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Reviews for "Drifting Through the Cosmos"

It sounds lavender town-y to me. It sets an interesting mood for a dubstep song.

Uh-oh. I took a look at your page just to see how many songs you've uploaded, and you've uploaded quite a few. But here's the catch - I think that in spite of the number of songs you've uploaded, which is a lot, you're not learning very much each time you make a song. I mean, you've only uploaded 2 since the beginning of 2018, this being one of those 2 uploads. To me, if you're not uploading as fast as possible, then you're not improving as fast as possible. If you're not making a song sometime close to when you're done with the last, then you're not giving yourself the opportunity to really learn from your past failures, and that results in less improvement. If you're aiming to get good at making music, then you need to make songs much more frequently and much more quickly. I upload songs somewhat weekly, and I've catapulted in terms of how well I can make this type of stuff, simply because I've learned from my (many, many, many) failures. I found out about that philosophy of producing through a website called EDMProd, and I'm not the only one who favors that philosophy.

There's something else wrong with taking too long to make a song. The relationship between time spent on any given song and song quality is inverse after a certain amount of time, oddly enough, and that time comes sooner than you may realize. You'll know it when it happens. That time, when the relationship inverts, is the time when you upload the song. That's the time when you're done, whether you feel like it or not. You set things down, export to audio, and hope for the best. (It's what I do.) I heard of someone who has what he likes to call the 20-hour guillotine, where at the 20 hour mark, whatever he's doing, he just immediately stops and is completely done. (20 hours of working on the song, that is.) Stop, drop, and upload. I don't know if you want to adopt that rule. Or maybe, you could set up a checklist. It's not my thing, but it's definitely an idea.

All of that is 110% geared towards improvement. It's the one thing that if you keep it constant, you'll improve basically forever - in theory. The theory is no use if it's not put into action. :)

MusicHeroTeam responds:

Thank you! Great advice!