Last minute changes and releasing

The reason I started this blog and a YouTube channel and why I enjoy releasing music is because it forces you to really look at what you’re making.

The act of putting something out there into the public for people to see makes you think differently about what it is that you’re releasing. This happening with that song “Caffeinated.”

Listening to it, knowing that soon it’d be searchable and available on Spotify and Bandcamp and iTunes and TIDAL and all of the other music listening platforms forced me to be critical about it. But critical in a way that’s beneficial. Critical in a way where you get rid of the unnecessary stuff and make changes that you wouldn’t have thought to make before.

You hone in on how you want it to sound because you know that it’ll be available for other people to here.

The first time you do this you’ll make a mistake. You’ll probably make a mistake the next few times too. But those mistakes are going to get smaller and smaller and more detailed and more refined until they’re hardly mistakes anymore.

That’s what makes releasing something beneficial. Finalizing it. Finishing it. Telling yourself and the project that you won’t be making any more changes.

And telling other people, “here I made this.”

That’s what will help you improve.

ISJ