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Cures for writers block

I hope you find it inspiring, forward it to those it might be of interest to.

cheers

SafeandSound Mastering

Cheers

I need this... four months since i've been able to slap a song together.

Thanks for this good read!

what do you guys do when your like 75 percent done with a track and it kind of sounds good but you know it needs something but you dont know what?

JTreeZY wrote:what do you guys do when your like 75 percent done with a track and it kind of sounds good but you know it needs something but you dont know what?

I play videogames.

Hircine wrote:

JTreeZY wrote:what do you guys do when your like 75 percent done with a track and it kind of sounds good but you know it needs something but you dont know what?

I play videogames.

Sometimes I find stuff in videogames that I want to sample but I can't get a hold of the sample MGS is amazing for sounds

Lol my whole week has been Reason 5 and Battlefield 3

Can't play any Xbox games because my xbox's disc tray is being a tnuc and always says Open Tray and I always fix it but this time it won't work

When it rains, I feel happy and inspired.

One of the comments:

Take a daily 20 minute power nap. Why? Thomas Edison used this technique to free his brain and access his superconscious mind for out-of-the-box ideas. He would sit in a comfy chair, clutching a handful of ball bearings, and go off to sleep thinking of whatever project he was working on. As he fell asleep, his hand would relax and the ballbearings would fall onto the floor with a clatter, waking him up. By doing this, he trained himself to be able to stay in that most creative alpha state between wakefulness and sleep. Many of his most brilliant ideas and insights came to him this way (source: http://www.wilywalnut.com/sleep_to_succeed.html)

Comfi wrote:One of the comments:

Take a daily 20 minute power nap. Why? Thomas Edison used this technique to free his brain and access his superconscious mind for out-of-the-box ideas. He would sit in a comfy chair, clutching a handful of ball bearings, and go off to sleep thinking of whatever project he was working on. As he fell asleep, his hand would relax and the ballbearings would fall onto the floor with a clatter, waking him up. By doing this, he trained himself to be able to stay in that most creative alpha state between wakefulness and sleep. Many of his most brilliant ideas and insights came to him this way (source: http://www.wilywalnut.com/sleep_to_succeed.html)

For the fire gazing technique, watch this if you can't make a fire somewhere lol

JTreeZY wrote:what do you guys do when your like 75 percent done with a track and it kind of sounds good but you know it needs something but you dont know what?

i usually get stuck at this 75% marker too!

cheers.

when u get stuck it's time to bounce to wav and send to a friend

Comfi wrote:One of the comments:

Take a daily 20 minute power nap. Why? Thomas Edison used this technique to free his brain and access his superconscious mind for out-of-the-box ideas. He would sit in a comfy chair, clutching a handful of ball bearings, and go off to sleep thinking of whatever project he was working on. As he fell asleep, his hand would relax and the ballbearings would fall onto the floor with a clatter, waking him up. By doing this, he trained himself to be able to stay in that most creative alpha state between wakefulness and sleep. Many of his most brilliant ideas and insights came to him this way (source: http://www.wilywalnut.com/sleep_to_succeed.html)

So power naps gave him the energy he needed to steal all the inventions he's now known for...

Attila wrote:

Comfi wrote:One of the comments:

Take a daily 20 minute power nap. Why? Thomas Edison used this technique to free his brain and access his superconscious mind for out-of-the-box ideas. He would sit in a comfy chair, clutching a handful of ball bearings, and go off to sleep thinking of whatever project he was working on. As he fell asleep, his hand would relax and the ballbearings would fall onto the floor with a clatter, waking him up. By doing this, he trained himself to be able to stay in that most creative alpha state between wakefulness and sleep. Many of his most brilliant ideas and insights came to him this way (source: http://www.wilywalnut.com/sleep_to_succeed.html)

So power naps gave him the energy he needed to steal all the inventions he's now known for...

Ha yea. If I'm ever telling anyone else about this I'm gonna say it was Einstein lol

JTreeZY wrote:what do you guys do when your like 75 percent done with a track and it kind of sounds good but you know it needs something but you dont know what?

When you have a new idea for a tune, instead of making a new project, add the idea to that project.

Weird. This is the fifth thread today when I read about writer's block. Didn't really know that it was such a big problem for producers. Basically any sound you insert in a DAW can set you off on a new adventure. I think it's more to do with a person's psychology, rather than not having ideas.

My advice is to listen to music. Shitloads of the stuff.

Make sure it's not just dubstep either. I listen to mostly metal and play bass in a Progressive metalcore band (New Paradigm, check us out =P). I also listen to classical, symphonic and orchestral stuff (eg hanz zimmer's stuff), and a heap of house, trance, chillstep, complextro etc.

I highly suggest listening to metal/math/djent 'core' bands (eg Periphery, animals as leaders, protest the hero). I get more ideas of of this type of music than when listening to actual dubstep tracks.

For those of you getting stuck at the 75% mark, this is the point where you have to start messing around with structure, patterns, drumloops, variation in the drops, as well as the little things like one shots, pads, and anything to fill out the track. I suppose I play in a highly technicality-orientated band so that's something I'm used to.

But Maybe that's just me.