How To Learn Music: If I could do it over.

Description:
How would I learn music over again? If not the university then what path would I take? It’s a matter of aligning intentions and goals. My goal was to be a songwriter/touring musician the university taught me to be an analyst and classical performer. Which wasn’t my intention and I lost sight of my goals along the way.

Full Article:
https://www.songrecipe.com/post/how-would-i-learn-music-if-i-had-to-do-it-over-again

What would I do?
1. **Mentorship**: Find those who are better than me and go learn from them. Try to keep up. Sweep the floor in the studio. Do whatever it takes, within moral and legal bounds, to work with them.
2. **Get some formal training**: Get professional training but don’t view that training as hard and fast rules. Think of them as guidelines. I would avoid anything that assigns me a grade in exchange for classes and seminars. I would take it seriously as if I were being graded and that grade mattered. You get out of a system what you put into that system, after all.
3. **Make Music**: Even if it’s bad, make music. and don’t kind yourself that it’s good, because it’s probably not. The only way to tell if the music is good is if people, strangers, not your girlfriend or your mom, are interested in hearing more.

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### Chapters
00:00
01:04 - My story
03:25 - Aligning intentions and goals
04:47 - What I’d do instead of going to music school
06:14 - What I am here to do

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### Hardware

**Video**
Camera 1: Nikon Z30
Camera 2: iPhone 12 Max

**Audio**
Mic 1: Rode VideoMic Go
Mic 2: Neumann TLM 103

### Software
Audio: Logic Pro X
Video: Final Cut Pro