Why "just use your ears" is toxic advice for newbies

Picture this: you're looking for production advice online, and you post a question. People respond with "just use your ears". As a newbie, you feel helpless. They act as if the necessary information is right in front of you, but the problem is you haven't learned to identify it yet. Let's talk about that!

TL;DR:
- Get a mentor who can help identify problems
- Expand your vocabulary to put names to different problems
- Get your music into new contexts to get perspective on how your decisions impacted the result
- Don't give up, good enough is good enough, have fun

Contents:
0:00 Just use your ears!
3:16 How to you solve the problem?
6:10 Fresh perspective and testing your assumptions
8:43 Wrapping up and admitting it's true
9:35 Recap and summary

At Underdog Electronic Music School we run online classrooms for all levels of music producers. We do "bootcamps" for beginners (no prior knowledge required!) and "deep dives" for intermediate producers. We are also available for private coaching and advice.
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