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Can you Always be Motivated to Produce Music???

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Channel: Tomas George · 2017 · Education

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From my experience and talking to a lot of other music producers, I've found that a lot of us can struggle when writing music and end up using the same patterns over and over again.

I believe that a lot of the time it's all about getting yourself into that creative zone.

I do have certain techniques to get me in the zone for creating music. One of these is to obviously listen to your own tracks or someone else's tracks to get yourself hyped up and to pump your emotional state ready to write music.

Sometimes though, you just can't force creativity. 

I think we are trapped in this mindset where you have to work on demand from the corporate world, but with music, it doesn't always work like that.

At times though you can just strike a chord and then suddenly get into the zone for writing music, other times the creativity just doesn't come to you straight away.

I have this all the time, I can spend hours making a track and then I realise I don't like it and end up deleting the track.

I believe this is just part of the process though. Don't be afraid of deleting your work or starting again if you don't feel like it's good enough. Also, I've found it's useful to not get emotionally attached to the music you are making.

You don't want to be forcing yourself to keep track because you are so emotionally attached to a beat, chord progression or song, but in reality, you know deep down that you can make better work. 

It's not possible to be creative all the time. You can try your hardest to be creative all the time, but unless you are Prince, it's impossible to write music all the time and to constantly be creative.

When we can't get in the creative mood, I find there are other tasks we can be doing, such as promoting your music or maybe even editing part of your audio, that doesn't involve as much creativity. However, this stuff can still be very creative.

I find myself sometimes mentally beating myself up sometimes when I can't be creative all the time, but I have to realise that as long as I'm being creative a lot of the time, it's okay to not be creative all the time, because like I said it's almost impossible to be creative all the time in my opinion.

Eating well, sleeping enough, and forcing yourself to start work, of course, helps with creativity.

There are certain techniques you can do to help yourself be more creative, but at the end of the day, you can't always be motivated to produce or create music.

These are just my thoughts and I hope you find this video useful.

Thank you for reading this.

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