by plv music

Insights Of An Artist's Journey

Hi Reader 👋🏻

Welcome to another issue of Insights Of An Artist's Journey!

Every Tuesday, I send you resources and bits of insights that I find useful to help you speed up your music production journey 🚀

Here are today's topics:

• 🚀 I'm starting a hard reset
• ✨ A word of advice if you want to pursue music full-time
• 💬 21-Day Threads Challenge [Results]
• 🎬 Video editing 101 for music producers
• 🎶 "Firestone" remix

Let's jump in!

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🚀 I'm starting a hard reset

If I'm being honest: I SUCK at focusing.

As a result, I work way longer than I need to, I spend too much time on social media, I check my emails every 10 minutes - which over time, brings me too much stress and anxiety.

Until now, I made it work because of my strong self-discipline and dedication but it’s sacrificing my physical and mental health...

So it needs to stop!

Introduce the "75 soft" challenge.

I discovered this challenge a few months ago, which is made to help you take control of your life again by building good healthy habits.

Its rules are 75 days of:

• Eating well and only drinking on social occasions.
• Training for 45 minutes every day - including one day for active recovery every week.
• Drinking 3L of water per day.
• Reading 10 pages of self-improvement book.

Now in my case, I added 2 more:

• 30 minutes of piano/music per day
• I'm only allowed to consume long-form content

I'm starting today, let me know if you're joining me in this challenge! 😃

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✨ A word of advice if you want to pursue music full-time

Wanting to make music full-time is good but it has a trap: once you get there, your hobby becomes your job.

If like me, you are not careful, you’ll end up doing this 24/7, completely losing track of yourself - the person behind the music and the business.

That’s when you risk of burning out or losing your passion and creativity.

Reading this quote from the "4-hour Work Week" helped me understand where I went wrong:

→ I had to replace my new free-time with new creative passions or hobbies to keep my life balanced.

Now that I was making music during the day or working on my business all-day long, I didn't have to keep doing this after work or on the weekends.

But because I didn't know what else to do with my time, I kept going...

What I needed is a new reason to stop work - like going to play tennis, going to a dance lesson or making plans with my friends.

It might sound a bit dumb now, if music isn't your full-time job, but I fell into the trap so I want you to be aware of it. Things change a lot when it becomes your full-time job so be mindful of everything that has to change with it 😉

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💬 21-Day Threads Challenge [Results]

If you remember well, a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I was starting a challenge to post every day on Threads for 21 days.

I did it, so here are the results:

• Over 107,000 views
• 2,496 interactions (likes, comments, reposts...)
• 600 new followers
• My most successful Threads was the last one, who peaked at 41k views alone

After this challenge, I can guarantee that I am loving Threads and will continue to post over there, probably more than Instagram!

As per my experience:

✅ The reach is much easier to get on Threads
✅ It's so easy to post as it's just writing, it can take you 30 seconds
✅ The engagement seems much better. I'm having genuine comments and conversations with like-minded people
✅ I haven't seen one mean comment so far
✅ Even if it's mainly writing, you can still post pictures and voice memos, so still useful for music artists

Now I'm curious, are you going to start posting on Threads? 👀

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🎬 Video editing 101 for music producers

In a previous email, I asked you:

Trisin replied: I think the missing pieces for me personally is my lack of skills in editing videos. I don't want to post crap videos, so I am sort of stuck.

If you are in the same boat as Trisin, here is the video editing software I recommend for you: DaVinci Resolve.

It is a free software that has all the professional features AND hours of training videos for free on their website! So basically, it's a no brainer!

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🎶 "Firestone" remix

My friend formerly known as Kenji has now become Ewakiz - and scored his first official release with the music label giant Magic Records.

In collaboration with Kriyan and singer Charlene, they created a beautiful emotional chill remix of Kygo's hit song "Firestone":

Firestone Kriyan, Ewakiz, chrln PREVIEW   ​

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💌 That's it for today! If you have any questions about anything, don't hesitate to reply to this email and I will do my best to help you out!

Keep learning,

Aurelie Couble / PLV Music

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