Dude you taught a 55 year old man things! Thank you.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Cool!!!
@julie3025
Ай бұрын
Wow I am a 61 year old musician been involved with playing and loving music all my life. I thought every new instrument and piece of equipment would make me great wrong! At 55 yrs old I started learning the fundamentals and really learning how to practice that I started improving. LOVE IT
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
So glad to hear friend ✌️
@swandaley
Ай бұрын
Facts. I haven't bought a plugin or drum pack in a while because I came to the understanding that I have everything I need. Most of the music I make uses a keyboard or guitar as the main element, so there's no need to collect 100,000 synths sounds.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Awesome. I have to remind myself not to collect 100,000 synth sounds lol. I too have what I need --- sometimes just gotta remind myself! ✌️
@joleaneshmoleane8358
Ай бұрын
Jimmy, never stop dude! The world needs this content.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Thanks friend ✌️
@randykalish7558
Ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure I'm getting this! Its just that I'm having the hardest time deciding on the pillow for my coffin 😆
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Red? Blue? Green? Firm? Soft? what are you leaning towards?
@randykalish7558
Ай бұрын
Well, mostly leaning away. Some things you don't want to finish.
@ani_mcall
Ай бұрын
Well, this is exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you:)
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
So glad to hear that! Thank you for watching ✌️
@DavidKemp-xn4ln
Ай бұрын
Thanks man… just what I needed to hear at exactly the right time I needed to hear it 🙏
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
You got it! Glad to hear this friend ✌️
@xtrullor
Ай бұрын
I totally vibe with this. My most popular tracks that rank up in millions of listens, were made with a cheap random laptop and very barebones sample library and one synth. Today I have a much more sophisticated, and rather expensive setup, but I still sometimes enjoy thinking about those times when things were simple. I had no idea how good it is to be limited at times, even skill wise sometimes. I seemed to have a more natural creative flow when I didn't know as much.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Absolutely! Your music is effing killer my friend! Just checked your page... What DAW you use? Fav Sound Library? You mix your own stuff?
@xtrullor
Ай бұрын
@@jimiwmusic Yeah I do almost everything myself, except for libraries and such. I make my synth patches, compose everything, mix everything, master everything, myself. Because why not. If by sound libraries you mean sampler libraries, it's definitely Metropolis Ark 1 & 4, Native Instruments Symphonic Series, Ferrum, Storm Choir series, Heavyocity Novo & Forzo, Output Signal, Analog Strings and Analog Brass, Ashlight, Lost Piano, Continuum Guitars.... there's more but I like those a lot for what I do. For straight up drum and sfx samples and such, I really enjoy the classic Vengenance lineup, Ohmie sample packs, Black Octopus packs, Boom Library packs, Hybrid Tools packs, and then my own custom samples and some that were privately shared by producer friends of mine (Talurre is amazing at making snare samples that I really want). All that said, I'm a heavy FL Studio user. I'm migrating to Bitwig from now on, due to the workflow limitations FL shows over time when projects get too big - namely mixer slot limitations. Also it's kind of quirky now that I'm also recording actual instruments like electric guitars, and I find the traditional layout working out better in this case. I just enjoy the tweaky nerdy stuff of edm so Bitwig seemed like the closest I needed, given it's a haven for sound design with decent recording capabilities. Bitwig also allows to connect its signals to Touchdesigner, which allows creating pretty freaking interesting visual displays that react to your music. If I can plug in data from the bus channels into a visualization program, I'm all for it. It'll get pretty nuts. Who knows what it will look like in a live scenario. Especially when I plug in the parameters that come out of the custom 8-string electric violin (that I'll get in some months) to this very system. I think there's something serious brewing here. To do it all properly I always need hardcore insights to creativity itself. I think your channel provides some of the best actionable, down to earth advice I've seen mostly. It resonates so much. I don't take advice from most people as seriously. You just seem to get it, I see where you come from. Not that many out there. I'd love to get in contact with you by the way, let me know what would be the best course of action if you are interested.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
So cool, so so cool. Look forward to hearing that 8 string! I'm happy to hear my channel resonates with you --- I'd love to connect. Hit me up at jimiwmusic@gmail.com !
@willwatkins6694
Ай бұрын
the D string on my guitar broke, i started writing songs using just the E and A string having a lot of fun
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Incredible. Practically a different instrument now!
