Graham English
@grahamenglish
I ghostwrite high-converting educational email courses for music brands, educators, and creators. Best-selling author of Logic Pro For Dummies with 40 years of experience writing and teaching in the music industry.
You've tried dozens of plugins, but the mix still doesn't sound any better. Three rules fix that, and they don't cost any money. Save this for your next session. 🧵1/5
Logic Pro ships with a compressor that models seven classic hardware units. You already paid for it. Before you buy another plugin, four stock ones worth an afternoon. Save this. 🧵1/7
Allie the alligator came out to say goodbye on our last day of vacation.
A song idea has a shelf life. By the third day the voice memo is still on your phone and the reason it mattered is gone. Seven techniques that take a raw idea to a finished draft in one session. Save this. 🧵1/9
Logic Pro stops cooperating and the session stops with it. You sat down to make music and now you're twenty minutes deep in settings menus. Four checks, about five minutes, and you don't need to know what an Audio Unit is to run them. 🧵1/7
A song idea you can't find is a song idea you don't have. The melody is on your phone right now, saved as Untitled 47. You liked it. Digging it out would take twenty minutes, so you don't dig, and you write something else instead. Two inboxes and a habit fix this. Save it. 🧵1/6
Logic Pro 12.3 just dropped, and you don't need to be an advanced producer to enjoy it. A few tools got better, and one annoying bug finally died. Here's the plain-English tour. Save it. 🧵1/7
Every finished song ends up in the same folder as the unfinished ones. Same pile. Same unanswered question hanging over all of it: is this any good? The longer that goes unanswered, the heavier it gets, and eventually it follows you into new sessions. The drawer system is what fixes that. 👇
My Prince shrine. Took this photo 10 years ago. Still not over it.
Most songs don't die from lack of inspiration. They die because the songwriter hit a decision point with no system for making the call. The 3-Stage Song Finishing System: Capture → Develop → Close. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/grahamen...
You don't have an unfinished song problem. You have a decision-making problem. Every song that dies in your project folder stalled at the same moment — a decision point with no framework for making the call. Here's what's actually happening, and how to fix it. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/grahamen...
I’ve been binge-watching The West Wing because I miss competence and adults who can finish a sentence. #staffpad #thewestwing #snuffywalden #tvthemesongs
