Anyone else have a problem with just losing track of time?

[dickman69]

6am Wake
8am Work
5pm Home
6pm DAW Session
12am Sleep

Easy

You forgot shower & eat.

but yesyesyes!

i dont think he forgot shower m8

[Sinergy]

so unlike in college where I can probably make it so I don't have class till near noon

good luck with that

College is important. High school is nothing. Just show up to classes and you graduate. Whats so hard about that?

i find it funny how he thinks once he gets to college he can just decide that all his classes will be after 11.

and yeah HS is important, if you wanna go to a good school...

I can guarantee I won't be up at 6:30 thats for sure.

I know plenty of people at universities who do not have classes until like 10:30.

[ehbes]

im not saying its impossible, I'm saying if you think you can walk in freshman year and decide when your classes are you have another thing coming.

[mthrfnk]

6am Wake
8am Work
5pm Home
6pm DAW Session
12am Sleep

Easy

You forgot shower & eat.

but yesyesyes!

Nah fuck that shit

[NinjaEdit]

There's other ways of getting into uni, I didn't even finish high school.

I've had classes at 8. If you're fussed about when you have classes, study online.

Btw, I didn't go to sleep until 4 am. Makin chillout yo.

[gcraz]

i have the opposite of your problem man. too much time... i dropped out of school because fuck school right? what a waste of time and money...
so yea being the amazingly smart person i am, i decided that i was gonna be a successful music producer and i was wasting my time doing anything but making music.
so i saved up enough cash for a studio, a savings account to survive off of for 6 months, and all the studio gear i ever thought i needed.
am i the next big producer on the block? no. will i be? lets just say i'm not very optimistic about it. but i HAVE learned a shit load about making tunes. i started in september this year as a full time "producer," and i've only gotten like 3 tracks done. but yea, those 3 tracks are wayyyy better than any track i've ever made, and when approaching my daw, i'm wayyyy more confident and i have a lot more fun now. so here's what i learned.
time isn't the decider of how great your tunes will be. your time management skills, health, musical ideas, and mental strength will determine whether or not your music will come out nicely or shitty (it's extremely hard to judge your own music). maybe not health, but that's a personal observation.
I think the best advice i've heard on the internet is make a track as faaaast as possible. how quickly can you make a track? 3 hours? great! if you find yourself with 2 hours of time, and you don't think you'll finish a track, don't even bother. just do things like manage your library. dig for samples and save them in a folder called "the good ones." spend a stupid amount of time making some mid basses you can't help yourself from smiling at. save em in the library. rip thru your older projects looking for the coolest synth chains you've made, save em to the library. try making a pad that evolves for 3 minutes and doesn't do the same thing once. that takes some time. but if you save that as a preset, you'll have a pro sounding ambience for a whole track (most likely for more than 1 track). so then, when you want to make a track, you've got all the tools at your disclosure, no time wasted making patches or searching for samples. you can get a LOT done in 3 hours with a well prepped library. you're only as strong as your library... and this is a little off topic, but its another one of the most important things to understand when producing. you can't go off of a beat or bassline that you hear in your head. can't just regurgitate it into your daw and expect it to be great. you need to go in with an idea, play around and hear what the daw says back to you after trying it out. have a conversation with it. it's like bouncing ideas off of a collaborator. don't be that stubborn guy who says NO, i want it to do THIS! listen to what your tools are telling you and try to compromise to make the best track you (two) can make. and yea i was kidding about school...stay in school...

[gcraz]

i have the opposite of your problem man. too much time... i dropped out of school because fuck school right? what a waste of time and money...
so yea being the amazingly smart person i am, i decided that i was gonna be a successful music producer and i was wasting my time doing anything but making music.
so i saved up enough cash for a studio, a savings account to survive off of for 6 months, and all the studio gear i ever thought i needed.
am i the next big producer on the block? no. will i be? lets just say i'm not very optimistic about it. but i HAVE learned a shit load about making tunes. i started in september this year as a full time "producer," and i've only gotten like 3 tracks done. but yea, those 3 tracks are wayyyy better than any track i've ever made, and when approaching my daw, i'm wayyyy more confident and i have a lot more fun now. so here's what i learned.
time isn't the decider of how great your tunes will be. your time management skills, health, musical ideas, and mental strength will determine whether or not your music will come out nicely or shitty (it's extremely hard to judge your own music). maybe not health, but that's a personal observation.
I think the best advice i've heard on the internet is make a track as faaaast as possible. how quickly can you make a track? 3 hours? great! if you find yourself with 2 hours of time, and you don't think you'll finish a track, don't even bother. just do things like manage your library. dig for samples and save them in a folder called "the good ones." spend a stupid amount of time making some mid basses you can't help yourself from smiling at. save em in the library. rip thru your older projects looking for the coolest synth chains you've made, save em to the library. try making a pad that evolves for 3 minutes and doesn't do the same thing once. that takes some time. but if you save that as a preset, you'll have a pro sounding ambience for a whole track (most likely for more than 1 track). so then, when you want to make a track, you've got all the tools at your disclosure, no time wasted making patches or searching for samples. you can get a LOT done in 3 hours with a well prepped library. you're only as strong as your library... and this is a little off topic, but its another one of the most important things to understand when producing. you can't go off of a beat or bassline that you hear in your head. can't just regurgitate it into your daw and expect it to be great. you need to go in with an idea, play around and hear what the daw says back to you after trying it out. have a conversation with it. it's like bouncing ideas off of a collaborator. don't be that stubborn guy who says NO, i want it to do THIS! listen to what your tools are telling you and try to compromise to make the best track you (two) can make. and yea i was kidding about school...stay in school...

[gcraz]

sry for double post

[NinjaEdit]

maybe not health

Definately health, partly because it largely infuences the other things.

If an unknown person asked me which one way they can improve their life, I would say eat a correctly balanced diet, music producers included.