Making a Soulful Indie Folk Song 

practice, practice, practice

@@TrevBarnes do you know how to play real drums?

@@mn23122 sure do! I think that's probably what has helped the most. Drums are arguably my favorite instrument to play next to guitar. I think to effectively learn how to keyboard drum, you have to know how a drummer plays if that makes sense.

@@TrevBarnes It does. Great drumming.

I was thinking that too when I was making it lol

i truly appreciate that, thank you!

Thank you so much for watching!

Thank you so much! And yeah, I don't know how I'd ever create without focusing on meditation and breath work, it's vital to what I do. And for the distorted guitar I'm using all stock Logic Pro sounds. It's pretty much the default british amp drenched in reverb.

I appreciate hearing that! That's all I ever want to do.

Well don’t worry, because next video is also full of technical problems lmfao

I love Wilco. The reason you don’t hear those elements is because I didn’t want them to stand out, rather be a subtle texture, so they’re buried, but they are there

Too kind, thank you!

I appreciate that!

Thanks a ton!

that means the world to hear. I used to do music full time, fell out of love with it, not I just create to show others how to create what they love, and love what they create. I'm happy to get to do what I do now :)

That’s so kind of you to say, thank you!

Dan, you're too kind. Thank you so much my friend

Thankfully if you already downloaded a bunch of sounds already, you still get to keep those. I think it’s worth investing in yourself as a producer, but in my mind this is a completely wrong move for them to make

You 100% get it my friend

that means the world to me, thank you!

I can’t thank YOU enough for inspiring me to

It’s all cgi, it’s not real

That's a good question. I used to do music full time, I was a touring musician for 10+ years. I got completely burnt out of it, fell out of love, and decided that I just wanted a normal day job for a while. In that time, I got married, bought a house, got a few dogs, and started discovering myself again. I decided to start making RU-vid videos of me just creating, and fell in love with that. All I want to do is to show others the joys of creating (hence the title of these videos). So to me, it doesn't matter whether or not myself or someone else has a full time job, is a freelancer, or does music full time, what matters is that no matter their situation they find a way to make time for creating. That's all that matters.

I'll consider it, ideally I want to eventually release a "templates" pack for FAQ's with my videos.

Thank you so much!

Thanks for being apart of the journey!

On the DL, I’m actually working on a 8-10 week program for production. Stay tuned for next video where I’m going to announce the waiting list

It’s EZ Drummer 3’s Tight Room Kit with a few samples swapped around

thank you so much!

Thanks! Its EZ Drummer 3’s Tight Room kit

They kind of just come to me like intuition. I've asked this question many times to producers way ahead of me, and they all have the same answer: Through familiarity of your process, your tools, and by being consistent, you build a creative muscle and develop a creative intuition.

Lol that would've definitely worked better. I just looked around my office and grabbed the first thing I thought could work

@@TrevBarnes yeah that's what happened with me too hahaha. Just saw my gf's hairband on my desk and it worked like a charm (+ it adds great style to the guitar hahaha)

It’s the Korg MicroKey. There are soooo many better controllers out there lol

Thank you so much. I work in marketing

It's the Shure Beta 57A

Thank you! The clips of the recording are all live. I use OBS to basically record everything (camera, voiceover, DAW). Essentially, it's a direct output from my DAW as I'm recording.

@@TrevBarnes Wow that's great. Thank you for the quick reply and congrats on 12k! It's well deserved, great content 🙏

@@derberry4445 You're the best, thanks!

Hey there! Its EZ Drummer 3’s Tight room Kit

I 100% owe you a Diiv song, it's been a long time coming. I have one video in the pipeline and then the one after that I got you

@@TrevBarnes and thats why you are my #1 favorite RU-vidr. Thank you bro!

That was my go to, but believe it or not I had no rubber bands in my home lol

@@TrevBarnesI’ve actually had a hard time finding them as well, a lot less common than you might think!

You’re too kind

i have never met someone else who listed to far caspian, i'm a huge fan! of course!

Thanks!

Whether you were first or 9150, I appreciate the kindness and you being apart of the journey

I 100% agree with you, I think I'm cautious because of what others would think. Self conscious

@@TrevBarnes As David Bruce said, music is music! Beautiful song BTW!

I’ve always wanted to toy with the idea of doing mix breakdowns on a RU-vid Membership, I just don’t have the time atm

@@TrevBarnes would love to see the mixes. I think we all going to love it