Make Your Music Now

By Andrew Pense

Have you always wished that you could make your music at home without the expensive equipment, studio time, and troublesome no show bandmates? Thanks to current technology there are many free and inexpensive tools that can be utilized to make your music now! With zero or little expenditure on your part you can write, produce, mix an master, and most importantly distribute your work to the world. This guide will show you the tools and techniques that are available and get you from music tinkerer to music composer, producer, and distributor!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrew Pense
• Release date: Jan 28, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370443390

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Make Your Music Now

Andrew Pense

Published by Andrew Pense

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Copyright 2018 Andrew Pense

CHAPTER 1 - YOU, THE RECORDING MUSICIAN

This book is all about accessibility and access. The message here is simple but may be hard for you to accept at first. You are a musician, and with a little knowledge and practice you can perform, record, and distribute your music. You can even sell your music online and properly call yourself a professional musician and producer. This is an incredible ability; it was only less than a decade ago that this was virtually impossible. Becoming a professional and hopefully profitable music creator used to take a lot of skill and practice, but it also required a great deal of networking and luck. The number of artists that could create a single or album and then have that music shared with the world was quite small.

The skill and practice piece hasn’t changed, and getting good (and eventually great) at an instrument still requires crazy amounts of discipline, rigor, and repetition. You might think that is a bad thing, but I actually love that piece of it. If everyone could pick up a guitar, microphone, or set of drumsticks and be instantly awesome then a great deal of the fun would be taken out of it. It might not seem like it now, especially if you’re new to your instrument, but someday you will look back in appreciation of the most amateurish versions of yourself as a player.

The piece that has changed over the last few years is the ability to share your music with the world. Thanks to technology and some sharing distribution platforms that have finally developed stability and acceptance, you can now share your music not only to your neighbors down the street but anyone in the world. The ease of which you can get your music in the hands (and more importantly into the earbuds) of someone a few blocks away is the same as to get it in the hands of people across the globe. That’s a pretty incredible feat, if you think about it…You can create a song and have it heard by someone (or hopefully a lot of someone’s) thousands of miles away with just a few clicks of the mouse.

In this book we will concentrate mostly on the technology piece, including what you need from both a software and hardware perspective to get going. Since we are concentrating on the musician who is new, a concerted effort is made to keep things cheap. Whenever possible, I’ll show you technologies that are either free or as low cost as possible. Music can certainly be one of the most expensive vocations you ever embark on, but I want to concentrate on the fact that it doesn’t have to be. Years ago you had to have the finest and most expensive gear to