8 Reasons Your Music Sounds Amateur and How To Fix Them 

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Same in software engineering. You begin to write spaghetti code, because you don't know what you're doing. Then, you've learned a lot of stuff and mix it together until it becomes a big mess of abstraction layers and frameworks until finally, you come back to simplicity and build great software that is optimal, easy to use and doesn't contain any line of code that is not essentially relevant to fulfill the goal of the program.

Man, I'm mostly mixing rock and metal music. Your tips is top notch and not only applicable to electronic music

The simplicity tip is so so good, I really have taken this one to heart thank you Will!

That was super helpful as always ! Thank you so much Will for the value you are bringing to this community 💪

Oh yeah!!!! This is what I was waiting for, cool!!! Thanks!!!! You can have more videos like this!🔥🔥🔥🔥

Amen Ra, Will! And Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to you and your Family! 🎄💖

Changing pitch for copy right is genius for a tutorial! Great stuff, great tips 👍

Excellent video! Thank you so much for the knowledge that you share!

Enjoyed this vid very much, this is the exact level that im at at the moment. Will check out your courses mate. Thankyou and Merry Christmas!!

Thanks Will, useful video and just the right timing for me!

Always a great tutorial Will, thank you for knowledge!!!!

Great stuff Will, thanks. Have opened up my latest track I was stuck in with some fresh ideas off the back of this❤️

16:23 "that sounds quite good" Of course, she's literally saying 'good' Amen! from BA, Argentina Thanks for your tips ❤

the tip about choosing sounds within the theme is so good.

Tuning in to this channel a lot more now, love it 🙌

Honestly this is one of the best edm production channels I’ve found in my 10 years of production learning

the energy map is so cool! thanks Will. 😊

I have a chart where I map out energy and emotion levels on an arrangement. I'm an engineer by trade, and my wife laughed when she saw it and said "only you would make a graph or spreadsheet for the emotion of a song." It was a solid compliment.

As always, concise, practical and deeply knowledgeable advice. Thank you friend. Really appreciate all you do.

These tips are exactly what my Lofi tracks are missing. I watched this and your automation video today and can't wait to polish up my next few tracks using these tips.

Great video Will Thanks again for the Amazing content.

Simplicity is really important! I got a lot of "nice" ideas and put them all together and the feedback always comes back mostly negative. I am publishing the cleanest track I made tomorrow and this is so far my favorite. The only thing different is that I stuck to the genre and kept it simple!

Love this guy actually bought one of his courses and now I need to Upgrade my mac book to M2 no worries though i'm not far off Love you Will No homo and thank you for giving me hope in this journey of music.

🎉 WOW so helpful thank you! 😊 So much juicy content in one video!! I have been struggling with these points lately so this is perfect. Staying with one vibe is a challenge for sure! My current production sounds like two songs now. I’ve only lately started to incorporate this simplicity again (after the complexity) stage and having good results! But still need to go further to achieve one vibe! Your example was perfect as both versions sound good but different vibes for sure! Amen brother!

Simple to the point videos. Easy to digest! Keep at it❤️

Wow. That vocal snippet "underbed" is a brilliant tip. Thanks so much for this inspirational help

Brilliant Will - so much in this video for producers and I'm loving the production values on the vid, superb!

Such a darling you are. Simply the best music production teacher on RU-vid.

let's go bro, thank u for the videos

Helpfull video ! Related to sticking to one vibe/theme. Would it be possible to make a video providing an overview of the key components (e.g. specific type of kick, bass, keys, ...) of the different main EDM types (house, trance, techno, and so on) ?

I've just recently found your videos and they're great. I wish I had this information when I was just starting out.

Amen brother! Thank you again. 💛

Great Videos and tips, thanks

Beautiful ! Thank you!

I have been watching a lot of your videos and the one tip in this video that really struck a "chord" (🤣) was tip number 4, simplicity on the other side of complexity. I have been working on some of my own tracks trying to apply some of the things I am learning from your videos and other sources. I DID catch myself over complicating my mixes where I had to start from the beginning and cut things out and am find this to be exactly the case. Sometimes, if not most of the time, the simplest route is to focus on what needs to be corrected and not overcomplicate it. I had eq's setup and then other eq's that basically reversed what the original eq was doing all because I was trying to use EVERY resource at my disposal. While my learning has been painstakingly tedious, I have learned so much in the last few months. Thanks for making these videos and breaking these points down to understandable terms that I can relate to.

"Energy map" Genious! ......... 🤯Mind blown! 💛Thank you so much! Energy map WILL be used!

