producing. Should i start with easier genres?

[Tommi Bass]

I have released many,many,many Minimal tracks and have been producing since 1992.

It is not easy.

Every single sound is sculpted and has to work 101%. The secret to minimal music is that it should sound effortless, it has to be groovy... and I feel every single kick and snare all the way. Or any kind of dance music.

The only way you will EVER learn... is if you feel your art. Jump straight into it headlong, I was lucky to have Brian Eno for a personal tutor for a few weeks in the mid 90s. I asked him one day after a lecture how he got his sound, he replied ... "when I get a new bit of kit I throw away the manual and then just dive right into it... I experiment and have those happy accidents, I learn from my mistakes or simply just have fun..."

These words have never left me....

When I have taught young producers in the past, I say .. just experiment and produce what you are feeling, who wants to listen to half assed music that has no fucking soul?

Be patient, I have been producing for many years as I have mentioned and guess what I have yet still loads to learn, art is not the end product it is the creative process ...............this is where the art is. You dig?

You simply cannot rush art, it takes many years to master...... whats the race?

Are you terminaly ill and have to get famous in two months?

I'll be releasing and creating music for another twenty ... thirty years. Why? Cus it is great fun at the end of the day and I enjoy trying to push myself each and every track I create.

Producers seldom talk about the fundamentals anymore. Its all massive ego.

So just dive right in........ and have FUN!

[padi_04]

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[vpech013]

Thanks, Tommi! thats a great piece of advice.

[Maven]

from what I experienced for the last couple months. Minimal, techno, indie dance, deep house, house genres that are actually slower even ambient and lounge is harder to produce as in quality. It is harder to make something groovy and not stale with less elements.

[RockingClub]

from what I experienced for the last couple months. Minimal, techno, indie dance, deep house, house genres that are actually slower even ambient and lounge is harder to produce as in quality. It is harder to make something groovy and not stale with less elements.

Those slower ambient lounge or progressive style of music often demands some more melodical stuff so it's much harder than just building a single 8 bar melody line as you might sometimes do in club music.
But I think every genre has it's advantages and disadvantages. Some focus more on melodical stuff, some more on sound design...

[Maven]

Yeah, there are no such thing as easy genre, you can make any style of music but what matter is how is the song as in quality.

[vpech013]

thanks guy, really clears things up. i am new so i just want to make sure i tacle things right. cheers