Hi there,
Ever since I heard the first 4 by 4 beat in my life I was already in love with EDM. And EDM comes with a lot of different genres. So later on I fell in love with Hard Dance Music (Hardstyle) and in 2009 I started experimenting with FL Studio and in 2013 I went full pro and bought gear such as, KRK's, Logic Pro X, a hardware synth Access Virus TI 2, a lot of plugins/effects, a microphone etc. I was obsessed and really motivated to work on my technique and I absolutely saw myself as a audio engineer. That was what I wanted to become. Career or no career as DJ/Producer there was always something to do with music. So I sacrificed a lot, I quit college and started working a 2 day job so that I could work on my music as my main 'quest' but now, after 5 years of being in my room so much, I feel terrible. I have not a lot of friends, no girlfriend, I don't make money with my music nor do I perform as a DJ. I'm only busy with my technique and when I'm with my friends they kinda support me but they say that I'm missing out on so much fun because I'm only busy with my career/music. I'm 23 right now and for the last couple of months I'm in a bad mood when it comes to my music. I exercise a lot and feel really good in my own body since I work out in the gym almost every day. I'm much more of a social person. Regardless, I have absolutely no motivation to finish a track. Even though I have worked on my kick technique (in Hardstyle it's one of the hardest things to create) for ages and finally have reached this technique by my own, but I feel drained. I live in the Netherlands and there's a school that I could attend to this year but I was too late.. My mother is telling me that I need to change something, that I need to pick up school again and keep my music as a hobby and maybe she is right. So what do I do?
Submitted April 04, 2018 at 05:28AM by JohnnyBlazex https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/89noj2/giving_up_on_music_production/?utm_source=ifttt