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« on: January 25, 2016, 10:03:25 am »
I use several techniques to help me get stuff finished.
1 - Previews
Post previews all over the place. Even if you've just got a drop, a break, even an amazing intro. Nail one part of the song, then upload a preview to Soundcloud, Vine, Twitter, this forum, Instagram, Snapchat. When I do this and have people commenting begging me to finish it, then it really makes me want to. In my experience Vine is the best for this. There are tonnes of channels dedicated to making edits of good songs, but a lot will also repost WIPs. I have built a relationship with one of these accounts with just under 10,000 followers who knows revines most things I upload and I get loads of people asking me to finish stuff.
2 - Only carry on if you're improving things
This might seem fairly obvious, but I often find after I've got the full structure of a track completed I dedicate a lot of time to tweaking bits and bobs to try and perfect it. But I always get to the point (usually quite quickly as I tweak a lot before I get to the finished structure) where I am tweaking for hours and then it sounds no better than it did at the start. At this point I export the song and release it.
3 - Start new projects
Sound stupid, but if I'm struggling to finish a track. I start a new track, get it to the point where I've got something good and want to carry on, then ban myself from working on it until I've finished the previous one. Doesn't always work but can work really well.
4 - Remix comps
These give you a definite deadline and while you may not make your best work, you will get it finished.
Hope some of this helps,
Harwood