Staying motivated: Your production goals

[Genevieve]

Got any specific goals in your production? Post it here, all out in the open and just post your goal(s) and the timeframe you want to achieve it in. Then bump the thread when you've accomplished said goal. It can be anything from technical stuff, to creative or staying motivated or inspired. Fuck, even if it's saving up for gear.

If you want, you can even post what you think is lacking in your production and bump it with another link so others can critique your progress (not necessary).

I hope this thread'll pick-up so I won't be the only one posting in it.

Good luck with achieving your goals!

[Genevieve]

My goals to achieve by the end of October.

- Get a nice, phat sounding modulated neuoreese to sound good
- Clean up an Amen nice and tight
- Learn to make my own, dark and hard effects
- Take music theory courses
- Improve my hardcore kicks
- Get good at compression

[LilWUB]

I gave myself a month and a half to lay down my first EP. So far I have 2 out of 3 songs finished (may need a bit of tweaking) and 3 weeks to spare. I plan on using the $5 digital master that the dude who posts here offers. I hope to continually release 3 song EPs where I get to play around in different genres so I'm not tied down to a sound. Hopefully this will be the best route for me to really find myself as an artist.

Gear wise - I'm feeling good about what I have. I do however, want me some FM8. Is there anything comparable on the market within that price range? NI is pretty awesome but I figured I'd throw it out there.

[SunkLo]

Get signed to Ninja Tune / Warp / Brainfeeder.
Be the chosen one to complete the Trinity of Swing with Dilla and Flying lotus.
Become an organ virtuoso and make an album so funky it'll be the first entirely instrumental LP to have the "Parental Guidance: Explicit Content" sticker on the front.

Should all be done by next week at the latest assuming I don't end up busy with something.


On a more modest scale I'm waiting to hear back about an MPK61 from this guy for a pretty good price. Once I get that I'm really hoping my production takes off and I'll be able to do more improv-based composition instead of drawing everything by hand. Hopefully that gets me out of tinker stage and back into the mindset of a musician jamming. That should help me define the different stages of production, getting the composition and arrangement done, and then working on mixing and developing my skills there.

I intend to practice piano daily and really get good enough for it to be my main instrument. I stopped keeping up with guitar when I was probably a couple plateaus away from being a really great player. I'm hoping with the keyboard, I'll work straight through all the plateaus and end up as a more than competent pianist.

I'm also going to start doing daily ear training again, in hopes of developing perfect pitch or at least a better ear.

That applies to the mixing side as well. I want to train my ears as an engineer, especially once I get a better monitoring setup. I think I'm gonna do 10 minute practice mix drills with stems I download or something. I want to make a conscious effort to improve my mixing ability since it will directly translate to the quality of my productions.

I'm hoping to become a better arranger and get better at keeping things from getting cluttered. Hopefully having a midi keyboard will help me develop tracks linearly instead of vertically, focusing more on creating progression instead of stacking a bunch of shit on top of each other in a 16 bar loop.

Output wise, I'd like to have an EP or beattape of really polished, high level tracks I'm proud of. It'd be nice to have a pro release to prove I can do it, regardless of how much time and effort it takes.

[frenchboy]

become famous. make money. fuck bitches

[test_recordings]

Be creative and really fuck with people's brains

[charles1]

learn how to make skrillex growl bass in massive

[SunkLo]

I hate so many things about you, not limited to the fact that you'd use massive instead of fm8, and also the huge youtube video in your sig that I have to scroll past every time.

[charles1]

I hate so many things about you, not limited to the fact that you'd use massive instead of fm8, and also the huge youtube video in your sig that I have to scroll past every time.

you know i'm fuckin joking.

[YeahItsMe]

He was joking too dude... About the massive thing at least

[Mason]

I hate so many things about you, not limited to the fact that you'd use massive instead of fm8, and also the huge youtube video in your sig that I have to scroll past every time.

this, why cant you use soundcloud like every other fucker?

[mthrfnk]

I hate so many things about you, not limited to the fact that you'd use massive instead of fm8, and also the huge youtube video in your sig that I have to scroll past every time.

this, why cant you use soundcloud like every other fucker?

[Lichee]

make whatever tunes i feel like whenever i feel like it, if i really like it send it to someone

[charles1]

I don't have a soundcloud. Call me old school... I'm so sorry you have to scroll 2.5 extra inches.

[outbound]

Goals:-

Production:-
- Work more on making my sub bass lines more interesting. Need to make them groove more, use more notes outside the root and holed more interest.
- Work more on the dynamics of my track, not just from a mix point of view but from a composition one as well. How can I develop more contrast in my productions.
- Focus more on building lead lines that sound original (both in melody and in texture)

Achievement:-
- Have at least 1 vinyl release (even if it breaks even I'd just be so happy to have a copy to hang up in my studio)
- Have a digital release on a label that is bigger than what I am currently signed to (btw extremely happy with labels I have previously and am currently working with)
- Have regular support of my tracks being played by some of the bigger names.

These are what I'm currently working towards atm.

[Mason]

I don't have a soundcloud. Call me old school... I'm so sorry you have to scroll 2.5 extra inches.

u will be m8

[ehbes]

LP by the end of the year.

Achieve a level a maturity in my tracks.. Idk how to describe it, but some tracks sound really confident and mature while others sound "timid" so they continuously throw in more stuff to hid the shittyness and lack of confidence in their sounds.

[sigmund floyd]

i want 5 really good tracks by the end of summer...showcasing my own sound and some versatility

[SunkLo]

Idk how to describe it, but some tracks sound really confident and mature while others sound "timid" so they continuously throw in more stuff to hid the shittyness and lack of confidence in their sounds.

Yeah I've been thinking about this exact thing a lot lately. I think I developed the pattern of doing that when I first started and need to break it. It's also just me wanting to have a bunch of progressive jazzy shit which is really complex, but I wanna try to work towards having a simple track made up of really strong components on their own. I always thought arranging for an orchestra would be really great as a younger musician but that shit is hard. But writing for a 4 piece is a different kind of hard. I gotta learn to take it easy on the polyrhythms and counterpoint and let things breathe.

[smile]

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