The Single FASTEST Way To Improve As A Producer

Very logical that "remake" is the key. That's how we (as children) learn how to do ANYTHING in life. Re-make what the others do. :) And the good part is: that doesn't necessarily mean to be just a copycat, because the second you re-make something it will be filtered through your own unique personality and musical preferences.

You’re great I just subscribed ❤🎉 from Nigeria 🇳🇬

great tutorial thx

I am so glad I found your account. Every video is just as helpful as the next. Thank you so much 🥹

"Drag in the song that we want to remake"

where are you getting that exactly?

The remade track sounds so much better than the OG one 😂😂 great job!

I come back to this video every once in a while. Every time I'm inspired to practice the basics. You're awesome ❤

Hi Ethan, thank you so much for your motivational videos. I've listened to a lot of different mentors (Bass Kleph, Rob Late, PML, Graham Cochrane...) and your advice is clearly the most relevant and hands on. You just earned yourself a sub.

o ethan ur one of the best producers in the world that's how u ended up there :D

The right sounds is always key and can make or break a remake/track!!!

Hi Ethan, great video as always!

I have just one question: do you recommend remaking every reference track, or do you recommend remaking just a few songs?

Bro you earned my respect

This was so so great, thank you

I became a producer because people kept lieing to me, and a great video!

Bro, you simple, but a master, wao, thank u very much for taking of your the time and teach us!

how tho. how did you know the pattern of bass and what chord progresstions are used. Are you just using your ears? please explain. I try to recreate a song so many time but I failed because I just can't find the right pattern bass or chord pattern that the song use.

i was a FL Studio user before. i don't have enough knowledge about music production and just do it by ears. and i just started learning Ableton and i am overwhelmed with all the stuff from the videos i watch. but this. this is super enjoyable to watch. made me subscribed. thank you! 😁

excellent work...

Really interesting. I've never considered doing this. I'm pretty new to production and feel as though I'm fortunate to have found this early on.

thanks for that <3

thanks for the help

Excellent Ethan, thank you. Im a signed artist with a coach, but my biggest challenge is probably organization and work flow. I would love to see a vid on your organization of sounds. In short, my process is too slow, especially finding sounds and pulling them in. I use Loopcloud and Logic Pro, but since sample packs have all these great sounds I usually go to them for a mew sound rather than using my own collection. But trying to get the right combo of what I should organize into my own library and when just to scroll through Loopcloud or Splice. You inspire confidence by watching your process. I have a successful House producer as a coach ( I recommend getting a mentor as fastest way from A to B ) but he has a simple process and I do Latin/Tribal House (first track went to #5 on Beatport Funky House ) which is different. Thanks again for your knowledge and just right presentations.

great job. It helps so much to do this I always do this and got flack at first then they realized oh shit that does work

Hi Ethan what preset are you using in Keyscape

Love your videos, I've been learning a lot! I really enjoy your teaching style, thanks

I'm a beginner and that's literally the first thing I was and still am trying to do. It really makes you listen and disassemble the song and genre you want to replicate.

Amazing content man!

You are my Yoda

How do they not feel dumb wearing those headphones

Snother Fantastic video as usual ! Thanks so much ! I'm starting with a new template that breaks it into those 5 elements you break it down to

What a great video! And the base song you used is my style! Sounds awesome!

Can you make money as ausic producer?

AWESOME video. I knew remaking songs was how I would get better but you're showing step by step in such detail. you helped me incredibly tonight. thanks!

I used to do live looping streams in Ableton on Twitch and while I was doing them my ability to listen to something and instantly know the effect chain and the key got really good over time. I stopped a year ago when I got a software job and I've only come back to ableton a few days ago. I've pretty much forgotten how to make music 😅That blank template is terrifying. I'm going to jump back on it and do some more loops, see if I can pull those skills back. Great video thank you 👍

late to the party, but when i started remaking songs i liked and learning all the little parts.... it completely changed my game! i feel i went from pig shit to halfway decent within a few days.... it was like gaining a little super power internalizing some of my favourite stuff... it felt like practicing guitar, but a different version.

Maybe you could do a series interviewing some random online producers. I've been doing it for about 10 years, up to about 30+ beat tapes. I wouldn't say I'm a producer, just a beatmaker, do you think there is a difference between the two? It would be great to see you shed light on projects and sounds and provide insight and help with the growth of any persons take.

great tip :) thank you for the video

Okay, Doon’t be Freaked out..
But you’re like my favorite person because of the knowledge you share and the quality and coherence of your videos 👌❤️

I didn’t understand, what is producing? What is the point or is it just for this kind of music? How about complex music? I have so many questions and doubts

So I was going to make a comment, after watching the video, but I am only 5 minutes into the video and I had to stop to make a comment right now. Thank you! A few days ago, I was listening to some songs I had produced on a device that no longer exists and wondering how i could remix them to bring them up to date and I just decided to redo them, and I was saying in my head, doing that would make me a better producer... the day after, my twin sent me a link to this and , I'm like wow! What I like about how you've done this, is that all through, your intention to help is clear, this is one of those "look guys, I found gold here, not just for me, for all of us" type of things. Ok, a bit long winded, but I had to get it out, thanks for doing this and GOD's Speeeeeeeed!

Very good and clear. Thanks

What do I do when all my fav music is alt and insane? Lol

Wow, sounds really good!

I've struggled heavily to make original work, even after being an amateur self proclaimed "producer", but when I started remixing/remaking songs, it taught me better than a book or a video could really do, the structure of a song, how instruments work together, all that. Like I recently made a song based off of Hoodie Allens "Hey Ben" in the style of a 2014-esque upbeat type of genre and it was actually really fun to work on. I've made synthwave, phonk, vapor wave, jungle, and much more, but every time I create something, I try to put something new into it and I get better with every production. I find myself retouching other works of music to make them better, too, usually ones that I don't think are good enough to upload.

Good job man,keep going to show us tutorials,thank you )

Subscribed, I just tried this last night and it was such a fun excercise. Btw how do you get your Splice to be a mini window like that? Idk if I'm missing some obvious toggle but no matter how much I shrink my window it doesn't look like that 😂

I started a remake yesterday & then your video shows up today :-) too uncanny lol! Anyhow, subbed!

bravo !

I had this book called “Steal like an artist” and it’s inspired me so much to try new things by mimicking and learning with the process!