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When your creativity leaves you cold and dry follow these edm tips to get the creativity juice flowing again

When your Creativity leaves you high and dry follow these 5 Edm tips below to spark your creativity juice! After all we are all human.It happens to the best of us. There will be days ,that we sit down in our studio,put on our monitors.And we cant think of what to write!   We all of the sudden don’t know where to start. None of our notes flow,for some bizarre reason you cant find the right keys to a melody. You’ve written millions of times. Writers block is what it is called I for one do not believe in writers block. I feel its a form of lack of focus. A lack of concentration. There are ways to overcome it .So lets get started. #1 The Sounds of Silence · The number one thing to do is make sure you create as much silence you possibly can in your studio. Make sure theres no outside noise coming in to the studio. · Also make sure to turn off all of your devices,that includes your cell phone,your tablet,your laptop,your smart tv,your ipad, turn off yo

Music Theory is not dead

The Decline of music theory in Edm. I know a lot of you saying to yourself what in the world am I talking about let me expand on my thoughts below. Listen to any song on the radio its either a track made entirely  in protools ,(showing my age - I know no one uses pro  anymore) Or its made in Ableton or Fl Studio or any pick your choice digital audio work station. The problem with these workstations from a music theory stand point is they do all of the work for you ! Lets say you are a beginner or a novice,trying to learn theory as you produce. Using some of these tools will not help you learn theory at all. Instead you will be hurting your efforts to actually learn theory altogether.   Just because you play an instrument does not mean you  are a music theory guru! You may have heard a lot of people say I know how to produce edm why do I need theory? Or I been playing the guitar for years I know theory I can just relate the theory to guitar to edm theor