@ThomasGaborMusic
22 күн бұрын
Thanks 🙏 it is so easy to procrastinate on technical details that nobody will notice in the end product
@jimiwmusic
22 күн бұрын
very much so!
@dermothenry3161
Ай бұрын
brilliant brilliant video
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
thank you ✌️💪👍
@shanttt
Ай бұрын
This video Came in right when I was thinking about quitting music next year. Oh and I still have to make that song based on your story (some KZitem video ago) thanks jimi
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Glad to hear it! Thank you ♥️
@thecolorsetmusic
Ай бұрын
Bravo! Words of wisdom. I really needed this!
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Glad to hear!!! ✌️
@MS-yz7sr
Ай бұрын
That's awesome how it worked out for you & your wife. I think you are right about this. I've experienced this. Also, I remember reading somewhere a while ago that the way to creativity is not to have every tool, every kind of paint and colour and medium... creativity tends to increase when the tools are limited in some way. I feel like there is also probably a reverse to this with a change in the variables.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
I agree! Thanks for dropping in 🙏♥️
@niklasfranzen3895
Ай бұрын
You really hit a nerve. 🙈 Thank you. 🙏😉👍
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Glad to hear it!
@MarcusStarksPixels
Ай бұрын
Dope Video! Respect 🙏
@SeanClarkeMusic
Ай бұрын
Word! ❤🙏✨
@psynamik
22 күн бұрын
Well said man. Grateful to have found your channel. Have you thought about writing a book? Because I'd totally read it!
@jimiwmusic
22 күн бұрын
Glad you are here too! Super flattered! You are not the first person to tell me that. I certainly will one day when the time is right...
@d1rtyd1sh
Ай бұрын
EVERYONE SHOULD SEE THIS
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Thanks for watching ♥️
@els1f
Ай бұрын
"Quick hack to get proficient in an instrument in just 5+ years of dedicated, sustained effort!" 🙃
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
hehehehe 😂🤣🥲
@tomblaze2
Ай бұрын
A+ video
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Thanks friend ✌️
@bartoliblue
Ай бұрын
Hi Jimi. I find your videos so relatable and inspiring. I've listened to some of your work, and it sounds both emotionally engaging and sonically accomplished. As an independent artist, I find myself falling into the same traps, subscribing to and joining sites that are continually telling me that I am not complete until I buy the latest gear or plugin. By the way, I'd like to know if you have mastered your tracks yourself and, if so, how you are going about it? Thanks.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Hey! Thanks for reaching out 🙏 By mastered do you mean mastering a completed mix to bring it up to volume for release or do you mean have I mastered my own process of capturing my own stuff?
@j-brain
Ай бұрын
i would say that i agree with you (Jimi) in theory. In the wine making world there's a saying "you can make bad wine with good grapes, but you cannot make good wine with bad grapes." the song being the grapes or the input is most important ingredient. so substituting songs for grapes, if you have a good song but bad equipment (or bad recording techniques), it can still come out bad but if you have a bad song and good equipment you can't make a good song.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
100% --- I love that metaphor ✌️
@postworld1185
Ай бұрын
Ask the greatest musicians, singers, producers & songwriters of all time - what the hardest task in music is - and they will all say its nearly impossible to write a brilliant song. Its that hard. If you're a songwriter - becoming a better muscian, singer, producer or gearhead is probably not the answer.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Totally !
@thevastexpanse2873
Ай бұрын
I love Calicos 🥰
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
They are friggin wonderful 😽
@distantstares
Ай бұрын
Relatable! For me it has actually always been skill rather than gear, especially on things like mixing and singing. When I feel like I come up with the coolest composition ever, I have bad habit of leaving it to wait a better day to be finished. That glorious day when I'm supposed to learn some sort of magic trick to make it sound perfect, so far it hasn't come :D When I browse my computer I easily find tens or even hundreds of songs that were supposed to be great. Best course of action would be to just finish em with a deadline and enjoy those yummy imperfect fruits! I wonder what else excuses people have in addition to skill or equipment :D
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
yes yes yes. This is exactly what I do. This is the lesson I'm currently trying to hammer into my being! Especially with mixing my own stuff. In the world of production you get better every project which makes it hard to listen to something your did a week or 2 ago and not find problems with it that you feel you need to "fix." I think the answer is to be more fearless with it! Godspeed friend ✌️✌️
@distantstares
Ай бұрын
@@jimiwmusic Indeed, finishing a song is the hardest part and therefore it will also teach the most! And thanks!
