instruments the different parts that they're playing basically the composition when it comes to hip-hop pop or like electronic music in general usually they focus usually not always but usually the focus is on the sounds so yeah to answer your questions i usually start from sounds picking sounds and then i let the sounds that i pick define the music that i'm about to make i hope that made sense what are your thoughts on going to college for music specifically music production engineering dude every time i get asked this question i never know how to answer i'm gonna try though so i went to music college i went to musicians institute in l.a but i went for drums not for music production but it's probably about the same thing from my experience most people want to go to college for two reasons mainly the first one is information the second one is getting a degree and in my opinion both of those things are the least valuable aspects of going to music college for me personally looking back at it now the things that really made it worth it were one my relationship with the teachers like that mentored me and just helped me and they still do to this day and the second one would be the college environment there's something truly magical about being locked in a space with a ton of kids that are just as passionate about music as you are and all they want to do from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to sleep is just music music music and a little side note if you're gonna spend all that money to go to college in my opinion i would strongly recommend doing it in a big city like for me it was la that's just an option but a big city the reason why is because being in such a huge competitive environment is going to make you want to work extra hard and inevitably it's going to make you like develop connections with people that you would never have access to otherwise just as an example in my drum year in my drum class i was sitting next to people that ended up playing for like stanley clark georgia duke kendrick lamar big sean frank ocean just the list goes on just the opportunities and friendships that i develop in going to school in a city like la like those are totally worth it also music college was a blast how do you practice playing the keys do you just follow something or just play so i've been fortunate enough in my life to always have had instruments around my dad was a musician so even in my house when i was a kid there was always like a piano a guitar just something laying around for me to kind of like pick up and just have fun with i would say that the best way for me to learn a new instrument is to learn some songs some like simple stuff and kind of try to focus on understanding how the instrument works that to me is a very natural and fun approach and then when you get to a point where you kind of get stuck then you can explore the next step maybe with a teacher or just finding something else for example i've been recently practicing guitar i have some basics down but i really wanted to take it to the next level and skillshare has been helping me tremendously with it if you guys don't know what skillshare is they're the sponsors of this video so let me tell you about them real quick so skillshare is a platform with literally thousands of classes about anything and everything that you can think of whether you want to take a skill that
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