Music production is my passion. It all started when I started taking guitar lessons when I was eight. I fell in love with the sound of chords, scales, and my favorite, riffs. After about 5 years, I quit lessons, but picked up something new, music production. I came to learn that there was much more to a record than just the artist and their raw vocals; every other sound in the background that made up the beat was composed by the producer. I dived head-on into this other side of music that I had just discovered, and it was the best choice I have ever made. I started music production in 7th grade, and my younger self picked it up fast by learning the basics through established industry producers and their video tutorials on YouTube. After crossing the first learning curve, I self taught myself the rest using my prior experience in music theory from guitar. I also mastered the software aspect behind it, learning and using all 4 of the industry leading digital audio workstations: Fl Studio, Ableton, Logic Pro X, and Pro Tools. Music production was fascinating to me because I could use and manipulate any type of instrument and create symphonies of my own, and best of all, electronically. Then I started the business side. I created a brand for my sound, 408 Beats, named after the area code of the Bay Area. I started posting my first finished beats on my new YouTube channel as it was the major platform where artists come to find beats to purchase and create tracks on. I also sold my beats on a platform called BeatStars, where producers could compile their work into a catalog of their own, making selling beats into a more organizer fashion. After gaining around 300 subscribers on my Youtube in 2017, I was contacted by an artist from the Bronx, NY, who was looking for beats, came across my page and wanted to do an entire album of tracks produced by me. We went on to produce and release multiple singles, EP's, and albums on all major streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud, and have accumulated over 2 million streams on the tracks that I have produced.