gettin started
gettin started
what gets the ball rollin', and solidified for you? I find myself pissin around with tweakin knobs, and hackin up samples, but never getting anything written. i know i have a problem with drums, and always get lost in slicing shit up then never applying it. i dont seem to have a problem with writing riffs, melodies, layering, or anything of that sort. its just the intial writing process.
Re: gettin started
focus on your strenghts and go with that....etiolate wrote:what gets the ball rollin', and solidified for you? I find myself pissin around with tweakin knobs, and hackin up samples, but never getting anything written. i know i have a problem with drums, and always get lost in slicing shit up then never applying it. i dont seem to have a problem with writing riffs, melodies, layering, or anything of that sort. its just the intial writing process.
if i cant make my normal style(hip hop) then ill do some sort of dance trak with my hip hop style of fx to samples and what not, just to inspire, sometimes ill finish the trak and itll come out pretty dope, just not to keep stagnant sumtimes its good to =switch up styles cuz then you wont apply the same principles like when i first started producing hip hop it was always chop samples up to be like DJ premier...now my style is more varied.
I have a problem with making very full souding loops and then going no where from there. These loops often times consist of several tracks, bass, drums, perc, lead etc. What I'll do to beat writers block is drag a song I like into a track and use it as a guide for my own songs. After I get a basic song built I can do edits, add/subtract sounds, switch up instruments whatever. I try to do this as fast a possible with minimal tweakage, because if I don't I might just spend 4 hrs playing with a filter.