@paul_thomson
Ай бұрын
well said…
@mikedelferro
Ай бұрын
So f true Jimmy !!!!
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
It is! Gotta remind myself sometimes. Hope you're doing well out there Mike!
@mikedelferro
Ай бұрын
@@jimiwmusic I am fine Jimi, thanks brother! Keep spreading your wisdom.
@mattytwohatsmusic
Ай бұрын
Can you please share with us the steps you took in order to reach such high play counts. Nice vid.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
For the tune I mention in this video, Fire Underwater By Girl Blue, we did very very little. All the marketing we did was limited to Girl Blue's direct followers at the time --- not a big number by any stretch. There was no plan or marketing budget. It was a matter of luck that she was selected to be on that huge Spotify playlist --- luck and a great song that resonated with people. I feel the need to point out that Fire Under Water was released in 2017, when the chances of getting on a big playlist like this were soooo much greater. The sheer number of artists releasing material now just 7 years later makes the chances of a stroke of luck like this drastically less likely. I sure wish it was a dependable process with repeatable results! But unfortunately it hasn't been. The strategies for getting music heard changes all the time and most of the strategies that work require a good deal of cash. We've tried many of them over the years with varying degrees of success. Vulnerability, heart, fearlessness, craftsmanship and actually enjoying what you are doing --- these things make up the foundation of an artistic practice that can be sustained. From this foundation consistency and luck CAN turn that artistry into high play counts given the right strategy. Thanks for dropping in dude --- cool vids on your page, keep it up 👍✌️
@mattytwohatsmusic
Ай бұрын
@@jimiwmusic thanks for your response Jimi. And cheers for checking out my tunes. 💥
@steviewanye
Ай бұрын
You're a beast
@jeremysmetana8583
Ай бұрын
Way back in the day, when laptops that actually worked were a fictional thing you saw in spy movies, I had an aging, crappy multitrack cassette recorder, a couple guitars, some mics, a reverb and delay, and my old drummer sometimes kept a kit in my garage. My day job was slinging coffee in an independent cafe. I had no money for new gear, so I just got creative with what I had (I was lucky to have that much). My output was ridiculous. I finished songs on the reg. The sound quality was for shit, but the satisfaction of getting the idea out and more or less "fully formed" was a real thing. Alas... rent... life, etc. Also, you're kind of like a hippy Ryan George. Sorry, I had to say it.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
That's so friggin cool and a great example of why limitations can be really good for creativity. I had to google Ryan George lol --- funny dude!
@bigtrambles
Ай бұрын
Two things- A) I'd like to request SPIT MY BRIAN completely redone with the Ariana Grande mic thingy, LOL B) you WERE young and cocky? LOL. UGh you're still not the age I was when I first heard you lol. You've still got the youth, keep being a little cocky. Great video as always good sir, I always look forward to them because they're so positive.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Thanks T --- Arianna Grande Spit My Brain haha. Love it ♥️
@bigtrambles
Ай бұрын
@@jimiwmusic it's a gold mine for sure. 😜
@WhatDoesEvilMean
Ай бұрын
I have a lot to nitpick about this video’s message…but I also have been trying to learn that not everything needs a rebuttal if the GENERAL message is good. It’s like if the message is “don’t beat and kill kids”, even that has a rebuttal. But…does it need one? Haha Anyway - I dug this overall. If I have a nitpick that I do think is worth articulating it’s just in the interplay between creative, artist, craftsman, etc. But I have a video up called “Why I love Ai art” that gets into it.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
haha. I feel you. I think we'd have a spirited conversation regarding that interplay! The path towards making "art" almost invariably passes through craft + creativity. "Art" is in quotes because in my experience conversations about what "Art" is and what "Art" isn't almost always deteriorate into irreconcilable nitpicks. That's the fun of it though and I'll nitpick with the best of 'em 🤠 A chord progression that uses a C and an F chord require the artist understand the craft of playing a C and an F chord. That same chord progression demands an artist understand the craft of poetic use of language when the artist has the urge to write words over that chord progression. Only when these conditions of craft are internalized as automatic functions through years and years of focused attention are the conditions right for "art" to emerge. The artist has turned themselves into a vibrating conduit of free association through which (by means of craft) beautiful works are transposed into existence. I watched your AI video --- very cool take. As I said I think we'd have a spirited conversation on this topic alone! Thank you for watching and for reaching out ♥️✌️👍🤠
@WhatDoesEvilMean
Ай бұрын
