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Old 01-26-2012, 01:46 PM   #1
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Default musicians - ever feel like giving up?

i feel like i've hit a wall and the challenges are taking up more of my time than, overall, i would like it to. i feel like i'm neglecting mastering other, more useful, skills especially those that could benefit my professional life.

 
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Old 01-26-2012, 01:50 PM   #2
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sometimes i feel overwhelmed by all this gear and i don't know what i'm doing or why i'm doing it

 
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Old 01-26-2012, 07:59 PM   #3
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fuck that, just play. don't think about it. feel it. if you aren't ultimately doing it for your personal enjoyment who cares anyway

 
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Old 01-26-2012, 08:26 PM   #4
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Play with different people

Try a whole new style

Write some songs on acoustic guitar or piano

 
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Old 01-26-2012, 08:48 PM   #5
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the world is too ambivalent for most art to matter

you have a better chance of making a splash with a dumb fucking twitter post than years of songwriting

 
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Old 01-26-2012, 09:14 PM   #6
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no you don't

 
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Old 01-26-2012, 11:15 PM   #7
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how's the guitar training coming trots

 
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Old 01-26-2012, 11:25 PM   #8
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no you don't
You kinda do though

 
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Old 01-27-2012, 12:35 AM   #9
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nope. keep pressin' on.

but then again i get paid to teach music so it is my job.. and ya can't teach it well if you're not active in it.

 
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Old 01-27-2012, 03:25 AM   #10
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I play piano and just for the enjoyment of it so I don't feel like I'm wasting time. I teach little kids to play too and that's... more fun than it sounds.

 
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Old 01-27-2012, 05:08 AM   #11
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sometimes i feel overwhelmed by all this gear and i don't know what i'm doing or why i'm doing it
You should do something based on Orwell.

 
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Old 01-27-2012, 08:24 AM   #12
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What do you mean by giving up? Give up trying to be a professional musician? How much have you invested (time, education/training, money) already and how long have you been trying? How old are you?

 
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Old 01-27-2012, 09:05 AM   #13
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actually i'm getting back into it

 
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Old 01-28-2012, 08:58 AM   #14
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I'm finding it difficult to invest any time in it and 8 years down the line of trying to get anywhere in terms of recording / playing shows it's just kind of dried up.

Still like playing/writing but I think I'm done for recording etc.

 
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Old 01-28-2012, 02:22 PM   #15
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yeah, i'm starting to be more comfortable knowing it's a "hobby" and not expecting anything else or working on it harder than i feel like

it's weird because it's kinda like giving up a dream, but it doesn't feel that way - it's just not a huge passion anymore for me. maybe it will be again at some point.

 
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Old 01-28-2012, 03:22 PM   #16
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"Hold on, when you feel like letting go." - Good Charlotte.

 
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Old 01-28-2012, 03:41 PM   #17
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You should do something based on Orwell.
i found his themes outdated

 
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Old 01-28-2012, 03:48 PM   #18
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I'm finding it difficult to invest any time in it and 8 years down the line of trying to get anywhere in terms of recording / playing shows it's just kind of dried up.

Still like playing/writing but I think I'm done for recording etc.
i feel like i'm kind of in this boat, although all i do is record. i think i need to play/write more for fun without a specific goal in mind. my process has just been really slow lately because i'm trying a lot of new things with denser compositions (more overdubs & tracks) and i'm not getting results fast enough than what i'm used. this is contributing to me not feeling like i really know what i'm doing. i'm used to having a specific task to accomplish but now i'm just fiddling around a lot with new setups and gear and sounds and its put me in a rut.

 
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Old 01-28-2012, 07:50 PM   #19
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yeah, i'm starting to be more comfortable knowing it's a "hobby" and not expecting anything else or working on it harder than i feel like

it's weird because it's kinda like giving up a dream, but it doesn't feel that way - it's just not a huge passion anymore for me. maybe it will be again at some point.
Y'know I used to hate it when people said 'hobby' to me, but it is what it is.

 
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Old 01-28-2012, 07:57 PM   #20
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i feel like i'm kind of in this boat, although all i do is record. i think i need to play/write more for fun without a specific goal in mind. my process has just been really slow lately because i'm trying a lot of new things with denser compositions (more overdubs & tracks) and i'm not getting results fast enough than what i'm used. this is contributing to me not feeling like i really know what i'm doing. i'm used to having a specific task to accomplish but now i'm just fiddling around a lot with new setups and gear and sounds and its put me in a rut.
I assume you record at home? The first band that I played in (trying to make a career out of it) used recording studios but then we changed our name and moved to home recording - So we'd get all these ideas down but rarely finish the end product. I've got so many sketchy demos and broken half songs. I think I've found that with having the free reign of not worrying about paying for a studio, I don't have the motivation to get it done (also because my role is more prominent in the initial 'idea' and the lyrics rather than the developing/recording side' - I can do it, but the others are much better at that side of it.

 
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Old 01-28-2012, 09:16 PM   #21
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go Shock Rock! Flip the script: Wear a mask, put on makeup, light a bible on fire, piss on the crowd, or better yet, piss on the constitution because that's what the man is doing anyway. Or what-everrrrrrs... use music and video to say what you need to. Start viewing yourself as an artist, not so much as a musician.

 
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Old 01-29-2012, 12:54 AM   #22
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I assume you record at home? The first band that I played in (trying to make a career out of it) used recording studios but then we changed our name and moved to home recording - So we'd get all these ideas down but rarely finish the end product. I've got so many sketchy demos and broken half songs. I think I've found that with having the free reign of not worrying about paying for a studio, I don't have the motivation to get it done (also because my role is more prominent in the initial 'idea' and the lyrics rather than the developing/recording side' - I can do it, but the others are much better at that side of it.
yea i record at home. you've described, again, my problem lately. i'm used to flying through material and putting it together in the editing stage but now that i'm trying to compose properly i've moved onto the next thing before the previous task is ready to be put to bed.

 
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Old 01-29-2012, 12:55 AM   #23
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Start viewing yourself as an artist, not so much as a musician.
i've been doing this ever since i stopped playing in bands and started home recording. good advice, though.

 
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Old 01-29-2012, 10:49 AM   #24
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i don't even want to make any money off of this, play shows, sell lots of LPs or anything. i'd be 100% pleased if one day a cassette that i'm ok with gets published by some irrelevant label, edition of 20

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Old 01-29-2012, 12:00 PM   #25
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the high wears off quickly

 
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Old 01-29-2012, 02:03 PM   #26
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probably. but really i'm not doing this for anyone but myself. i just want to see if those things in my head can actually be realised in sound. i want to make music i can't find anywhere else

 
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Old 01-29-2012, 04:41 PM   #27
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You kinda do though
you have just as little a chance of making a splash with a twitter post as you do making it big with music

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Old 01-29-2012, 10:04 PM   #28
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i want to make music i can't find anywhere else
this is the only thing that really keeps me going though its such a struggle to find one's true voice at least it is for me

 
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Old 02-01-2012, 01:16 AM   #29
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i've begun working on some unfinished material from a couple years back and it's coming along nicely

 
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