Mike Monday

Inspiration on Demand

How Long Does It Take To Produce A Track You’re Proud Of?



02:35 – Why did it take 1 year for Olly to finish 1 track?

04:07 – What stops you from finishing music is NOT what you assume it is

04:49 – the shocking secret most Ableton tutors don’t want you to know!

06:24 – getting over a brilliant beginning

07:10 – the different thinking which produced a massive boost in Olly’s productivity

08:10 – what did Olly achieve in the first 3 weeks of the program?

09:17 – the answer to the quantity vs quality debate

11.40 – Olly’s no. 1 tip for consistently finishing music (as a part time music producer while running his own non music business)

14:42 – Olly’s no. 2 tip for knocking it out the park

15:47 – The hidden danger of email & Facebook and how to overcome it

My Favourite Kind Of News…

I always absolutely love it when the program helps a beginner finish their first ever track!

It’s a humbling experience – and I’m very honoured to share Colin’s first today…

Here’s what he said about it:

“Before starting the course I had hard drives full of unfinsihed music, lots of 4 bar loops and riffs. Nothing that even resembled a finished track.

I was totally stuck with the process of taking these loops to an arrangement and getting tracks finished. I knew I had it in me to produce some great music but just couldnt get to the finish line.

Within the first month of the course I was able to change all that and the one of the great results was this EP.

In the initial stages of course I had learned the the process of taking a track to completion in itself was a fantastic learning experience…”

To empty those hard drives of your unfinished music (and replace it with finished tracks!) click here. You can now choose to spread your investment in instalments!

How Could Too Much Time Harm Your Creative Process?

  • 02:23 “…could you make it in music?”
  • 05:06 The little known reason too much time can harm your creative process
  • 07:00 Good news for those who want to make music while in a high pressure day job
  • 12:25 “The really massive thing for me was the understanding that…”
  • 14:39 Another international Start Now Finish Fast collaboration is born!
  • 16:36 “What would you say to people who say it’s too late?”

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How can I help you?

Claude VonStroke (Dirty Bird, USA)

Mike Monday’s process has helped me enormously. I have two record labels, a heavy touring schedule, a wife and two children, and a music production career all running in tandem. There are times when it seems unmanageable and i get lost in a downward spiral that limits my effectiveness as a leader and my ability to be creative in the studio.

Whenever i have a session with Mike we talk it all out and a sense of calm comes over me. i get back to basics and work out all the things in my head that need to get worked out. His process is both calming and therapeutic.

I would also like to add that the additional fact that Mike is a music producer himself and a veteran DJ lends itself to an extra level of trust. I don’t think i would take advice or listen to someone in the same way who was from outside the music industry. In an nutshell I find Mike Monday’s process to be an extremely valuable way to organize and free my chaotic brain to do what it is supposed to be doing.

Johnson Peterson (Yolanda Be Cool)

“I found the time with Mike to be extremely beneficial. His process opened me up to ideas that, even where obvious, I had overlooked or forgotten and I am looking forward to taking them with me to the studio. It was definitely worth it.”

Janelle Palmer (Tutukaka Coast, New Zealand)

“What your course has done for me has been remarkable and I really feel so grateful to you…

Radical is a good word for it! The most unexpected thing I’ve found about the course is the impact it has had on other areas of my life – I was quite surprised about that…

These are definitely transferable skills we are learning here!”

– Janelle Palmer (Tutukaka Coast, New Zealand)

Brett Adams (Los Angeles, California)

“I already think this is one of the greatest decisions I’ve made, and we haven’t even started the curriculum yet.”

Vernon McCarthy (Wellington, New Zealand)

“I just felt inspired to send you a really quick message to say hello and let you know that I am going great guns at the moment.

Managing to get a average of two hours every day producing. This is a huge turn around for me and am loving it. It hasn’t been easy though but I have kept at it.

And much of it has been due to the help and inspiration from yourself, the group and me now actually putting in the work. The online community is such a good thing. Everytime I have gone to have a look I have found something relevant to my thoughts and that has helped me.”

Joe Roberts (London, UK)

“Mike has helped me to start living the truism that it’s not what you use to make music, it’s your ideas.

Those ideas only mean anything when you start putting them down though and that’s what this course has already helped me to start do regularly.

I’ve made more headway in two weeks than I’d managed in a couple of years on my own starting projects, then giving up and starting something new but never seeing them through till completion.”

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