So, I've been producing for 4 years...
...on and off for several months at a time...
...if you can call messing around with Abletons samples, dropping WIPs on my Soundcloud, and discontinuing the track after a week "production"...
...but I still have a fiery passion for electronic music and I want to produce stuff of my own. Every time I stop producing and come back, that fire burns stronger.
Right now I feel like my mind is in the right place. You don't try and become the next Martin Garrix overnight, you experiment and play with everything at your disposal and create happy accidents.
I don't have thousands of dollars worth of sample packs and plugins, I just have a few free sample packs, a copy of Ableton, and Massive. I'm under the impression that you can produce good music with just those tools, correct me if I'm wrong.
My issue is that I'm a perfectionist, I always try to strive to be better, which is great, but when I'm in the middle of producing a track I think to myself that the track will never be good enough because I don't have the necessary skills or tools, and I keep trashing my tracks as a result.
So, the reason I made this thread. I understand that being a perfectionist is an issue, but what I don't get is how you grow as a producer. If you're always experimenting and messing around with the same old samples, how do you know when you're improving? Isn't it better to have some critical thinking while you're working so you know what you're doing wrong?
I feel like this is the final hurdle I need to jump before I can finally work on my dream as an EDM producer without any fears in the back of my mind. So please help if you can.
Submitted March 28, 2017 at 06:37AM by MakorenWasTaken https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/61yd0r/critical_thinking_and_edm_production/?utm_source=ifttt