01-19-2016, 12:28 PM
(01-19-2016, 04:58 AM)helloworld Wrote: Wow I can really recognize myself in your two latest posts. Good self awareness and job on the thought pattern! Inspiring.
Thanks!
To show that I've stayed true to my word about making a track a week, here's my latest one from last week. This one is less video game, more regular music.
https://soundcloud.com/hconscious/memories
So far writing music has gotten a little easier, but I still get caught up in fear based thinking that blocks my progress. I'll expand on that a bit. There's music producers and there are listeners. The listeners just want to hear good music. Some producers evaluate you solely on your technical ability or complexity of your music. I hung around a lot of forums in the beginning of my journey for making music and the animosity towards "simple" tracks is overwhelming at times.
So where that leaves me. Well my instincts are kind of off when it comes to writing because I'm constantly feeling like I should be doing more. This leads to fear based decisions like trying to make a completely unique chord progression when a simple one would work much better or designing an overly complex sound. To give you a good idea of what that's like, you know when you used to take tests in school and you circled an answer first, then changed it, then got the test back and your first answer was correct? That's a bit like music at times. Great artists understand that intuition and follow it, but when you haven't honed that relationship with your intuition yet you'll probably doubt yourself every step of the way.
Anyway I notice this is pretty heavily correlated with my social anxiety problems. It's no different than going to a party and getting so caught up in your head about making a good impression you aren't yourself. Just another way my limiting beliefs tend to manifest themselves.