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twister · Post by **twister** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:26 am

My wife and I just had a baby girl last week. This is our first child, and she is the most precious thing on this Earth

Up until my wife broke her water

I was stil writing a lot of music, as a hobby of course, and did that almost everyday. Now, with so many things going on around us, I feel like I never will have a time to get back to music writing again. I know there are a lot of people here who just had a baby. How do you guys manage to continue with your music after the baby is born?

Just curious if anybody can share their experience

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:29 am

you just do
at first its difficult obviously cos your knackered all the time,but it does happen again
also try having the baby in her cot while working on stuff,obviously it depends what your recording,but if its soft pad stuff get her used to sound

and more importantly congrats to the 3 of you

oh and she will inspire much music probably too

Bake · Post by **Bake** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:36 am

Congrats!

It took me about 2 years to get back into a good situation after my son was born. It's rough for sure, but it gets a little easier as they get older and less dependent.

Cabinfever · Post by **Cabinfever** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:41 am

i can write ambient music with a 5 year old banging on the studio door. as vurt says, 'you just do'

twister · Post by **twister** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:44 am

Thanks

Since I switched to all VSTi on my laptop, its easy to carry my 'soft studio' along with me from room to room (wireless LAN also helps), but I did most of my music work on studio heaphones and now I need to hear every noise coming from this little miracle. So, my high SNR headphones are not good in here

I guess, I will learn to adjust, or just wait when she is napping which happens every 4 hours... Time to catch up on my sleep now

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:44 am

"March of the Damned" comes to mind.

garret · Post by **garret** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:44 am

twister wrote:My wife and I just had a baby girl last week. This is our first child, and she is the most precious thing on this Earth

How do you guys manage to continue with your music after the baby is born?

Yes indeed there is music after life.

My son is 19 months now, and I have to admit, he's the best thing that ever happened to my music. I've been writing for a long time now, and my best stuff (by far) has been written since he was born. I know have a lot less time to work on things now, but I also have a lot more to write about.

If you can't get inspired by this spinning world by having a kid, you can't get inspired by anything.

It'll be up-and-down for you for a while... take what little time you get by yourself seriously, quit the video games, tv, whatever else you used to waste time on... you'll find the time... just get more focused.

Congratulation to you... huzzah babies.

-Garret

intel · Post by **intel** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:23 am

vurt wrote:also try having the baby in her cot while working on stuff,obviously it depends what your recording,but if its soft pad stuff get her used to sound

my 5 month old is oblivious to all but the harshest of sounds at this point. the studio doubles as a nursery and he can sleep through all my noise noodlings. and he loves the sound of acoustic guitar, so I didn't have any problems adjusting in that regard.

if you try to shelter your kids from all that racket you're making, it'll be harder to get them used to it when they're older. my nine year old can sleep through a hurricane because most of his life has been spent living with a loud and inconsiderate father.

cimoc · Post by **cimoc** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:18 am

My twins are almost 3 years old now, and I'm unable to make music for anything more than half an hour per week. When they are awake, they need attention (there is two of them , you see), and when they finally go to bed, my wife needs attention, too (not to mention myself).

My only break is in the summer, when I send them for a holiday, while I stay back and work. That's vacation for me, as well!

CypherOne · Post by **CypherOne** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 6:27 am

When my little girl was born (9 months ago) I was immediately inspired to write. Here in the UK new dads get two weeks paternity leave and at that stage all she did was sleep so I wrote quite a few tracks in that time. Since then, I've struggled to write anything. Where I used to get a couple of hours to write each day, I now get about half an hour - which is about how long it takes me to come up with something worth pursuing, then time's up...

It's made me re-evaluate my priorities, and as a hobbyist, music isn't very high on that list.

Congratulations by the way and good luck!

meeks · Post by **meeks** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:07 am

Congrats...I just had my third. One word...."witchinghour".

ok, it might be two.

meeks · Post by **meeks** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:09 am

oh...and get something nice for yourself...I got GPO, I thought a little classical sound would better fit my emotions, it did.

Cabinfever · Post by **Cabinfever** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:23 am

come to think of it i started writing ambient when the kids came along. perhaps your nerves need it....

tkmattson · Post by **tkmattson** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:31 pm

twister wrote:My wife and I just had a baby girl last week. This is our first child, and she is the most precious thing on this Earth

Up until my wife broke her water I was stil writing a lot of music, as a hobby of course, and did that almost everyday. Now, with so many things going on around us, I feel like I never will have a time to get back to music writing again. I know there are a lot of people here who just had a baby. How do you guys manage to continue with your music after the baby is born?

Just curious if anybody can share their experience

Well....the first couple months are pretty much going to be devoted to the little miss, but it DOES get easier. And trust me, you will eventually get some sleep. Something I did, say if our lil' Lucy woke one of us up in the middle of the night, if after I got her back to sleep I WASN'T tired anymore, I would work on some tunes....with phones of course. Another good trick is getting up at the butt crack of dawn, before anyone else....again that is if you've had eough sleep, and working on music then. Oh, if you find out your baby has colic, god help you if you do, my Lucy loved hearing loud old school punk tunes with distorted guitar and it would stop her in her tracks, worked better than the tried and untrue "take them in a quiet steamy room and they'll calm down" crap. Oh, and make sure you and your wife agree to dispose of all the "how-to" baby books. They'll just drive you mad, and they make better kindling than reading anyway. Most of all, enjoy your time with your girl, but don't stop being yourself. It is that easy.

mmdejonge · Post by **mmdejonge** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:10 pm

Nothing to add because everything has been said already, but as a proud father myself (my little girl is almost a month old

) I've discovered that on occasion there's still some time to do some music. You'll survive

Is there a music after baby is born?