kurp · started 2021-03-07 02:46 · updated 2021-03-08 13:19
its been 6+ years but i am still not satisfied with how it sounds and i feel like the slowest learning musician out there
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anonymous user
2021-03-07 02:49 · 2021-03-07
shut up neither slow or bad
anonymous user
2021-03-07 02:55 · 2021-03-07
I think we all feel like that on some level. It's part of the hunger that musicians have. If you compare yourself to your inspirations you'll be even more down, and I'm guilty of that a lot. Easier said than done, but try to turn that "I'm not satisfied with how it sounds" from defeat to inspiration. It means you've still got things to learn/room to improve, and your spark is still there. If you were at a point where you were satisfied and you just completely plateaued it would be boring as fuck
well actually, i compare myself to artists which are the same age or less, or the same amount of years spent doing music, which i guess isnt a really accurate way of gauging progress but i just feel like i make the smallest steps since its not as good as the others.
like for example, i recently found out that its really good to add variation to songs like a complex drum pattern and lead, maybe even some strange chord patterns and changing up the progression of a melody midway the song.
i feel like an idiot for not realising this sooner because i LISTEN to tracks that do this and i only awaken myself to this now, that i shouldn't be making simple loops which sound good on their own and putting them at a length of a "song" but instead actually putting ideas into them. it just seems so simple and straightforward when you are learning how to make a song, yet i took a blind eye on it for 6 years.
my dog told me my music was terrible and he really hurt my feelings :(
anonymous user· reply
2021-03-07 03:24 · 2021-03-07
Well something to keep in mind is that producers are all different. You're different from your inspirations, people in your genre, or people in your age-range. It takes some artists 5+ years to even find their sound let alone "perfect" it. I've been producing for 5 years and only just now did simple mixing concepts start to click, like how a compressor even works. And even though you may feel dumb for stuff like that, it's not a fault at all. You've just been focusing on other things. I may not have picked up on basic mixing advice because I was focusing on composition and concept in the meantime. That's still a skill being refined! There's no time limit on your growth dude. You can learn things however fast or slow you want as long as you're feeding that artistic hunger in a way that makes you happy, even if it's just for the moment you're chewing. Don't compare yourself to others, you don't deserve that mental torture, nor do others deserve that pedestal
the more effort you put into something the better it'll come out.
that's what i've realized in some cases.
the more attention you give to one thing as well, gives it more meaning.
rather than working on multiple things at once.
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shut up neither slow or bad
I think we all feel like that on some level. It's part of the hunger that musicians have. If you compare yourself to your inspirations you'll be even more down, and I'm guilty of that a lot. Easier said than done, but try to turn that "I'm not satisfied with how it sounds" from defeat to inspiration. It means you've still got things to learn/room to improve, and your spark is still there. If you were at a point where you were satisfied and you just completely plateaued it would be boring as fuck
who lied and said your music was bad.
well actually, i compare myself to artists which are the same age or less, or the same amount of years spent doing music, which i guess isnt a really accurate way of gauging progress but i just feel like i make the smallest steps since its not as good as the others.
like for example, i recently found out that its really good to add variation to songs like a complex drum pattern and lead, maybe even some strange chord patterns and changing up the progression of a melody midway the song.
i feel like an idiot for not realising this sooner because i LISTEN to tracks that do this and i only awaken myself to this now, that i shouldn't be making simple loops which sound good on their own and putting them at a length of a "song" but instead actually putting ideas into them. it just seems so simple and straightforward when you are learning how to make a song, yet i took a blind eye on it for 6 years.
me i said it
it stinks pheeyoow
so you lied?
oh didnt read that part
my dog told me my music was terrible and he really hurt my feelings :(
Well something to keep in mind is that producers are all different. You're different from your inspirations, people in your genre, or people in your age-range. It takes some artists 5+ years to even find their sound let alone "perfect" it. I've been producing for 5 years and only just now did simple mixing concepts start to click, like how a compressor even works. And even though you may feel dumb for stuff like that, it's not a fault at all. You've just been focusing on other things. I may not have picked up on basic mixing advice because I was focusing on composition and concept in the meantime. That's still a skill being refined! There's no time limit on your growth dude. You can learn things however fast or slow you want as long as you're feeding that artistic hunger in a way that makes you happy, even if it's just for the moment you're chewing. Don't compare yourself to others, you don't deserve that mental torture, nor do others deserve that pedestal
the more effort you put into something the better it'll come out.
that's what i've realized in some cases.
the more attention you give to one thing as well, gives it more meaning.
rather than working on multiple things at once.
fishing for compliments
Me? I would never do that