Adam Pain

Callum and Jamie chat with Adam Pain, master songwriter, producer, and educator!

Adam is a senior lecturer at ACM. 

Adam’s credits include Musicians Channel TV Presenter (Sky), Production and Mix Engineering for Eva Katzler, Toby Jepson, The Nat Martin Band, Guitar Techniques, Total Guitar and Computer Music (magazines), Media Composer with TV, radio and web credits, and music video production work for a variety of artists, including Myke Gray, Toseland and Skunk Anansie.

- Advice to beginner songwriters
- Reverse engineering your favorite songs is a great way to see huge gains in your skills
- Art is art is art
- Technology helps you write quickly. Loops can be your friends.
- The environment you're in affects your creativity. Are you recording vocals? Dim those lights!
- Always have gear at the ready to capture your ideas
- You cannot and will not please everybody
- Big mistakes are the way to go. Be brave and experiment. Embrace failed experiments.
- You have the power. You don't need the big wigs in the music industry to make a good living anymore.
- Does copyright law inhibit creativity?
- Advice for young people to break through the noise
- Change with the times. Go where your ideal audience is.
- Be authentic
- Is the music industry dead?
- Be proactive with your career

Edited and mixed by Tiki Horea
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@tikiproducer

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