My Music Production Journal







Jeff Mills Give Me Your Spirit

I am learning music production! So, here is a compilation of notes and things as I learn, because maybe this will get me to write more often. Also, I am finding bugs for jimmy.

I've been listening to techno for a while now, but I have never tried actually making the music I listen to, outside of messing around with a pirated copy of fruity loops once when I was 13 years old. So, at age 29, I pirated a copy of Logic Pro X, and I started making computer noises.







Goals

Let's see, if I do this I might as well set an ambitious goal, no?



I could try to make at least 1 track every day. At the very least, I'll try to release an album? I don't know, is that a thing. A record would be cool, but I'm good with a soundcloud album.





Learning Resources

Here are things I am using to learn.



- hard lurking /r/technoproduction

- youtube (duh)







Overall musics goals that you can never really "learn", but should always strive to improve

- chord progression and 🎶🔮🤹‍♂️music theory 🎶🔮🤹‍♂️

- good composition

- try to understand and nail down styles

- logic pro keyboard shortcuts





Things I have learned thusly

- bussing and side-chaining tracks

- trying to recreate a template song





Things I need to learn next

- how exactly does one mix down a track

- exporting

- transposing tracks

- track automation

- making plugins

- sampling

- using samples

- i mean i guess analog synthesizers would be cool

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