Nathan talks about a period of time where he was trying to increase his following on Instagram, so he posted a synth improvisation every day. The Instagram account was a mixed success, but he was very happy with the amount of productivity that came from the assignment. He put together his album “Signals” based on the best of the improv tracks.

He says that it’s easy to get so into watching tutorial videos (or shopping for plug-ins? 😉 that you aren’t actually making music. His concluding remarks were “Give yourself an assignment; see it through to the end; do that over and over”.