How to become a producer

We know how hard is to make it in the music industry as an artist, producer, engineer.

Here is our take in how to become a music producer.

1. Show up in your daw: You will only be a producer if you actually sit down and produce, show up no matter your skill set at the moment.

2. Learn from reliable sources: Youtube tutorial are the holy grail for producer for years now, but let's face it, they aren't all great. if you can go to a school such as point blank, SAE, or anyone available in your area. they will have professionals that will teach you.

3. Persevere: this is the most important out of the three, get your mentality of I won't give up and carry on through everything.

Diversify Revenues and Royalties

All artists and businesses get told to diversify their revenue, find many ways to earn revenue and don't depend on a single income source. However, this is always easier said than done.

You as an artist have different options.

1. Royalties from your music: yes this is obvious, but some artists don't know that you are entitled to 2 different royalties. (Publishing and mechanical) most of you believe that what you get from Spotify etc is all you have, and that's not true. Once you start performing and your music gets used in ads or films or anything else including radio. You need to get register with a PRO to be able to first register your work, and secondly to get paid publishing royalties.

2. Merch sales: you can design or pay someone to design logos or merchandise related to your releases or brand. And sell them in conjunction with your releases.

3. Performance fee: this can be achieved by yourself or through a booking agency. Which is a way of earning money by you Performing in front of a crowd, generally with performances comes along the merch sales, so you have the potential to do both in a single day.

Here at Teide Records, we want you to earn a living out of your work, that's why we offer a split of royalties, we also offer a merchandise site where you can sell yours at no extra cost for you, this split will correlate to our split before and after recoupment, so if you are unrecouped you get 20% any sales, and the 80% left goes towards your recoupment once the songs are recouped this becomes 50% - 50% for as long as you want us to keep your merch in our store! If you want 100 then you can take your merch and sell it independently 👌

Consistency or Speed, What's best?

Often, we hear that consistency will win over speed, the story of the

turtle and the bunny, for example, but what about when talking about creative matters?

When is it consistency actually preventing you from progressing?

We believe that obviously being constant in your work will benefit you in the long run, but sometimes being able to quickly identify when something is not working or it won't work is more important than keep consistently working on it.

How many song ideas have you worked for weeks constantly and not getting to a place you liked?

Maybe it was a better idea to quickly discard it and get another one.

Or trying to get an idea quickly into a full arrangement, so you can then develop that later.

Sometimes speed is a good idea, especially when working on music, or any arts where occasionally the best tracks are the ones that are done quickly.

Carry on being consistent working every day, but don't waste your time constantly on something that doesn't work.

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