Just fantastic ouput from your good self every time. I'm a semi-pro mastering engineer and I still learn things most times you post. Love it. 'You never stop learning' is 100% true, for everyone, no matter their level. edit: I forgot how good that Titanium track was as well. Still stands up years later.

Thank you. Concise, educative. Simplicity on the other side of complexity is the best idea here for me 🙂

your info is outstanding 🙏🔥🎸🌶️

Literally still learning something new from every single video you do... 🙂

I really appreciate all the wisdom that your sharing thumbs up bro

My opinion is to never limit your creative endeavour to a set of rules by choosing what genre your going to make before the track is taking form, fuck genres. Genres are for listeners to easily find songs that are alike, not for creators. If you start your project by limiting the range of avalaible creative fields your journey of creation may discover your just going to make copies of shit that someone already made hundreds of times. My life has taken me through Rock into Metal, from Led Zeppelin & Queen to Deadmau5 & infected mushrooms, from Hardrock to Hardstyle, From KoRn to Hans Zimmer, from psytrance into hip-hop, from Slipknot to Eminem, and I was a diehard Metalwarrior that shat on every other genre to be a diehard hardstyle-fanboi and all I've learned is that genres limits your view of the world I think the most fun I've had comes out when I let go of the ropes that try to bind me and just go apeshit for a night, for example, I might start sound designing cool or melodic sounds and coming up with a sweet chord or melody progression at 137bpm(and always use bpms with "magical" numbers, I think tesla was a wee bit crazy but still a great mind that was on to something, always leave some room for the possible existence of magic just in case), after some hours of tinkering I might lower it to 96.3 and continue the fun but switching from a housy feeling to hippetihopbeat, then up to 111 after some more hours, then a day later down to 66.6 with some doubletime-stuff, up to 77.7 just to balance out the hocus-pocus-scale, then I take a step back, arrange all the different crazy patterns quickly into what I 'feel' should go togheter & what doesnt without listening too much, render the track starting at low bpms, successively add ~20bpm at every 'drop' or turn, get a file thats 20-30 minutes long, go to the kitchen & roll up a joint with some snacks or food and sit down & take a listen and analyze the absolute horror you've created, trying to find what glitters & sparkles there is to then a week later try to polish it into a gem. But, I'm a child of chaos and I don't have to rely on trying to make a living with my music so I use it to vent my feelings & enjoy some time for myself when I need to detach from society or stressfull moments, without it I would be dead long ago, its difficult enough to keep your place & your life in order without chaos enveloping everything so in music I almost never have anything in order, so I try to focus my chaotic energy & turn it into feelings of emotions with what I create in my basement of solitude, so the world doesn't need to suffer my destructive or self-destructive ways outside my walls. It has taken me ~15 years to just learn the ropes of everything that envelopes music making, and I've had long breaks or stagnant times of no creation, but I've never ever once been bored with or burned out on trying to create music while everyone around me has abandoned it years ago. I would love to make a living just playing games or making shit, but I know the moment I ever try to monetize it it'll corrupt the essence of it, so I'm hoping someone up in heaven if there is one will find a liking of what I do and remove the need for me to ever have to earn money ever again, cus I love the freedom of having money but I hate having to earn it so I hope I'll earn my freedom in some other mystical way. Well shit, this derailed a lot Anyways, Never force it & always let it flow the way it wants to go & dont let genres define you. There is good places to start when creating music, I just try to start with if I either want to design a cool sound, a melody or a beat, may it be a pluck, a bass or anything in between, I try to make it as good sounding I can and somewhere along the way the journey just takes over and I can stop thinking for once. thats my 2 cents on this derailed topic, dont remember what point if any I was trying to make really, good luck on your journey. 🤭

Your videos are dope thanks man

Amazing man. You are an inspiring teacher!!!

Good stuff. Ive often slipped back into the MISTAKE of playing a good track for friends and people who dont dig that genre.

YOU ARE EPIC! THANK YOU!

Amen brother Love you videos will I hope that one day I could be a part of your accelerator program ❤❤❤

Regarding item 4: this actually applies to any profession. When you look how real professional works, you're usually very surprised how easy and simple he does. Very often stupid people say: "and this is what he is paid for? So easy, can be done by anyone!" Forgetting about endless hours and years of hard work and practice, thousands unsuccessful attempts and mistakes required to reach this simplicity.

AMEN YO! I produce another totally different genre (reggaeton) and I do lots of this stuff in FL, but it was nice to hear from another person stuff like energy maps, simplicity after complexity or sound beds

Excellent teacher!!!!

