📖Writing lyrics can be super personal, hard and scary process to expose ourselves to. ✅️Here's 5 different quotes from writers who have been round the block on their approach so you can bounce them off what you think and help craft your own approach further. Hope they help 🙏 Comment below on your approach, experience and struggles/successes, would love to learn from you all! 1️⃣“I never censor myself when I’m writing. I write whatever I want, no matter what it sounds like…then curate later”— Aloe Blacc 2️⃣“You’ve got to write a bad song to get the good ones out!” — Lizzy Ward, Ward Thomas 3️⃣“I place myself firmly in the fire. I’ll go until I’m pretty much done, step out of the fire and then extract what I’ve been feeling whilst going through the heat.” — Kelvin Swaby, The Heavy 4️⃣“It’s always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.” — Adam Duritz, Counting Crows 5️⃣I don’t write about things as they happen, I write about things as I reflect on them.” — Tyler Nail

👩‍💻 Most of us are on a quest to be our own Hans Zimmer with arrangement, but how exactly do we approach it when it can seem like such an elusive and non - tangible concept? 📖 With the emotion / message/ aim of your section and track being the main focus of your decisions, (just my suggestion) here are 3 great ways to improve your skillset, save time and get more impact, interest and variety into the song's you are writing 1️⃣ At first there was the word. A vocal drop out can be so powerful. Solo, accompanied by claps or bass and drums are all classics for a reason. What twist can you add? 2️⃣ Layer the cake baby! This is a biggie! While layering is usually approached to beef up your sections, using it more to mould textures is very effective. Say you have light bell sound in your chorus and then the break kicks off, try adding a full sounding guitar with a more sustained envelope playing the same pattern. Compressing them together for extra boost too. 3️⃣ Listen, love, learn. No, don't buy one of those wall hangings from the home shop but listen to tracks you love the arrangement and learn what is going on. Why it works and how to create your own version of this may be the most powerful tip of the lot ✅️Comment with any approaches you love and any mixes/ demos you have that you're digging or need help with. Let's inspire each other and help where we can 👊💯

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🤔What does that button do? 🫣What even is threshold?? 🤯Learning this is slowing me down from making music, but I feel shit because the music I make doesn’t sound anywhere near as good as I want. 💯 These are all completely normal questions and steps of 99.9% if not 100% producing musicians journeys multiple times ........ 3️⃣ tips to help you out ✅️1. Use presets They're there for a reason and a great starting point. Yes you will get people who brag they don't need them to feel more significant but no one learnt to ride a bike without stabilisers. You're still as awesome a person and musician because you use them ....... ✅️2. Fuck around with extremes. Don't be trapped in the fear based need for certainty of having to know what things do. Have a session where you take one effect like eq and do one extreme thing (boost the highs loads on the keys for eg) and then do the opposite. Do this for all the individual buttons and see what they SOUND and FEEL like. That's the whole point. Add that knowledge to the list of things you know about it. It helps to play like a child with playdough though. Let your inner child out. It's OK to sound bad, thats how we get to sound good a lot of the time. ....... ✅️3. Stick to the basics. When you do learn techniques, stick to the basics and don't compare yourself to experts who have been on this for 30 years. Their approaches will be different from yours. Plus, if they're any good, they'll be heavily focused or based in fundamentals whether they know it or not. Hope that helps! 👊