We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Aron Rosing a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Aron, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

Creativity, like anything else is learned from trying, and trying, and trying some more. There’s a lot of failure, and especially in a “profession” such as music, that failure can be really hard to categorize. Success on the other hand is even harder to categorize, because for instance, I’ve had plenty of moments where I felt on top of the world because I finished writing a song by myself that no one else had ever even heard yet, but let’s say FINANCIALLY, that’s no where close to success. In creativity success can come internally or externally, and sometimes you may feel like you created something unworthy of success that then catches the attention of others, becomes popular, and makes you wonder if you really have any idea what you’re capable of. Other times, you can be one hundred percent certain that you’ve created a masterpiece, only for it to get swept away in the massive tide of content that exists today. So for me, “learning the craft” of creativity is all about trying to unlearn the stereotypes of success, and just try to be better every single day than you were the day before.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I’m a songwriter and music producer, with experience in music for film and TV, and pretty much every genre imaginable. I started as a very average drummer in middle school and high school, playing in a local indie band, just having fun in the DIY house show scene in Nashville. In college I turned to learning how to produce music on a computer because I obviously couldn’t bring a drum set to my dorm room, and it was a fun skill to learn. I was so bad for so long, and really didn’t even try to write a real song until my senior year of college. That song ended up on Spotify’s Fresh Finds playlist, and becoming a mini hit on campus, which was super fun and validating. If that hadn’t happened I probably would not have continued down the path to keep trying to make music, but that song sort of branded me as “the music guy” amongst my friends and people on campus, so I almost felt a responsibility to keep going. After graduation I landed an internship at Blackbird Studios in Nashville, where I assisted engineers, and very quickly learned that the more “technical” side of the music industry was not something I had any interest in whatsoever. I spent the next 4 years basically producing and writing with/for all sorts of independent musicians in Nashville, TV shows and my own solo artist project, ARRO. Now my focus is on writing in the Country and Pop genres and building a career with my band ROM COM. I’ve literally never been more excited about where I’m at in my career than I am right now, and can’t wait to see what the next year holds.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

My favorite thing in the world is writing songs. Simply coming into a room with a couple of other creative people and making up a story and a message that people can relate to is the coolest thing in the world. It took me a long time to really realize what it is that makes a great song, but I think over the years I’ve identified what I like in other people’s songs and have been able to shape my own way of writing to have the same impact that I get from my favorite music. I think it’s super cool that total strangers will hear songs I write and connect with them, but for me the most rewarding part of all of it is just the moment after finishing the song, and feeling the potential that it has. Nothing comes close to that excitement for me,

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

I honestly don’t know that society owes anything to artists/creatives, it’s really such an open world with social media playing such a major role in equalizing the playing field for everyone. There’s really almost no excuses anymore for someone to not get their art out to the world. Also, because of this, the bar for GREAT art is so much higher in my opinion, because you’re up against millions of people that would normally have never had the opportunity to share their creativity until apps like Tik Tok and Instagram came along. Obviously as a whole, society needs to support the people creating the next generation of innovation in all fields(not just art), by working to provide affordable housing and fair wages. Art is a business however, so it takes an entrepreneurial person to be able to truly succeed in the artistic industries these days. The only other real thing I can think of that society should focus on is bringing people together through in-person events to help to rebuild the fabric of community that we’ve started to lose due to social media, and I think creatives would play a big role in that.

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