I'm Adam Manus, and I'm Peter Martin, and you're listening to the You'll Hear It Podcast.

Today we're going to give you some tips on choosing material for making recordings.

Let's do it.

It's very important.

Very important.

Okay.

So by recording, we mean, well, I should just say say this is a question from Elia. Yeah, yeah.

Who's got some great other questions that we're going to start incorporating here on the You'll Hear at Podcasts.

So keep those coming in folks.

But I think what we're talking about here is making CDs, making albums, recording projects,

and going through sort of that process of what the material is.

And I'll just kick it off first with, I think it's good to think about a theme for the recording

before you even go choosing the material.

Yeah, I think that's going to dictate everything else that happens after that.

I always like to think of my recording projects or even just like concerts in the same

way as like starting out big picture, right? What is the overall project going to be? And then sort of

coming in closer and closer and closer to like, you know, what are the solo orders or how is the

outro going to sound? But that this part, the choosing the actual material is sort of mid funnel, as we like to say around here. Right. You know what I mean? Of this, the larger project. Right, right. Yeah, and I think that, you know, by saying we're looking at the overall theme, it doesn't have to be, you know, the music of George and Ira Gershwin. I mean, you could do that. That's kind of an obvious thing. But it's okay if the overall theme is, you know, maybe even something that you couldn't

write down, like new sounds in your personal compositions that you're working on, and you kind of

have an idea about it, though.

So it doesn't have to be as specific as the music of.

But I think as long as you kind of have an idea.

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