Hi guys, I’m Bacebiitx and I’m a music producer. Today I’m going to share with you guys five tips you need to know as an aspiring producer or maybe you’re even a producer. I just want to quickly share with you guys some of the things I did that Kind of took me from where I was to where I am right now.
1 IDENTIFY YOUR PURPOSE
You need to identify your purpose. It’s as simple as it sounds. Identify your purpose; are you meant to be a music producer? Are you born for it? Because, like it is said; when the purpose of a thing is not known abuse is inevitable.
Everybody has been created by God with a particular purpose because your greatness only lies in your purpose which is why you need to identify your purpose, maybe not even being a producer, it might be singing, you know, it might be you going into music business or being an artist manager. Whatever it is you need to be able to identify what your purpose is in life. As soon as you have that sorted out, trust me every other thing I will be sharing with you will just be a build upon the foundation. And like I said the foundation is identify your purpose.
2 SELF DEVELOPMENT
Having identified your purpose, you need to be able to develop yourself, develop your skills, you need to be able to work on your stuff and it never stops you know, because as long as there is life, as long as you are living, you’re alive it never stops. You have to keep learning, keep improving yourself and work to become the best that you can be, doing what you know how to do, what you love doing.
For me, I believe that there is so many ways you can work on improving yourself. You can go online, you can learn from YouTube, you can Google whatever you want to, because these days it has become so easy for you to learn almost everything and anything you want to learn. And beyond even learning that, you have to be able to find role models and mentors because the truth about it is life is too short to learn everything from your own personal experience and mistakes. So why make certain mistakes that can be avoided, all you need to do is just look up to people that have been there, because no matter where you are and what you want to do, there are people that have been there before you and people that are already going through it right now.
So all you need to do is just to identify those people, follow them closely; you might not be close to them physically but you can pick up some materials about them and for the ones that you can approach, you can go up to them and tell them “Bro, I would love you to be my mentor, I so much admire you and I want to learn from you”. I believe every great man is always willing to share his experiences with the young people (aspiring producer). So, you can take advantage of that.
Also, learn something new about your career daily, at least one new thing about your career daily, if you can learn more than one, it is fine, but learn something new daily about your career and not just learning, make sure you apply what you’ve learnt. Just keep learning, the truth about it is that when preparation meets opportunity success is inevitable. Keep working, practice, rehearse, learn all the software if you have to, just keep developing yourself, and it goes across; mentally, emotionally and all of that. Just keep learning.
3 BE UNIQUE
Identify your uniqueness. Everybody is good yeah, everybody can be a producer but what differentiates you from the other producers is your uniqueness, because everybody is unique, everybody is different. You need to be able to look inward and discover your uniqueness, what makes you stand out. You need to be able to find, I can’t tell you; it left for you to discover, but look for it that’s another way that your greatness can be known. If you’re different, if you’re unique no matter what it is as you’re learning as you keep working on yourself you need to be able to put in that conscious effort to discover your uniqueness.
What makes you stand out? What makes you unique? Why should people listen to your production? Why should people work with you? You simply have to bring something unique onto the table. People should be able to listen to your sound and now that yeah, that’s him or that sound, you know. So you need to work on that.
4 UNDERSTAND THE BUSINESS
Next thing is you need to be able to understand the business of your craft. I think that’s where a lot of people have issues or find it difficult. You need to be able to understand your craft, it’s called music business for a reason, because there is a music part which is the creative part and there is the business part. For producers I call it BUSINESS OF THE BEAT, you need to be able to understand the business of the beat, business of production, music business. And like I said it doesn’t stop, you can only learn only if your search, only if you find, only if you put in that conscious effort and trust me, it cannot be overemphasized; LEARN THE BUSINESS OF THE BEAT. You need to be able to learn, I mean, it covers the a lot; from branding to payout, to a whole lot of stuff about your career. Understand the business, the music business, I think for me that’s what matters the most because you don’t want to just learn the creative and just forget the business.
5 CONNECT WITH DIVINITY
Lastly, you need to hold on to God, because at the end of the day, it is God that blesses us all. You can do all of this and if God is not on your side, at the end of the day it makes no sense. You have to just know that God is the one that sees everybody, you need to stay humble. So no matter what you’ve been doing someone has been there before, you just need to stay humble, only when you’re humble God blesses.
Yeah, that's all. Thanks to you guys, its been a great time sharing these little tips what I think every aspiring music producer should put into consideration to be able to move from where you are to where you want to be.
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