Ira Glass (NPR) on sucking and the creative process

[Sharmaji]

everyone who's underwhelmed by what they're producing, or are continuing to produce-- watch this:

[-[2]DAY_-]

thank you thank you thank you!!!

This is great advice.

[Sharmaji]

yup. when in doubt: put in the work.

[Trebek]

Nice, thanks for posting this up.

[nylle]

takin this one to heart

[FSTZ]

I love Ira Glass (I'm such an NPR nerd)

[paravrais]

Wow. Dude has a way with words.

[3za]

[+3]

[quote=“FSTZ”](I'm such an NPR nerd)[/quote]

This.

[Recessive Trait]

great advice: produce a large body of work while learning. that and having deadlines.

i think i was able to improve fairly quickly in music production, not just because I have played music since i was 8, but because i just made track after track. i gave myself deadlines by telling local promoters to start booking me for live sets instead of dj sets (this was after about a year of producing). then it was moving from being a headlining dj to an opening act live set, which allowed me to step out in front of the speakers and really get to critique my work on big systems. and being a dj with very critical "taste" as Glass says, i hated the way my music sounded on big systems. so i wrote more and learned more and worked on the sound (all this is ongoing for eternity of course) and now i'm a headlining (locally) live act with two releases and more on the way.

so don't be afraid to serve up them turds, kids. they will get better.

[DJ Crackle]

i gave myself deadlines by telling local promoters to start booking me for live sets instead of dj sets (this was after about a year of producing).

wow, that's kick ass
i need to step my game up
though i have to admit, my whole life used to be THIS SONG IS SO AWESOME while i was producing
then two days later... "wtf... how high was I?"
and now that's only about 75% of the time, as opposed to 100%.
I suppose I'm getting there in my own way. Lol.

[Recessive Trait]

just sling that shit out, man. of course i should point out that i had the luxury of being out of work thanks to the recession for about 6 months out of the first year i produced. so i wrote music every day.

[makemerich]

This don't apply too me.

I was making music, before I was listening to music. So I had no taste when I begined making music. I also have never been striving for a certain sound, and I don't veiw others music as better than mine, just equal.

If you do veiw things like this, then allowing yourself to "suck" seems like common sense. Unless you believe you idols where born with their skills, then you should just give up.

then your taste is the world around you, and is more based on natural occuring frequencies than rounded up notes.

[andregmp]

just sling that shit out, man. of course i should point out that i had the luxury of being out of work thanks to the recession for about 6 months out of the first year i produced. so i wrote music every day.

i consider you both very blessed and fortunate, and i envy you lol. i wish i could do the same.
it's one thing to be able to work on tracks diligently day after day, pumping out half a dozen songs a week, and it's another to have to work full time, be in school part time on top of that.
then on whatever free time i have, after being shit tired from work and everything in life, come home and work on my music for 1-2 hours. many times the inspiration and creativity is barely there, and whatever progress i do make is minimal or ends up sounds like shite.
i guess though eventually struggle will be over and i'll be a lot more satisfied with my music.

but back on topic and rant aside, wicked link, thanks! breath of new hope!

[bassmusic]

this is brilliant. never heard of this guy before - i'm off on a youtube mission

[wolf89]

Interesting. I was just thinking the other day how when I get back to uni (my monitors and everything are down there) I'm going to force myself to make as much music as is at all possible and finish tracks properly. I would always get demotivated by the fact I didn't like something so much and give up. I was thinking it could be like what this guy is saying. That experience would get me somewhere more and get the creative ball rolling again as I start to be less pissed off with how stuff was sounding.

Definitely motivated me to put the work in.

Nothing worse than being a perfectionist and lazy at once.

[time nice]

Definitely a great video set! Big up!

[mks]

Thanks for this.

[nylle]

This don't apply too me.

I was making music, before I was listening to music. So I had no taste when I begined making music. I also have never been striving for a certain sound, and I don't veiw others music as better than mine, just equal.

If you do veiw things like this, then allowing yourself to "suck" seems like common sense. Unless you believe you idols where born with their skills, then you should just give up.

lol this guy is clearly infallible ^

when i begined making music i stopped learning gramor too

[3za]

This don't apply too me.

I was making music, before I was listening to music. So I had no taste when I begined making music. I also have never been striving for a certain sound, and I don't veiw others music as better than mine, just equal.

If you do veiw things like this, then allowing yourself to "suck" seems like common sense. Unless you believe you idols where born with their skills, then you should just give up.

lol this guy is clearly infallible ^

when i begined making music i stopped learning gramor too

When I begined fucking your mum, I stopped learning produktioned!!!