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*InVeRs3*
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New Ideas That Don't Work in Your Song....HELP!

When I'm making a song, this always happens to me and it's inevitable at this point. I get stuck, I don't know what to do. I just start brainstorming, adding random ideas that could work, maybe a quarter of them may work for my song I'm working on at best. Some of those ideas sound pretty good but they don't work for the current song. What do you do in this situation?


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DJ Ambin
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send us an example of your track your working on and we would be glad to help you. I get stuck too and it helps to ask others.

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*InVeRs3*
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Originally posted by DJ Ambin
send us an example of your track your working on and we would be glad to help you. I get stuck too and it helps to ask others.


I'd like to send a sample, problem is I just reformated my HD. I had about 3 or so good songs in there that got deleted .

I want to punch viruses in the face.


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DJ Ambin
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yes viruses are a bitch.

well my best guess is for you to listen to some other music outside of trance. I listen to Squarepusher alot and it helps clear my mind from all the trance stuff. then when I go into the studio, I can think clearly.

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djlogik
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Check out some classical pieces. I like to listen to classical music to get some melodic ideas into my head.


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Bedlam-UK
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what I do in these situations 'creativity blackouts' as I call them, is to stop working on the song and have good 20 minute coffee and cig break....listen to some of your favorite artists songs.

If you still can't get that creative flow going after the break then stop working on the song and come back to it a few days later. Usually the song will sound completely different after a few days and give you some new ideas.

I never work too long on a single song. I work on at least 2 or 3 songs during my creative periods. Many of them just end up as a Project number (I'm upto Project83 at the moment) and are just saved on my harddisk for the future.


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Infinit
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quote:
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what I do in these situations 'creativity blackouts' as I call them, is to stop working on the song and have good 20 minute coffee and cig break....listen to some of your favorite artists songs.

If you still can't get that creative flow going after the break then stop working on the song and come back to it a few days later. Usually the song will sound completely different after a few days and give you some new ideas.

I never work too long on a single song. I work on at least 2 or 3 songs during my creative periods. Many of them just end up as a Project number (I'm upto Project83 at the moment) and are just saved on my harddisk for the future.


exactly. it's getting annoying 'cause I got a load of those "possible" songs sitting on my hard drive. and I compltely forget about most of 'em. heh.

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jremking
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Yeah I do the same. Find tons of older stuff that is a song#. Then I go back months later and wish to rework them or take parts from them, and realize I got better at producing and no longer want anything to do with them.

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Meta
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Open up Logic, FLStudio or whatever you use and jot down the good ideas that don't work in the current song or write them down on a piece of paper. Go back to them some time and progress on them, happens to me quite a bit. I get an idea that wont work in the current track I'm working on so I just isolate them and go back to them later.


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