Motivate me plz

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^Yea. Exactly. I can get on with that. I tried to say more, but beers...everything else I came up with was a random tangent.

[Icetickle]

Just try doing it different with the arrangement and don't use the sounds (massive presets and samples) that you already used in some of ur songs.
Like if you are doing a dubstep tune, try not doing the building up and dropping thing, do it different.
I don't know what type of music do you like, but try changing the genre you're doing (including the subgenres 'n' shit), or make up your own genre. lol
If you don't usually make melodic tunes, try doing that insted... etc. etc.

[pete_bubonic]

Nights out to good music gigs and socialising with musicing friends, always reinvigorates me I find...

[hutyluty]

yeah nice on kreutzbube.

good job everyone infact, this was a great thread- give yourselves a nice pat on the back.

[ehbes]

[quote="dubunked" Do you mainly produce dubstep? Try making a house or a dnb tune.[/quote]
huty is a house head

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[WhaddupBrew]

Seems to me you are worrying so much on making things good, you can't feel it.

You gotta Want to make it and not force yourself to be Good with it.

Only person who really can motivate you as much as to grow and become where you want is really you, bud.

Besides maybe you have a different sound now because you are growing and fining more ways to experiment.

[mert]

The motivation you need is everything around you all at once. It should motivate you that you're fully conscious. How much motivation do you need when your thoughts aren't even your own? The lack of motivation that you experience is coming from the same source that motivated you to want to make music in the first place. I'm gonna assume you're stuck in a time-space bubble and feel like you need to finish things all at once. You just gotta alpha male your way out of this beta situation(1), take a breather and turn your endless imagination into a track.

Most importantly, stop making your lack of motivation and production your focus. I find this same thing with being angry or upset. If you forget what you're angry or upset about, everything goes away. Every time you check this thread you are reminded about your lack of productivity. If you forget about your lack of motivation and just force your auto-pilot into alpha work-mode you'll achieve so much.

In my opinion, and I am right.. this will work too.


(1) - Sunklo, Battle Field 3, Metro, 01/07/2013

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Turns out I was just being a whiny bitch, lol. Bounced some bars I had been working on in Maschine, got a basic arrangement down and had my hand at mixing those stems in the analog world. So nice to just turn knobs and listen to what's going on rather than looking at graphs and numbers...

[Genevieve]

Turns out I was just being a whiny bitch, lol. Bounced some bars I had been working on in Maschine, got a basic arrangement down and had my hand at mixing those stems in the analog world. So nice to just turn knobs and listen to what's going on rather than looking at graphs and numbers...

Haha nah, definitely not whiny. When you get stuck in a mindset of just fiddling and playing it's really hard to break out of it, especially if you're enjoying yourself.

And I think FINISHING things might be a bigger obstacle with producers than other artists or at least musicians. We're one-man bands with a dedicated engineer and producer.. and studio owner, all rolled into one. But without the benefit of being responsible to our band members or studio owners. We're only responsible to ourselves, so we allow ourselves to be a lot more lazy, cuz we're only letting ourselves.

The biggest freedom in being a 'one man band' is also the biggest hurdle and shortcoming. You may not be held back by other people's irresponsibility, but you're definitely held back by being only responsible to yourself. It kills a lot of the drive.

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Turns out I was just being a whiny bitch, lol. Bounced some bars I had been working on in Maschine, got a basic arrangement down and had my hand at mixing those stems in the analog world. So nice to just turn knobs and listen to what's going on rather than looking at graphs and numbers...

Haha nah, definitely not whiny. When you get stuck in a mindset of just fiddling and playing it's really hard to break out of it, especially if you're enjoying yourself.

And I think FINISHING things might be a bigger obstacle with producers than other artists or at least musicians. We're one-man bands with a dedicated engineer and producer.. and studio owner, all rolled into one. But without the benefit of being responsible to our band members or studio owners. We're only responsible to ourselves, so we allow ourselves to be a lot more lazy, cuz we're only letting ourselves.

The biggest freedom in being a 'one man band' is also the biggest hurdle and shortcoming. You may not be held back by other people's irresponsibility, but you're definitely held back by being only responsible to yourself. It kills a lot of the drive.

On one hand, you are right...it's easier for us to be lazy when we are beholden to no one. On the other hand, we should give ourselves a break because we play so many rolls. It's certainly hard to stay motivated playing all the rolls. You could easily add manager, promotion, social media guru and janitor to all those. I'm forever trying to keep my space tidy!

As you say...its one of those double edged sword situations for sure : ) When I turned 30 last year I decided to stop worrying about getting on my favorite labels, and getting back into DJing or performing my own stuff and all that. So, having to reevaluate what I want out of all this has been interesting. I also invested heavily in my home studio over the past year so there has been some negative energy coming from myself to justify the expense.

I always laugh at myself about giving up trying to learn guitar when I was much younger because it was too complicated...shit man...shoulda learned guitar!

[killakam98]

oh god I needed this thread so badly

[Dustwyrm]

Right, so I've got to a point where i've basically stopped making tunes. I've done about 2 in the last 2 months and they were for the 48 hour comp. Everything I make or try to make nowadays always ends up coming up as something incredibly generic , something which ive made before or some ridiculously self indulgent noise thing.

I've done a lot of the hard work, getting a couple of hundred soundcloud followers, decent production skillz and even a release on a decent label but i feel like im just missing that extra drive or something to get me to the next level(TM). So should I just pack it in for a bit and come back refreshed and where i'll actually enjoy it or just suck it up and start forcing out some tunes and sending them to all the labels ive collated in my send to list (though never actually contacted).

Anyone else in the same boat?

Listen to some of the music you used to listen to/love in your earlier years.

The type of music you haven't listened to in years because you've been so wrapped up in electronic. Seriously I brought out my old ipod and listened to a ton of Rancid and Misfits the other day and it gave me a great new perspective.

Sometimes you need to recollect to gain some of that motivation back.

[c03]

if you have got to the stage where your production skills are good enough to get released, you should take the chance to just make the weirdest experimental shit you want without worrying about whether it fits the rule book or a certain label's roster etc etc.

you have trained your ears to know what sounds good so trust them, theres no reason to think that other people wont be more interested to hear the weird shit from the darkest recesses of your mind. maybe streamlining your arrangement process (live dubs etc) or just writing shorter, simpler tunes will take out half the stress of finishing stuff as well.

i am only getting close to finally finishing some tunes after a couple of years of taking production seriously and it is an unbelievable ball ache. i have got a bit carried away and ended up with 50+ tracks