Finding Your Musical Sweet Spot: Keys, Grooves, and Collaboration

All right ? All right , welcome back everyone to another great episode of Teach One Tuesday podcast . Man , I'm so excited about this . I'm here to really serve you guys and to position you to produce the greatest music projects that you can . So I'm continuing to reveal the things that I have done , tools that I have used to create not one , but two EPs

have done . Tools that I have used to create not one , but two EPs , the first one authentically me and the second one that came out last year in November 2024 , kingdom Radio . All right , so please go check those out .

Artist named Tony King , and so , with that , I wanted to share with you the things that I have done that has that have allowed me to produce these projects . Now I'm going to be honest and upfront with you . Yes , I have a lot of experience .

I have education in music , so I'm coming from a different standpoint , but today we're going to be talking about music production and I'm going to get into things that you can do . If you're not in my position , that's okay . Please don't feel , because you may not have the education or whatever it may be , that you can't produce great music . It's not true .

I'm going to help you today to be able to do just that , okay , so now we're at the place where you know you , you've written your stuff down , you have , you have your ideas recorded , right , you've recorded either in your phone , um , or on a doll digital audio workstation , um .

And if you do not have these things again , do not worry , um , there's so many people out here that are willing and ready to help you . Hopefully , maybe you can get into a situation where you know they're your friends and maybe they don't charge you . But if you don't know them , please be ready to .

You know , pay some money for someone to help you flush out your music and then let them choose whether they want to do it for free or not , or maybe you can barter whatever you want to do , but there are ways to get things done . Now here's what I want to say about these

, uh , these packs that you can get with , uh , pre-recorded , you know , loops and and core progressions and baselines and all that stuff . All that stuff is fantastic , right . So I'm not going to speak against that .

I'm not going to go into a whole old man speech , you know , because you know people just want to be purists and you should just do it the regular way . No , I think it's great If you have an understanding and you know how to put those things together , go for it , do what you got to do .

But if you do not have an understanding of how music is to be be put together , I would get with someone who has understanding .

I know that on those , um , when they , when they're advertising these plugins and these packs and all this stuff that they have for you , that I know , they make it seem like it's just so easy and just , oh , click of a button and tied out out , you have everything you need . But it can get real weird real fast . You know what I mean .

Even if everything matches in key , the bass line still needs to match the bass drum , the groove still needs to go together correctly . There's , there are things that need to fit Right , and so that stuff should really be a bonus , right , you should have understanding and it should be a . I am offering just that .

I'm offering services , music production services , uh , for my listeners and and and for whoever comes across my uh podcast , um , uh , and also I now have a blog I think I told you about in the last episode . I have a blog Sonic Kingship Art Blogs , what it's called and I'll leave a description .

I'll leave a link in the description so you can click on that and find that out and and check it out also , and I'm still doing my , my social media thing , so there's different ways you can . You can uh , uh , listen to what , all the information I'm giving , but if you need a personal touch , please don't hesitate to reach out .

Along with that , I'm offering mixing and mastering

. You again , you can go to my website and find out all my accolades , all the stuff I've been doing . You can find all that stuff out . Please go check it out . Don't hesitate to reach out to me . So , yeah , so you know , get with someone that can help you right , help you to flush this music out , because that's the stage we're at now .

Now we're at the arranging , we're at the arranging stage and now you need to be able to put these things together in a way that makes sense , and what I want to say here is that what's really important to me as um , as an artist and as a producer , is that the groove and it feeling good is really what trumps everything , and so I believe two areas that

are important to ensure that happens is the arranging phase and the mixing and mastering phase . It's so important to maintain the groove , it's so important for that to happen , and so have that in mind as you are either arranging your music yourself or um you , or be in the room . Please don't just hand your stuff off .

Be in the room or , even if it's online , whatever you need to do , be there to tell the person what you want . Right , make sure that the song is in the right key for you vocally , that is a very big deal . Do not have the song in a key where it's too high or it's too low . Have it in a sweet spot , a great place where you can utilize your range .

You know , do all your tricks , whatever you want to do , make sure you have it in the correct key . But that groove is really what's going to set this thing apart , and the , the , the mixing and mastering engineers are the ones , and sometimes they're they're the same person . Sometimes they mix and master it , but some people just just have a mix .

So , however you want to do it , but make sure that you're having someone to mix your music . Um , that will allow , that will allow the music to really come across the way you hear it in your head or , um , not , or , but , and or , uh . Have references , have , have uh , references , not to copy verbatim .

I'm not telling you to copy anything verbatim , but , but just for a reference . And but be careful with that when you're on the when , when , when you're in the uh music production phase , because , yes , you want to utilize your influences , but you do not want to be a carbon copy . If that makes sense , all right .

You want to be in a place where you can just take certain things from what you hear , but not completely , um , copy someone else's song or or , or , or feel , but take the pieces that you need and then go on , all right , and so

these things are super important . So make sure you're in the right key for you , make sure that you are establishing the groove . Instrumentation is another area that's very important . Make sure , if you're doing a genre , make sure your . Your instrumentation is genre specific . If you're doing a specific genre , make sure you have the instruments um that makes sense .

Or if you are doing some type of fusion , no problem , do what you want to do , whatever . If . If , in that case , if you're doing a fusion situation , then then go ahead and just um , then you know , go for it . You know , do what you need to do , but if you're doing something that's genre specific , make sure you have the instrumentation that makes sense .

Listen to your references . Make sure you know what you want . I think I'm going to do another um episode on this because I have more to say , but I don't want these to be um too too long . I want you to get some good stuff , though , from this .

So I'm going to cap it there , but I'm going to just finish by saying , yeah , make sure your instrumentation makes sense , have it in the right key , have the right person that you can work with . Make sure you can I'm going to say this before I go Make sure you pick someone that you can have fun with , someone that will be pleasing to work with .

They're not to do not mean aggressive , you know , and they're and they're open to hear what you are saying your ideas and it , and they don't just take over the session and just and just do what they want to do . Make sure you have someone that has an ear to hear you , and musically , that's very , very important .

And so the next episode I'm going to get more into this because I think this is very , very important . I think this is an episode that's really going to hit home . It's really going to hit home for some people , and so that's what I want to drop

for you today . I want to thank you so much for checking this out . I hope you're having a wonderful day . If you're not having a wonderful day , you can change that by your mindset . Thanks so much , tony King out .