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So I’ve been subscribed to SA for a little over a year now, its great, I’ve really learn’t a lot. I really love the way tutorials are laid out and the resources that are included to help guide the process are always awesome. The thing is I’ve only completed about 7 - 8 tutorials so far. I tend to start and stop, then get distracted in the process, and this is really frustrating. So I had this idea percolating in my mind for a few weeks, and it is to attempt to complete all 226 (as of today, the 25th of September 2015) of Sonic Academy tutorials within as fast a period of time as possible, which I’ve determined to be about 14 months, or an average of four tutorials a week. br
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Now this might sound totally crazy and simply impossible due to the amount of time needed to follow through a tutorial, but I’m in position right now where I can literally spend 8 hours a day working on music production. I’ve been working my *** off for quite some time at a ****ty pseudo-corporate job and I have enough money saved up to coast while working part-time for up to a year and a half. Producing and making music is my dream, I’ve spent years fantasizing about making not only dance music but eventually music for video games and movies. I always end up telling myself its a pipe dream and that I’m not talented enough to even have a chance. But one thing I’ve learn’t in the past 5 or so years is that everything in life is a skill and if you want to be good at something, time + experience + good teaching = proficiency. True there are people that are prodigies but I do really believe you can learn to do anything with enough time and motivation. br
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So that is my crazy goal, to attempt to complete all 226 current SA tutorials by around November 19th 2016. My intent is to keep a blog and write a short entry for each tutorial I complete to help keep me accountable. I think it will be a cool way to see how much my production skills will improve in that time. Any work I produce outside of the tutorials I will put up on my soundcloud. I will be starting this endeavour tomorrow, I won’t be following a particular order doing these tutorials. For the most part I’ll work from the oldest to the newest, but when there is a particular one I wish to do, I’ll do it, making a list and keeping track of what I’ve done on my blog. Of course over the period of a year more tutorials will be added to the site, but my goal is to stick to the tutorials available as of today, I’ll try and post my progress on here too,br
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I just wanted to say thank you for posting this, and I really resonate with where you are coming from and what you want to do. br
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3 years ago I decided to quit my corporate job with my savings and coast for a time while I figured things out. I spent a good year after that trying to discern another direction to go convincing myself that music wasn’t it. Just after high school I actually started university in music composition (but never finished), and have done music pretty much most of my life outside of school and work as hobby and activities. So Finally just a year and a half ago I decided I would get into music production and composition again and really see where this could go.br
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Basically there was a huge explosion of energy in my life when I finally sat down and started working with all of this in a focused fashion with the kind of direction that I had previously only given to someone else in order to get paid. Its been incredibly liberating to do this, and also incredibly scary. I am pretty much broke now, but tbh I am far happier than I ever have been and I have a strong sense that this is exactly what I need to be doing with myself. At this point I am picking up part-time work which is actually making this sustainable for the time-being, but I know now how to structure myself so that this work is a complement to my time in the studio, not the other way around. br
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So massive Kudos for taking this on. I sense that only good things can come from this kind of commitment and energy output. Ill be checking out your blog for sure ^_~br
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Im also gearing up to do a 30day Songwriting challenge (1 track a day, every day, for 30 days) that will come sometime in this next year 
Im just beginning to plan that out so I can arrange my schedule and get a sense of what kind of tools I will need.br
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Oh yeah, this seems kinda like an afterthought, but. Life as skill. anything and everything in life is a skill. Even learning how to learn is a skill.br
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So I’ve been subscribed to SA for a little over a year now, its great, I’ve really learn’t a lot. I really love the way tutorials are laid out and the resources that are included to help guide the process are always awesome. The thing is I’ve only completed about 7 - 8 tutorials so far. I tend to start and stop, then get distracted in the process, and this is really frustrating. So I had this idea percolating in my mind for a few weeks, and it is to attempt to complete all 226 (as of today, the 25th of September 2015) of Sonic Academy tutorials within as fast a period of time as possible, which I’ve determined to be about 14 months, or an average of four tutorials a week. br
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Now this might sound totally crazy and simply impossible due to the amount of time needed to follow through a tutorial, but I’m in position right now where I can literally spend 8 hours a day working on music production. I’ve been working my *** off for quite some time at a ****ty pseudo-corporate job and I have enough money saved up to coast while working part-time for up to a year and a half. Producing and making music is my dream, I’ve spent years fantasizing about making not only dance music but eventually music for video games and movies. I always end up telling myself its a pipe dream and that I’m not talented enough to even have a chance. But one thing I’ve learn’t in the past 5 or so years is that everything in life is a skill and if you want to be good at something, time + experience + good teaching = proficiency. True there are people that are prodigies but I do really believe you can learn to do anything with enough time and motivation. br
