At first I didn't exactly love it, but recently I've been more and more into what I've been making, as if it was made by someone else.
Of course, there's always room for improvement on my part, and I know I can't compete with the professionals. I also know that I can't say this for every song I've made.
I'm mainly asking to see if anyone thinks I'm a narcissist or something for jamming to my own music sometimes. Again, honest answers please.
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I have a few songs I am very proud of, but many i'm not quite happy with
I mainly jam to my songs before I pub them when I am super excited about finishing something
It is good to enjoy your music! Sometimes if you come back later you may hear things differently
This I've learned for a fact lol
I've been concerned about the exact same thing recently! It wears off eventually for me. After a while of hard work on a project a little pride never hurt anyone!
It's never bad to jam out to yo own music I mean I do that all the time when I make music
Yes, I really like my hacknet album
i make music that i want to listen to. so... yeah. i only get embarrassed when someone asks me who i'm listening to. i tell them that its a new track i've been working on, checking the mix in my car or whatever. usually a good conversation starter.
Only one person asked who i was listening to, and i told them it was me and they didn't believe me lol. Was a couple years back
i listen to my music all the fucking time
I think it's important to enjoy and listen to your music. I've learned a lot by just putting my own tracks on repeat and coming up with ways to improve them in my head.
I don't hear the music I want to hear, so I -make- the music I want to hear.
I don't really enjoy it because every time I listen to a track I think of something better to add.
Like I would hear another melody.
i listen to my music to try and pick out things to improve, but i personally dont like it.
It takes me a lot of listening to it over and over i like it at first but by the time im done it just frustrates me and i cant enjoy as much as someone elses work
I pretty much have to like my music for it to even get released. If I even begin to make something I don't like, it usually gets deleted/abandoned immediately. This is probably why I don't publish things very often. That being said, I think that has more to do with being a perfectionist than being a narcissist. Also, once an artist gets better, they probably won't like their previous work as much as they did when they first made it. I personally have 10 hidden tracks on my profile that were made during my first year of producing. I liked them when I was making them, but now I hate them because I can hear all the mistakes.
i think everyone can relate to parts of this
I have a love-hate relationship with my music. While im working on a tune, im obsessed with it, its all I can think about, and working on it gives me great satisfaction. But about a week after publishing i start to dislike it, start hearing all the flaws and mistakes and then hide the track (which is why i only have a handful of public tracks).
Interesting https://www.audiotool.com/user/andremichelle/ , never thought of it like that, great points! i forget how subjective perceptions of music can be. Re-reading my comment, I should have specified I'm coming from a more technical PoV, as in, im dissatisfied with the mixdown/master of a tune, or think the synthesis is weak etc etc; i get unhappy and embarrased at my mistakes and hide until they're 'fixed' (and that 'fix' rarely comes cause I'm already bored with the song haha)
you just have to hear Caravan with a drum sola
Yeah I'm with ollie, I like to try to put a good foot forward. Actually, some of the tracks I make I know they aren't up to the quality I want, and I publish it, let it sit there for a couple weeks until no ones really seeing it anymore, then I hide it.
From what I can remember, I think there's only one instance of a track I've hidden because I thought it was not up to par with my other music, but everyone else thought it was awesome.
A lot of my ideas have different stories. Yes, a lot of them get rejected, and deleted, lost in time. However, most of the surviving ideas end up as fully-fleshed tracks. Any stragglers are ones I don't want to let go of lol
That's something I've been thinking about for a while. What I really want to make, but can't at the moment is combining orchestral and rock instruments with electronic sounds. I've always enjoyed the combination of EDM and orchestral music together, but I never hear enough of it. I also want to be as diverse of a producer as I can be, unrestricted from genres, and styles.