0:00 If you want to get good at music production fast, stop looking for shortcuts. Now, I know how that sounds, but hear me out. For years, shortcuts were all I had. I relied on MIDI packs and copying chords from other songs because I had no idea how to do music theory. I could get my tracks sounding okay overall, but I could never repeat the process easily. [music] And if something broke, I had no idea how to fix it. What finally sped things up for me was when I started to grasp the fundamentals. I've been producing music for over a decade. I have official remixes for Illenium, Seven Lions, Tritonal, and releases on Ophelia,
0:31 Heaven Sent, and Seeking Blue. I run a production school called Awakened Academy, and the students in there send me tracks for feedback every week. The ones who level up the fastest aren't the ones who have the best tricks or the best hacks. [music] They're the ones who actually take the time to learn the fundamentals. So, in this video, I'm going to walk you through the six most important fundamentals that made the biggest difference for me. So, the first fundamental is sound selection. I would argue for all EDM producers, especially melodic bass producers, it's the second most important fundamental Your chords and your melody carry the emotion and
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