Teach 1 Tuesday
Teach 1 Tuesday
Cultivating Musical Excellence with Community Insights
Unlock the magic behind crafting chart-topping melodies and the transformative power of honest feedback on your music journey. This Teach One Tuesday, I'm peeling back the curtain on the songwriting process, sharing how trusted ears like those of my wife, a brilliant vocalist in her own right, have been instrumental in helping me refine my tracks. From the intimate insights that shaped my EP 'Authentically Me' to the broader impact of community listening sessions, this episode is an open invitation to musicians eager to elevate their craft.
Step inside a world where every chord and lyric is a piece of a larger sonic puzzle, and where the right feedback can be the key to solving it. We'll explore the communal joy of listening parties, offering a treasure trove of advice on creating a supportive space for constructive criticism that can transform your work from good to unforgettable. Join us as we celebrate the collective experience of music-making and the indispensable role feedback plays in an artist's growth, all woven through personal stories and practical tips that promise to resonate with both new and seasoned creatives alike.
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Toni King link: http://www.linktr.ee/toni.king
The Toni King Experience
Welcome back to another great episode of Teach One Tuesday Podcast family. We're going to get into a great subject today. We're still talking about songwriting, but we're going to get into a great subject today. Before we do that, let's get into that theme music. Alright, alright, welcome back. Welcome back everyone. Right, quick man, let me get into these links, and so we're going to get into this subject.
Speaker 1:Number one, my class is Toolkit from Musicianship, bass 3. There's a link there for you. All of this is in the description for the podcast and also on my YouTube channel. Alright, so Toolkit from Musicianship, bass 3. For my upcoming musicians or musicians that are already playing, already seasoned but want to continue to sharpen your skills and learn more. This class is for you. Go and check it out. Talks about the tools that you need to be a professional musician.
Speaker 1:Alright, next, my YouTube channel, the Tony King Experience. Go there, like and subscribe, learn something new. It's an amazing channel geared toward helping musicians and just great information for creatives. Alright, next is my company, rare Keys Production and Music School. This is for those that either need. You know so many services that we render for our clients. It's mixing and mastering, consultation. You know keyboard, you know structure anything that they need. It is there. So both of those things you know there's a link there, so go check out that link. Also, yes, as I mentioned, there's a new service for consultation consultation service that we offer to musicians working on a single project or EP. We are there for you, so go check out all those amazing things. And also, we're going to be dropping a new project in June the Kingdom Radio. Kingdom Radio is coming soon. I'm going to be dropping a single soon as well, so stay tuned for that family. Alright.
Speaker 1:So these next, these last, actually a couple of episodes that I've done is geared toward helping musicians with their process of writing, laying down tracks, if that's what you do. The last episode I talked about VSTs and plugins and different things of that nature that you just check out and purchase if you need them, and but this episode I want to talk about a listening party. It's important to you know. Get to the place where you know. It's important to have people in your life that can listen to your music and be honest with you and give you constructive criticism. This is very, very important. I'm not talking about someone that's hating on you, someone that's going to be negative for the sake of being negative. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about someone who will help you with your process, who will allow you to, you know, allow that environment to be safe and free, and they can give you suggestions on what to do.
Speaker 1:My wife does this for me. My wife comes in, I lay something down, I have an idea, and I'll have her come and listen to it. No, she's not a, she's a musician, she's a vocalist. But you know, this is not what she does full time. But the woman has a great ear, she knows what to tell me. It can be something. Actually it's not small, it's very big, but it can be something that maybe that I've missed because I've been in the process of. She can come in with fresh ears and guide me as to what I made it to change, take out whatever and I did this for my project, authentically me, my first EP.
Speaker 1:I had a couple of friends to listen to my project and give me some feedback on. You know what they think I should do, and so I want to give you this key. I want to tell you that this is very, very important and I think that so you should have. You can do it in different ways. You can just have a couple of friends that you call and say, hey, I'm doing this project because you listened to it. You can also have a listening party. You know, have some friends over, you have some food, you know, make it, make it, make it out, you know. So make it an event is what I'm trying to say, and you know. And have them come over, listen to your music and have them give you feedback on what they think, what they think you should do, you know. And or you can also just call a friend, call someone on the phone. You know, have them there with you, like I have my wife, but you can call someone on the phone. Hey, listen to this right quick. Or you can just send it to them. You know it's easier to send it to them and you know, listen to how, listen to, you know what they're going to tell you.
Speaker 1:One of the ideas that one of my friends gave me my best friend, nia is that she was talking about background vocals and I think what I was doing I don't know if I was going straight to harmony or if I was doing this pattern where I was just doing. Yeah, I think I was doing unison first and then harmony. I think I was doing all of them. So I think she has suggested on one of them that I was going straight to harmony and I'm not sure if I was able to change or not, but it was great feedback just to just to change things up and make things different, you know, and so this is very important and it's a part of the process.
Speaker 1:Now don't get me wrong, emotionally it's going to be tough. You've been working on this music, or you've given your producer the idea. They flushed it out for you and now you're at this place where you want people to start hearing. You may not have had it mixed yet, but this is raw, it's rough, but you want them to hear what you're doing before you get a mix or whatever. This is one of emotionally, you know, hit you a little bit because you're inviting people into that intimate space and this is okay. You know it's not easy to do. It's not easy to put music out for people to hear and people to criticize or whatever, and you know so it's.
Speaker 1:But it's important to have, you know, have this done, just like, for instance, you know when, if you're, if you're an engineer, if you mix and master your own stuff or you mix it. Eventually you want to go get it. You know you want to listen to it in different, on different devices, your car and speakers, whatever and so you that same type of idea. You know, after you have made the stuff out, you got the music laid down, you know you want to have someone listen to it. That's not you, because you're locked in. You know what I mean, and so you're you're, you're used to the sound, you know you, of course, you know people like their own stuff. They think it's cool and it is cool. But but there's always more that you can do or add or take away. You know, sometimes less is more, and so this is a great, great way that you can take your process to the next level.
Speaker 1:I know that it may seem like a lot, but take it one day at a time. You know, have some people that you trust, whether it's vocalists, producers, engineers, whatever it is. Have a team, and also that team needs to be able to give you constructive criticism, people who care about you, people who really want to see you shine, and they will give you what you need. All right, so I just want to drop that. I'm not. I didn't want this episode to be too long, I just want to drop that. So I'm going to go back into my links here. You know the toolkit for musicianship mastery in my class. Go and check that out for my musicians, upcoming and those who are already playing. Great tools there for you. My channel, the Tony King Experience. Go there, check it out, like and subscribe if you dig it. You know, learn something new to others about it. Let's continue to grow this channel.
Speaker 1:Also, my company, rare Keys Production and Music School, for my creatives, for my artists. If you're looking for any type of, you know production keys, you know. If it's consultation, if you need vocal ideas, whatever it is, we are here for you. All right, there is a link tree link for you. I think I forgot about this. There's a link tree link there. If you want to know who I am, know more about me. There's a link there for you to learn more about me. It's linked also to my website. Should also be there, which I need to update. Should also be there. And, like I said before, the consultation part is new to Rare Keys. So go and check out these things. We are here for you to serve you All right. So thanks for checking out this episode. I hope you're having a wonderful day. If you're not having a wonderful day, you can change that by your mindset. Thanks so much for checking out.