Hi all, I’m struggling at the moment to lock down a proper genre that I want to focus on. I seem to flit between styles but feel it would be best to concentrate on one style in order to have success. Can anyone tell me the best style for getting a career. Long term i’d like to leave my job and do music full time.
thanks in advance
Honestly, the best you can do to be able to quit your day job is to focus on musical skills and develop your own process and style. In other words, the music that sounds and feels right to you, without the influence of a particular style, is the direction you should be heading.
If you’re looking for a particular style that will be best suited for a “career,” you are already heading down the wrong track. I say this because a style that is not “personal” to you might produce music that is good, but not great. Also, the existing styles at the moment are already covered by more popular and prolific guys who have the style covered already. Copying a style to learn the trade is great, but if you are making that your focus, you will always be late to the party and thus, a follower.
Again, learn musical skills and fundamentals, and develop a style that is different from the rest.
J
[quote]dom_moulton (20/08/2011)[hr]Hi all, I’m struggling at the moment to lock down a proper genre that I want to focus on. I seem to flit between styles but feel it would be best to concentrate on one style in order to have success. Can anyone tell me the best style for getting a career. Long term i’d like to leave my job and do music full time.
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[quote]JamieinNC (20/08/2011)[hr]Honestly, the best you can do to be able to quit your day job is to focus on musical skills and develop your own process and style. In other words, the music that sounds and feels right to you, without the influence of a particular style, is the direction you should be heading.
If you’re looking for a particular style that will be best suited for a “career,” you are already heading down the wrong track. I say this because a style that is not “personal” to you might produce music that is good, but not great. Also, the existing styles at the moment are already covered by more popular and prolific guys who have the style covered already. Copying a style to learn the trade is great, but if you are making that your focus, you will always be late to the party and thus, a follower.
Again, learn musical skills and fundamentals, and develop a style that is different from the rest.
J
[quote]dom_moulton (20/08/2011)[hr]Hi all, I’m struggling at the moment to lock down a proper genre that I want to focus on. I seem to flit between styles but feel it would be best to concentrate on one style in order to have success. Can anyone tell me the best style for getting a career. Long term i’d like to leave my job and do music full time.
thanks in advance[/quote][/quote]
Thanks for your response, don’t get me wrong, i’m not wanting to follow a ‘commercial’ route per se. I don’t want to become a Guetta thanks. The signs are there that it will be feasible for people to have a ‘career’ in music in the future. Do you read this guy’s blog? Lefsetz Letter He suggests that if you are true and honest with your music that it will pay off in the long term. I want to be true and honest… just need to get a feel for the right genre that I could sustain myself with - without selling out as such. I know it’s a lot to ask for but I have optimism despite the bad vibes a lot of music people seem to give off. I plan on making music, performing it live in a DJ/gig format whilst singing and talking on the mic etc… like a club dj but with a live element. I’d like to alternate writing and gigging to be able to afford to live. Just need a better idea of the general genre to head for as I like a lot of ‘good’ music and tend to want to cover everything due to my genre schizophrenia.
Well according to Beatport it seems Progressive and Tech House dominate the charts usually.
But I think Jamie is spot on, you should ignore the genres if you can and just produce what you want to produce… Eventually when you finish your track just listen to it and slap some random genre it fits closest to on it and there you have your genre 
If your looking for guidance to concentrate on learning then I think you have to try and learn from every genre, each genre will give you something to add to your track…
If you really do want to go this route though, then I suggest looking at your favourite artist and try producing in the genre they produce in…
[quote]MistroPain (20/08/2011)[hr]produce what you want to produce… Eventually when you finish your track just listen to it and slap some random genre it fits closest to on it and there you have your genre
I suggest looking at your favourite artist and try producing in the genre they produce in…[/quote]
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