Realizing the tune I just spent 3 days on is Terrible

[ketamine]

[ehbes]

i feel you man...you almost trick yourself into thinking its good....

[extremesociety]

That's not a bad thing. Learning how to be honestly self critical is important.

[Fowles]

Happens to us all... on to the next one.

[nowaysj]

^ad infinitum = 10 years.

[daeMTHAFKNkim]

it's happening to me right now.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

just push it up to 145bpm and add some real sticks

[accordionfan]

i always make tunes late at night where i am loopy and i think "oh this is great" then i wake up the next morning and....

[FluidMoShun]

Take out your aggression on the song. Resample everything and cut it all up. You'll have a whole library of cool sounds you've made at your fingertips. Seriously, go at it from a completely different angle than you were before. Worst comes to worst, you spend a little extra time trying to give your tune new life.. better than just throwing it out. Its probably the arrangement that you don't like, so take all your sounds and rearrange them into something completely new. The new creative perspective should shake everything up and unlock lots of new possibilities.

I've been there man. The best thing to do is rip the song to pieces and rebuild something new. Still don't like it? Move on. Best of luck

[MassAphekt]

happens to the best of us mate
Accordianfan got that shit to the point lmao
that's why I do hards work of synthesis/mixdowns during day or when I get up (fresh pair of ears) and then create melodies and chords at night when I don't have to do so much critical thinking and listening, just more so coloring in it at night, relaxes me too for a goodnights sleep lols

[travis_baker]

i feel you man...you almost trick yourself into thinking its good....

why does this happen...

[drift]

there will be something in that tune you can use later

save it


move on...

[legend4ry]

Only 3 days? Just wait till you fine-tune something for months and then the week before its supposed to come out you suddenly hate it.


Then a tune you can't stand gets put out because the label has already infested time and money in it.

[drift]

Then a tune you can't stand gets put out

( for me ) the last 25% or so of producing a tune is all about breaking through the *pain barrier* and actually finishing it ( to a level of getting it played out or potentially signed ), so its not surprising if you're bored with a tune or over it by time its finished.



** ( dont stop making something because the impact or the vibe has numbed your own senses, it may still sound good to others / new ears. )





i find by making music with longevity it makes it easier to listen to hundreds of times without the track breaking me

[Temo]

Learning how to be honestly self critical is THE MOST important.

best advice here

[VirtualMark]

I think we all know this feeling too well. I've actually started going back to some of my old tunes that i gave up on, with newer knowledge. As i had some good ideas/inspiration but didn't have the skill to pull it off.

But i've spent many nights making tunes, just to listen to it the next day and be like 'wtf was i thinking?'

I think the only solution is to persevere, keep studying, practicing and developing your ears.

[e-motion]

Save the presets! save the notes! (the one's that are worth). Know one thing, you didn't wasted 3 days because you learned something during this time.

To avoid it... morning checks with fresh ears are usually the way but yeah they fail too.

[fuzion]

3 days?

that's nothing man just keep anything you do like and delete the rest of the tune and then try again,

I spent a month working on a remix recently (amongst other tracks) and scrapped the song about 10 times till it sounded right

[dublerium]

Take out your aggression on the song. Resample everything and cut it all up. You'll have a whole library of cool sounds you've made at your fingertips. Seriously, go at it from a completely different angle than you were before. Worst comes to worst, you spend a little extra time trying to give your tune new life.. better than just throwing it out. Its probably the arrangement that you don't like, so take all your sounds and rearrange them into something completely new. The new creative perspective should shake everything up and unlock lots of new possibilities.

I've been there man. The best thing to do is rip the song to pieces and rebuild something new. Still don't like it? Move on. Best of luck

I like the sound of this idea. So the realisation of what you made is cack, pushes you to use your annoyance/anger/sadness whatever emotion you get and use that as the drive to rip the track to shreds and make something of it.

[Raziel]

Happens to us all... on to the next one.