what do you do when this happens to you... the brick wall

get some ass then get some mo

descartes wrote:
if all this fails i just huff roach spray... cut out the middle man, you hear me?

Hahahaha lol@descartes u outta control man

when i am hitting that wall i get on here and check some off the beats yall post and that gets me in the mood. if it still isn't flowin then i will have a little beat juggle and scratch session.

Hey, thats really good stuff, descartes...

descartes wrote:sometimes...

to turn off my inner critic:

i'll edit my samples in the sample edit page so all you hear is a "click." then i'll write a track just with the clicks. when i get something that sounds kind of good, i'll go back and re-edit the samples so its the full sound again. if you're lucky a good drumloop will just write itself this way.

i'll just press record and mess around with the mpc and the kp. even if i dont write a "song" some of the noises i make can be sampled latter for breaks or background noise in other songs.

i'll time myself: set a timer and write and record a full track in 30 minutes. this forces you to just "let go" and work fast. a bad track you'd never play out written in 30 minutes is better than no track at all...

i'll do something real boring... like renaming all my samples by hand... trust me, after twenty minutes of that your creativity is just itching to come out.

i'll pretend like im a rapper and rap over some old tracks ive wrote. this reminds me of what im good at

if all this fails i just huff roach spray... cut out the middle man, you hear me?

something i often read on this topic is, that you should try out other music genres.. make some jazzy stuff, try to do a heavy metal or pop track...it doesnt hurt to explore other styles and might enrich your approach to your own music..

When I hit that wall, I just do things to challenge myself. I'll switch up the order in which I make the beat, or I'll only use the drums to try to come up with something, or mess around with a melody.
Usually I have a disk that contains only drum patterns that i thought were hot and I save them. that gives me a ready template to add a melody or sample to if I wasn't feelin up to the challenge that day.

Turn off my mpc and go do something else till that urge slaps me again

Shadow once said "turn your brain off & use your heart"

I just sit on the beat for a while and then come back when I've thought of another idea.

I walk away from the studio for up to a week. Listen to new music and allow my brain to reset. My best work has always been done after these little exoduses. Go on a road trip, smoke weed and climb to the top of the closest mountain.