My music is 'forced'.

[Modeler]

I can't help feeling that I force myself to write music. I produce for the love of it; I write for the sake of having something to produce!

I'm not exactly a musical scholar, I know the basics and enough to get by and have written a number of original songs. Recently I've found myself running short of inspiration and have been doing covers and remixes.

I don't enjoy actually enjoy writing music at the moment because I find it so hard. It isn't coming from within the way it used to. Anyone else ever experienced this? I'm not about to quit in a hurry, but I've had such a long 'break' from writing that I'm beginning to doubt whether I'll ever start again.

[butter]

You might find that the break does you good. Everytime I take a break I always come back with even more of a passion for it.

[mystahr]

Never doubt yourself; and don't worry.... yes this happens to us all.

What is there is there and will come when the moment arrives

[androidlove]

Crank it up and bang on it. Cut and paste the good parts.Ta Da!

[604Rmx]

i have experienced that feeling many times also

i used to play in a band, now i produce on my own and i must admit it's harder when you're alone. maybe try to do some collabs (this forum is a good place)

or simply have a break, go out.. i often prefer working in the studio than going out on weekends but it can be quite refreshing, hang friends to a gig.. get some weed

[jeffn1]

I can't help feeling that I force myself to write music. I produce for the love of it; I write for the sake of having something to produce!

I'm not exactly a musical scholar, I know the basics and enough to get by and have written a number of original songs. Recently I've found myself running short of inspiration and have been doing covers and remixes.

I don't enjoy actually enjoy writing music at the moment because I find it so hard. It isn't coming from within the way it used to. Anyone else ever experienced this? I'm not about to quit in a hurry, but I've had such a long 'break' from writing that I'm beginning to doubt whether I'll ever start again.

Its funny, I am sort of the opposite. I am comfortable and enjoy the music creation side, but intimidated by the production side (but, I think I am improving).

jeffn1

[diverdee]

I find writing lyrics hard like that some times, setting myself a subject etc. doesn't work - so i just write scraps & then every now & then get off my face & try stringing them together.
Last time I got really wrecked, after not writing anything 4 a long time, I wrote page after page - just couldn't stop.
Not doing anything in particular - just noodling away with no focused goal seems to work for me.
think bruce lee in enter the dragon - the finger pointing at the moon.
if u focus on the finger 'you miss all that hewenwy gwory'.

[Panda]

I've had this problem a couple of times. What i do is i take a break for a few days, weeks or even months, and i read, and learn about the topics i feel i don't know enough about: composition techniques, synthesis, playing techniques and so on, and after a while i always get an idea to get me going again...
I guess that's why my music is divided in 'periods'- after each break i make a different kind of music...

Well good luck and don't give up just cause you're having a bad moment!

[xoxos]

see?

all these fuckheads are like "oh, you'll get back to it.." the imortal myth of rock n roll...

YES!!! NOW YOU TOO!! CAN PRODUCE WHATEVER SOUNDS AND FEEL LIKE AN ICON IN YOUR POD PEOPLE SOCIETY!

NOW!!!!

NOW YOU!! YOU!!!! YOU!!! CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ECOSYSTEM BY THINKING YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING COOL WHEN REALLY YOU'RE A f**king TWAT CORK!!!!

now that you've all got beyond your stupid nazi urge to dress up like bananarama girls, mebbe you can f**king look at what made you all interested in being all happy doing stupid shit while madmen run the world and use the skills you've gleaned to do somethnig about the incredible problem of robot farm.

or you can just do covers and keep playing with your big fancy dildo, "oh i'm jan hammerstien" ro whatever

[donkey tugger]

see?

all these fuckheads are like "oh, you'll get back to it.." the imortal myth of rock n roll...

YES!!! NOW YOU TOO!! CAN PRODUCE WHATEVER SOUNDS AND FEEL LIKE AN ICON IN YOUR POD PEOPLE SOCIETY!

NOW!!!!

NOW YOU!! YOU!!!! YOU!!! CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ECOSYSTEM BY THINKING YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING COOL WHEN REALLY YOU'RE A f**king TWAT CORK!!!!

now that you've all got beyond your stupid nazi urge to dress up like bananarama girls, mebbe you can f**king look at what made you all interested in being all happy doing stupid shit while madmen run the world and use the skills you've gleaned to do somethnig about the incredible problem of robot farm.

or you can just do covers and keep playing with your big fancy dildo, "oh i'm jan hammerstien" ro whatever

Every day, you must say, "oh, how do I feel about my shoes?"

[Kriminal]

see?

Erm, no.

[xoxos]

i don't wear motherfucking shoes.

[donkey tugger]

i don't wear motherfucking shoes.

Alright then, motherfucking sandals then!

[Kriminal]

i don't wear motherfucking shoes.

[emdot_ambient]

I usually find that I run out of ideas when the process of making music has become automatic . . . i.e., when I've been guilty of writing from a formulaic mode. The trick is, then, to break with your normal mode of writing. If you usually invent a beat and/or bass line first, then go from there, maybe you should try playing with pads and/or sound design instead. Force yourself to approach it from a new angle.

Or, just tell yourself, "I'm going to experiment with [insert process here] and the hell with making music per se." If you've accepted that it's just an experiment, then you can't be disappointed. You may learn something new that's useless, or you might find you're heading off in a new direction . . . or if you're like me, you'll find you're ending up sounding pretty much like you used to but you've come at it from a different direction!