Hello! I would like to know if there are things that can promote motivation to continue producing music.
Depends. In my case, with the Hobby cycle, it's just short bursts of music making between long periods of doing something else.
At the moment, it feels very challenging, and I feel like I'm making little progress.
Try copying other artists.
Chordify can really help getting the chords down, and from there the melody comes in almost naturally. One
piece i wrote started out by copying the piano chords from Sevdaliza's Shamaran, and then the other parts fell in naturally. The result? I value well-thought chord progressions and strings more.
Also, try getting some feedback from the people around you or online (which has not worked for me yet on this forum) so i'm just about to pursue different venues.
I still can't manage to produce the "perfect" track.
That's actually good. When you hear tracks as "imperfect", you can then figure out what makes them imperfect. Is it the repeating dissonance on bar 3 of the string melody? Is it the skip-skop vocals undermining the point of the piece? Is it the distortion caused by pushing an instrument to its limits? Fix these issues in your music, and try listening again... and again... and again until you get the track sounding mostly-ok and you can maybe release it.
I also enjoy it a lot, but hardly anyone listens to the tracks I've created.
Normally i solve this by taking a big swig of copium and saying i only make music for a hobby and i don't want to be famous and maybe it's ok i'm not popular because then i don't get involved in celebrity drama or get insulted by Azeila Banks yeah i only make music for a hobby it dosen't really matter nobody else listens
Look at other artists. It takes years to build up a fanbase and to do all these things. Maybe, if you valued being famous over having creative freedom and money, you could sign up with a record label.
Maybe try using a music distributor. They can send your music onto multiple platforms and then that allows you to connect with more fans. What's the point of uploading on soundcloud if all your potential fans are on Spotify? What's the point of uploading on Spotify if Deezer holds no artists remotely like you so you'll be unique? A music distributor will just indiscrimantely push to all these platforms, but i have no experience with them so take this entire paragraph with a pot of salt.