The Modern Musician Show with Colin Thomson

053: Bringing Out the Best in Artists with Andy Freeman

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Key Take Aways:
  • Active listening is something you can instill in your children early on, and how knows, maybe they'll become a producer someday!
  • Understanding what makes a song tick is the most essential ability in a producer
  • There's a lot of chance involved with meeting the right people. There's only so much you can do
  • As a producer, a lot of times friends and your networks are the best way to discover artists
  • Never become too jaded to listen to new music you're given
  • It's important to have a good, friendly relationships with the people you work with, especially in music
  • Artists need to know who they are as an artist, before they start working with a producer
  • If your producer/label/anyone makes you - that means that they can take it away from you, too
  • Artist need to learn how to define success for themselves, outside of expectations from other people around them
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    "A producer is a professional enabler" - Andy Freeman

     

     

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    The Modern Musician Show with Colin ThomsonBy Colin Thomson interviews musicians and entertainers like Bryan Callen and Bobby Owsinski , to get advice on what musicians should be doing today. Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, and Justin Timberlake should also come on the show, as well as Taylor Swift, Justin