Production rant of my first track and it being 7 months.....

[SKIN E]

7 Months is nothing.. been at it for 6 years and trust me when I say, this won't be your last musical block.

[808Junkie]

I've been reading this thread, I thought I was the only one with this kind of mentality. Reading and relating has made me feel a lot better, thanks dudes.

[ehbes]

It takes a lot of shit tunes before you get good hang in

[briskisgoodforu]

I can relate to your experience. When i first started producing My stuff was very creative but poorly built. Then I learned technical shit and all of a sudden the music is often lacking something. I think this is normal in the beginning because it's so easy to create rules when you know a little more about the technical. So then instead of being creative you start being technical. But I think eventually you'll get so comfortable with the technical that you don't have to think about it and then you can allow the creativity to blossom freely.

Creativity is where the good music comes from. Make the good music first, then figure out how to make it work technically.

[Kaslo]

7 months?

No offense man but that's small time. You wouldn't expect to be playing moonlight sonata after playing piano for 7 months - its a slow curve, you're learning all the time, and each new thing you create or work on will be building your skill set more and more. Many artists go through huge dry spells before coming up with any sort of awesome output - I remember asking ill.Gates at a workshop how long it was between when he started producing, and he had first produced a tune he was really happy with, and I think it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 years. I know after 7 months I'd barely done more than make a few shitty 4-bar loops, some were catchy as hell, yes, but I had a long way to go as far as getting them up to any sort of quality. Keep chugging away at it, don't expect instant results and have zen-levels of patience. You'll eventually get somewhere!

[Perej]

Hey,

If your not enjoying it, then stop for a while.

The only motivation that makes me want to make something is listening to great music. I am on soundcloud alot of the time, or boomkat, or listening to a boilerroom podcast, just seeing whats going on and whats out there, which is great because I'm always being inspired by something.

I don't listen to any of that wobble based dubstep contrary to what most people here seem to. I think it's incredibly bland and dull. Why don't you try expanding your taste? Future garage, techno, house etc? This might make you want to get involved.

[Perej]

Wtf did you think it was gonna be like??? 6 months messing around on massive and straight onto the world tour??? Id just give up if I were you tbh

There are some producers out there who were only going for a very short time and got releases.

Jam City (Nightslugs) had only been producing about half a year before he started getting booked to play live and was having his stuff played on mixes etc. It's not massively uncommon.

[skimpi]

Wtf did you think it was gonna be like??? 6 months messing around on massive and straight onto the world tour??? Id just give up if I were you tbh

There are some producers out there who were only going for a very short time and got releases.

Jam City (Nightslugs) had only been producing about half a year before he started getting booked to play live and was having his stuff played on mixes etc. It's not massively uncommon.

That's not a very helpful post is it haha. Some people just take to things quicker than others.

[Sonika]

Wtf did you think it was gonna be like??? 6 months messing around on massive and straight onto the world tour??? Id just give up if I were you tbh

There are some producers out there who were only going for a very short time and got releases.

Jam City (Nightslugs) had only been producing about half a year before he started getting booked to play live and was having his stuff played on mixes etc. It's not massively uncommon.

Dont stress us out!

[Perej]

Wtf did you think it was gonna be like??? 6 months messing around on massive and straight onto the world tour??? Id just give up if I were you tbh

There are some producers out there who were only going for a very short time and got releases.

Jam City (Nightslugs) had only been producing about half a year before he started getting booked to play live and was having his stuff played on mixes etc. It's not massively uncommon.

Dont stress us out!

I'm not, it's just different in his case. Maybe that particular label just really liked his sound, maybe he had good connections, I don't know.

No stress was intended, haha.

[legend4ry]

Wtf did you think it was gonna be like??? 6 months messing around on massive and straight onto the world tour??? Id just give up if I were you tbh

There are some producers out there who were only going for a very short time and got releases.

Jam City (Nightslugs) had only been producing about half a year before he started getting booked to play live and was having his stuff played on mixes etc. It's not massively uncommon.

Dont stress us out!

I'm not, it's just different in his case. Maybe that particular label just really liked his sound, maybe he had good connections, I don't know.

No stress was intended, haha.

Not to take anything from Jam City (sick tunes!) but those who you find are producing a short time and have success usually either have a musical background, knows producers who find their feet already and they advise or just 'have' it.

Like I said though I am just speculating and don't insulting.

[hifi]

hey it's alright. I'm a young dude and I've only been producing for about 4 months and have quit about 11 times over a 1 year period. The amount of time I didn't produce just went to waste. don't be lyk me. here is the bullsh*t I make (shameless selfpromo) Soundcloud this is the stuff you shouldn't be making. my mixing is garbage/and so is arrangement/melodies and sound design. I'm not satisfied with any of my tunes BUT I am slightly devoted. the thing that keeps me coming back is because its fun. have fun yo, i make shit music but I have fun doing so if you aren't having fun you are obviii doin somethin wrong. i also don't even play one single instrument until reallly recently i saved up for several instruments to learn for fun/production and because of that i was really demotivated(since i didn't know how to play anything)