Walking your own path

[hudson]

Telling someone to do their own thing is generally good advice, but at the same time, where would we be if Skream or Burial hadn't been trying to copy Garage/2-Step producers? I think that "developing your own sound" usually comes directly from analyzing, emulating, experimenting, and usually failing to recreate sounds and feelings you love in other people's work, and that's when you start doing things that work for you; that's where you start to bend genres and break rules. That's pretty much where every genre, style, innovation, whatever comes from. Beginners could misinterpret that advice, and become discouraged every time they make a tune that sounds like something else out there. (which will be probably 99% of the tunes they make) I think it's extremely important to spend at least some time trying to emulate your favorite musicians when learning to write and play music in any form, especially when your first starting out, your limited knowledge will force you to find your own ways to do things and the people you're trying to sound like will act as teachers.

[Huts]

Pretty sure it was Blu Mar Ten that responded to a post on DoA saying basically, copy your favorite artists, the way in which you fail (because you will fail to emulate them directly) is how you generate your own style. The information and techniques you learn from attempting to copy someone is knowledge you can use in your own ideas that you may not have learned otherwise.

[hudson]

Pretty sure it was Blu Mar Ten that responded to a post on DoA saying basically, copy your favorite artists, the way in which you fail (because you will fail to emulate them directly) is how you generate your own style. The information and techniques you learn from attempting to copy someone is knowledge you can use in your own ideas that you may not have learned otherwise.

That's exactly what I just said

[Huts]

just reiterating it with some supporting evidence from a big name for the possible naysayers

[hudson]

just reiterating it with some supporting evidence from a big name for the possible naysayers

Oh. Sorry then. I'm drunk and I thought you were being like "cool story bro, but this more important dude said that first" haha

[Gurnumsbug]

I like this thread
I've been struggling a little recently...
No motivation & very little direction has been bothering me a while now!
Cheers for this

[hxrtk]

Well you have to have some kind of foundation to develop your style.Thats why people emulate and take inspirations from other and in the process they slowly develop something unique.