been told and replace it with the essentials you can put to immediate use. Many people new to music may dive into forums and mindlessly watch video tutorials attempting to gather more and more information until they think they have enough to get going (hint: You never feel like you know enough).

That would be like reading a whole encyclopedia and then being asked to recall only the important things that will get you from point A to point B. Even worse, much of the information you get will contradict the last thing you read. It's like finding a needle in a haystack only to be told it's the wrong needle. There is a much better approach. It's an approach that doesn't require you to know a lot to get started. You only need to know enough to get to the next step in your process.

There is truly nothing stopping you from becoming a music producer. The ones who are successful now are the ones who started from nothing and chipped away at it until they found a way to express their unique voice. There are no gatekeepers making decisions on who is worthy and who isn't. The determining factor is you, your habits, and your confidence in yourself.

This book can be listened from start to finish, or as a “choose your own adventure”, going directly to what you think can help you most right now. Don't get caught up thinking you have to devour everything before getting started. That isn't necessary, and isn't the point of the book.

The core concepts in the book will come up time and time again which should help you retain them and be able to recall them when the need arrives. By exploring these concepts from several angles, you should gain a broad view of their many uses.

My hope is that this book is used as a toolbox. You simply find the right tool that moves you forward and get back to work. So few people, who have more than enough information in their heads, ever start. Of those who do start, even fewer finish what they started and are satisfied with the results. I want you to be in that small group of finishers.

Let's get started.

©2015, 2020 Jason Ward (P)2020 Jason Ward

Must Read

Get it if your serious about finishing music.It will really open up your mind when it comes to the mental game of electronic music.

Highly Recommended for Artists

This book was a game changer for me! It’s caused me to reevaluate my creative process and how I approach making music. Since I’ve been listening to this book, I have installed new music making habits and am finishing more music than I ever have before.

Straightforward Help

This book is a great tool to listen and refer to when looking to becoming a more deliberate and successful musician. Most of the tips and ideas given will translate to any genre, skill set and experience level.

Noisy audio quality

Great ideas and very insightful. The book helps aspiring producers get over many roadblocks and ineffective habits. Totally recommended. Ironically though, the audio quality of the audiobook itself has some issues and I hope they can be fixed in an update.

Gems....Gems....Gems...

this book is awesome....it's full of things that you can apply now...soak up game listeners

awesome book

this book was very motivating and inspiring and I will likely listen to it again just to get fired up again.

he calls out a lot of the bad habits most bedroom producers have and offers new ways of thinking about the craft.

Solid

Great energy and realistic approaches to improving production process and life skills. Recommend to any thoughtful (or overthinking) artists exploring their limits.

Great Quick Advice

There were many helpful tools and techniques provided in this audiobook. It was practical. Thank you!

I love Timothy

He taught me everything I know about ableton… (well almost everything)
He’s really passionate about teaching and doesn’t get as much credit as I think he deserves for all he does for aspiring producers. This book is a godsend. It has definitely motivated me to stop making excuses and start creating again.
Bravo!

Motivating and Practical Ideas for Producing

Excellent book which is a blend of practical advice, strong opinion, and personal backstory. Somewhat repetitive but that’s fine. Not everything in it is for everyone, and I often disagree with his firmly stated opinions. But that has just made this book more valuable to me over the years. I am going to see if this is in print so I can keep a copy in my project studio, on that near-at-hand shelf of books that give me ideas for things to do when I’m feeling blank or discouraged. I’ve been producing electronic music for almost 9 years and have 8 tracks releasing next year, so I’m actively in the game. This book was helpful to me when I was just getting started (it was part of Kindle Unlimited at the time), and it remains helpful to me today.

Unfortunately they made a very poor choice of narrator, so that is something you’ll have to tolerate. For one, his folksy tone doesn’t suit the material at all. For another, although I wouldn’t expect a narrator to know much about production, the fact is, he frequently seems to not understand even in principle what he is saying, which leads to weird mispronunciations and errors in emphasis that entail repeated re-listening on my part. However, the truly inexcusable fault is that he does not bother to pause around section headings! He reads them like they’re just another sentence in the flow, following hard after the last sentence of the previous section, and sections are so frequent that you end up having to re-contextualize what you’re hearing every couple of minutes or so. Incredibly annoying!

That said, I must still recommend this title based on the content alone.