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I think everyone knows it, you sit in front of ableton but nothing seems to work the way you want it to. You open every project that you have in hope to get something done. You spend so many hours trying to do something great, but it seems that you got no skills. Everything you try, from start a new track - sounddesign to arrange your track, nothing works. Most of the time i get so frustrated, that there is no fun in making music anymore. I spend every free minute i got watching tutorials or doing something in ableton, but it seems i don’t get any better.br
There’s a massiv pressure from myself, that stops me from enjoying to make music and i can’t turn it off. Than i start thinking, that i got no skills, no tallent or i am just not that creativ like other people. I try to calm mysefl,be more patient, but most of the time it doesn’t work for me and i get very upset.br
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Sometimes i wish there’s something like a teacher that provides me with lessons in which i can grow my skills…br
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Do you know what i mean? How do u guys handle that? br
Are you training your skills in other ways than just making one track after another?br
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cheer,br
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Haha welcome in the world of creation.br
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It takes me 5 years to go over this and make some good project over and over. Even now it still happen to me sometime but I know I’ll go over this.br
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Continu to work like this and you’ll find your way to be creative.br
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Maybe you should try to work with other people.
Try not to put to much pressure on yourself, producing is supposed to be fun like doing anything creatively!br
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Some people pick it up quicker than others but persistence does pay off. Like anything, the more you make the better you’ll get. You might not feel it but with every track, every sound, every idea you come up with you’re learning more. Rather than aiming for a certain sound, try just having some fun, throwing ideas around and see what comes out. br
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Not everything you write has to be a masterpiece, I don’t put out 80% of the tracks I make purely because I’m not happy with them but you never know, a day in the future you might come back to that idea, remix it and it’ll become a hit track. br
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I originally produced my track “Everything” about 4 years ago but wasn’t happy with it so it just sat on my hard drive (I wouldn’t even want to play anyone the original mix). Then about a year ago I was playing around with some new sounds, imported the vocal from that track and it just worked. br
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Don’t feel like you have to get it right with every track, just see what comes out. It might work, it might not but at least the idea is there. I’ve probably got around 40 ideas on my hard drive at any one time that I haven’t done anything with, most might just end up being trash, one might be a worldwide smash - who knows, the importance is just to have fun with it and keep producing!
thank you dirty for your comment, i really appreciate it. it’s a bit of a relieve, to hear that proffesional artists got the same problems. i’ll try to not pressure myself to hard !!!
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I couldn’t have written that better myself, it feels almost as if somehow you managed to reach inside my mind and pull out my EXACT thoughts, I am in exactly the same situation as you. I will for sake of completeness put it into my own words, so you can see just how similar our situations are. br
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I have been a musician for 20 years, a bass player in several different bands, I was never a ‘great’ bass player, just average and able to play anything thrown my way. I used to write with others and had some great times. br
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Then we started to look at producing our own music… I was the one with the PC hardware and once I started I simply could not stop with production… I just LOVED IT. br
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Fast forward to the last 3 years and me being out of work due to illness. I thought that maybe I could put my talents to good use… I know I have a good ‘ear’ so I started to look at electronic music that I liked. Infected Mushroom being high on the list.br
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For the last 3 years I have done nothing but study, watch tutorials, practice, practice practice. I’ve learnt Sound Design to a level that I understand everything a synth does, although I am still not really any good at ‘making’ sounds. br
I have learnt endless tricks and tips and how to creatively use almost every ‘effect’ out there. br
I am in the process of learning music theory, although that still destroys my mind. br
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So what I’m saying here is that over the last few years I have been busy, focused, and worked SO hard at learning to make music with my PC.br
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Yet, like you… I have that amazing frustration EVERY time I sit down at the PC. Nothing works like I want it to, I finish tracks and they just sound ‘boring’. I think my production is ok, it’s just my creativity that seems to be missing entirely.br
I try to hone everything I’ve learned but still I cant come up with anything that makes me say ‘you know what that sounds ok’ br
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I feel your pain entirely Tim, I too wish I could find a way to make this all work for me, but I simply cant. I will keep trying, but honestly it gets harder and harder every single day to discipline myself because I just dont feel I’m getting ANY better. br
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The advice thats always given is ‘keep trying’ but I am beginning to question that too. Just ‘how long’ do you need to keep trying for? br
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