@@jimiwmusic I think we’re so conditioned to adopt and worship at the altar of hierarchies (for good reason), we end up doing it with all things. And, unfortunately, craftsmen are uniquely susceptible to an ideology that devoutly worships hierarchies - which, invariably, leads to a supremacist, elitist, and often morbid perception. (Not saying you have that, just that it is entirely common). I was having a conversation with an illustrator on Twitter and said, “Surely a quadriplegic should be able to use a machine to help them make their comic or whatever.” The illustrator told me, no, the quadriplegic must learn how to draw using their mouth. This is sadism. And it’s a product of that worshipping hierarchies and an intense fear of these hierarchies collapsing which would leave the craftsman to lose their station on it. But as I said, artists and art have no hierarchy. They have no prerequisite. They need know nothing whatsoever about any version of any craft at all. The artist isn’t even required to distribute art in order to exist as an artist. An artist need only serve their burden. Now, the REASON that we see so many artists who are also accomplished craftsmen is because artists do indeed have an entirely different ideology that pertains to being in service to their burden. Some artists believe that to serve their burden they need only make manifest what they observe of the ethereal…and the set it on fire. Other artists believe (or, know it to be true), that their burden requires them to DO a thing with their art - put it in a place where humans can experience it. And still other artists believe that perfect communication (which is really what craft is in this regard) of what they’ve observed is an aspect of their burden. So those artists, in service to their burden, become masters of the media they utilize. But this knowing what their burden requires is as presuppositional as is a request from God, right? Or a demand from purpose. No lesser or greater pursuit or path of each artist, but simply HOW that artist is meant to serve. EDIT - I thought I should say, if I were to tell a story of why an artist must serve their burden, I might talk about what happens to the world when artists don’t do it. The ethereal is best defined as a void where truths reside. If ego or morality is assigned and does mutate these truths, they will not arrive as truths, they’ll arrive instead as commandments, decrees, doctrines, et al. If one particular artist in our history has chosen to serve their burden (so the story goes), we would have perhaps gleaned a truth regarding man. But instead that truth was left to be malformed into command and doctrine, demonstrated for us by the artist - and so more than 6 million were tortured and killed. I believe there is not only suffering and doom for the artist who rejects to serve their burden, but there is also untold misery for others should they choose not to abide it. We can only guess at the purpose of any art, but the outcomes of artists who neglect their service appear to consistently have (subjectively) very dark outcomes for the artist and others. To make art is a choice, but to be an artist is a burden the artist is given. No one would ever choose to be an artist.
@jimiwmusic
Ай бұрын
Right on, thanks for the thoughtful response. Your points become a little too broadly constellated for me to get a clear picture of what you are saying without making my mind chase its tail lol. Subjective definitions of art and artists aside, all living beings are confined to a hierarchy that is dissipated only by spiritual transcendence or by death itself. The former is exceedingly rarer than the latter which is absolute. This is the inescapable nature of existence for better AND for worse. Human creative expression IS in my estimation a direct reaction to this truth of being. The quadriplegic should make his comic and express himself creatively however he wants , who cares what anyone says? --- I hope he won't waste his time on that... The vast majority of art utilizes craft in some way --- this doesn't demonstrate (accept in extreme cases) a worshipping of a hierarchy but simply an adherence to the physical principals of our reality. I assume you are referencing Hitler? With regard to the potential art he MAY have produced and its value --- the key word there is "perhaps." Hitler's ACTUAL legacy and the lessons therein are more valuable than the truth expressed in maybe any painting ever made. Heinous and horrible truth. PEOPLE must carry a burden --- artists express that burden through channels that effectively ALWAYS require organization within the confines of some form. Even the paraplegic who wants to make a comic would only seek out AI because it is a fluid and malleable database of artistic principles that have been programmed to make pre-arranged variations seem random. If the hierarchies that comic illustrations are arranged within weren't valued and "worshipped" than the quadriplegic would have neither the inclination to seek those hierarchies or the AI tech that would make those hierarchies attainable to him. This all starts to feel a bit like a thought exercise and is definitely fun to entertain and write about so I appreciate you indulging me haha. At the end of the day we are human beings who have a beautiful creative faculty --- it is part of what makes being alive so wonderful on the good days. I hope people will appreciate it for the gift it is and create beautiful things simply to stand back and behold them --- without getting bogged down by circuitous language and neuroticism that doesn't help them create. That is what I hope in my heart of hearts ✌️ I appreciate your conversation and your crackling ideas my friend 🤠😎
