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I personally stopped using spotify and Im not coming back to the platform

Always enjoy hearing your thought process! May the 2025 be successful for ya 🎉

unk !! your dope!

looking forward to hear that ambient album ! 😁

It seems to be easyer on a tablet than a desk top.

For me, samurai champloo, It's your best work. Unfortunately, it is Spotify itself that inserts AI songs by non-existent artists in the instrumental sector such as LoFi, Ambient, etc. So for artists the only possibility is to bring what is digital into the real world. Do concerts and make yourself known outside. Happy new year from Italy

meanwhile, my thumbnail: 2023-10 streams 2024-5 streams.. I know how you feel.

i put on my spotify description that my music in not made by ai, maybe that helps

So something that I've LEARNED about LEARNING from someone is this. Just because someone is good at doing something doesn't necessarily mean that they are good at teaching the thing. Simon is telling you how he learned and if the goal is to find out how he learned then he's going to be the best person to teach you how he learned. But I remember running to great drummers to learn drums and realized that just because someone is good at drums...keys...a thing in general doesn't necessarily mean that they are good at transferring that information to another person. That's a skill in itself. You're trying to learn for the sake of creating not learn for the sake of imitating. Simon started young so that's even a more interesting difference...it's just apart of him now. Plus you know kids got time. When you're young you used to kill it in TEKKEN cause you had time and not a lot of responsibilities. Now you're grown with people expecting music from you. I would say find a REALLY GOOD TEACHER if you're trying to learn that thing quickly.

Thank you

This is true growth, I'm happy for you.

This is true growth, I'm happy for you.

Its cuz we need to keep them lofi beats in 2020 bro😭😭😭 tap in

I learned a lot from you... thank you Ldre

this is kinda staring at the sunset and thinking how beautiful life is type beat

I bought one myself my first MPC.. i used to just use keyboards hooked to loop machines. Still trying figure out MPC & just got mine. So much ty for your video! ❤

I'm so glad you made this video, and also gave a recap of what was going on throughout your creative year. I'm also really happy for you keeping up with learning piano, you're definitely a big inspiration for us. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎉.

Out of interest, are you still doing this?

5 years later and still a banger

damn this sweather is so damn nice, so is the video

To all my fellow creators, please remember: Music trends/tastes are cyclical. It’s a roller coaster! Don’t stress, keep creating and keep putting your art into the ethos. We’ll be alright.🙏🏽💪🏽

Don’t. Quit. Piano. L.Dre!!!!!!!!!!

Lofi champloo was fire. I wanted the vinyl but that shipping to the UK was intense fam Your sample packs was also good this year, i made a few gems with those Well done

Focus more on Direct To Consumer

Basically the complete opposite of DarksydePhil. Black AND taking accountability???? Bruh....

Why u got pay for promotion

I'll be grateful for 12,000,000 independence artist dream to make $50,000 a year just off streaming

Pls bro how can I make a cartoon based music cover art on canva pls bro

Saw a lot of peoples streams drop this year

Dope video bro, very informative...Spotify for me is like a dark hole.... I am still trying to figure out how to get streams and how to market on Spotify....Its like majority of my fan base is on Apple Music, Tidal, and KZbin...I'm trying to figure out how to drive traffic to Spotify...

Keep doing you bruh. That’s how you get the views and listeners that matter and keep coming back. My focus for 2025 is gonna be my music and KZbin

I dont really listen to lo-fi but everytime I come across your content you seem like a genuine, humble guy who is measured and makes content that aims to provide value to others while living out your artistic ideals so I respect you for that and I hope that remains your core philosophy for life because it is truly something worth aspiring towards.

Have pretty much followed your blueprint for years now L Dre and these end of year videos have always been super inspiring. Funnily enough this year I actually inadvertently ended up going the same way and just doubling down on what i like and not worrying about trying to beat algorithms or hop on trends. Keep it up bro you're the man!

fckn love this guy

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Keep everything on your main channel, people appreciate both topics music and tech as they tie together and I found your channel because of tech but I do music as well may subscribe because both topics in tied into

I like the from factor and immediacy as well as the sequencer. Can this be used to step sequence a polyphonic synth? (something with 8 voices)

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Bro Music is Dead 10 million plays u lost in a year that's a 3rd of your listeners an before that u lost another 10 to 20 mill who u kidding u should be worried ,Music is in a standstill literally this goes to show even with your 407 k subs u still can barely hit 4k views ain't that a shame youtube like Spotify is declining dramatically bro u went from 65 million to 25 million in 2 to 3 years that's crazy what a loss ,u goin to be back in the garage days with ur spending habits an your tesla payments an that mortgage or rent u pay ,good luck bro u came a long ways ,u had a good ride with music

i remember seeing it floating around thru online articles and social media that spotify let go a huge number of staff this past year to save on costs and lots of those released talent were the people that curate playlists and work up mixes for discovering new music to listen to. Plus it seems there was a lot of overlap on those same people being the ones in charge of designing and curating the year end wrapped. People speculate that they tried to shortcut and used ai to make up the loss but i dont think it was ever confirmed on that part.

Wow thanks for this L.Dre! Do you do any Ableton tutorials?

Love the content my man - how does that Champloo record work with rights ? do they leave you alone as you making loft and its just the mechanical aspect ? Im gonna have to listen while I do house work.

Maby you got more plays originally because you was making and uploading Hiphop with a name Similar to Dr Dre and there algorithms picked up on that so when people searched for him they found you or was suggested your music. Now that Dr Dre is releasing new music those plays boosts younused to get are now gone because now when people search Dr Dre your music no longer shows because his stuff shows instead. If Snoop Dog hadn't had any new releases for years and I then go post My music under the name S Noop Dogs then I would rank the highest in search everytime anyone Search for Snoop Dogs music. Sounds crazy kinda makes sense to Me.

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Lofi is an overinflated genre at this point...AI is only going to make it worse. Just make the music because you love it.

I wish I had 26 million streams

you should learn song writing to really up your game like all your music is major/minor theres way more modes than that phygrian/mixo etc

Where can i buy that beanie from?