Jimm
Registered User
Joined: 17 Dec 2005
Location: Inwood, Manitoba, Canada
|
 Posted: Mon Jun 19 2006 21:17
Can't finish ANYTHING!!! |
 |
As a few of you know, I have a TERRIBLE time finishing a song. It's gotten so bad, lately, that I have trouble even starting songs, just because I know I won't finish them. This blows chunks. Anyone have any tips/tricks that can help me out? |
|
|
 Back to top |
|
 |
Inge
Man-At-Arms
Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland
|
Posted: Mon Jun 19 2006 21:22
|
|
Yes. Just keep on making stuff, stop focusing on finishing stuff, make music for the sake of making it, and save everything in some garbage folder. 1: they're fun to listen back once in a while, 2: they help you experiment and gain experience, 3: they might lead to nice ideas that you can use later on, and 4: some ideas might turn out to be fruitful and worthy to expand.
In my experiment (back in the days that I still made music), I always knew immediately which tracks would be worth turning into something finished. Nevertheless, that was approximately 1 out of 100 attempts. It's normal to start things that aren't good enough to inspire you to continue them. Don't worry: it's part of the job. |
Care for a game of Monopoly? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bigandymac
Registered User
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Leeds UK
|
Posted: Mon Jun 19 2006 23:13
|
|
heres one for you jimm. i have 700 unfinished tracks from the last 2 years, and countless others from before that. as inge said its all practice, every time you make a new track its experimenting and learning new tricks.
lately i was going through an unispired patch, couldnt make a tune to save my life, but had loads of great ideas for production. so i went back into my old experiments found a tune i liked from about 4 years ago and built on that. the track is getting released in a month or so in the US and europe. it just goes to show that every track you make has a purpose, whether it is teaching you something or waiting for you to turn it into a complete track.
anyway, enough pep talks, get back to work my young apprentice. 
cheers
andy |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Jimm
Registered User
Joined: 17 Dec 2005
Location: Inwood, Manitoba, Canada
|
Posted: Tue Jun 20 2006 00:01
|
|
Awesome, thanks guys!!!
That makes me feel a lot better about things. Thanks very much. |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
-M-o-V-A-J-
Registered User
Joined: 05 Feb 2004
Location: Madrid&Barcelona, Spain
|
Posted: Tue Jun 20 2006 09:59
Beverending songs |
|
I've posted new topic, for all "neverending MT2 files".
·LINK: http://www.madtracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2579
Maybe put some of your files there, I think it's a good form to give to others trackers "new ideas", and other trackers can help you with some MT2.
----
I think all trackers have un-finished works, MT2 files, or similar, ((ex: I only have 4 MT2 files finished made on this year, and maybe 40 un-finished!! [[without "only2pattersMT2"]] ))
----
And, appart from that, I think that we have to share all this un-finish work with other trackers.
----
Visitad http://Elektromusika.es.mw |
Visit http://www.electromusica.com
----
Making music since 1998
-M-o-V-A-J- |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Franklin van Uden
Registered User
Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Location: The Netherlands
|
Posted: Tue Jun 20 2006 12:38
|
|
Same here ...
Last time i really finished something was in December 2005
But i totaly agree with Andy and Inge on this one... don't force anything it will come by itself.. .just keep on tracking and having fun ...
cheers |
Music ... is endless ... Work in progress ...
Last edited by Franklin van Uden on Wed Jun 21 2006 12:19; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Ravana
Registered User
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: Oulu, Finland
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Franklin van Uden
Registered User
Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Location: The Netherlands
|
Posted: Tue Jun 20 2006 15:06
|
|
| Ravana wrote: | OR!
You can grab your lousy ideas, glue them together into a lousy deformed mass of sound and call that experimental and call people old-fashioned if they don't get it. |
 |
Music ... is endless ... Work in progress ...
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
oldbrian
Registered User
Joined: 18 Aug 2004
Location: hungary
|
Posted: Wed Jun 21 2006 14:07
|
|
when i started out i usually got pissed of the amount of unfinished songs so i had to delete them in order to regain my enthusiasism for making some music - prolly this can work for you too  nowadays, however, i just let them reside in the garbage folder.
just do what you feel right and everything's gonna be right =) |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Nine
Regular
Joined: 11 Nov 2005
|
Posted: Thu Jun 22 2006 12:18
|
|
I usually have a break for a couple of days, weeks sometimes even months. In between I make experimental songs, and I think I have made over 300 crap files in the 2 years I've been tracking.
Just start a new song, there's always some element in it you like. |
http://www.myspace.com/louiscoerl |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Franklin van Uden
Registered User
Joined: 26 Apr 2005
Location: The Netherlands
|
Posted: Thu Jun 22 2006 13:20
|
|
In addition...
I got a great tip from Any the other day: Just put all the ideas and stuff into one MT file, and when feeling inspirated just choose a bit and start from there, in that way u can choose the moment of arranging without thinking of new stuff. And u don't have to bin alot of files 2
Anyways i thought it was a great tip ! |
Music ... is endless ... Work in progress ...
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Log in
Profile
FAQ
