Listening to: Minilogue

deeplfo deeplfo at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 31 10:45:47 CET 2014


I'm sure you'll find your groove, .... and there is nothing more important than the groove :-)

m





On Friday, January 31, 2014 1:34 AM, "declan at degomusic.net" <declan at degomusic.net> wrote:
 
Hey mohsen,
>   That is sound advice and I appreciate your response.  I love using  
>Ableton Live and it is my goto daw for music.  Sometimes I find the  
>creative process finishes as soon as I have to sit down and arrange  
>what I have written and that can frustrate me to the point where I  
>abandon a project.  Not entirely though as I always re-visit old  
>projects to see if I can inject something new into them.
>
>   I recently bought a Maschine Studio controller which comes with  
>Maschine 2.0 software so maybe I can spend less time with Ableton and  
>more time with Maschine to see if that can add something different to  
>my process.
>
>Declan.
>
>
>Quoting deeplfo <deeplfo at yahoo.com>:
>
>> Hi Declan,
>>
>> I believe focusing on the tools, and to a certain extent the  
>> techniques, is perhaps misplaced.  You may be "set" in your ways and  
>> are in need of a fresh approach.  I would recommend a deeper look at  
>> how you approach those said tools, even a complete departure from  
>> them (for a little bit), might be useful. 
>>
>>
>> In the past few months I've been revisiting my interest in classical  
>> music, especially chamber music.  In that pursuit, I have been  
>> reading on my favorite composers, ok I admit it's mostly Brahms :-),  
>> as well as reading and listening to loads of music.  I found that  
>> that minor diversion really helping my own efforts, however small,  
>> in finding and firing up creative juices.  I also started bringing  
>> in various pieces of music that I like into Live, and just visually  
>> taking a tour of the intricacies of those pieces.  Part study, part  
>> fun.
>>
>>
>> So, my advice is to not blame the tools for what they are and aren't  
>> doing, take small diversions and musical holidays, and focus on the  
>> music and not the tools, or for that matter the techniques.  Just  
>> make music.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> mohsen
>>
>
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