Have you ever felt stuck?
Have you ever felt hopeless?
Have you ever felt like Quitting?

How do you use reasoning to understand a problem in order to recognize your blind spots?

How do you take something that seems impossible and turn that into actionable things that can bring you closer to your goals?

I'm creating a downloadable guide that you can follow step-by-step to help you solve for your challenges.

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Comment below, what is the biggest challenge you face as an idependent artist?

and i'm circling around trying to find a solution.

I'm turning 33 tomorrow :) My dream has always been to be a 'professional' as a record producer. I'm from a small town called 100 mile house in rural British Columbia. I've been trying to wrap my mind around the whole business side of music production for the better part of 4 years, finally starting to get a grasp on how it all fits together. Right now, i'm going through the motions to make it happen for real. I've been finding that more i learn about running a studio professionally, the more I realize that still have a long way to go to get to where I need to be. 

I love big picture thinking, i love systems, and I love turning ideas into reality, but my mind lives in the future and I often find myself disappointed with the results i get; whether thats from poor planning on my part, lack of attention to detail, or being out of touch with reality. I love exploring all aspects of 'potential' though. I'm confident in my ears/ my skill as a producer, but I need to find an effective way to bring folks in. I'm hoping that I can get on the right track. 

So I'm here to:
-Soak up as much knowledge as I can and achieve mastery.
-Meet creative and like minded people
-impliment what I learn to accelerate the process
-to use the internet to reach beyond my local area.
-to really solidify my niche as a producer
-to work with high quality artists.

Day Job? I'm a silviculture surveyor during the spring. In other words... a tree planting hippie. It's a rewarding project though. My (I should say our) company is about to hold it's founding assembly to become the first worker owned Co-op in our sector. The work itself lasts for about 3 months out of the year, which gives me the rest of the year to focus on my passion which is Audio. Right now, I'm only finding the odd side gig doing mastering to touch up low-end and stuff. I'm helping my best pal figure his launch out as a composer, experimenting with social media, video, audio, photography, blogging. Trying to feel out what works best for me. what resonates with people online, but i'm having trouble building up the engagement and beginning to realize 'cody, it's not just some formula you can just plug in and expect it to work, it has to be you. it has to be honest. it has to be real, and it has to help someone else.' 

The good news on the studio side, is that while I was challenging myself mentally, I happened to randomly reach out to a grant writer on a whim. This lit a fire under my ass to put my ideas down onto paper. Wrote out my budget, crunched some numbers and found that landing 4 quality clients per month is enough to sustain me and my business into the future.

 Everybody in my area seems to just want to drink beer, to Jam. to play CCR covers, to play music for fun. They say 'cody I thought you wanted to do it as friends' or 'I thought we were on a collaboration level.' That's not what i want. realized it was partly through mixed messaging (hopefully i've already corrected this because it was a serious problem.) I want to work with the artists who treat music as seriously as I do. Some people are absolutely trying to waste my time. Hopefully they can respect the fact that I have to have boundaries.

 Thanks for taking the time to read.
​I'm happy to talk about creative ideas any time.

So Last week, I was working with Ol'Brother Paul on the 'Paulcast' 2nd season. We're switching up the format, which will follow the progression of a song through the recording process, while talking about tips/strategies for how to record a song with less frustration.

We've picked an old idea Paul had for an Irish Jig back in 2016-2017 using tenor banjo (or in this case a banjo with the drone string removed.)

Until this point we've been kind of using the term 'Jig' and 'Reel' interchangably, but this got me thinking what's the difference? They are two separate words, so they probably mean two different things. okay google what's the difference between a jig and a reel?

So 'reel' short answer... The main difference is in the timing. Jigs being in a 6/8 time and a Reel being in a 4/4 time.  So to answer my own question, the song we are going to produce is actually an Irish Reel. 

So to FIGHT this nagging feeling of imposter syndrome, the feeling that the content isn't good enough to share, I've decided to make the things (in this case it's filming live-practice sessions) and hit publish no matter what. 

But I can't figure out if this course of action is either pure genius or incredibly foolish.   

on one hand, I'm hoping you who discover these videos can understand that not everything can be 100% perfect 100% of the time. In order to master the craft that is A/V production, paired with content marketing on social media, it's going to take an INCREDIBLE ammount of practice, patience, Guts, and resolve. 

have a wonderful day and enjoy the videos.

Hey guys, so for what it's worth i've decided to split Gene Media into two 'niches' with the feeling that Songwriting is one category, and Music production fits in another. So what does that mean? better sorting of playlists on youtube, and separate analytics on the backend. Should make it easier to keep track of what's working and what's not. #systemssuccess