Quick Production Tip

One of my monitors has a split in the speaker cone center (dust cap I think).  This hasn’t stopped me from creating all of the music I have created at home.

And it all sounds great to me!

How did it get damaged?.. well that was entirely my own fault. Arriving home one evening after an afternoon of drinking, I thought that someone (my kids) had damaged the cone in one monitor.

I thought they had pushed the dust cap inward.

So I got straight to fixing the issue, only to actually truly damage the cone myself before realising that the other cone looked the same and they had always looked like this.

How I felt guilty for blaming my kids for something that wasn’t even broken!

Alcohol anyone?

Anyway, I still use it and it sounds great.

What’s my point?

Well, apart from the fact that I can be a drunk fool, I’m saying you have to use what you have.

Don’t let not having the latest and greatest equipment or software stop you from getting started.

The speaker monitors I mentioned above are the same second hand speaker monitors I started with back in 2008 plus I still use the same second hand line 6 UX audio interface I purchased off eBay a couple of years later.

I have an iMac mini and many guitars.  And that’s all I need to start creating great music.

But you could get going with a laptop, headphones, Audio Interface and a guitar.  That’s it!

If you have all this, then you could start recording with GarageBand that comes free with an iMac.

Then over time you can add to your kit with headphones, monitors, a new DAW (Logic Pro) new Audio Interface, screens… the list goes on.

Riff Of The Week

Dive – Nirvana

Perhaps not the most famous of riffs, but certainly for me, always one that really kicks ass!

This is one for both guitarists and bass guitarists as it begins with Krist Novoselic’s bass playing this most simple of grooves..

Then kicking in with Grohl’s drums and Cobain’s grunge guitar backing up his bass mate, all together smashing the audience out of their seats as this songs continues its opening sequence with a driving feeling that..

..nothing will get in its way.

This is a true example of how simple a riff can be yet very effective.

I urge you to keep simplicity in mind when creating your riffs.  It’s not always about the super technical abilities.

Go and have a listen for yourself.

Podcast Episode I’m Listening To

“The Creative Entrepreneurs Podcast – Ep. 80: How to Launch Your Online Course with Confidence”

I have been following Daniel Carrizalez for a few years on both his Stock Music Licensing podcast channel and his current Creative Entrepreneurs podcast.

I have enrolled in and completed a couple of Daniel’s online courses, so I know he is someone who knows a thing or two about how to create online courses.

I plan to create my own online music production course soon and need to make sure I have fully researched the process.

(Any suggestions regarding what you would like to see in a course from me are most welcome.  Hit reply and send them over.)

I will be directing you to some of Daniel’s more music related podcasts in future newsletters.. you don’t want to miss those.

My Latest Video

Royalty Free Cool Rock Track

Join me on a musical journey as I bring to life my latest Royalty Free Cool Rock Track on guitar.

Quote

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

Kurt Cobain – Nirvana

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