Hi
How do you get out of your head and into music?
How do you avoid getting stuck or trapped into thinking how things should be and actually commit to doing something (I get these ah-ah moments every time I do something, that the learning and the experience comes trough doing and not thinking about it, but it's somehow hard to consistently access that mindset/head space).
I've been this way for a couple of months or almost a year now and produced very little (at least didn't share enough music with anybody, which is something I've got to change; life's too short to keep our music hidden inside ourselves).
Maybe setting the bar/expectations way too high and wanting to get things nearly perfect every time fast or right out of the gate, was the culprit.
I was comparing myself to those big artists I admire and I forgot to remember that they have big teams and a lot more skill than most of us have behind them (so, they can achieve what we perhaps will struggle to achieve or won't be able to achieve at all on our own).
I'm trying to somehow lower the standards with what I'm expecting with songwriting and everything else related to music making (in songwriting now I'm trying to make things easier for me and I try not to write more than just 1 chord progression with just enough words/lyric sentences to fit that progression per songwriting session in order to make things easier on me until I get enough momentum to push beyond that).
Any books, suggestions, recommendations, anything at all really that might be helpful, is greatly appreciated.
Let me know what you think.
Share your thoughts.
Submitted October 09, 2022 at 09:21PM by ricardonevesmusic https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/y00m4e/how_do_you_get_out_of_your_head_and_into_music/?utm_source=ifttt