Mastodawn

If you have an ability to make music (or at least have at times made something resembling what could be considered 'music') - and are not literally currently prevented from doing so by life stuff / illness / looking after someone who's ill etc. - can I recommend you just do it? Inspiration can be overemphasised and romanticised - but sometimes the most inspired material didn't "feel" very inspired in the moment. Much can come of sessions that felt dutiful, even mechanical; the inspired feeling can even be noise - lovely when there, but not always signaling anything long-term.

Either way, you'll have made something new that didn't exist before, rather than not have. Which is pretty amazing, when you think about it.

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inpc

@Cognessence one of the biggest aids I've had in recent times is my DAW just loads with a single track labelled 'start something'. No pressure on having an idea or anything, just get some noises happening and not spend to much time on it, so I have quite a few basic ideas that I cycle around, eventually one will just happen and I finish it. Its been really helpful and encouraged me to do stuff even when I'm really wacked and not feeling at all inspired.

The downside, I only realised today that nearly every track I've done since is at 120bpm, even if they're stylistically different.

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Robert Logan 1d ago

@inpc that’s a great idea! And I like the injunction you name the projects. 😁 I have also found what ended up the longest-lasting favourites began as part of a series where many ideas were put down in a semi-forced way.

But yeah, what you said is one reason why I guess we need some conscious intention in there! :D The specifics you mentioned is particularly funny, because one thing I had to do too is remember the last bpm and time signature of whatever I’d done the previous day, and try to at least switch it up each time…just as an initial decision to provoke some changes in direction. Either way though, whether there’s a whole set of 120bpm sketches or more variety, a host of raw materials is a wonderful result. 🙏