I was just cleaning up my storage and figured that I have a massive amount of unfinished songs/loops, more than 2500 I guess it’s fair to say that I struggle to finish songs, I really need to fix this as there’s quite a few that deserve some sugar. Truth is I always get like a mental block at the arranger and automation, for me these things are a bit cumbersome to be honest to a degree where I just go njahh…
I’ll throw up some tunes open for collab at some point and I’ll be looking for people who enjoy arranging and automating haha…
Do you have many unfinished songs and if so why do you think that is?
I have maybe 6 unfinished songs since 2004.
The problem is: When you sit down to make a song, your goal is to Discover your own metal variants of melodies and musical phrases …etc= it is an improvisation. You do not focus on finishing a song, i think. You are having fun while doing the process, not by getting a results. I dunno, does that bother you at all ? maybe these songs have such a destiny .Means, they are not advanced enough to be finished or the idea is too young to be released . Sometimes you need to finish a full song in your brain, then start doing it on your pc.
A lot of people asking me to do a video tutorial about these issue: How to finish a song from zero, because i have a very huge amount of tracks as a single composer\producer [more than 1000 tracks or something like that] I think its all about your plan. When improvising on PC = there is no plan.
In another words, it all depends on your goals, not on the techniques.
In our days Musicians buy everything for their own music: fancy vsts/ analog processors/ fancy monitors / expensive audio cards …etc. The question is : do these things make your music better??
I’m not talking about form, I’m talking about the content part.
I know that in order to obtain high-quality sound, it is necessary to have certain techniques and sound cards … But, if the basic idea does not meet the requirements of our days, then these techniques will only come in as decorators, no more.
All audio companies in the world have done everything to turn musicians into consumers. They began to persuade that these techniques are in a trend, and you, as a musician, MUST have certain audio cards and speakers … etc
I’ve been writing my music on a laptop with headphones since 2004. I do not think that musicians need certain techniques in order to complete their works and songs.we dont need all these fxs and useless vsts’.We need a plan of action, not more.
I mean, look, for example at Deadmau5 … I have no words in his case. Well, why the hell should he sit in this nuclear power plant and show off, if such tracks can be achieved using only a daw as Renoise! Without any modules and even without the using any vst plug-ins …I can even prove it and remake any track you chose from deadmaus’s discography using Only Renoise …He is doing a PR for hundreds of firms out there …
Just follow your heart and let your brain do the plan part. There will be less unfinished songs