I’m pretty terrified to share this with people. But i figured after years and years and years of just talking about making music I’ve decided to finally just do it.
Unmastered and Unmixed just raw. Hopefully will focus on more polish as i go on. Hope you enjoy it and of course any criticism is welcomed.
I reconfigured the first track and am overall more happy with it than i was, i am now on to the next track. thanks for every ones comments so far and criticism
Pretty nice for a first track! I particularly liked how you hadn’t crammed the track full of ideas that don’t work together (a typical beginner’s mistake), but kept it simple instead.
Nice first track man. My only advice to you is, for the moment, don’t listen to any advice or ask for it. If you just started making music, you’re probably in a very creative place… just bang em out, quantity over quality. You will improve, it just happens. In my experience if you spend an allotted amount of time either making one perfect track or just hammering out three tracks quickly, one of those three tracks will be better than the one you painstakingly agonized over.
Cheers,
M.
^ ahhhh lol i should’ve read this when you posted it i actually took some time the last few days and “remastered” it (remastered used very very loosely) after hearing a few people talk about the overall sound being rather low.
Tarekith’s articles are amazing… but honestly, don’t worry about mastering right now. Just bang out tracks… you’ve got a lifetime of ideas to draw upon… explore that, abuse it, kill it!!! once your creative juices dry a little, than you can get into an analytical phase and work on structure, mastering, mixing etc…
I agree 110% with DaCaVa: I’m still riding a massive wave of creativity and focused music production that is the type of experience I feared I’d keep moving farther and farther away from.
Sure, it came at a bad time, but I’ve never been more locked in on anything. I don’t know how old you are but my experience, at any age past a time where you can stay awake until 5 am making a track proved you were a “hard worker”, the advice is very sound: idea that you should just produce material and figure out how to actually make it sound good as you go is the truth. After all, what were all these years of building a studio (or talking about gear) and beating yourself up about not recording but preparation for the obsessvie and fickle nature of the artistic process.
Which is where my advice comes in, and you seem to be living by the code already: just putting stuff up somewhere online and becoming hopelessly invested in whatever web site hosts your work WILL motivate you to keep making more music. Plus,. you’ll have a literal road map from point A (I like that I actually made A SONG) to Point B (I ACTUALLY really like the song I just made!) to point C (…other people are liking it too- or, at least, other people admitting to liking it =)
However, Barfunkel has a point: the best thing you can learn- which I’ve really started applying to the latest track I’m working on), is that if all your songs are just different ideas arranged in the shape of a song, it means you’re not confident enough to commit to any one idea, so you try all your ideas. HOWEVER, you might come back one day (or in a month or two) and grab a 4 bar sample or two from these “doodle” songs". So that’s why you should just hit record and then arrange it and say “that might work” and then move on. Plus, if you can track your own progress imagine how many other musicians will be able to see past the rough edges and see potential, because they remember their own rough edges well! Sometimes, rough edges create diamonds, so what doesn’t sound mainstream to you in your work might be your uniqueness becoming apparent it you, it might mean the song is awful, but the only way to find out is to keep forcing criticism on yourself.
I like the glitchy bit that comes in before the drum breakdown. The drums might do well with a little processing but musically its very nice. Better than my first efforts were.