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Confidence

Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:58 pm
by Tarekith
Having confidence in your music is one of the most important things you can do:

http://tarekith.com/confidence/

A quick little blog post about some observations I've come to about why some people seem more confident in their music than others.

Re: Confidence

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:53 am
by Tagor
nice!

Re: Confidence

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 6:01 am
by re:dream
Thank you Tarekith, a great piece.

To me, it seems that confidence for them comes not just from having achieved some success, but being realistic about their skills at any time too. When you know you have an endless journey ahead of you, and take that desperate rush out of the equation, you become more accepting of what you feel your current limitations are.

Re: Confidence

Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 8:54 am
by yorick2300
Good advice. Thank you for taking the time to write this, and for sharing.

Re: Confidence

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:50 am
by futuremoves
Good article, thanks. It's a realisation that has taken me about 4 years to get to! One trap I had fallen into was not being prepared to put anything less than excellent tracks "out there". As I'm a relative newbie (dipping in and out over 4 years) I never put any tracks out (because they weren't excellent). I also rarely finished tracks. I'm slowly changing and starting to finish more tracks. It's hard when you know they're not EXACTLY what you want them to be. I even uploaded to Soundcloud the other day. Finishing tracks and sharing them is helping me learn much more than getting lost in perfectionism and being pissed off I never finish anything.

Re: Confidence

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:53 am
by sowhoso
my music makes me very nervous. i start to sweat. deodorant does not work

can you help?

Re: Confidence

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:59 am
by futuremoves
sowhoso wrote:my music makes me very nervous. i start to sweat. deodorant does not work

can you help?
EDM? That's what EDM is all about :wink:

Re: Confidence

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 10:56 am
by TomViolenz
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Re: Confidence

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 1:21 pm
by david.barker
Well done a very good piece of advice :D

For me ,taking the path to make my own stuff,was difficult,as I have no formal training (like most people here I guess)

But with a lot of determination,taking inspiration and learning to listen to others I am getting better.

Although I am not making much music (as a hobby) my full time job comes first for me.

Having the confidence in yourself is essential,and the willingness to learn is great too

But have fun while d making music :D

Re: Confidence

Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2014 2:15 pm
by Tarekith
Best. Advice. Ever.

Have fun while writing music. :)

Re: Confidence

Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2014 2:03 am
by jlgrimes
A very weird thing sometimes is the tracks I put hardly any work in sometimes be the ones that people like the most.

Basically what I am saying is that you will be surprised what many people end up liking.