I've been making music for quite a long time now, and have recently been feeling the quality of my declining steadily.
I used to write excellent pieces for artists like TaurinFox, but am feeling that I cannot sit and finish songs now.
I'm not to sure when this happened, or if this has been slowly happening over time, but it's getting distressing.
Perhaps it is that I just don't have much time anymore. I used to sit and work on a piece a strait six hour grind. It was lovely.
Other times I would spends weeks in little bursts making tracks.
But now I can't. I can't even get my tunes past the first baby steps.
Have you guys been in a funk like this? What do you do to keep you interested and motivated? That kind of stuff.
Good thread by the way.
Feelings like this, yeah, sometimes. I noticed I loose my creativity when I overwork to be creative. As in, if I push myself to draw better then I already am, then I get stressed out easily.
Music right; yeah, thats fun. I use to make music too. Keep it up though.
I get like that too, where I feel like my music isn't as "up to snuff" as I'd like it to be :V
For me, I find having an "assignment" helps a lot. I find my stuff turns out much better when I have a real reason to be doing it (ex. for a game BGM or something) rather than just "cause I'm bored"; which generally leads to something uninspired that I'm not too proud of xD
Maybe it's 'cause I feel a need to try and impress someone rather than just doing it for my own entertainment.
try expanding your musical styling, don't just compose in one genre.
like try composing a Bach fugal Choral, a tech-deathmetal song, an a-tonal dance suite,a mozart-styled instrument concerto. something out of your norm.
Music, Bartending, Watching animations, get me really inspired.
Bartending makes for great comic ideas.
Hoping to start a flash/comic series soon. c:
: Hadlock October 22, 2011, 05:07:28 -06:00
try expanding your musical styling, don't just compose in one genre.
like try composing a Bach fugal Choral, a tech-deathmetal song, an a-tonal dance suite,a mozart-styled instrument concerto. something out of your norm.
I always try and do different things, I don't think my problem is that...
It might be that I have to put off other things to sit and write something, and so I feel guilty for having to do that. it makes me unable to focus or stay happy. Perhaps another aspect, is that I'm so worried it's going to come out as shit, I can't stay focused. So many tracks these days are getting thrown away after only a few bars have been put down. I'm not saying those bars are shit, I just can't get past that first musical sentence. I'm sure this is pretty common, however it's still really frustrating. :-\