12-02-2015, 03:34 PM
(12-01-2015, 01:15 PM)dissonance Wrote: Your 4th paragraph is very accurate. No one gets big by copying or emulating. Of course you will have influences and certain sounds/rhythms/instruments influenced from different artists or styles, but the main difference is what intention and purpose you chose to have that in your own track. I used to think to myself a lot, "ok how do i make this part here attractive to the mainstream or public; what sound would be best here, how would people react best to this section right here", but nah, what you really gotta do is just do exactly how you hear it would want to hear it. One thing that's obviously important is to build your "taste" by listening a lot, and not just to one genre, but other genres of electronic music and music in general as well (if you want to be innovative).
Oliver Heldens talks about something similar in his situation in this video here. https://www.facebook.com/OliverHeldens/v...nref=story
I totally get what you're saying too about afraid of making stuff people don't like. We have good taste, otherwise we wouldn't be into making music. Make the music that your heart sings and you'll succeed.
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Yeah I've been trying to listen to more music outside of my genre. Actually was listening to some Jimi Hendrix the other day and it gave me some ideas for a track. It's cool how you can pull different ideas from different genres.
Thanks for the video. It's always nice seeing the thought process behind some of the really good producers.
True. I love music. I just have to let more of myself into my own music and stop being afraid.
I was listening to EHPRA all day today because I feel like sometimes daytime listening allows me to catch when I'm resisting or avoiding things. And I realized there's a lot in my past as a child that I haven't resolved. I kind of just swept it all under the rug and said well I'm an adult now and the past is the past so it can't affect me. But I've been getting flashbacks to my childhood. I realized that despite no major trauma in my life, there was a lot of hardship I faced. A lot of fear and feeling isolated, and feeling different from a lot of other kids. Just a never ending stream of that constant anxiety that I feel to this day. I was terrified of speaking out in class, but was essentially bullied into doing it by teachers in the hopes they could mold me into something I wasn't.
I don't know how far back it goes, but it amazes me at such a young age I was experiencing these terrible feelings. And now just acknowledging that I did face some amount of hardship instead of brushing it off as a normal childhood is bringing up a lot of emotion that I haven't dealt with before with this sub. In a way I've been avoiding this for a long time. And I still have to fight the urge to bury it again and ignore it.
