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I make 5 bad tracks for every one decent track - so I must be cr@p?
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| Richard Butler |
Does anyone else find they make loads of total cr@p tracks and the odd decent one?
My latest I posted in the promotion section is dire - but I only realised this once I'd finnished it and stop working in it.
Surely a good producer makes mainly decent tracks and the odd lemon? |
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| Mad for Brad |
| same sort of applies to your posting. You could A be more selective but take more time or B, keep doing what you are doing and use the good stuff. If you manage to move your bassline to good, even the tracks you make that suck will be considered good to most. That is the ideal goal in my opinion. It is good you aren't satisfied with some tracks as that shows you are learning. |
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| Subtle |
| Depends on what u mean by making 5 bad tracks, 1 of 4 tracks i start end up as a finished production, the rest will just be scrapped ideas, OR something i can work on later, i have found myself finishing up to 4 year old projects. |
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| Richard Butler |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mad for Brad
same sort of applies to your posting. |
No way, I thought I was perfect:stongue: |
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| nortek |
| ive made one good track of all my 50. thats crap imo. 2% success lol. |
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| Kysora |
I used to have that, absolutely hated it. After a while I just became more selective with the tracks I decided to work with. Honestly I think it's a much better way to work.
I might only finish one track every month or so but since I made Cloud Running sometime last year I've only made 1 or 2 tracks I'm not completely proud of. |
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| Rodri Santos |
| i'm still unsure if i've made a real good track |
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| Aurana |
I would have to say as time goes on, in my ratio between Quality/Crap tracks, my ability to produce quality tracks increases. I usually can recognize when something isn't going to move any further then loops pretty quickly because I lose interest in it and move on to something new. It just takes a lot of patience and a lot of drive to improve. I never work on music when I am not feeling inspired. I have found when I go back into the studio to work on a track when I am not completely focused on music, I wind up ruining the whole idea of the track completely. I'm sure everyone has tracks they started on that turn out to be duds. But those tracks some times have some quality ideas in them that can be used in a future track, so I always keep those duds around.
I look at it this way, even if you produce 5 tracks and only 1 comes out the way you want it to, in most cases, you probably still winded up learning something from those other tracks that you can use in a new one. So there's always a benefit from making any track, crap or not. |
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| TaylorR |
| even pros have a ratio of good to bad ideas. |
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| alanzo |
| I've had some pretty damn big names play my tracks at huge events... and I'll still tell you that everything I make is crap. :p |
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| TaylorR |
| quote: | Originally posted by alanzo
and I'll still tell you that everything I make is crap. :p |
oh shutup, you. lol! |
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| alanzo |
| quote: | Originally posted by TaylorR
oh shutup, you. lol! |
:cool: Point being, you're your own worst critic. Or at least I know that I am my own worst critic. To your ears, everyone else's tracks will always sound better than your own (within reason, of course). |
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