Rough mixes allow you some great insights into whether your song is any good or not.

Take some of the rough mixes I've been doing for the upcoming Long Wait album.

Most of the tracking is done but I'm doing rough mixes so I can hear if there's anything else that needs to be added. I have some ideas for string parts as well as some keyboard and piano parts.

But one of the awesome thing about doing a lot of mixing is that it teaches you something else entirely.

It gives you insight into arrangements.

When you know the songs really well you can usually tell whether there are gaps in the arrangement. I constantly need things to be happening in a mix so if I can't get it by creating interest via the instruments I already have I tend to think that it might needs something extra.

Sometimes it's as simple as adding a shaker part.

Sometimes it's as complex as composing an orchestral part for a string quartet and recording it live (stay tuned for that development...).

But overall, listening to and/or mixing a lot of songs can help you train your brain to notice when a gap in an arrangement is a much needed rest or a hole needing to be filled.

It's stuff like that I teach you in Music Production Strategies. It's all about really listening to the song and figuring out what makes it tick, why it sounds like it sounds and what the instruments are doing to contribute to that particular song being a hit.

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