Are you destined to become a failed wannabe music producer?

[Ceri JC]

Originally Posted by annikk.exe

Infinity+1, if I were you I would set myself a challenge to write a song with only 3 different synth patches, a kick, snare, and hat, and actually focus on paying zero attention to the production quality, and complete the entire song in less than an hour. Just GET IT DOWN, get it out there.
If you keep doing this, sooner or later you'll hit upon a song that you feel like developing a bit more.
I also think you sound like you could use a holiday :>


-Annikk

I agree, I find this very useful when stuck in a rut of not actually finishing tracks. Take an 8 bar loop you've done, create another 2/3 variations on it then force yourself to record "live takes" of a track (recorded in realtime) with you selecting patterns, playing along, changing fx etc. Bounce it to .wav and save it. Eventually you'll stumble on something you like/that works well and then you can go back and polish it. Sometimes I don't even realise which tracks are the best/worth working on further until a few days after they're done and I'm listening to them on my mp3 player.