Here are some of the things I found particularly cool: Trebles and Blues is a Los Angeles-based beatmaker that takes influence from a multitude of creative outlets.So… what made me love the experience so much? Just a month or two later, my website was live, and it was done entirely from scratch. So I purchased a Udemy course, downloaded Brackets, and started the lessons. I wanted to build something from the ground-up - even if I was armed with no prior knowledge of HTML and CSS. You would click on, only to land on the same Squarespace template that you’ve seen hundreds of times already. I originally tried using Squarespace, but I didn’t like how I had to start with a template, then work within the confines of pre-determined blocks.Īnd the themes were too commonplace. Just like my favorite musicians, I wanted a webpage featuring a nice navigation bar and a large hero image of myself not looking into the camera. It was clear to me that I needed a website to act as a central hub for my work. But music is now scattered across so many platforms that it’s hard for listeners to find exactly what they want. Soundcloud, Spotify, and Bandcamp have made it infinitely easier for musicians to get their work out to the public. I’m just a guy making a ton of beats all day! Naturally, I would get up and think, Thank goodness I don’t have to do that. Kind of like this, but with way less mustache. But every time they opened up their code editors to show me what they were working on, it would just look like one of those GIFs that eternally loops into itself. I have a couple of friends who did it for a living. You see, I never once considered myself to be a web developer. Yeah, it’s not quite machine learning or AI, but for me, this was a pretty big deal. Rather than programming kicks and snares, I was trying to build out a sticky navigation bar on my website. It was 2 AM on a Saturday night, and I was up late working on a new project.Īs a beatmaker, you would think that my screen would look something like this: Image creditīut instead, it looked like this: Source: My Screen 2 AM that Saturday Night By Lawrence Yeo How making hundreds of hip hop beats helped me understand HTML and CSS
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