Colic, Will Brewster, Paul Blomfield,
Juliette Salom and Chris Brownbill
Editor’s note:
As much as you might feel like music making has you isolated from others, creating and writing, mixing and mastering all on your own, it’s inherently a team exercise and it’s important to keep your people-skills front of mind.
Songwriters might work with engineers and producers to get their songs out into the world, and sometimes a label will follow that, again involving a team to work with. Mixing engineers might have their work mastered by an external engineer, so it’s important to understand both what your role in the process is, as well as delivering files to that engineer that they can work with.
A lot of people can become very rigid in their workflow, immovable and stubborn, and no amount of feedback, advice, or even crises will make them change, so it can be difficult to move ahead with a project. If I can leave you with some advice, it’s this: have empathy for those you’re working with and play nice! Stay organised. Stay humble.
Music and creativity is ultimately a community exercise and we need to make sure our role within the process is not hindering another, nor is it adding weight to an already difficult industry.
