1. Keep it simple

Remember, do not overload your track.

When producing music we all tend to put more and more elements into our production.

This practice is definitely something that can overwhelm your project.

By adding more and more sounds to fill the gaps you are also filling the frequency spectrum of your song. This will impede your track from breathing properly and takes out all the energy from the important parts of it, weakening the message and the meaning of your music.

2. Always consider the followings steps

Keep in mind that the production step is the first in a chain that the music industry demands.

By considering this you will be able to create your track with a broader perspective.

Ones the production is over, you will have to tackle the Mixing of your project, and after this, your musical piece is ready for the Mastering stage.

Every part needs to consider the following step as well as the previous one.

So when producing your music keep in mind that it has to go through other stages before being published.

By having this perspective, you will be able to already balance properly your production for the following steps, making the whole process easier for the engineers that will work on your music.

3. Always finish what you have started

Probably the most important point of all.

If you do not finish your project, nobody will listen to it.

Do not keep stuck in your production. Composing the main 8/16 bars of your song is not enough for the music industry.

Consider your track as a voyage: you have to start, you have to travel to the destination, and then you have to return back until you land at the ending point of your journey. In music, you have an Intro, the Verse, the Chorus ( the famous 8/16 bars you wrote), the Break/bridge, the Verse (with few changes from the previous one), the Chorus, and finally the Outro.

Train yourself to complete every single part of your song, otherwise, nobody will listen to your work because it will remain as an 8/16 bars loop into your hard drive.

Finish what you have started!