@WhatDoesEvilMean
Ай бұрын
@@jimiwmusic Yeah, there’s no getting away from an engagement with the real. There’s something to be said about what that means with regards to the super presupposition “I am”, but assuming that I’m not a figment of your imagination, and you’re not a figment of mine, the *stuff* we engage in requires…engagement in the manifestation of art. 👍 I don’t think we align on the idea that hierarchies are a necessary facet of all things, though. Rather I think we require them for survival. And because we require them for survival, we place significant importance on them (as we should). But it’s in this way that art (unlike craft) operates independent of any hierarchy. Because the artist serves their burden to make manifest what they observe of the ethereal (unlike craftsmen who must serve ego and mankind, again, on that spectrum), the artist (and indeed no one) can identify any piece of Art’s position or station on the proverbial ladder its (presumably) fixed to. As a for instance, an artist might observe something in the ethereal and choose prose as the manner in which they’ll make it manifest in our world. They pen a novel, get an agent, have it distributed, on and on. Maybe everyone loves it, maybe it’s a critical and commercial failure. Craftsmen (and many others) would then fit that novel into some position on whatever existing hierarchy regarding the craft of the prose, how many readers, whatever sales, on and on. This is our engagement with the real. This is how we choose to make sense of art. But the artist knows that none of these things (or all of these things) are pertinent to why the novel exists. That is, the artist only served their burden. They can’t know the why of it. It may very well be that the reason the novel was written and published and distributed was so that 73 years from now someone will trip over it while walking down a sidewalk. It may be that, and a thousand other reasons. All the artist can know is their burden. When engaged in the action of art, that’s all they serve. That’s why art has no hierarchy. Just as…a dad or your wife, etc - there’s no hierarchy. We might be able to seat two people beside one another, and say “I do love my wife more than I love this person”, but that’s not actually true. There is no other love that is that love. That love is only that love. There’s no version of it beneath it or above it. Dad is the only dad. There isn’t Dad +1 and Dad -1. However, there *is* chair with all its legs and chair with one leg missing. If who we love loses a limb, there is no hierarchy on which to adjust them. They are singular. That love exists absent any hierarchy. A loss of that limb does not have capacity to alter the love that is - that which exist absent hierarchy. And that’s all the ethereal is - the void wherein truths can be observed. Truths being things that likewise cannot exist on a hierarchy. The artist is simply uniquely burdened to make them manifest in our world. I like to BELIEVE that what the artist does serves ultimate good. I think that the disastrous and dark outcomes of an artist not serving their burden informs on the opposing action being an action towards good. But who knows? 🫠 What I think matters in what’s being addressed is that art does not improve as we improve as craftsmen. No more than a significant other can improve how much someone loves them by their actions, beliefs, or how many limbs they have, et al. Their behaviors and niceties and grooming habits simply make that life loving them easier and more pleasant to experience. So like with craftsman serving the imagination, and the artist serving dreams; the craftsman serving fact, and the artist serving truth, I suppose the craftsman is the person trying to make the relationship awesome and pleasant and joyful, while the artist is identifying the love itself. The love that is, not the love that we do. Usually online discussions suck if there’s any disagreement or miscommunication whatsoever. This has been a nice change and a rarity. Haha Thanks.
@theodore-lion
Ай бұрын
📢📢📢
@d1rtyd1sh
Ай бұрын
POETRY.
@FFGG22E
Ай бұрын
If its music that your trying to make, no matter what the gear, no matter what you do, the gact of the matter is ....nobody will care. At all. Zero. Even your friends will NOT listen. Not really. Sorry, but you should know.
@FFGG22E
Ай бұрын
For example...your friends may listen once. 9x of 10 theyre going to compare whatever it reminds them of. After that the y really don't hear much. They hear what they WANT to hear; that you aren't special and that you're not going anywhere. If your music is going to be listed to it HAS to be appreciated by people you DON'T know. Best of luck with that.
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