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At 5/3/11 03:10 AM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote:

At 5/3/11 03:07 AM, crapatflash wrote:

And another takes my words and twists them into the most negative light possible, why am I not surprised.

It's difficult not to when your post sounded like an old man regalling his grandchildren about all the things he should have done when he was their age before the real world crushed his dreams...

At 5/3/11 03:13 AM, crapatflash wrote:

At 5/3/11 03:10 AM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote:

At 5/3/11 03:07 AM, crapatflash wrote:

And another takes my words and twists them into the most negative light possible, why am I not surprised.

It's difficult not to when your post sounded like an old man regalling his grandchildren about all the things he should have done when he was their age before the real world crushed his dreams...

I was simply reminiscing the time where I was extremely enthusiastic about music, that's all I ever thought about, it's all I did, before reality struck (I.E. I graduated), and I was forced to think about more than just my dreams.

I was not crushed, I was not defeated. I still think the music industry is corrupt and neglects a lot of real talent, taking good looks and people with connections instead... But my point was to not take it to an extreme, you have to live your life while you try to live your dream...
Unless you're independently wealthy... then by all means, do nothing but music.

Shoot for the stars... just don't forget that you have a few steps to place to get there.... Best way to put it?
You can't just fly straight up to those stars, you will have to build your own stairway, it's not easy, and it can, and will, be painful at times, but you'll never get there if you don't keep building.

That better? Can everyone stop assuming I'm here just to bring everyone down now?

At 5/3/11 03:20 AM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: That better? Can everyone stop assuming I'm here just to bring everyone down now?

No, you will always be a grumpy old Stooge to me...

At 5/3/11 03:20 AM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: That better? Can everyone stop assuming I'm here just to bring everyone down now?

I apologize for cheesing on you earlier. You have brought up some good points to be aware of. Alas, despite my enthusiasm I still have not achieved the success I am after, but I am slowly inching towards it. All I know is enthusiasm makes the long, hard journey more fun! and boy is it long and hard. But in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. and if you keep one eye open with a little bit of enthusiasm, you can go through the motions necessary to achieve your goals. But make sure you set very specific goals. Music, and life in general are too broad to have blurry nondescript goals.

Do you want nondescript results? No you want to dj your music to cheering fans. You want 100,000 listens on your youtube video.

I think people who make it big in music end up unhappy because they assume that they need to spend every minute of every day writing music. then they burn out on it

One of the ironic parts of music is that inspiration comes to you based on what music you listen to, what music you want to write, and it usually hits you when you aren't doing anything musically related

I recently bought a zoom H1 recorder, and take it everywhere I go. Whenever I have musical inspiration, I put it out and record it. So basically by spending most of my time hanging with friends, and relaxing, and only 6-7 hours a week on music, I have written more awesome music than before when I would spend 30-40 hours a week in the summer.

Less is more in creative pursuits. But only if that less is very focused, and concentrated

Here's a site for you!

It has alot of free samples, and I mean LOTS!

A few posts on Dubstepforum that may or may not help!

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At 5/3/11 08:36 AM, Bjra wrote: Less is more in creative pursuits. But only if that less is very focused, and concentrated

I work the same way, I don't spend every waking hour writing music... Every so often, I'll be unable to sleep, and I find that is usually when I'm at my creative peak, so some of my best stuff I wrote at like 3-6am on 0 hours of sleep the night before.

You can't force yourself to write good music, you have to have the motivation to do it, and as you said, if you're writing 24/7, it's hard to keep that motivation up instead of burning out.
That's the same reason I tend to write a shit-ton of different genres, it keeps things interesting... I'll write a metal song one day, a trance the next, maybe a classical piano piece, then DnB.

Unfortunately, creativity isn't like a light switch that you can just flip on and off, it's more like the weather, sometimes it's great, others, not so much. And you have little to no control over it, save any practices you may have to help motivate yourself (Like people doing a rain dance to make it rain).

Wow guys, thanks a lot for all the help! It is REALLY helping me tons! And yea, I am enthusiastic, but realistic also.

At 5/3/11 01:29 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote:

At 5/3/11 08:36 AM, Bjra wrote:

protips

I work almost completely oppposite to this... anything melody I think of on the fly is always in blues scale. No, the only way I can break out of that is by mucking around in the DAW environment and listening for things that sound good and adding to it.

Also, another protip... know how to work your DAW properly. Knowing how to use every tool to your advantage means it's easy to get that awesome sound from your head to the track without wondering "Now how the fuck would I do that?"

At 5/4/11 03:27 AM, crapatflash wrote:

At 5/3/11 01:29 PM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote:

At 5/3/11 08:36 AM, Bjra wrote:

protips

I work almost completely oppposite to this... anything melody I think of on the fly is always in blues scale. No, the only way I can break out of that is by mucking around in the DAW environment and listening for things that sound good and adding to it.

I just recently broke my habit of doing this, not even sure anymore what scale I was always stuck writing in... but it began to be painfully obvious that I was trapped in a pattern through my music, most notably in a lot of my piano pieces.

I couldn't even really say how I broke the habit, I think one day I just sat down and instead of playing around with sequences and notes I was familiar with, I just hit random keys until I fell into a scale that wasn't what was desperately clinging to me... And through that, came my music box series... Now that I think of it, I haven't even looked up what scale those are in yet... They're odd, I know that much.

At 5/4/11 03:38 AM, Back-From-Purgatory wrote: I just recently broke my habit of doing this...

Yeah, I realised I had a... not a problem, but that I was hooked on this one scale. I had to break the habit by forcing myself not to use it. Now my big problem is that I find myself using "safe" harmonies all the time for chord progressions, the ones that are really obvious. I'm trying to reteach myself by creating chords that I wouldn't categorise as "harmonic" but that don't clash with each other... creating music is constantly a learning experience.

Easy solution. Listen to more music that uses different scales than blues. Problem solved.

Remember, your subconscious which you use to create music is merely a regurgitation device. Give it something new to regurgitate

At 5/4/11 07:49 AM, Bjra wrote: Easy solution. Listen to more music that uses different scales than blues. Problem solved.

Remember, your subconscious which you use to create music is merely a regurgitation device. Give it something new to regurgitate

I guess that would be a good solution... if more than 1% of the music I listen to was actually in blues scale...