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So that is my crazy goal, to attempt to complete all 226 current SA tutorials by around November 19th 2016. My intent is to keep a blog and write a short entry for each tutorial I complete to help keep me accountable. I think it will be a cool way to see how much my production skills will improve in that time. Any work I produce outside of the tutorials I will put up on my soundcloud. I will be starting this endeavour tomorrow, I won’t be following a particular order doing these tutorials. For the most part I’ll work from the oldest to the newest, but when there is a particular one I wish to do, I’ll do it, making a list and keeping track of what I’ve done on my blog. Of course over the period of a year more tutorials will be added to the site, but my goal is to stick to the tutorials available as of today, I’ll try and post my progress on here too,br
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Waow, thats some dedication!br
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take a snapshot of your face on each day - i think that will also be interesting lol :)br
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Awesome lokid thanks for the reply man, I checked out your soundcloud. I really like your track Evergreen Sunset, nice work dude. And I know the feeling you speak of when working on music, its like I can spend 10 hours straight working on something and even when its not working the way I want I still continue. If only I could have that kind of motivation in my day job 
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Looking forward to hearing some more of your stuff dude.br
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Thanks Bryan maybe I’ll do that. In the Ableton Live warping tutorial, you used a track of yours on the first video called 'To the Lady". I would really like to hear that, I tried looking around online and can’t find it, also it seems like the player on the discountrhino.co.uk website doesn’t work. Also I like the remix you did of that Nelly Furtado track, really cool. br
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Can I ask you, what is the best advice would you give for someone just starting out in music production, making dance music, etc?br
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I’d really appreciate your advice, thanks man.
Just finished week 4 of the project, first few weeks were tough getting into the swing of things, a lot of introduction tutorials to follow. Although I learned how to use Ableton Live and its truly an awesome DAW. This week I finally did a How to Make tutorial and and a fast track build, focusing on house music, which is just awesome.br
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I decided that when I complete any tutorial that involves building a track, I’ll upload a snippet of the completed project onto a seperate soundcloud as a kind of ‘proof of completion’, to show that I’ve truly completed the tutorial. I add my own parts to again show that I actually went and worked through the entire tutorial from start to finish. I also think this helps me improve my compositional abilities. These proofs are located here:br
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https://soundcloud.com/proofofcomp226over14br
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Tutorials completed:br
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Music Theory Scales Modes br
How to Make Nu Skool Retro House br
Bry’s Deep House 2014 br
Sonic Feature: Nick Warren Interview br
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My blog entry for this week: https://bigiiboss.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/one-month-down-13-to-go/br
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21 / 226 tutorials completed. 9% there.br
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[quote]BigBossMFM (13/10/2015)[hr]Thanks Bryan maybe I’ll do that. In the Ableton Live warping tutorial, you used a track of yours on the first video called 'To the Lady". I would really like to hear that, I tried looking around online and can’t find it, also it seems like the player on the discountrhino.co.uk website doesn’t work. Also I like the remix you did of that Nelly Furtado track, really cool. br
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Sorry i missed this post.br
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RE: To the lady - ill see if i can hunt it out for you, but this was purchased from a label and subsequently it was never released - which is why you cannot find it.br
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[quote]Just finished week 4 of the project, first few weeks were tough getting into the swing of things, a lot of introduction tutorials to follow. Although I learned how to use Ableton Live and its truly an awesome DAW. This week I finally did a How to Make tutorial and and a fast track build, focusing on house music, which is just awesome.br
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I decided that when I complete any tutorial that involves building a track, I’ll upload a snippet of the completed project onto a seperate soundcloud as a kind of ‘proof of completion’, to show that I’ve truly completed the tutorial. I add my own parts to again show that I actually went and worked through the entire tutorial from start to finish. I also think this helps me improve my compositional abilities. These proofs are located here:br
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https://soundcloud.com/proofofcomp226over14br
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Tutorials completed:br
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Music Theory Scales Modes br
How to Make Nu Skool Retro House br
Bry’s Deep House 2014 br
Sonic Feature: Nick Warren Interview br
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My blog entry for this week: https://bigiiboss.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/one-month-down-13-to-go/br
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Good work so far. i will be keeping an eye and ear on this to see how you progress
[quote]Can I ask you, what is the best advice would you give for someone just starting out in music production, making dance music, etc?br
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The key i find (even now) is to constantly reference the track you are trying to emulate, it will hone in your mixing skills.