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Viscra
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...well, you might've noticed that my thread date and join date doesn't align with each other. there's a reason for that: i made this account back then and never posted on here because i couldn't make up the courage to actually make a thread there, or even know what it is i wanted to say here. now i do, and i hope it was the right choice of doing so.
to start off, i started listening to music just 3 years ago. there's a story behind that, but it's irrelevant right now. the important thing is that it was what happened back then that spurred me to want to create my own music on my computer.
the actual production stuff didn't happen though until over 2 years later, because i didn't know where to start. since a bit over a year ago, i've been on-and-off producing music via FL Studio after i learned to use Reason in school. bit messy timeline, but hopefully it makes sense.
here's the killer, though. i spent most of 2013 to improve my song-writing skills, and with that i used General MIDI. i felt i had a good thing going for the most part, and i rolled with it to improve with my music. since a couple months ago, though, i've been kind of down in the dumps, there are many factors to that, but a huge one is that i decided to switch my attention to focus on producing music with actual samples, VST plugins and all that, the stuff i started out with at the beginning, but did less of when i produced a lot of MIDI files. i wasn't exactly unfamiliar with how it worked, but it's still a hell of a step up from working with 128 fixed instruments and a simple drumtrack.
and that's the reason i've finally decided to post this on a music forum, not ranting about it elsewhere, or to my friends, but at a place where hopefully like-minded individuals have gone through. see, i've got these ideas for songs in genres i want to make (anything from house, dnb, breakcore, ambient, etc.), but not at the level of experience where i could, realistically, fulfill these ideas. and i know, that being good at this automatically is impossible, it takes time to practice and learn those skills through trial and error and whatnot. but i've kind of held myself back from actually doing it, because i don't know where i could turn to, what i could do to leap in and improve on that; for the record, i did produce a number of okay-sounding electronic tunes recently that weren't General MIDI, but i feel that i'm not... i dunno, approaching this the right way?
if i may ask some general questions about my fears of this: have any of you felt the same thing, regardless of your level of skill at this? are you still feeling this way, and if so, what do you do to fight against it? what can i do about this to prevent me from holding myself back, and to approach this with a better attitude?
i know this might seem a bit long-winded, and it might have some writing faults in it, but my browser accidentally signed me out when i was trying to post this. anyway, i really just want to get some response from other, hopefully like-minded people, that knows what i'm talking about, or at least can send me in the right direction. i know, these problems don't get solved over a night, but at least, by posting it on here, i'll be a step closer to see a fix to this issue.
to start off, i started listening to music just 3 years ago. there's a story behind that, but it's irrelevant right now. the important thing is that it was what happened back then that spurred me to want to create my own music on my computer.
the actual production stuff didn't happen though until over 2 years later, because i didn't know where to start. since a bit over a year ago, i've been on-and-off producing music via FL Studio after i learned to use Reason in school. bit messy timeline, but hopefully it makes sense.
here's the killer, though. i spent most of 2013 to improve my song-writing skills, and with that i used General MIDI. i felt i had a good thing going for the most part, and i rolled with it to improve with my music. since a couple months ago, though, i've been kind of down in the dumps, there are many factors to that, but a huge one is that i decided to switch my attention to focus on producing music with actual samples, VST plugins and all that, the stuff i started out with at the beginning, but did less of when i produced a lot of MIDI files. i wasn't exactly unfamiliar with how it worked, but it's still a hell of a step up from working with 128 fixed instruments and a simple drumtrack.
and that's the reason i've finally decided to post this on a music forum, not ranting about it elsewhere, or to my friends, but at a place where hopefully like-minded individuals have gone through. see, i've got these ideas for songs in genres i want to make (anything from house, dnb, breakcore, ambient, etc.), but not at the level of experience where i could, realistically, fulfill these ideas. and i know, that being good at this automatically is impossible, it takes time to practice and learn those skills through trial and error and whatnot. but i've kind of held myself back from actually doing it, because i don't know where i could turn to, what i could do to leap in and improve on that; for the record, i did produce a number of okay-sounding electronic tunes recently that weren't General MIDI, but i feel that i'm not... i dunno, approaching this the right way?
if i may ask some general questions about my fears of this: have any of you felt the same thing, regardless of your level of skill at this? are you still feeling this way, and if so, what do you do to fight against it? what can i do about this to prevent me from holding myself back, and to approach this with a better attitude?
i know this might seem a bit long-winded, and it might have some writing faults in it, but my browser accidentally signed me out when i was trying to post this. anyway, i really just want to get some response from other, hopefully like-minded people, that knows what i'm talking about, or at least can send me in the right direction. i know, these problems don't get solved over a night, but at least, by posting it on here, i'll be a step closer to see a fix to this issue.
