[FunkMasterBrown]

Originally Posted by Nhordmyr

"fag break" what a fitting term.

what? i dont get it

Originally Posted by Nhordmyr

smoke, like "smoke.." ? no I do not. my psychodelics are landlife, low stress and a mix of meditation

no smoke as in a fag break... ciggarettes when i smoke weed i end up staring blankly at the screen most times or spending ages just tweaking a sound while it plays over and over and just enjoying simple shit like slowly opening and closing a filter lol

[knarf909]

Originally Posted by Divercity

How the fuck do you guys survive without a job?

Is the welfare that good? Damn im in the wrong country

i don't drive, top ramen is cheap, theres no rent in my sisters garage. idk, i worked in alaksa at a fish factory, didn't like it i preferrer making money once a year when i harvest my buds! ;]


lol, although having a job would be o.p! but I'm bipolar so i flip out when i'm applying for a job lol

[Jhon Vhon Skream]

Originally Posted by Nhordmyr

"fag break" what a fitting term.

smoke, like "smoke.." ? no I do not. my psychodelics are landlife, low stress and a mix of meditation

but all you said was exactly the same procedure we did once I worked in my former media company as a grafic-designer. if you struggle in a creative process it is CRUCIAL to back away often.

I think we are getting closer and closer.

I have found from personal experience that psychodelics can enhance the productive process, however there are drawbacks at times when your head is clear and you listen to a composition that you have made while tripping, it sounds completely different. Now that can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how content you are with said project. Chaos is constant in most productions so you can use some elements if not most to build onto it. It is rather intresting to me the stuff you can come up with in these states of mind.

[rewriter]

Originally Posted by Delinquent Dialect

As a producer, if I ever get bored with a track while working on it. I class it as not good enough and stop straight away and move on to something new.

I think that's kinda harsh, I've had very good results going back on a track months later after I hit a roadblock, only to really find that missing part when I give it another go

It can be very hard to step away from the computer sometimes, but it's very important to do something else every so often, especially for me because I've found I just tend to listen to the track over and over again without getting anything substantial done

Though for those times when you find yourself on a roll I advise you to keep going because it can be extremely satisfying to knock out most of a track in one sitting

[nickgarcia]

Variation. When you're repeating stuff, go in and make each measure just a little different than the one before. Move a drum hit, a bass note, something. Also think about it from a compositional standpoint. You have your antecedent phrase and your consequent phrase. If a musical statement is made, it should have a response. Keeping music from getting too monotonous is all about well-crafted phrases that capture the ear of the listener.

[rewriter]

Yes, but repetition has a place in some compositions. Other things you can try to do is to slightly adjust velocity on notes or drum hits, it's a great way to add some human subtlety to a composition, or tweak/automate effects, which is a good way to transition to another part

[radiowaves]

Originally Posted by Blingley

Make stuff more complicated. Your brain only remembers so much. :p

Why people always think complicity equals creativity and being interesting?

Music has to tell something, not just be there. For you, it must bear some reason, then you can enjoy it. Otherwise they are just sounds you made. Might as well squeak a stool.

Also, this thread is confusing: Is this about music being boring, or just too repetitive? Repetitiveness is not always boring.

OP:

If you just fiddle around with no ideas, then maybe music is not for you? Maybe you should look into musical engineering instead? Sound engineering? Or even teaching?

Now having too many ideas is quite a different problem of its own...




You people speak of music like its some robotic formula. Its sad. "When stuff gets repetetive, make some complex variations". Maybe instead of that, you better figure out what do you actually want to achieve with your music and have an actual idea.

[SPRAI]

i could listen to some famous loops for hours, but mines become boring after a little while, so. the problem is what you make and how, and not the repetitiveness. so, how is it possible to make an "infinite loop" not boring? i mean, daft punk=plenty of loops which are not boring.

[rewriter]

Originally Posted by SPRAI

ibut mines become boring after a little while

Mines is not a word; unless you are referring to landmines or Moria.

[Owen De-Vice]

Originally Posted by Nhordmyr

Do you have any methods to overcome this situation? Maybe you trick your brain not to memorize the different patterns of a Track and keeps listening to it interesting?

count backwards only using prime numbers as you listen

[rewriter]

Base your music on the Fibonacci Sequence and that should keep it interesting

[Owen De-Vice]

hit random notes randomly throughout the track

[rewriter]

Originally Posted by Owen De-Vice

random notes randomly

Dude, that's so avant garde
This must be Radiohead's secret!

[SPRAI]

Originally Posted by rewriter

Mines is not a word; unless you are referring to landmines or Moria.

Lol my english sucks that much??

[Owen De-Vice]

Originally Posted by rewriter

Dude, that's so avant garde
This must be Radiohead's secret!

haha so true

[Owen De-Vice]

Originally Posted by rewriter

Mines is not a word; unless you are referring to landmines or Moria.

this cracked me up aha

[Delinquent Dialect]

dont make minimal

[DJ Saint-Hubert]

yeah I dunno I make some pretty minimal tracks and I would say learn to follow the trend of the song if that makes any sense? I think of it very much like certain patterns/sounds only have so much momentum and you have to change direction so often. I also like sounds that sound all liquid-like, rippling etc. I'm pretty dead-set on deciding like the drum sounds first and then making rhythms with those specific drum sounds, I can't imagine doing it in MIDI first or something. Either liquid or locking into place, or I dunno I have synesthesia so certain bits of the sound 'look' like some abstract scene change, and the more changes the more intense the music. I try to make relaxing tracks sort of drift through the same scene

[ethertrogg]

1 technique I use to prevent semen repetition especially in things like short lead lines or stabs is to use some type of subtlesubtle lfo on various perimeters to give it some small amount of human is a shanot were several changes they can help keep things interesting.
to the OP: regarding the question you asked about a chair I think it's definitely important to take her can I mix into consideration, as a producer with Marfans syndrome, I have to take extra care to avoid pain problems. there's been many times where I'm just itching to launch out of my feet because I am suffering from some type of pain which ends up making me rush at parts of a project. taking a quick break or stretching and sometimes help alleviate this , but having a comfortable chair and workstation that fits your height an arm visition is very very important. when I bought my new studio desk iroc realized after the fact that it's a bit too high, which has caused some problems. it sucks living in the iowa usa because there are not places where you can trial a lots of studio equipment around my area.
a prescription for Tramodol may help if your dealing with issues in pain as it is a non narcotic pain reliever and doesn't seem to cause some of the spaciness that other pain relievers give. when I'm working in the studio I also wraps both of my arms with support bandages or ace wraps to give me more support and protect my joints and ligaments. I'd continue to produce even if I lost the use of my arms I would be pressing buttons and keys with a pencil in my mouth if it came down to it haha, ambition can definitely overcome anything if you want it bad enough

[Bikslow]

Work outside of your comfort zone! If you usually produce progressive do some electro or even jazz!