My music isnt that good. But i usually find a big night out in the city listening to some good djs really helps me come back. Especially when i saw Rank 1, Alphazone and even the prodigy. You hear djs pumping out good tracks and you sort of remember why u started writing music and what originally got u excited about the sorta music your into. I am easily influenced by good djs and go through stages from trance to breakbeat to hard trance to a bit of prog and back to trance. But i guess its different for everyone.

The biggest trouble that I have with making tracks is figuring out where they should go next. I can normally bang out a melody, bassline, chord progression, etc. without much work, but once I've gotten those down, and put together some fitting synths, I tend to blank on how to begin the track. Once I've started, though, I keep on hitting impasses as to which element I should introduce next or how I should introduce said element. I'll often find myself sitting on these problems for weeks before I ever make any progress on a track. Getting away from the track definitely helps. So does listening to the work of others.

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Originally posted by thoughtlessjex The biggest trouble that I have with making tracks is figuring out where they should go next. I can normally bang out a melody, bassline, chord progression, etc. without much work, but once I've gotten those down, and put together some fitting synths, I tend to blank on how to begin the track. Once I've started, though, I keep on hitting impasses as to which element I should introduce next or how I should introduce said element. I'll often find myself sitting on these problems for weeks before I ever make any progress on a track. Getting away from the track definitely helps. So does listening to the work of others.

haha, today I happened to be teaching my friend music theory, and I drew this very serious and articulate map out for him. And now, I will share it with you.



There we go, problem solved!

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That's all well and good for a general outline, but I'm talking the finer details. I.e. do I bring in the pad next, or the lead? If I bring the pad, do I fade it in with volume or a filter, or do I put in a really neat fill and have the pad burst in immediately afterward? Believe it or not, that stuff eats me up a lot.

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hey mates,

I think your advices helped me to go over it I spent a day out on bicycle with a friend, we rode over 40 km hehe, when I came back my body was pretty tired, but my mind was in the state "I should lay down some ideas"

Also today in the morning I experimented with the ideas I layed down yesterday and hey HERE IT IS it's only about a 20 secs sample, with a melody a bass and pads...but I think it sounds good, still lots of work on it, but I hope now I'll be able to get this finished

THANKS TO YOU ALL FOR KIND REACTIONS

and feel free to send more...we should all know how to cope with these blocks...

btw...I think drugs don't solve much...

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Originally posted by thoughtlessjex That's all well and good for a general outline, but I'm talking the finer details. I.e. do I bring in the pad next, or the lead? If I bring the pad, do I fade it in with volume or a filter, or do I put in a really neat fill and have the pad burst in immediately afterward? Believe it or not, that stuff eats me up a lot.

There is no guideline for this, you figure this out while changing things on your track and determing what sounds better, and than changing again, and again, and again, till you think: "yes it should be this way"

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Originally posted by BOOsTER Also today in the morning I experimented with the ideas I layed down yesterday and hey HERE IT IS it's only about a 20 secs sample, with a melody a bass and pads...but I think it sounds good, still lots of work on it, but I hope now I'll be able to get this finished

Yeah i like it very much, great melodic sequence... Only the melody needs a little tweaking