I'm working on a new prog house 7 track album at the moment and I just can't find any inspiration. The lack of it is making things unmotivating.

Can anybody shed some light on the matter and help me find some?

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Go get some tracks from Beatport. I just bought like 70 tracks, more than half Progressive House. There is tons of good stuff out there.

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Originally posted by Kage_ I'm working on a new prog house 7 track album at the moment and I just can't find any inspiration. The lack of it is making things unmotivating. Can anybody shed some light on the matter and help me find some?

If you're having a problem with motivation its usually because you have no clear cut goals to go after or your goals are to broad and undefined.

Instead of focusing on making a new 7 tracks album focus on a 1 track album.
Then focus on the track.
Then focus on what you want to do differently with that track.
Then outline how you're gonna do it.

The more specific you make a goal usually the more resources (in your head and outside your head) you will find.
Kind like a vacation spot.
You can tell yourself "I wanna go on vacation to a foreign country" and not be inspired because it means nothing.

If you tell yourself "I want to go to Aruba, and go parasailing" then you'll naturally start feeling more motivated. So I think the real issue a lot of times can be not having a clear map of what you want to do and where you want to end up.

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Originally posted by Kage_ I'm working on a new prog house 7 track album at the moment and I just can't find any inspiration. The lack of it is making things unmotivating. Can anybody shed some light on the matter and help me find some?

Just make music without thinking about what you are going to make, make some drums, import some synths and sounds.
Then let the sounds you use decide what music you are going to make rather than going in with an too clear picture of what you want to make.
In other words let the sounds tell you how the music is going to progress, then you could maybe find out that a 7 track prog house album isnt really what you want to make.

I want to make a psy trance album, but it just doesnt happen so id rather make some prog trance like stuff instead because that actually works out

So one day when you are messing with sounds you might get the right timing and inspiration to do a prog house choon, but until then.. put your mind into a blank page.

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Thanks for the wise words, guys.

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What ever you do...never make music on adderall. You will become fixated on one thing and fuck with it for 8 hours and at the end of the night you will be right back where you started.

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Originally posted by Bayou Boy What ever you do...never make music on adderall. You will become fixated on one thing and fuck with it for 8 hours and at the end of the night you will be right back where you started.

I tend to do that without adderall, at times.

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Originally posted by Kage_ I tend to do that without adderall, at times.

One thing I have learned lately is do not be afraid to ditch a part if it is not working. I have written some great parts, that for one reason or another, just did not fit within the context of the track. Instead of spending hours trying to get either the part to fit or the rest of the track to fit around the part, I'll usually just ditch it and start on a new part. It helps alot with your completion percentage.

haha...yeah I hear ya. I get into the same rut sometimes. It's weird...all it takes is getting a few things clicking, and then you are off to the races. At least thats how it usually works for me. I'll bang on something for a few weeks and then...bam...it all start to come together.

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Originally posted by Eric J One thing I have learned lately is do not be afraid to ditch a part if it is not working. I have written some great parts, that for one reason or another, just did not fit within the context of the track. Instead of spending hours trying to get either the part to fit or the rest of the track to fit around the part, I'll usually just ditch it and start on a new part. It helps alot with your completion percentage.

This is an absolutely essential thing to so, if you keep a no good part for too long it becomes so much a part of the track that you come to the point of no return.
One should be careful on settling with stuff that sounds "okey" and if you do, you better have something else that sounds awesome or great to compensate.

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Inspiration is a fancy title given to hard work after the sweat dries up.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Inspiration is a fancy title given to hard work after the sweat dries up.

I have no idea what you mean by that, but it sure sounded funny.

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