<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8pt">I'm sure you'll find your groove, .... and there is nothing more important than the groove :-)<br><br>m<br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Friday, January 31, 2014 1:34 AM, "declan@degomusic.net" <declan@degomusic.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div class="y_msg_container">Hey mohsen,<br clear="none"> That is sound advice and I
appreciate your response. I love using <br clear="none">Ableton Live and it is my goto daw for music. Sometimes I find the <br clear="none">creative process finishes as soon as I have to sit down and arrange <br clear="none">what I have written and that can frustrate me to the point where I <br clear="none">abandon a project. Not entirely though as I always re-visit old <br clear="none">projects to see if I can inject something new into them.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> I recently bought a Maschine Studio controller which comes with <br clear="none">Maschine 2.0 software so maybe I can spend less time with Ableton and <br clear="none">more time with Maschine to see if that can add something different to <br clear="none">my process.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Declan.<br clear="none"><div class="yqt2392252670" id="yqtfd68891"><br clear="none">Quoting deeplfo <<a
shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:deeplfo@yahoo.com" href="mailto:deeplfo@yahoo.com">deeplfo@yahoo.com</a>>:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> Hi Declan,<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> I believe focusing on the tools, and to a certain extent the <br clear="none">> techniques, is perhaps misplaced. You may be "set" in your ways and <br clear="none">> are in need of a fresh approach. I would recommend a deeper look at <br clear="none">> how you approach those said tools, even a complete departure from <br clear="none">> them (for a little bit), might be useful. <br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> In the past few months I've been revisiting my interest in classical <br clear="none">> music, especially chamber music. In that pursuit, I have been <br clear="none">> reading on my favorite composers, ok I admit it's mostly Brahms :-), <br
clear="none">> as well as reading and listening to loads of music. I found that <br clear="none">> that minor diversion really helping my own efforts, however small, <br clear="none">> in finding and firing up creative juices. I also started bringing <br clear="none">> in various pieces of music that I like into Live, and just visually <br clear="none">> taking a tour of the intricacies of those pieces. Part study, part <br clear="none">> fun.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> So, my advice is to not blame the tools for what they are and aren't <br clear="none">> doing, take small diversions and musical holidays, and focus on the <br clear="none">> music and not the tools, or for that matter the techniques. Just <br clear="none">> make music.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">><br clear="none">> cheers,<br
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