Hey there, this video is pretty cool, I mostly agree with the idea of using HQ samples, but in my opinion, that declines the learning process and effect. Because using samples everyone else used a ton of times doesn't really make you a better creator, okay on the aspect of deadlines to match, using samples is helpful yes. But I am actually working on a song where I use samples and presets I created from scratch to achieve the former point of learning effect and experience. Cheers. Stay safe, have nice holidays and a happy new year 2023 that all your wishes may come true

These tips are reallyyy good thank you for them

Great tips

Thank you so much! I wish there was somebody at your level making tutorials for Bitwig Studio users. Nonetheless, I’ve learned more from you in a FEW DAYS than anybody else combined in years. Thank you 🙏

1:10 OMG you got my thought process down so well 😂😂😅

Thank you for another great tutorial, Will! Could you please tell me, who is the author of that "In Memoriam" track?

HELL YER ! thanks will great vid

can you please do a vid on balancing? This was awesome, #7 is a huge timesaver for me

Love it!

Sounds like great advice to me

Get a good portable mixer recorder to capture happy accidents for reuse later. I do this on modular since there are no presets or patch memory on eurorack synths and don't want to lose cool stuff I come up with.

I really love the videos I have watched on your channel so far. I am a super beginner and I do have a general idea and understanding of Digital Music theory but I am having a hard time coming up with music. I want to create Relaxing, Affirmation, deep healing, hypnotherapy, and meditation music. Have you ever dabbled in this genre and can you make a video on the subject? I can't afford the heavy hitters of Daws, I do Have Cakewalk and Magix Music maker pro.

Amen brother 🙏🏼

AMAZING!!!

Usually I fully agree with all your tips, but the thing about sticking to a theme is only partial true. If everyone would follow this, no new music would ever happen. Getting outside the comfort zone is where new stuff happens. All what we do today was beyond the rules in the past. Breaking the rules is where the new stuff is found. If you want to be a clone and sound like million others, then foller strictly the rules and you will be nobody. Be inventive and if you break the rules, be aware if it improves the music. Sure, there are basics which are always true because they are of technical nature, but "sticking to a theme" is what people overdo today. Just listen to the top 10 and how boring and flat the music is. There is no soul and it goes nowhere. Just constant repeating loops with no musical value. They are sticking to the theme and the music is bad. The success is artificially fabricated by the major labels and not because the music is good. We need to get out of the auto-tune copy clone nonsense and it is about time to create real music again. No templates and break out of the common structures. Create new structures!

So good so good so good love your content!

amen brother ✨

very good!

Amen Brother !!

"You know that you'll never return to it, but it'll make you feel better' xD Yep!

I really like your content! It's really helpful and useful advices. Keep doing it this way!

Simplicity on the other side of complexity… ouch, I feel that.

Amen! Really informative but i do think that a certain basic knowledge is required to have.

Great films!

Love it 😀 😍 ❤️ ♥️

amen brother

Do you have a video where you about using auxiliary tracks? I’m still relatively new and always seems like things have multiple names

Amen brother.

Amen Brother! :)

Would you ever consider doing a video showing tips for harder styles of dance music?

I have never heard so much truth, thankyou x

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Amen Brother

Hell yeah!

Hell Yeah!

Which hall reverb are you using? I don't seem to have this one?

I create without any knowledge and even if it sound amateur - fuck it! - I make music as I want and how it sounds is efect of one time creation without fixing it for many days (because I use demo of fls so I got one shot on each tune) I don't use proffesional hardware/software and I just like what I make - NEVER FORGET THIS OR YOU WILL START MAKING... mainstream bs music. More you know - more restrictions you have. Thats my pov on this. Anyway - it's good someone is sharing his knowledge to others! So i say Thanks.

3:55 for vocal platform

Similar concept of Japanese flower arrangment: Ichibana. The art of putting all the flowers in the vase, and then taking away one piece at a time until the essence is there without any excess or unnecessary stuff.

I liked the before version 😅

Yeah baby

Amen break brother!

I can diggit, but I have a hard time calling it "art", if I'm using other music by other artists as a template. That, to me, is a vague obfuscation of "copying". I'm not sure that if you're trying to stand out and be unique, using other music as a "template" is a good suggestion. Learning music theory is vital, if you want to create new, unique music that flows together nicely.

I have a question for someone just starting which video do u recommend I start with on your page I also on have the intro to ableton

Amen

Amen brother! ❤️💯 Thank you Jesus for you and your channel!!

Bro be like "bro, do u even produce?" Tnx again, all very helpful for starters to get their bearings when they decide to get more serious.

mhm . i make a different genre then this. still some helpfull tips i can use for my future productions. thank you for that!

amen