Make & finish a tune a week

[mekha]

I've used it as my wallpaper for a long time.. really helps out!

[naroja]

I've used it as my wallpaper for a long time.. really helps out!

That's the one thing I find that helps me a lot - is a lot of change. Especially in Wallpapers. Go to http://www.Wallbase.cc, check out all the awesome wallpapers and save a bunch that really inspire you. I just browse on globaltoplist, but you can search by text or color or whatever to get you to your final destination. Hope this helps someone... Just remember to change your wallpaper once a day unless you find something that's really inspiring you enough to make a ton of finished tracks

[leeany]

I used to make 20 projects a week and finish maybe 5 of them ... (that was when I mostly did hiphop though, I find it a bit harder to build the song structure when I'm working on dubstep)

[zonetrooper5]

Currently got alot of different tunes in the works, mixture of dnb/dubstep/ambient yet I'm too lazy most of the time to finish them off and give them a mixdown, haven't finished off a new tune in about 1/2 months now, kinda annoying.

[wub]

This weekend, I've made 3 loops (1 percussion, 2 jazzy bass-ish), started & finished my entry for the 48hr contest, and started & finished a little 170bpm glitchstep track in a similar vein to the one on my Soundcloud.

People spend too much time asking banal questions about how to do so-and-so or can I do this-that-and-the-other, instead of actually shutting up and just getting on with making music.

You don't know what a specific dial does on your cracked synth? Turn the damn thing and listen to the difference it makes to the sound. You don't know how to use a compressor properly? Put one of your drum bus and go through the presets seeing what changes the settings have. Can't find a sample? Steal it from a song you already like.

Seriously, the up turn in stupid questions (apologies for using the word stupid, but some of the stuff I've seen over the last 48hrs I've got no other word for) has been shocking on here.

Think of production as a pie. Stop worrying about the pastry, and start making the most out of the filling.