Week One: making & releasing 50+ songs in 1 year

Thanks for joining me in the journey of creating 50+ songs in a single year. Week One was such a different week than I expected to start the year. Would love for you to follow along in the journey - Episode 2 is coming out next week!

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
4:05 Starting Day One
11:37 Morning on January 3rd
14:44 Producing on Stand by Me
19:16 Adding Vocals
21:46 Mixing Stand by Me
26:21 Working on Hymns Project
28:34 What is "Risen"?
34:57 Continuing on Hymns Project
41:00 Wrapping up the day
42:16 Morning on January 4th
45:33 Mixing on Stand by Me
51:26 Notating Strings
55:10 Working on Our Fight
1:00:43 Finishing the day out
1:04:42 Morning of January 5th
1:06:05 Cover Art / Odds and Ends
1:09:05 Working on Our Fight (Adding Choir)
1:11:36 Finishing up

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[NathanJamesLarsen]

Thank you for joining me in this wild journey - I cannot express how much I enjoyed making this video for you. If you are not subscribed - then you should do that :) Episode 2 comes out Monday 9am CST January 15!

[hepthd]

Hey Nathan, just wanted to say thanks for posting this. Its so real, no bs. I feel like the process of makig music nowadays has been sugar coated by tiktok in terms of 30 second clips that never really show the hard, boring but necessary stuff needed to make hit records. Excited to see where this series goes :)

[BenCook-cdpv]

I love how he talks about his kids and cares for them you can tell he loves them a lot and wants them to be happy. 😁

[hildebrandt]

Your tutorial on making midi strings sound real with Native Instruments helped me write and produce an original song for me and my wife-to-be’s first dance ❤. I’m here for the journey brother

[GamerAJ-]

hey! I love the raw, authentic feel of this video. you’re showing everything about the process, which not only makes it valuable in itself but also serves as a great guide for others trying to do what you do! keep paving the way.

[cissalaval]

this series is so important for noobies like me, I'm learning a lot just to watch you working. I'm a songwriter and a producer in progress trying to break the loop on mix tutorials thanks to you.

[yacovsmilowitz-ki]

Low key the most inspiring music production video on YouTube! so real and relatable!

[Multi-Waves_Music]

This is still such a valuable series. Thanks for breaking down that tremolo bass

[hudsonspeece]

At 40:37 when you started singing in frustration I felt that at a metaphysical level

[jamesbush-compozerscafe]

Great job, lifting up Ruby in prayer for her procedure. 🙏

[MUSICIANPSAADR]

God level composition and true passion brought out those tears ❤🤍💙🦋🐦

[smithmusicstudies]

Love the hymn project idea. Reminds me of Mendelssohn's use of A Might Fortress woven through his Reformation Symphony

[bwashburnb]

I think its cool your mainly doing this for your babies
My granddaughter comes over and says paw paw lets make a song, and though im nowhere near the songwriter, producer or engineer, basically ground level its fun to just create. She teaches me to just have fun with it and shes only 6. Our first song was called sleepover cause she was having her first sleepover with her friend. I let her make the choices and i tried to arange it the best i could.
No matter it was fun and time well spent. Thx for doing this 👍😎

[bradsmithmusic]

Love the journey…singing…overcome with emotion…then gotta fix the timing…frustration…then gotta try to finish task at hand…so real. I can relate!

[rizzbod]

I love these series, because as an artist who loves to be alone just with music and instruments, it feels better to showcase and open up ourselves

[RhyceRecords]

That bass note bounce, flip, distortion and tremelo was SO GOOD!!! Awesome work Nathan - love learning from you in this new way!

[mario_k]

I love how you put in all these little personal bits. Makes this feel like a video journal and more real. It brings us into the mind of a full-time producer. Looking forward to next week!

[ShilohKeeling]

I wanted to let you know because you said this in the beginning of the video that you aren’t sure that anyone will watch this and I can’t describe the amount of excitement I had when I got the email saying you were doing this. I hope this changes my LIFE and my path cuz I’m so tired of struggling. I lost my uncle he was a producer/ musician and his music was never heard by me or really anyone besides family passively listening and I can’t let this continue in my family and 11 year old me will thank me when I get to where I’m going. I don’t want to pass without people hearing what I’ve made. It’s unfair to start this that people would love to witness and just throw it away. So thank you for this video series I’m REALLY PUMPED!

[johnhazlett]

The change to epic sounding I'm, "It's time to fight", is really awesome.

[lameerjhontv]

You're an amazing producer bro! Your string arrangements are just so beautiful and cinematic. What your doing is already helping me and I'm taking notes! Can't wait for week two, and for the album drop!!!