It will be harder for you, but certainly still possible. A lot of sub-genres such as Jungle Terror, Hard House, some Trap, revolve around percussion and not melodies or chords. You will slowly pick it up over time, so I 100% say you can do it!

Yeah, its just frustrating when there are people with fan bases much larger than the quality of their music warrants! Fingers crossed with the size of his team Hardwell will be able to listen to all entries!

I wasn't entirely sure where to post this, but it has seriously knocked my inspiration recently so I thought I'd go here.

I recently entered the remix competition for Hardwell's Mad World. Yes I know that the world will be saturated with Mad World remixes for the next month but I genuinely do love the vocals and wanted to put my own spin on it.

I made a future bass remix, which might not be earth-shattering but it is pretty good if I may say so myself. Yet it sits down in 84th place in the charts. Don't get me wrong some of the entrants above me a very very well produced. But some are just a joke.

7th place with 200+ votes sounds like a 12 year olds first remix. I'm all for encouraging young kids to produce, but the quality of that remix is just poor and does not deserve 200 votes or 7th place in the charts.

Then we come to 8th place, again with over 200 votes. It is a mashup. Made on virtual DJ. It shouldn't even be entered it in to the competition yet it is pushing my remix well down the charts.

I'm starting to think these competitions are just a popularity contest and I'm not sure they're worth my time anymore?

Any one else find the same thing?

I sometimes open up a book to a random page and then read through until I find a word that would fit the song.

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

He may not be the most loved figure in EDM, but this song is undeniably good so I made my own Future Bass spin!

Interesting to see different opinions. I was worried nobody would agree with me that there can be a place for it but seeming some do. Thanks for sharing your opinions guys.

Some of the remixes of this are really great too!!