Less is more

Hi! I've learned a lot of techniques since i started to make beats, but i got a problem, i ever try to put all of them into my beats and i always saturate my beats. They got a lot of elements (percussions, chords, melodies...) and i don't know how i can learn to STOP and finish the beat... Anyone knows how i can know when my beat is finished?

Thanks!

pd: Sorry for my english...i'm learning

When the beat sounds good as it is, then that's when I stop playing with it. Sometimes a beat can turn into another genre of music, unintended, just for a few cymbals and a congo, then it'll sound too commercial. It all depends on the music you live by. I'm coming from a Hip Hop point of view, so, don't take my word, but you should know when and where to stop. I don't go crazy over a mix, I just mix enough until it sounds decent and close to my vision, even though there will be issues but I get it done somehow. I don't know, thats how I perceived your question.

make more beats until you stop doing it.
with more practice your ear will more quickly know when you're oversaturating your beat with "style"
but it never fully goes away.

instead of adding multiple multiple multiple different melody lines all overtop of each other and competing with each other, work on call and response using 2 different instruments, or harmonizing different melody lines. or just layering up instruments playing the same melody.

less is only more if there's more involved in the less.

the old "less is more" statment is kinda nonsense.. usable under specific conditions and when having such specific goals, "less is not enough" is equally true.. But in general, the more attention you can put into details, and control and shape those details, the more you can do or add to something without it sounding cluttered.. When you have control over that kind of balance, then you can take things to extreme levels of detail and still sound even less cluttered than something that contains less sounds, if it lacks the same attention to detail.

Less is always more in the sense that attention will focus and uncover details otherwise not accessible in a cluttered frame.

It all boils down to have them details to be enough fancy to stand that attention.

^Yup
sometimes stripping down a beat can bring its natural shine.
sometimes when theres too much going on it can be easy to loose "sight" of the track
as you can get lost in the mist

but this can go both ways

eventualy like dude said above me
its all about u...find your groove