Keeping motivated

[DjZylla]

I'm sure there's a thread on this but I can't find one. I find that one of the biggest obstacles in making a song or me is getting back that inital excitement and motivation of making a new track. I always find that after a couple hours of bringing ideas together I really don't have the motivation I did when I started the track. I was wondering if anybody has any tips on how to keep the process going because i have about 30 unfinished ideas for songs

[dickman69]

listen to more music

[ehbes]

use the search to see how people deal with it, theres one of these threads like once a week

[joegrizzly]

Smoke drugs, i swear it works

[nitz]

open your ears to other music other than dubstep. House, trance, jazz, piano solo's, grime, boogie etc... but not to extend so much that you are listening to lady fafa or rihanna

[ChadDub]

All my stuff is made in single 2 - 6 hour sessions. Like you, I can't stay pumped on a track for longer than that.

[Versuz]

take a break from sessions, give your ears time to recover, it does get ridiculous listening to the same drum beat or bassline for hours... watch some tv, go running, or listen to some other music for ideas and inspiration.. or smoke some weed

[legend4ry]

Move on.

[nowaysj]

Stop producing. Just chill. Has to get to the point where it is fun again. Even if you manage to make "good" tracks while hating the process, you will not be happy in the end. Have to find a way to be happy and produce tracks. Doesn't mean there wont be strife, but a strife you willingly take on.

If you produce too much, you will tend toward burning out. With a caveat. If you can hook up legit distribution at the end of that process, then the tracks take off, and elevate, themselves and you, great motivator. If the tracks just digial rust on your hard drive... it poisons the muse, inspiration may be more remote. The quality of work will suffer. This music making thing is tricky man.

People worry allot about their workflow in their studio, but they need to be thinking about flowing out of the studio.

I think, I'm tired.

[robinbanks]

use the search to see how people deal with it, theres one of these threads like once a week

actually, I just incidentally, and unknowingly created another one of them - which makes me wonder, hell, if there are soooo many posts on this same topic, why dont the moderators make a specific section for them? call it - writers block/inspiration/creative process or something....

[atticuh]

open your ears to other music other than dubstep. House, trance, jazz, piano solo's, grime, boogie etc... but not to extend so much that you are listening to lady fafa or rihanna

Gaga gets a lot of shit, but I can respect her. She was accepted to Juilliard, but never attended.

[paravrais]

Lady GaGa is actually an extremely talented singer/songwriter/musician, it's just the horrible production on her tracks that make them sound so godawful.

for example...

[Triphosphate]

All my stuff is made in single 2 - 6 hour sessions. Like you, I can't stay pumped on a track for longer than that.

Personally, I use ChadDub's approach... I try to produce something new every day. Then, the next day I listen to what I made and if I like it and feel the same motivational spark, or if I'm still in the same head space, I finish it. If I don't like it, I recycle it: bounce out parts of it, stick them in my library and move on. That way I don't have a disjointed mess that doesn't clearly express what I'm trying to convey with the song, and has the added bonus of speeding up your production process, not to mention it's good practice to feel like I have a deadline.

[Sharmaji]

stay organized, with writen lists of what you need to get done on each project-- when you open one up, you know exactly what needs to be done. less time wasted fiddling about--> more time to stay focused, inspired, and productive.