Creative Confidence and Music Production: Overcome Your Insecurities

by Liina Turtonen

Overview

Creative Confidence and Music Production: Overcome Your Insecurities is a practical guide for music producers to tackle self-doubt and navigate the relationship between confidence and creativity, by offering tools to overcome the most common creative blocks.

The book begins by discussing the interrelationships between confidence, creativity, and working with technology. This is followed by chapters featuring expert tips and practical exercises to help readers overcome challenges such as struggling with confidence in their production process, and navigating the music industry as an artist. Also included are sections that focus on creative music production workflows, providing practical tips on how to find creative direction and how to work through creative blocks, before finishing with real stories from a range of diverse music professionals about their own workflows, what inspires them, and how they overcome doubt, uncertainty, and lack of inspiration.

Although mainly aimed at music producers, Creative Confidence and Music Production has plenty of insights for anyone in the music industry, and can help beginners, music production students, and seasoned professionals alike, to face their fears and foster confidence in their practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032047409
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/01/2025
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Liina Turtonen (LNA) is an artist, music producer, and sound designer renowned for her chill house music and innovative interactive sound design. An Ableton Certified Trainer and former music production lecturer, she’s best known for her popular YouTube channel, "LNA Does Audio Stuff".

Table of Contents

1 Creativity, Confidence, and Music Production 2 Creativity, Confidence, and Technology 3 Insecurity Corner: Introduction 3.1 I Do Not Have a Techy Brain 3.2 Audio and Music Production Is Difficult 3.3 I Am Too Different to Fit In 3.4 My Music Does Not Fit into Any Existing Genre 3.5 I Do Not Know Music Theory so I Cannot Learn Music Production 3.6 I Do Not Have Enough Money and the Right Equipment 3.7 There Is a Right and Wrong Way to Make Music 3.8 I Do Not Have Time to Learn and Create 3.9 I Feel the Pressure of Being Perfect 3.10 I Feel Jealousy and Envy 3.11 I Cannot Stop Asking for Validation 3.12 I Fear Failure 4 Workflow Theory 4.1 Get to Your Goals with Workflows 4.2 Workflow Examples 5 Industry Professionals Share