Tag Archives: Music Producer

I Released a Record

Posted on October 20, 2023 by tropicaltheartist

It has been a very long road, with lots of set backs and accomplishing this was much harder than I anticipated, but my debut album is out and I feel a strange mixture of pride, relief, exhaustion, exhilaration and dread … Continue reading →

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Nobody Knows How Long Creation Takes

Posted on August 11, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

Nobody who does not create a form of art has any understanding of how long it takes to create art in that form. Ask a non-songwriter how long it takes to write a song and you’ll get some alarming answers. … Continue reading →

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Organisational Dysfunction

Posted on June 8, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

As you gather creative skills, you accumulate stuff – tools, books, supplies, finished works. An infinitely expanding universe No matter what your art, the accoutrements necessary to conduct your creative work must be gathered. If you’re an electronic circuit designer, … Continue reading →

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Forgetting to Breathe

Posted on June 7, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

There’s a mistake that less experienced composers sometimes make. When writing music for singers, brass or woodwind players, they write phrases so long and elaborate that nobody can actually perform them. They forget to leave spaces to breathe. Creativity in … Continue reading →

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Imposed Expectations

Posted on June 3, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

Ever notice how many people want to impose their idea of how you ought to make your art? They’re adamant they know better and that you ought to comply. They’re sure of it. I find it annoying and highly offensive. … Continue reading →

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Time is Running Out

Posted on May 27, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

Mortality, eh? You’ve got to laugh. If you’re lucky, you will get old. The trouble is: your creative ideas and plans won’t care. You’ll probably be planning creative projects as if you were a teenager, many of which you can’t … Continue reading →

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Progress-Limiting Habits

Posted on May 24, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

We’re creatures of habit. One of our dominant modes of learning is repetition. We start slowly, but by developing a habit for doing, we improve incrementally. We get better at things by doing them over and over again, initially badly, … Continue reading →

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Prosodic Event Mapping in Songwriting

Posted on May 18, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

What are you talking about? There’s music in the spoken word. Poets know it. So do songwriters. Phrases and words have a rhythm. The way we stress and emphasise the syllables in our utterances makes accented rhythmic patterns. Some words … Continue reading →

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Imprecise Music Production Terms

Posted on May 15, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

What even are these, exactly? These are all terms you’ll often hear in music production sessions, but do we all know and agree on what they mean? Can we measure them? Do we even know how to do them? I … Continue reading →

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How Do You Engage the Emotionally Unavailable?

Posted on May 14, 2022 by tropicaltheartist

Research indicates that lyrics have gradually become less positive, over the past 60 years. Our tunes contain more swear words and have gotten sexier too. There are more references to having lots of money. It’s all a bit grim and … Continue reading →

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