Don’t sabotage your best efforts as you make your recording and release it to your audience.

Lessons learned from mastering your songs can also impact every other stage in the music-making process.

Create for the sake of creating, not for some planned outcome you can't control.

While it can be difficult to take pride in everything you create, take pride in the fact that you are creating something.

Fix before you mix. Start the mixing phase with the audio you want to be mixed, not fixed.

Music is something that is needed more than ever. If we can’t support each other financially, we can support each other creatively to ensure that new music can—and will—still be heard.

Pinpoint key milestones to prioritize and focus on each stage of your workflow.

Separate the song from the recording of the song to tell us a good story and make us feel something.

Have a clear vision for your music, then align all of your efforts towards that vision.

When someone hears your song for the first time, you have one chance to make that first impression. Will they listen until the end? Will they listen at all or press Skip?