5 Music Production Mistakes I’ve Made as Someone with an Instrumental Background

Madeline Clarke
6 min readJan 23, 2021
This is where the headphones go, right?

I was recently talking to a friend who’s from an instrumental background and is starting out his music production journey. He mentioned feeling like production tools such as arpeggiators felt like cheating, because no instrumentalist can play perfect 64th note arpeggios. I was glad he mentioned this because it reminded me of similar mental blocks I’d…

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Madeline Clarke

DJ/producer, digital marketer, and writer. I’m focused on the intersection of compassion, art, and technology.