The Mindset of
Making Music

WITH KEITH MILLS

FMM052 – The Social Media Trap

Know this story? You wake up at 6:30, grab your phone, check your socials and then…It’s suddenly 8:30! Where did the time go?!? Social media is such a great tool for connecting people all over the world and sharing ideas but… It’s also a TRAP….A TIME TRAP! You get on it and you tell yourself…

FMM051 – The Art of Remixing

If you love producing, DJ’ing, are serious about building a career in music or you just want to get your music out into the world, then 100% you’re going to come across… REMIXING. Every professional artist in Electronic Music will have a bunch of remixes to their name, making it a super important skill to…

FMM050 – Are Courses A Waste Of Time?

Have you ever been in this situation? You sign up for an online course, you pay for it, you spend hours and hours on the lessons and modules, talking to your mentor trying to take everything in and then 6-12 weeks later… Nothing… You did your best. You tried everything but you still haven’t finished…

FMM049 – Pandemic. Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?

With the world currently facing the spread of the Coronavirus, it’s become more important than ever for us to be more aware of our responsibilities to ourselves and our impact to others around us in facing this pandemic. In the past weeks, there has been a shift in attitude and atmosphere as the Coronavirus has…

FMM048 – Hurtful, Spiteful Critics

There’s an epidemic running around the internet trying to cause harm to our progress and mental well-being… TROLLS Maybe some of us haven’t been targeted by these hurtful, spiteful critics yet, but we all know what they are because unfortunately, they’re everywhere! Even if they can’t physically hurt us, they can have a really negative…

FMM047 – When you need to slow down to speed up

Wake up. Music. Work. Sleep. Repeat. Does this seem familiar? With everything going on in our lives, it’s easy to fall into a trance and lose clarity on what we are trying to achieve day to day. Sometimes the best thing we can do is take a step back and take time to reflect on…

FMM046 – Don’t Procrastinate Your Life Away

This week we’re going to be tackling one of the oldest enemies of success: PROCRASTINATION One of the things that all top producers do, without fail is make the most of their time in the studio. Now, if you procrastinate a lot, then you simply will not make it in the music industry and you…

FMM045 – When you say music is your life but you don’t act like it.

“Music is my passion!” “I live for my music!” “Music is what I want to do with my life and I will do whatever it takes!” Sound like you? If you’ve said all these things before but you take actions that simply do not back it up, then it’s time to take a step back…

FMM044 – Scrimping on investing in yourself? You’re paying a steep price!

Have you ever gone out and bought something, thinking you were getting a great deal because it was cheap compared to other options that were available? We’ve all done it…. Then, after just a few days / weeks, it turns out it wasn’t a good deal at all because it either broke or simply just…

FMM043 – How to get out of your own way and achieve the success you crave

Maybe you’ve heard someone say this before: “That person is scared of success” Sounds bonkers, right? But what if reaching your version of success will expose you to the things that you’re not comfortable with and not yet ready to face? So maybe that’s why they are deliberately avoiding doing things that will see them…