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Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take


I'll be watching you.

But I more than likely won't.

My question is: When you 'get better', and feel like you could maybe release something, does it take you longer to make tracks?

I have like 2-3 WIP tracks and they feel almost finish, but I am getting more and more picky about everything and sorta turning into a perfectionist, sucks cus now there's fucking 2% chance of entering the one-week-one-track thread

Anyone else find this? Is it called growing musically? Taking it more seriously? Or just getting stoned more?

Happened to me when I produced psy trance. I think it's normal. I made my first track in a day and my last in months (although I almost got it released on a top label at the time).

But I also think I did it wrong. I think you should continue to throw stuff out unpolished, and then polish it with time (giving more polishment to what you think is an hit). But yeah, this is just theory, I still can't make it pratice

Comfi wrote:Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take


I'll be watching you.

But I more than likely won't.

My question is: When you 'get better', and feel like you could maybe release something, does it take you longer to make tracks?

I have like 2-3 WIP tracks and they feel almost finish, but I am getting more and more picky about everything and sorta turning into a perfectionist, sucks cus now there's fucking 2% chance of entering the one-week-one-track thread

Anyone else find this? Is it called growing musically? Taking it more seriously? Or just getting stoned more?

I have the same problem,i have about 3 tracks where the arrangement side is done and the sound design is quality but i just over thought the projects a bit.To finish them i will have to go back into the arrangement and delete large chunks and here lays the problem,i like most of the sounds so where the fuck do i start.
I think if someone was to be interested in my stuff i would be more inclined to put it out quicker because i wouldn't want to get caught up in the track and end up with another one on the back burner.
The tune a week challenge is well worth it because i find i fly through techniques that normally i would be really sluggish at so it is almost like because i have less time things are starting to become second nature so this i think is a bonus.
Also the biggest motivation sapper i have ever had was when i smoked weed,i quit about a year ago and if you check my soundcloud out i have put out near enough an album in a year,fair enough not everyones choice of music but track to track my skills are getting better so i am really in the zone at the moment.
Also i have 3 nearly complete and 2 where the intros and drops are done and i'm hoping to finish by the end of this week so yeah smoking weed probably is your downfall.

please i have 4 projects open right now chances i finnish 1... 30%

I have about 20 unfinished projects since I moved to FL studio, when I was using Ableton I had even more. I think it's you setting your standards higher which is good. If you know something's not going anywhere then you abandon it. I think it's important to keep whatever you've done though, even if it isn't much, for future reference.

Khazm wrote:I have about 20 unfinished projects since I moved to FL studio, when I was using Ableton I had even more. I think it's you setting your standards higher which is good. If you know something's not going anywhere then you abandon it. I think it's important to keep whatever you've done though, even if it isn't much, for future reference.

There are so many times when past project snooping that I have found useful stuff, either track tor tech.

Comfi wrote: My question is: When you 'get better', and feel like you could maybe release something, does it take you longer to make tracks?

No, but Im alot slower with promo.

Yeh i take much longer,
which usually means that by the time I'm done I've heard it so many times that I hate it and end up scrapping it

i find a lot of times If i dont finish a track soon after starting I rarely finish it. Usually I will jus go non-stop for days and bang something out, when I have something that i continuously go back and forth on, I hardly ever finish it because I wasnt feeling it to begin with

Yeah I used to make, like, a track a week and throw everything up online no matter what, but now that I can't do that I find myself slowly tweaking tunes for months while I wait for them to go off to get mastered. Arrangement still usually only takes a few days, but I'm much more obsessive about everything else now. Plus I don't even try to finish things that I'm not feeling 100% anymore, so time between new tunes is longer no matter what.

Funny when I read the thread title I read it in the rhythm of that song before even opening it.

if in your mind they're 90% done chances are to everyone else they'll sound 100%

master them, bounce them down, upload to soundcloud or send them out and move on!

Comfi, I know exactly what you mean, but once you step over that line you definitely know it, it is a beautiful mix of growing musically, and taking it more serious.

@ OP,

The longer i have been producing the faster it has become for me to complete a track. I still will have some WIPs that never see the day of light but i dont play with stuff that is uninspiring and i make sure to do as much writing as i can when i do get inspired. Most my recent stuff has been a one day session for the "majority" of the writing/composing then a day of mix/master. I spread it out due to a real job and my wife consuming my time but still seems like i just get faster and more confident in the production decisions i make these days. just my 2 cents though.

Comfi wrote:does it take you longer to make tracks?

Yes.


When you first start making tracks, you standards of expectation and technical knowledge are lower, so you're happier with the end product faster. As your skill increases and your trained ear develops, you set yourself higher and higher benchmarks as a way of furthering your sound, meaning you spend longer reaching these revised targets.

i'm quicker now than before, but thats more cuz i know which buttons to push now
and when i first began i was barely interested in finishing, i just enjoyed sequencing beats. Then i started to learn that it's meaningless until i can bounce out a .wav of something
then i got better at doing that
A lot of my more time consuming processes have been cut down a lot.. as for writing, sometimes it takes days, sometimes it happens in one sitting . I think i used to be better at writing and worse at producing