Knowledgespread

How big a difference will knowledge actually make? Haven't people already become successful without it and managed well enough?

The answer is both yes and no.

Yes. - Of course, successful acts are created and released everyday. But almost all of them have gone through a long, intense period of self-learning to reach their goals. The question has to be why spend 10 years establishing yourself when you can do it in 2? Or why spend years re-inventing the wheel, when all you want to do is take a ride? The knowledge is already here, the work has been done for you. Stop wasting time! Don't fool yourself into believing it is a quick job, just because you hear an easy tune on the top of the charts. How did it get there? How many years did it actually take?

No. - The sad fact is that most people never make it, nor do they even come close. Most musicians spend their teens and 20’s trying to make a dream come true. After that they usually give up, because they have not found a path through the jungle. Why? Does it have to be a struggle? - Absolutely not.

There are two possible explanations for a lack of success:

1. Their contacts are not good enough.
2. Their music is not good enough.
The keyword is - knowledge.

Why do cities, such as Manchester, Berlin, Seattle or Stockholm, suddenly become hotspots of musical activity, with successful acts pouring out of them at a stunning rate? Because at a given time in those cities 27 years ago, a large number of people were born with a musical gene? That´s hardly likely. The answer is knowledge spread.

Can you imagine the amount of knowledge required to build a house? To build a house you need bricks, so you need to know how to make a brick, and what tools you need to make the brick with, and how to make the tools you need to make the brick with, and what materials the tools should be made of, and in the end you want to make sure that every brick is in place so that the whole house won't fall apart. Today, people can build huge towers reaching more than 1000 feet. The knowledge required to perform such a task has been developed throughout millenniums. People are not born with the knowledge required to build skyscrapers written in their genes.

This is exactly how it works with music as well. It's a bundle of knowledge put together to create a song. To create a song you need to know how to equalize a bass kick, how to compress vocals, how to build a bridge, how to use vibrato in the right places, how the intro should be structured, how the phonetics match with the melody, how long the bass tones should be, etc. All this needs to be done perfectly and in a world-class if you want success. A person might be born with more or less musical ability, but being successful with your song is something else.

To turn a music entity of any kind into a success, it is necessary to establish various conditions. All of these conditions are to do with how people around you act and what kind of knowledge they can provide you with. Knowledge spread is often a gravely underestimated factor in the development of a successful song. No matter how good you are, you need information on how to improve and keep up to date. It is important to get the right kind of information. That's why the quality of your music is very much dependent upon the quality of your contacts.

Almost all successes have required some form of teamwork and certainly a wide variety of skills and knowledge. One-man projects very rarely make it through. It is vital that you have skilful people around you. When someone with valuable skills comments upon your music, listen very carefully to what he is saying! Please, consider this fact for a while. The possibilities and opportunities will grow with your awareness of this concept.

This is one reason why you need to contact only those people who can give you some sort of feedback that increases your knowledge. At the same time, don't get involved with people who do not have the skills that you require. Only a small number of players will be able to provide you with what you need.

Here's more detailed information, with separate categories for Songwriters, Artists, Producers and Musicians (click to jump).

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