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Thinking about it, did my previous years of casually playing bass and studying music theory, and the countless hours and days spent listening to and analyzing music while high/drunk/bored before I started producing play a part in where I'm at now, having produced for only a few years compared to the decade I played bass for? How can I acurately measure how much time I've put into something? Does the amount of time even matter?

I used to be big on the 10,000 hours thing, and I look back now at the time wasted because I didn't feel up to the daily grind of practicing. Maybe if I'd just learned when to take breaks, I would've been listening to jaco pastorius and thought "how the fuck does he do that?" and actually picked up my bass to experiment, instead of dreading it because it seemed a chore, at the time.

I'm done rambling. Time to gtfo the internet before I get carried away.

legend4ry wrote:Some people are awful at everything and take years to even finish a track.

I don't appreciate these veiled references to me.

When I look back at how long I didn't understand subtractive synthesis, and how now I can pretty much explain the entire thing in about three paragraphs... I literally don't know how I could have been so stupid. But it is also hard for us to remember a world without information. We used to live in a world with VERY LITTLE INFORMATION, and it wasn't very long ago. Most things you wanted to know, you'd just have to do, and most everything cost a month or two of income.

Re the 10k hours, or iterations... yeah, I don't think it is a bad idea. The real take away is that you do need to put in the time, and how much time you put in depends on how smart (used loosely, yet still accurately) you are. You can spend a half hour listening to music, but really actively listening, like counting the beat, bars, listening to intervals, structure, voicing, octave/spectrum distribution, dynamics all that shit, if you're really in it, that half hour is going to be worth more than a month of passive listening. Same with producing, it is so easy to produce by numbers nowadays. Vst's sound so good, are so plentiful... But to be really in it, feeling music in time, your time can be more valuable.

nowaysj wrote:

legend4ry wrote:Some people are awful at everything and take years to even finish a track.

I don't appreciate these veiled references to me.

When I look back at how long I didn't understand subtractive synthesis, and how now I can pretty much explain the entire thing in about three paragraphs... I literally don't know how I could have been so stupid. But it is also hard for us to remember a world without information. We used to live in a world with VERY LITTLE INFORMATION, and it wasn't very long ago. Most things you wanted to know, you'd just have to do, and most everything cost a month or two of income.

Hey, when I started it was the only bordering the time of ease of access to information too!