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Write every day, even if it’s terrible | Think Like A Musician
Write every day, even if it’s terrible | Think Like A Musician
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One of my classmates, he was able to get me a meeting with the big boss—
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Lyor Cohen.
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I took a Megabus from D.C. to New York.
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We sit down and I played him a verse chorus of one song.
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And then I started to play the beginning of a second song,
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and he cut me off, and he was like, “why am I here?”
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And I was like, “to hear my music?”
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He was like, “no, I mean, this is a waste of my time. You’re not ready yet.”
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And he got up and he left the meeting.
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I got literally two minutes with him and it was over.
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Hey, you! Yes, you. Is there music inside of you?
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We’ve recruited working musicians from throughout the industry
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to help you hear it, hold it, and share it with this wild and wonderful world.
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Hi, my name is Daniel Breland.
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I professionally go by Breland.
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I am a singer, songwriter, and producer originally from New Jersey.
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I live in Nashville and the genres that I usually play in
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are country music, R&B, hip hop, gospel.
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That day with Lyor Cohen, I got back on the Megabus and went back to D.C.,
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and I was devastated for a good week because I was like,
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I’m 19, I’ve been making music for five years,
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I got a meeting with the guy that’s supposed to be The Guy,
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and he said it wasn’t it, you know?
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And so I’m just trying to figure out what my next steps should be.
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I decided to double down and I ended up buying some equipment.
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And I was like, look, I’m going to write and record a song every day
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until I get better.
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And so from from that day, in October of 2014,
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for the next year, I wrote and recorded a good 365 songs.
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And the following year, the songs had definitely gotten marginally better.
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And so I said, okay, well, this next year, now my junior year,
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I said I’m going to write and record two songs a day.
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Now, at this point, I’m pretty much barely going to class.
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Now I've got two songs a day.
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So now halfway into that second year,
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I've got 700 plus songs and nobody to really listen to any of them.
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And so I started reaching out, kind of cold-calling people in the industry—
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songwriters, producers, managers, A&Rs, artists, friends.
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I mean, they received an email, a DM, a tweet.
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I might have written a couple handwritten letters if there was an address
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to a record label.
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And literally just trying to reach out to as many people I could
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to see if I could get any feedback.
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Really, that was the year that I made the biggest jump,
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because I started getting feedback where I was like, okay, cool—
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there are people in the industry that have given me some insight
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on how songs are actually written and where I’m falling short.
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Writer’s block is real.
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You know, inspiration can strike at any moment,
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but you can also lose inspiration on something in any moment.
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And I think that’s okay.
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Because I’ve written so many songs, and because I was so dedicated
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for all of those years that I was writing songs every day,
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and no one was hearing any of them,
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I understand that there are songs that people are never going to hear.
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And so I’m not afraid to step away from a song entirely
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and say, hey, if it’s not happening for this song on this day, that’s okay.
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I think the right way to produce a song is to listen to the song
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and give the song what it needs, you know?
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And that requires a level of— a level of humility.
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You may think, okay, well, this is what it needs to do because I’ve done this before
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and I know that that works.
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But sometimes it's being able to say, hey,
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maybe it’s something that I’ve never thought of before,
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and maybe it’s something that’s going to come to me in its own time.
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And you can't rush the creative process.
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A lot of times you literally have to step back from it and say,
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how can I be in service to the song?
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For me, stepping back to gain perspective on a song,
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it can come in a few different ways.
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Sometimes it’s me listening to a song a bunch,
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and sometimes it’s me not listening to the song at all;
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literally letting it sit for a few days or a week,
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working on some other music and then coming back to it.
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You know, sometimes it's playing the song around other people.
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It's not an exact science.
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Part of it is just being receptive
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to the fact that it might look totally different on one song
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than it does on another song.
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You might get to that finished product the day that you write it,
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and then there's other songs that might take you months or even years.
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And I don’t think either of those is wrong.
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It just literally depends on how it comes to you
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and where your inspiration arrives from.
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For me, it’s just recognizing that it’s not always going to go
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exactly the way I want.
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And that even those “dud songs,” are the ones that don’t get finished,
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you know, they still help inform the way that I write songs in the future.
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And I think it’s those great songs that you end up getting,
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oftentimes you would not get those songs if it weren't for the songs
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that you feel like you missed or that you didn’t get it.
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And so just trying to continue to encourage yourself
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and not get too down on yourself
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because something isn’t going at the speed that you want
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or coming together in quite the way that you want.
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You will eventually get to the songs that you really want
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if you just continue to work on it.
