5 Ways to kick start your musical productions

Hi there, while I was on vacations several mails asking different things came to me, and one of the must recurrent questions was: "I want to make a song / career in music production, how can I achieve that?"
While there are many ways to a) make a song, and b) starting a carrer in music production, I'll be talking about the more-standard-low-profile-music-production-career that's on the web all around us today: the DAW(digital audio workstation) based producer. And I'll give you a few things to do for reaching the goal of making a song. Let's start.

1) I really recommend you to first of all, learn a solid basis of musical knowledge before anything else. Why? Because if you don't do it you'll be tweaking presets and downloading prefabs your whole life instead of creating new music, and delivering value to the scene you choose.

2) It all depends on your musical development level, your musical production skills, and the time you have been messing with both. The more time you mess with them, the more skillful you'll be. There are no magical recipes to achieve this, but reading, watching tutorials and get in tune with the scene you choose really helps.
 
3) Practice in your favourite program is a must. You can't wake up one morning with a song in your head and make it happen in 15 minutes if you don't know how to do it isn't it?

4) Get used to the environment you choose and learn the shortcuts you use most of the time, you'll be thankful later.

5) A quick way to improve in music production: learn from the best. This means listen to your favourite music, learn to recognize what's in it that you like and try to perfectly emulate it in  the program you have chosen.
Yes, by this I mean copy the specific thing you hear.
In this process you'll learn to distinguish new things in music, little details that before this procedure you had never heard or being aware of. Listen to the patterns, the secuence of sounds, when something comes in and when something comes out of the song. Why, when, and how much of a specific effect is being applied.
All this detailed reaserch of any song you like will elevate you to another level in music awareness, and the next song you'll analize will be easier, and the next one even easier, until the technics of bringing to life all those cool sounds begins to appear in your own music too.

All this may require several things: time(lots of it), effort(lots of it), will power(lots of it), money(not that much at all), samples(depends on your music genre), a community where you can send your firsts songs and get feedback (there's lots of them around, just choose), and patience(lots of it).

If you lack some of the points if been talking about don't worry, if you care enough for your music you'll find the way in the end to make the best of it. I'll be around to see if I can be of any help.

Thanks for your feedback, and...until next time, live musically.

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