REACHING FOR THE NEXT LEVEL

It’s likely that if you’re travelling the path of making music – be it playing, writing or recording – you’ve at some point found yourself at a crossroads, or at the foot of a mountain that seems impassable. It can be very frustrating when you're trying hard to get your work to the next level, but feel like you just keep hitting a wall.

Any creative pursuit involves constantly seeking to develop and improve your work. In a nutshell, your work will only ever be as good as the weakest link in it. It could be the song, the performance, the instruments, the recording gear, the engineering, the mixing, the mastering... There's a lot of variables, is what I'm trying to get at.

Sometimes it’s just a matter of stepping back and taking a critical look your processes, and identifying what’s holding you back from achieving your intended goals. This is possibly the trickiest part, as it often involves