so, i'm 19 years old, been producing since around mid-2012. i'm currently planning on going to a trade school to pursue a career so i can make a decent living to get my own place and purchase new equipment and what not. not really important, but a bit of bg. when i started out making music it was amazing. i had all of these new tools at my disposal and they were all so new to me. i'd never produced before, but i'd always loved music. (played piano since i was 6) starting out, ideas would always come to me, i would take little clips i made and easily branch them out into full songs. i was deep into the edm culture and i knew what kind of music i wanted to make. i had no plans on turning it into anything more than a hobby, and it was fun as fuck. i would put out 1-2 songs every week on soundclcoud, talked and collaborated with new artists, and had a decent following as well. then as the years went by it started to change. i had more work to do, went to tech, had a girlfriend, got a job, and generally didn't have the most time for producing. more and more often i would made the same little clips i'd been making, but to no luck, i never finished any of the songs. i started to become disinterested with the edm scene and didn't follow the artists as much as i had. i deleted my entire soundcloud, started fresh, and started experimenting with new genres and ideas that i'd wanted to in the past. and now we arrive at the present day. i don't know what to do man. i have a decent setup now. a good computer, desk, couple of midi controllers, studio monitors, acoustic panels, the works. only problem is, i have no ideas. i barely have time to produce and when i do i just tend to get frustrated. i have folders full of maybe around 200 unfinished projects. i can never figure out what direction to take a project, and when i think i have something going i always end up trashing it last minute. i ask people for opinions on it and they always point out the ones they like, but it seems like regardless, i'm always my worst critic. i didn't mean to make this so long, but seeing as i don't really know anyone here who produces, i kind of have nowhere to talk about this hahaha. i guess what i mean is, don't get me wrong, i love edm, i love producing, i love music in general, but i just don't know what to do with my songs anymore. how can i get back into that drive i had when i started? how do you turn clips into entire songs? i keep trying, but i always seem to hit a wall in the end. sorry if this seemed like it was all over the place (which it was) i don't really know what i'm trying to say. i just kind of needed to vent about this. maybe this isn't the right place to ask, but it's nice getting advice from other producers.
tl;dr been producing since 2012 and i've hit a wall. how do i bring myself to make full songs?
Submitted January 26, 2017 at 04:54AM by ouhwel https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5q92he/creative_hault_help/?utm_source=ifttt
Javier Rodriguez
Thursday, January 26, 2017