Droppoutt
New member
Yo.
When I first started making music (years ago) it was a lot of fun. I had no idea what I was doing but I really enjoyed doing it.
Now every time I try to make something I just get frustrated because it never sounds like my favorite artists. I feel like I keep trying to copy them even knowing I should be trying to acquire my own sound and stop comparing myself to everyone else. I'll work on my music and maybe take a break and listen to some of my favorite albums and I'm just sitting there like "wow, my track is 100% dog shit." It's just no fun anymore because I keep trying to get the exact synths from Kanye's Graduation, or the exact mix that 9th Wonder used on a certain beat, or getting my kick and bass to knock like one of Dipset's tracks by Just Blaze...
Then I'll watch videos of people making beats and I'll see how complex their projects look. They'll have like 60 patterns a bunch of automation a shit load of sounds all kinds of effects.... How do they figure all that out? At what point do they add that much? When I make a beat it consists of pretty much nothing compared to that. Something to hold my drums something for my sample, maybe something for bass and that's about it. Then with patterns I only have a few. I just can't figure out why these people have so much in one project and I can't figure out how they start making a track and end up with that much...
When I first started making music (years ago) it was a lot of fun. I had no idea what I was doing but I really enjoyed doing it.
Now every time I try to make something I just get frustrated because it never sounds like my favorite artists. I feel like I keep trying to copy them even knowing I should be trying to acquire my own sound and stop comparing myself to everyone else. I'll work on my music and maybe take a break and listen to some of my favorite albums and I'm just sitting there like "wow, my track is 100% dog shit." It's just no fun anymore because I keep trying to get the exact synths from Kanye's Graduation, or the exact mix that 9th Wonder used on a certain beat, or getting my kick and bass to knock like one of Dipset's tracks by Just Blaze...
Then I'll watch videos of people making beats and I'll see how complex their projects look. They'll have like 60 patterns a bunch of automation a shit load of sounds all kinds of effects.... How do they figure all that out? At what point do they add that much? When I make a beat it consists of pretty much nothing compared to that. Something to hold my drums something for my sample, maybe something for bass and that's about it. Then with patterns I only have a few. I just can't figure out why these people have so much in one project and I can't figure out how they start making a track and end up with that much...
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