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The critical path to a finished song (opens the original)
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Everyone once in a while I get sucked into random rabbit holes and this week’s was the SpaceX Youtube channel.In one of their latest videos began with one of their engineers defining the Critical Path, which in their context applies to rockey science (literally). But when I heard the definition my music producer brain instantly connected to the process of making and finishing music. It just clicked so naturally.Here’s how he defined the Critical Path:“The longest set of sequential events that ar
Your taste is the only thing nobody can copy (opens the original)
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Most producers can tell you exactly what they want their music to sound like, very few can tell you the songs they’ve actually studied deeply. It’s this gap between what you want to make and what you’ve studied which explains more about the music you’re currently making than anything ever will.Simple concept to understand right?Input goes in, output comes out. Nobody can argue with that.But I think it’s the third line is the one that breaks the pattern, which is responsible for its mini-viral br
Excitement is the signal (opens the original)
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If you’ve been reading my work long enough you know I’m a big believer that excitement isn’t just a feeling, it’s a signal. When an idea lights something up in you that response is your instincts, your taste, and your current creative state all arriving at the same place at the same time. You didn’t have to think about it, it just happened.A few months ago I had one of those moments where a chord progression showed up while I was doing something else entirely and I could already hear where it wa
"It's Like Importing a Spark From the Past": Tom Callahan on Finishing an Album (opens the original)
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I’ve spent the last 5 months of this year developing Song Ritual.It’s the app I wish I’d had for most of the last decade. It’s essentially a studio session prompt generator which draws from your own inspiration, as opposed to going in the studio with a “let’s see what happens” approach.It contains a vault where every idea, voice memo, and napkin scribble lives in one dedicated place. You can create or pre-save Creative Sparks for the days
Your best music comes from making it for yourself (opens the original)
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Most of us are making music for a room full of people who aren’t in it.The playlist curator. The close friend whose opinion carries more weight than it should. The audience we’ve imagined in our head out of comments, streams, and whatever we saw doing well last week. None of them are in the studio, yet all of them are influencing our creative decisions.The thing is you did it on their behalf, in advance and without being asked (partly because of our biological need to feel a sense of belonging,
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