Do you feel like your music sucks? You and I need to talk about it.

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📝 Video Transcription:

Do you feel like your music sucks? You listen to the great songs that inspire you, then you listen to your songs, and you feel like they're not even close in quality? And that gets you discouraged and wanting to quit making music?

Well, you are not alone. I know that feeling. Been there. In fact, every artist goes through that.

I know that very well: for the first couple of years that I produced music, for each song I made, even cover songs, I went from heaven to hell 20 times before I realized the song was ready.

And you and I need to talk about it. There are some things that took me a long time to understand and I want you to learn now so you don't end up making the wrong decisions like I did.

Hey, how's it going? I'm Thales, pop music producer, and first I want to tell you that I quit music production once, a long time ago.

I found out I had this dream. I pursued it for a while. I got discouraged, made the wrong decisions, life happened, then I quit and sold all my gear.

Now, ever since I made those decisions, my life felt empty. Life without making music doesn't make sense to me. It's weird. But that's who I am.

Until the day I couldn't take it anymore, so I went back and started over. Got some basic gear, a DAW, a microphone and started producing again.

I'm just telling you this so you know that whatever you're feeling about your music right now, I've felt that same feeling.

And I want to make sure you understand that, if you're able to compare your music to an artist you like and realize your songs are not as good as theirs yet, that doesn't mean your songs are bad.

That doesn't mean you can't be a good songwriter, or music producer. That only means one thing:

You have good taste. You know what good music sounds like. And you're capable of realizing that for one reason or another, your songs haven't reached that level of quality yet, no matter where you are in your music making journey.

If you can hear that, you're halfway through. That shouldn't discourage you, that should motivate you to try and figure out how to get there. That's what I wish I had done, many years ago.

But if that actually discourages you, maybe what you need is patience. We're so used to getting everything quick, everything is so immediate these days.

We can't wait for anything. Even the things we want to purchase are delivered overnight. There's Amazon Prime and that kind of stuff. These things make us more and more impatient and anxious every day.

But success is not an overnight thing. Gotta put in the hours. That's why it's so hard for us to accept this. And making music, like every skill in life, takes time, practice and most importantly: patience.

And the fact that you compare yourself to a successful artist, you're disregarding the long and hard path they had until they figured out how to be successful. It may look like it was an overnight success, but that's not how life works.

Whoever you admire as an artist or producer, they went through these dark feelings at some point, just like you. Everyone does. I did. People probably just choose not to show it.

You most likely can only see their trajectory after they became successful.

And that's not a fair comparison. A fair comparison, which is what you should be doing, is comparing your current work to your past work.

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