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Haven't read the whole thread yet, but this is pretty interesting.in general, I think we are living in the age of unlimited distraction and obsession. So the main thing is to keep the main thing Alive with your passion. And focus. BTW, I still consider ableton live the most creative platform, but so much depends on getting the desktop and everything hooked up working okay. I don't have time for that.
Barry Schwartz agrees with @Supadom
Yep, the concept of an aim is pretty good. Currently I'm working on the material for a gig this Saturday and my focus is there. I know exactly what to do and the creativity just happens when it needs to. If it doesn't I just go and buy milk or go and fix my canoe or something. We're not machines.
yeah, as a few have mentioned, I try to limit the # of apps I use for production as well. I wanted to establish a new workflow moving from my iPhone to my iPad, and promptly began getting nothing accomplished. It wasn't until I used my old iPhone workflow as a basis, and began slowwwly growing from that, I instantly became productive once again. When my productivity wanes, I go back to that core workflow.
@TheoVoid you're an awesome musician and you just need to re-focus. IOS has made music and everything else easier to get done. Including finding distractions. That's why they exist. Use it like a Computer, set up your DAW and your VST instruments(apps), mic up your guitar and do what you used to do, just on a smaller and flatter computer. I've set my IPad studio up where my Computer used to be, and it's all plugged in thru my interface so I can just sit down and start recording instantly (a couple seconds to pull up AB and some apps). And then take your brain and lifestyle back 5 years to where you weren't distracted by all this other stuff and you should be fine. Assuming you were fine 5 years ago. Lol! Rock on Man, I expect to see some new stuff of yours on YouTube soon!!!
I like people here, but I personally don't give a hoot about being liked in return.
I think that most of you would benefit by being kidnapped and held hostage until you wrote two dozen songs. That would get the creative juices flowing. Just for the record though, in most cases I consider myself to be anti-kidnapping.
In my freshman year of college I had a class that taught me a lot about writing songs. Every Monday the teacher assigned people into groups and assigned particular instruments to each group. You had until Friday to write and practice a song that had to be performed in front of hundreds of people. A lot of the people in the audience were also in the class. I’m still a little hazy about the rest of the crowd.
On Monday you usually didn’t know the people in your group, or maybe you barely knew some of them. Depending on the lineup of the group you might get stuck with an instrument that was new to you. Of course you can’t master a new instrument within a week, but you can always come up with something interesting.
The key to the class was public pressure. You had to take who you had and what you had and come up with something that was good enough to play in front of hundreds of people who were mostly pretty good at judging songs. You didn’t sit around whinging about creativity. You knocked out another song week after week. That class was 17 years ago and I’ve never had writer’s block since.
Pick any three apps at random and write a song with them. Then pick another four apps at random and write a song with those apps. Then go back to thoughtfully picking your apps and never complain again.
If the iPad is sapping your creativity then you really need someone to kick your butt and tell you to quit being a baby. Just kidding. Sort of.
I know of an album that was quickly made by four friends with three guitars and a bunch of cardboard boxes. The album was made in the mid 1990’s. Three of the people from that album still have active music careers in the studio and on tours and in collaboration with dozens of other musicians. A lot of critics didn’t like the cardboard box album, but screw the critics.
I've got nothing on my iPad apart from music apps, and email isn't synced to my mail accounts (deliberately) so apart from Safari (which I only use to check app vids) there aren't any distractions. I chose the iPad over a new hardware synth for making music, so using it for anything else would be missing the point.
I am suffering from appitis though, and not always learning how to use them properly before moving onto the next pretty new sound mangler.
Get off the Internet and make some music. Surfing the net is cool if you don't have much to do but if you want to make music you got to put time aside just for creating music. I recently stopped visiting all these iOS forums and guess what? My music productivity multiplied. It is that simple. Make your own impression instead of waiting for others to big you up.
@Janie said:
Amen.
@Janie how was that sampling party?!
First thing i do every day when i wake is meditate then make music, i work on the track i'm trying to finish and if it goes well i stay focused on it, all distractions are put to the side, email, web everything - keep it all seperate. I even unplug the modem some days! 0_0
Net result, been more prolific than i've been in years and i'm not beating myself up. Once the musics done i don't have to feel guilty about wasting a few hours on the ipad, i normally do that in the evening but even then i try to productive.
Time management is key though as well as writing things down and sticking to a plan like supadom says, have a goal, define the objectives!
I bought the ipad to enhance my creativity so i'm been careful not to buy loads of apps but it is still a distraction and distraction is one of the biggest creativity killers.
If you're not familiar with Mike Monday check out his youtube channel, the videos on distraction, procrastination momentum etc are good ones to watch. https://www.youtube.com/user/startnowfinishfast/videos
And no i'm trying to give you more distractions, they are really good and may give you some insight.