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Finishing a Song (Poll)
A hard thing for some of us to do while others find it easy.
- How often have you finished the song you were working on?30 votes
- Most of the time56.67%
- Finished less than 10 songs23.33%
- Haven't finished a proper song but have lots of partial songs and/or loops and phrass20.00%
Comments
Finished a couple hundred, started a few thousand. just like with painters/visual artists sketching is super important. Not everything need be a full song. Sometimes a sketch is just a sketch or it turns into a full on tune and sometimes 'completed' tracks should be shoved in the attic.
Nothing is finished, but don't tell the hombres at the club that.
"Art is never finished, only abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci
Over the years I've had songs or song snippets floating around in my head that I eventually pulled together (instrumentally) much more formally when I acquired the XP-50. My other big music-making hobby was MIDI file cover songs, some of which you'll find around the 'net or at my old website.
To date, I have two 'complete' songs to boast of, and if you allow for the body of music cues and themes I produced for my 'Stone Trek' cartoon series, then I've done OK for a rank amateur.
Now iOS music comes along, blows up in front of me (all thanks to AB), and not only am I getting better-sounding versions of some of these songs, but the impetus that iOS music apps can give your creativity is astonishing. My penchant for parody songs is sated with the capabilities at my disposal. And I'm able to add vocals now... EASILY!
Mister @Brain, I look forward to these easy vocals turning up on the SOTMC channel this very month
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...all while sitting on the train too! Never saw that coming. actually looking forward to my commute, heh. The past few years just crept right up on me... Total junkie now... 8)
Because I use gadget exclusively, my "desk is tidy", so I can focus more on generating songs without getting distracted by choices of which apps to use.
I also work on one track at a time, never have multiples going on
However, I am prone to delete the occasional track out of frustration when I cannot figure out problems with the sequencing..
Mostly finish. Some have been left for a year or 2 before finishing them. iOS is helping me to pick up the pace a lot as I can work on stuff on the train. I've also taken to force finish pieces as part of the learning process...
I usually finish most of the ones I start, and I usually have quite a few in progress at any one time. I like bouncing around to keep things fresh.
When I don't finish tunes, it's usually going to be a few of them at once as a result. I get in a rut for a few months and just can't get the vibe I want in the ones I'm working on at the time. Sometimes I'll shelve them for a bit and revisit later, but usually I'm better off just deleting and starting more from scratch later on.
I was surprised to see that i have 39 tracks on my Soundcloud now. A few are little experimental clips but I guess I have "finished" over 30 tracks, in a bit under 2 years.
I feel that only a handful of them are of sufficient standard for where I am feel I am now as a music composer - but i'm not too precious about having the older stuff up there for history's sake.
I would say I probably finish only 1 in 5 tracks that I start writing. Maybe even less. Some just don't go anywhere or I get tired of listening to them, or I start something else.
A couple of times i've gone back and reassessed my half finished ideas and found a couple I want to finish. The nice thing about having all my compositions in Gadget is it's easy to go back. If it involved lots of audio files everywhere or launching synths that i'd deleted off my iPad then that would be a nightmare!
Gadget is also really efficient in storing tracks because almost all of it is just midi data, so they don't take up a lot of room.
I always have about 5- 6 on the go and will finish 1 of them. I tend to move on to a new track when I lose inspiration on another one. Similar to @Tarekith I like bouncing around to keep things fresh. IOS has helped me worked more frequently and sometimes I will take a month break cause I've lost that spark.
But I have hundreds of loops I've made that and probably 20% of them have the potential to be made into something solid.
I'm usually able to finish what I start - but that's not always a good thing.
Sometimes it would be more productive to cull the weaker stuff at a relatively early stage rather than spending ages trying to get a mediocre track to work better (and it'll never be that great anyway).
Practice makes perfect though
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Oh, I'm WAY behind the curve on getting good vocals (still sorting out which vocal app I ought to use, not to mention a better place to record), but the ease of doing it all with one little box is what gets me.
When I was writing solely on guitar, it took me a long time to finish stuff. I'm writing it out in Notion now, which allows me to hear the parts against each other, and the instrument is not "in the way." Love it. I'm hoping that my production goes up, but don't care a whole lot. I want to get better and better.
I have a bunch of tracks 3 or 4 months started that need finishing off
I echo a lot of what is here. I usually will finish stuff off, but I have a lot of loops, Etc, sitting around collecting dust that i will go back to and put into something new when inspiration strikes, new app comes out, an update happens, etc. My last song took me forever in different stages. There were plenty of times i almost said screw it, but I'm glad I kept it going. There are plenty of loops that I just can't seem to get to work no matter what samplr or Bordrlands do to it.
I have the declared ambition that nothing ever has to be serious or finished. I was a "pro" back in the day, so now I just want to play around.
When we die, our heirs will publish our many folders of samples and abandoned songs in lush limited edition box sets.
JG has the sudden urge to procreate wildly just to be on the safe side
Now look at what you did @rhcball! ;-)
just kidding, we all know in our hearts that futire generations will be barely surviving on a hellishly hot garbage pile
Show me your failure, and I will show you your fate.
Rewriting history, you cannot erase.
On the right track, think you got a plan,
It's like looking for a vein on an armless man.
You thought you were fly, I thought you were slick,
Always full of lies and your magic tricks.
Not afraid of dying, just not of living.
............................................................................... I am dying to live.
"Failure to thrive" 2014
Ooh, I got a chill.