Lack of inspiration

It happens to me a lot.
I go weeks sometimes without touching my MPC and I'll start it up after a break and the first thing I make may be dope or really honestly sound like bullshit.

The gift of music is strange, it come and it goes. Don't force it or you'll end up like Swiss...

I got a dope HOUSE/909 kit and made a DOPE 4 on the floor POP RECORD. That is something that was really out of character for me but it turn out to be the kitty's titties!!!

Unfolding Machines wrote:Oh wait... You kinda did that in beat battle 12 (with that dancehall rhythm). This whole post's redundant now.

Hahaha, i think it's the typical reggaeton rhythm actually! I usually hate this shit, it's like every reggaeton song has the exact same drum pattern
But i thought it was funny and worked quite well

Mike Boogie wrote:It happens to me a lot.
I go weeks sometimes without touching my MPC and I'll start it up after a break and the first thing I make may be dope or really honestly sound like ****.

I do this very often. Idk its kinda a subconscious thing, I don't intentionally go weeks without touching the MP it just happens and theirs days where it just like man, I want to make a beat today! I like the fact though, after making beats and taking long periods of times & going back and listening to them you decide whether their dope or not.


I get inspiration sometimes off of listening to others music, sometimes I hear some DOPE stuff, & I'm like man gottah step up my game!

Tha_Skywalker wrote:

Mike Boogie wrote:It happens to me a lot.
I go weeks sometimes without touching my MPC and I'll start it up after a break and the first thing I make may be dope or really honestly sound like ****.

I do this very often. Idk its kinda a subconscious thing, I don't intentionally go weeks without touching the MP it just happens and theirs days where it just like man, I want to make a beat today! I like the fact though, after making beats and taking long periods of times & going back and listening to them you decide whether their dope or not.


I get inspiration sometimes off of listening to others music, sometimes I hear some DOPE stuff, & I'm like man gottah step up my game!

word a good idea to go back in listen with a more impartial ear then u can see which shit u need to delete keep or amend.

i sometimes go back over old unfinished tracks - from a time when i used a completely different process and find a track i cant remember making.. listen until i find the best sound in it somewhere (sometimes i come across sounds ive made that i have no idea how i came across it) and pull it out as new sample and make a brand new track around it.

ive got hundreds of old unfinished bit of tracks sitting around.. if my creativity is running low i go digging through them and remix.

smoke a blunt!

get lit

then listen to ur favorite producers, this should b inspiring

TreCipher617 wrote:get lit

then listen to ur favorite producers, this should b inspiring

I dunno, sometimes I smoke and i can work all day. But other times it only guarantees that I won't make anything of value. I think smoking helps if your already pumped to make jams or your picking up something youve already begun whether be just in your head or already on a disk. If I have no initial goal and i smoke, I'll wander all day.

if u like doin it u'll do it.

TreCipher617 wrote:if u like doin it u'll do it.

+1

I had a lot of homies back in the day that wanted to make beats keep asking me "dawwwwwggg how can you sit there all day making stuff" they always looked like they shit their pants when I replied "uhh it's fun... "

I don't smoke so I don't know, i think it wouldn't help me...
I tried to make beats when i was drunk a few times though, almost never managed to do anything

m56p87 wrote: they always looked like they shit their pants when I replied "uhh it's fun... "

yuppppp!

Stop making beats for a month or so, I had a break in nearly a year because of the same reason.. Buy a bunch of old vinyls and start playing them like it was your favourite cd, somehow you will end upp with some ill minded shit.

I'm all too familiar with this shit- I get hit with it far too often. Unfortunately, I'm feeling most creative and full of ideas when I first get to work in the morning- though by the time I get home after my shift, I'm wiped. These days, it takes a rare slow day off where I actually have the urge to do something...yeesh. Someone slap me.

Your environment is also a big factor. I think the more your room looks like the studio the more inspired you are to do stuff.