Our mission
Music is for everyone. You belong here.
Every musician hears, feels, and makes music differently — shaped by your influences, instincts, and life experience. At its core, The Music Making Mindset believes music is for everyone, and every musician deserves a place to grow. Whatever your genre or experience level, there's room here to learn, create, and thrive — one idea, one note, one mindset at a time.
Discovering Yours
This isn't a platform that tells you how to make music. There are plenty of those. This is a space where you're guided — through open conversations, podcasts, coursework, and mentorship — to develop a deep understanding of who you are as a musician. What drives you creatively. What you want to say. How your unique perspective shapes every decision you make in the studio, on stage, or in the writing room. The Mindset isn't about following a formula. It's about discovering yours.
Mentorship is at the heart of what we do.
Great musicians thrive on encouragement, honest feedback, and targeted support. Every podcast, every video, every course, every community conversation on this site is designed to do one thing — help you become an accountable, autonomous music maker who knows exactly who they are and what they want to create. Mentorship here isn't a one-way street. It happens when you engage with a podcast and hear something that shifts your thinking. It happens in a group course when someone else's question unlocks something in you. It happens in a one-to-one session when targeted feedback cuts through the noise. It happens on the community notice board when a fellow musician responds to your track and says exactly what you needed to hear. This is collaborative community learning — not teaching, not instructing, not prescribing. Mentorship. And it's woven into everything we do here.
Our global community
The way you think about music doesn't develop in isolation. It develops through conversation, through hearing how other musicians approach the same challenges, through being challenged, encouraged, and inspired by people who take their craft as seriously as you do. The Music Making Mindset global community is where that happens. Musicians from every genre, every background, every level — all here for the same reason. To grow. Not just technically. But as thinkers, creators, and artists who know exactly who they are and what they want to make.
Step into the communityA member of the community, in Songwriting
“Hey guys, just watched the podcast on writing song lyrics. Really interested in the idea of using tangible and metaphorical nouns together — like ‘my mind is a desert’ — so I had a play around with it in some new song ideas. Could you have a listen and let me know your thoughts?”
Are You a Sound Engineer, Mixer or Producer?
This platform was built with you in mind too. With over 35 years working at the highest levels of recording, mixing and production — across studios in Australia, the US, the UK and Europe — Dr Brendan Anthony understands the world you work in. The technical craft, the creative decisions, the client relationships, the business realities. The Music Making Mindset isn’t just for performers and songwriters. It’s for anyone who makes music happen — behind the desk, in the box, or in the room. Engineers who want to deepen their musicality. Mixers who want to understand the creative process better. Producers who want to sharpen their entrepreneurial thinking. If that’s you — you’re in the right place.
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Learning to Be a Popular Music Producer — the audiobook is available now.
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