Open DAW

>open DAW
>fuck around for 20 minutes
>no ideas
>close daw

It's been this way for over a year. How do I break writers block?

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Push through working on the shitty ideas
Or you could try writing songs using new techniques or instruments

I've got literally hundreds of unfinished ideas. i just sold all of my work work to a video game company, i dunno what the fuck happened, the spark is gone and im just uncreative as fuck

bump

Take mushrooms in nature. Go visit a foreign country.

>i just sold all of my work work to a video game company,
how much? what company? Every electronic thing i've ever made people have said its good but just sounds like a video game OST

Enough to pay rent for a few months, i'd rather not say which company or game.

lol then youre just a liar poser faggot

> learning guitar, synthesis and music theory for about 8 years
> never wrote a song
> fucking around every time
> 'today I'll write something!'
> you didn't again
> having had thousands of ideas and concepts, even for albums, most of them are long forgotten
> wanting to create music and share ideas with someone else, having 0 friends who loves music like you
> gf wanted a guitar, bought gf a guitar as a present, she didn't even try to learn a chord
> hoping that one day something will happen and you're suddenly creative and not afraid

just kill me already

i signed a NDA. what the fuck do you want me to say?

ok at least tell me how you got in contact with them

I'm interested in collabing if you're decent.

I contacted them and told them they could use my music for free and they offered to buy the rights to all of it for a lump sum

>I contacted them and told them they could use my music for free and they offered to buy the rights to all of it for a lump sum
thats pretty damn lucky bro

>tfw

it sucks but you have to push through it, even if the result isn't 10/10. just try to make a completed track a day, even if it's trash and you'll soon find the spark.

yeah, no doubt.
whats good about it is that I will have to renegotiate the contract if there is demand/they decide to release the soundtrack separately, which means more $ and potential royalties

>just try to make a completed track a day
5 BEATS A DAY FOR 3 SUMMERS

change your DAW or get new synths, anything that forces you to do things differently.
maybe try oblique strategies or something

was thinking about this too
i went from fl studio to ableton 10 years ago, maybe ill go back to fl

...

>tfw when forgot to save project

post your music

assign yourself a bullshit project, like a dubstep version of "Bohemian Rhapsody", that makes you work in the DAW but you aren't going to actually release or anything. then you'll start fucking around on the side to procrastinate on that, and you'll stumble onto something better after a while.
assign yourself 20 bullshit projects, one a day, until you break through, whatever.

It’s not possible to get creative block with step sequencers tho

it is when you set extremely high standards for yourself.

>people have said its good but just sounds like a video game OST
Who are you asking? Normies will probably say this about any instrumental electronic track

Learn music theory and church modes. You will NEVER get bored and you will discover the secret of life.

Why didn't OP post in the music /prod/ thread?

I really relate to this

op here, new idea
-> clyp.it/k5qi4qhw

new here, didnt see it or knew there even was one, link?

get a one bar drum loop you don't hate
build a bass on top.
add a melody

it's not fucking hard guys

naive

>

try setting yourself an exercise instead of getting caught up in finding a creative spark. like:
>lift a chord progression from a song you like
>write a verse melody using only three notes
>prechorus using four notes resolving to 3rd
>chorus up an octave descending from 5th to tonic

or build a chord progression using only a single chord with inversions and chord leading, then try improvising a melody over it.

just random simple stuff like this can impose some discipline on your process and get you to a focused and engaged state of mind. and often leads to usable ideas.

you don't have writers block.
you have lazy.

no good things come to those who do nothing but wait.

wrong

also chekkkked

Maybe try giving yourself set amounts of time to work.
>Turn off phone
>Get comfy
>get a brew
>set timer for an hour
>open DAW work for an hour

Seriously 20mins is fuck all time to get even a hint of inspiration out. What you describe is exactly what I do but instead of 20 mins I do it for an hour minimum. I started tonight at about 9pm and its now 4am . I've been producing now for 20 years.

Let's be entirely fucking honest here, we all want to make something different, but the "instruments" we have been given sound like garbage, and will only sound okay if they are used in a very limiting way, specifically playing as few notes as possible and instead making a big fat square of texture. What we want is notes back, so we can play chords, with syncopation, and we want the sounds to be differentiated and that they don't turn into a big fat note or a mush of new-agey flat digital nothing. Synthesizers used to do that, but programmers just don't give a single shit about crafting something that's good--or maybe they can't or just don't know how. And now anything that still works well is astronomically more expensive than it once was, and that makes the whole thing depressing and discouraging. Not to mention that dedicating life to music can make you poor, put you in a shitty apartment, which makes it hard to make sound, and so--if you're like me--you've been saving up to replace a busted capacitor on your shitty speakers, and consider it a luxury. Dear God the human race is heading down the wrong pathadeedooda.

Good job, user. Proud of you.

bullshit "i signed an NDA" yeah i made ur mom sign an NDA so she wouldnt tell anyone about all the sex we've had but she still tells ur cuck dad about it every night... he cries... he fucking cries