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Originally Posted by suicidaln00b

RIP
i cant help but like fast and/or energetic shit though it is in my stepman blood. i must make fast beatz



in hindsight, i think it actually took me roughly 7-10 hours to make 30 seconds of music 8^)

i can understand the tendency to just copypasta shit but i feel somewhat compelled to make each section of the song have something unique about it, almost like each segment is its own mini-song (if that doesn't sound completely retarded). this might be the thing responsible for me taking forever to make fuckin anything, but there's also the fact that i run out of ideas quickly, in which case i start vomiting out 7th chords which generally results in the song sounding like some unsatisfying xi bootleg erry time

anyway i personally don't mind autistically mulling over the details of a song that nobody will care about, but i have the issue of coming up with new ideas and actually being personally satisfied with said ideas. perhaps if i actually knew anything about moosic theory it'd be another story, i mucked around with writing in phrygian mode in that artcore thingy at least (and although it doesnt sound too awfully different from just being minor it sparked some ideas i suppose)

anyway if you or anyone else posts some more sogns in the thread i'll give it a listen, i am a fucking hardcore lurker however and i probably wont say much but im still here


you removed it but i listened to it like 3 times and while not my cup o tea i overall appreciated the glitchy/dissonant fuckery of it
also the title of the song is cool (naming things is not my forte Tbh)

Yah when I'm at my best my goal is to make the song hopefully more of an evolution were as you described it, each section is like a song of its own almost but I totally get what you mean.

My problem is I think to much so I have so many ideas and to many ways to do the same one idea at a time that I get over loaded and contemplate for long periods of time while never deciding what to do.

I feel conceptual techniques are a great way to get ideas as many artist describe them self as expressing or painting with sound/composition. I'm so damn picky about my sound design and don't spend enough time on making actual good music most of the time... ideally i want a balance between the two aspects of a piece.

This ones an example were I used color from a painting to derive the sort of pallet to work with and being a bit more intensive on the composition originating from friction of skeletal arpeggios transposed higher or lower :v
https://soundcloud.com/initgen/mist-around-the-shrine

edit: last thing id say on coming up with ideas and general creativity is to find ways to subject yourself to the most broad spectrum of elements at any one time to get a point of reference and interest you're innate senses that are there waiting for the right vibe to resonate with... I do this myself by creating templates in fl that can either randomize various parameters or link them to lfos in them self that randomize over time with compositional templates as well to randomize scales/chords/arps split with a layer and a basic sine wave to be the lead over the variable accompaniment.