Wise Advice

[MichaelL]

I was going to share this on Robin’s Que Sera thread, but I think it stands on its own.

This is good advice for newbies (maybe oldies too).

If you simply want to make some money in this business, “not that good” is often quite sufficient. So, why bother to do more?

Shouldn’t you be satisfied when you’ve reached a level of “not that good” that will get you placements on cable TV, and call it a day?

I don’t think that answer is clear. First, you have to know the difference between “not that good” and good.

[gdomeier]

Thanks for that.

[Mark Lewis]

Awesome.
To be a good tennis player you start by hitting 10,000 tennis balls.

[woodsdenis]

That is fantastic , practise makes perfect explained very well.

[Desire_Inspires]

Shouldn’t you be satisfied when you’ve reached a level of “not that good” that will get you placements on cable TV, and call it a day?

I thought once I got “good enough”, I would be content. But I still feel something is missing.

I am working on moving into the “good” category. I have heard the good stuff and I am not there yet.

[Vlad]

@ Michael: great post.

So there is this battle I have been fighting, which involves creating work that I am proud of writing-wise and production-wise, vs. pumping out loads of mediocre music that I know is more likely to get placements. Recently, a library sent out links to frequently placed tracks. Not knocking the writers, but a good 75% of those tracks didn’t have much more than a back beat, very little melodic content, didnt groove, and production quality that was suspect to my ears. This inner struggle plagues me: high quality art to be proud of vs. large numbers of mediocre tracks. I seem to always choose the first. And no intention of hijacking this thread.

[Rob (Cruciform)]

Great message.

[Mike Marino]

More great advice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oNcbm2MSsM

[woodsdenis]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpdPrm6Ul4&spfreload=10

[MichaelL]

Brilliant! Thanks Denis

Truer words were never spoken:

“If you’re absolutely hopeless at something, you lack exactly the skills that you need to know that you’re absolutely hopeless at it.”

“Most people who have absolutely no idea what they’re doing, have absolutely no idea that they have no idea what they’re doing.”

[Musicmatters]

Great advice by one of my all time heroes. Thanks for sharing @woodsdenis

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