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Solo or Collab? | Episode 7 - Coffee Mornings with Tomas George

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Channel: Tomas George · 2017 · Education

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Coffee Mornings with Tomas George - Solo or Collaborate?

Should you collaborate with other artists or musicians or should you just produce solo?

My answer is… 

Both

I’d say if you’re new to music production collaborate with someone else, because when you are new you can get really excited about all these new ideas buzzing around your head and it can be hard to pin things down.

I believe just having someone there to help you solidify what you are doing can really help.

If you are playing in bands or groups it’s useful to have someone else there to tell you if your idea is rubbish. What you start off you can get really excited about some of the stuff you are doing and some of the stuff can be at times pretty bad, but if there is someone there to ping ideas off then it can really help.

For social reasons, it can really help to have people there. You can get a little crazy if you’re in isolation too long. 

Collaborating can be very good, but doing solo projects can be very useful too, just because you get it the way you want. There are no arguments, you can get that fixed idea in your head and get your track down just as you want it.

Collaborating with people though can help you rapidly improve at a skill. Ideally, you want to be the worst person in the group or the project and then you can learn from the other people around you.

After a while though, I’d recommend doing a lot of your work solo, as collaborations at times can get a bit messy when you have two or more strong-minded people there, when they have set ways of doing things, the old buck heads can clash at times.

If you are just starting out though, I recommend collaborating with as many people as you can. Go to local music production events, just chat to people there, collaborate with people there, don’t charge them and just learn from other producers.

Once you get a bit more experienced, then I’d recommend doing more solo projects and maybe working with one or two people now and again such as guest singers or guest instrumentalists.

That’s my advice anyway if anyone has any other advice, then please comment below.

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Tomas

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