feeling demotivated (what to do)

[zenophilix]

When I'm feeling unmotivated, I usually put on a playlist of music from my favorite artists and work on various things around the house, which both clears my mind and gives me something to do. Sometimes I'll pretend that I made a certain track, which tends to put me in a creative mindset, along with being more critical of the song; if it's something I've made, then I'm going to be wildly more picky about it. I'll think to myself, "That lead should be louder," or, "That bass should duck out more," or, "That snare has too much low end," etc. I also make sure to listen to several different genres of music, occasionally an idea will hit me that I wouldn't have thought of if I was listening to EDM.

Hopefully this helps.

[Lejurai]

THE best tip I can give is that Just do it. Making music brings inspiration. I couldn't make any music if I just waited for an inspiration. Quite often if I start to think about making music, I just want to hit myself to balls and then I don't make any music. But when I just open the DAW and start to make either something I've planned or if I feel I'm stuck, I just explore. Play with samplers, automations, modulations, modulars...

[recursive one]

THE best tip I can give is that Just do it. Making music brings inspiration. I couldn't make any music if I just waited for an inspiration.

This, this and this again. Just do it, really.

[Zexila]

"Producing" is not the same thing as "composing". I don't know how much you know about composing music, but taking a musical idea and creating a music piece out of it, no matter the genre, is what composing is about. Try to learn a bit more about that, too, there is plenty of info around.

Basically this.

You will get nowhere any time soon before you actually start composing your music, believe me, you are making music in first place and everything will "click" as soon as you get with the program, don't believe "self taught after a decade kinda know what I'm doing", if you are going to mess around for decade trying to learn that stuff with trial&error, why not just spend few months actually learning it properly now and rest of the time practicing and experimenting, it's not like there isn't anything else to learn, so start from the beginning.

[spacekid]

When I'm feeling unmotivated, I usually put on a playlist of music from my favorite artists and work on various things around the house, which both clears my mind and gives me something to do. Sometimes I'll pretend that I made a certain track, which tends to put me in a creative mindset, along with being more critical of the song; if it's something I've made, then I'm going to be wildly more picky about it. I'll think to myself, "That lead should be louder," or, "That bass should duck out more," or, "That snare has too much low end," etc. I also make sure to listen to several different genres of music, occasionally an idea will hit me that I wouldn't have thought of if I was listening to EDM.

Hopefully this helps.

That approach works for a while in your composing life. From personal experience, it passes, and what I do is the opposite. I listen to the sound of nothing: call it meditation if you will. It affects me the same as you, it's just the opposite.

[hivkorn]

I can understand your problem , at a certain point , i was asking to myself :"okay what I should now ?..i'm bored of metal (my first love) and i don't love the EDM/ dance radio song"...i take a long time to listen another kind of genre , I have discover a lot of interesting music :
Stupeflip (french rap/dark song) ,..., and a lot of dark electronic music.
I take the time to open old project and i discover some song that i have made was dark low tempo...
http://jonalynkrauth.bandcamp.com/track ... ng-strange

I take a time to understand that when i begin to make my own music it was all about my life.
Since a long long time i wish to make an electronic dark low tempo slow , but i was thinking :"what the hell will they think about me with this shit?.." now i don't care , i just work on it.Just like the metal / horror / dark metal EP (do you know what is an Igor ? (terry pratchett book) ) i am working on.....

Take your time , don't do something for the other.Just do what you feel.

[ruud07]

This happens to a lot of us! You need to finish your tracks as much as possible. Take your best loops and try to build a complete arrangement. I recently stumbled up on the subtractive arrangement method to overcome writers block and posted a little blog about it:

http://audiodiggers.com/2016/04/13/fini ... rangement/

[Lejurai]

Since a long long time i wish to make an electronic dark low tempo slow , but i was thinking :"what the hell will they think about me with this shit?.."

I had this little demon pissing in my brain too. Ages a go I made pile of music but then I though "what to do with this crap, no one will ever listen to it". Now that crap (genre) has a name, "chill house". Should've done that and release it all instead of delete or losing it

Then I tried to do some generic crap but it drove me to the point that I was ready to give up whole music making. Then I accidentally found an Aiyn Zahev goa -preset in Hive and some flame bursted in me and from that very since, I've done goa/psy trance <3 Today I almost wet my pants when I listened dark dnb channel from digitally imported. So generally I've found my direction. It's nothing ppl may think I'd do, it's nothing I think ppl may want to hear, it's only what I feel deep inside. Dark, distorted and high bpm ^^

[chk071]

THE best tip I can give is that Just do it. Making music brings inspiration. I couldn't make any music if I just waited for an inspiration.

This, this and this again. Just do it, really.

Pinned. In the back of my mind.

[elxsound]

Hmmm.... Any chance this thread was an April Fools joke?

[DodgingRain]

THE best tip I can give is that Just do it. Making music brings inspiration. I couldn't make any music if I just waited for an inspiration.

Write lots, write constantly. Worry if it sounds good later.

[Emanresu]

It is every easy to lose motivation when making music with computers, even more so if you are ONLY using a computer and no controllers. You really are not making music if you are drawing notes into a piano roll you are programing music which does not feel like making music.

If you can't play an instrument get a launchpad or a push. If you already have those start playing an instrument. Most "producers" can play at least one instrument.

Don't try to "produce" a song try to write a song and then record it after it is written.
From there you are free to tweak away. If you don't have a solid structure you can spend years just fiddling around with bits ( I know this from experience).

You can take some of the melodies or song structures you have on the computer and play them on guitar or piano or any instrument until you write an actual song. If you only have a midi keyboard that is fine just try to get a song written even if its only a COMPLETE bass line.

[Zexila]

Since a long long time i wish to make an electronic dark low tempo slow , but i was thinking :"what the hell will they think about me with this shit?.."

I had this little demon pissing in my brain too. Ages a go I made pile of music but then I though "what to do with this crap, no one will ever listen to it". Now that crap (genre) has a name, "chill house". Should've done that and release it all instead of delete or losing it

Similar stuff happened here, long story short, tropical house.

[Aloysius]

Retire from the Music Biz and make a comeback in six months.

[outside]

If you focus on quantity, quality will prevail. Don't try to make masterpieces from start, if you train yourself to finish each track faster, it will become your second nature.