Is this really the best way to start?

I strongly disagree with the whole "competition" thing though. Making music is not a contest, its just a way of expressing your feelings, nothing more, nothing less.

On 2009-04-17 15:50:12, Ascension wrote:
I've mulled this around in my head for a while and wanted to get others opinion's on the subject.

Over and over again I see people suggesting and doing this. When someone starts producing they are told to listen to a track they like and then try to reproduce it themselves. I will agree this is a great excercise to learn production, but what affect does it have on production?

I see so many people saying this and hear it myself: a lot of music coming out now by new producers isn't that good. It sounds like the same generic stuff in that genre of psy. Is this caused by people learning production techniques by copying existing music? Since I am still new to this, maybe this is the way other existing and widely considered "good" producers started as well (I would really like to know how other producers began learning production techniques).

I don't have an answer to this question, but I tend to lean towards thinking that it may be at least partly true/responsible. Maybe I'm way off, maybe I'm dead on, I don't know and I'm not claiming either. I just posted this to get people thinking about this subject and to get some feedback.