Jacques Pépin

Creation in the kitchen, for me, means constantly improving the familiar, tweaking and whittling all of my recipes over the years in a never ending process of making them better and reducing complication until I arrive at their essential qualities. The result is really tasty food that I (and you) can make as quickly and easily as possible. -JP

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I find myself getting inspired outside of "getting inspired" books. Those things never really felt right for me.

I've always wanted to find out more about the human condition and myself. My main source of inspiration draws from just being alive, good and bad.

it seems that if you dive to deep into this particular topic, you kind of use it as a crutch instead of using it for what it's worth at the time.

suppose if you really need it, then go for it, but it's better to learn the self rather than to just be enamored by some one else's description of what you ought to do.

What are you doing to do what you need to do for yourself?

You have your notes in the scale, start on a different note, but play all the notes in the scale that correspond to the scale key, and end where you begin.

That's another way to say things in a more uneducated manner.

There's absolutely 0 drums in the mix when it drops.

Bass over takes every thing, your lead does too.

That crash sample is WAY out of place.

drop your synths, and bass in volume and leave your drums alone. Listen to it, and see how it sounds.

Then turn up your drums a bit.

once you've done that, get another balance on your drums and the rest of your synths.

Yea drop all your synths/effects and raise the kick and snare a little bit. (this works much easier if you use grouping)

i get a mario  deamau5 vibe.

it's not so bad, it's just kind of repetitive. I think if you make a chorus part or another version at 1.02 it should spruce things up a bit.

I played bass for a church band few years ago.

The director was the piano player, he had also toured with a band called The platters. Might have done some recordings, but not to sure.

Any ways, what he said was that, with music you'll come across these plateaus in learning and understanding and that each  pleateau represents the entire range of skills/techniques you have learned, applied, and practiced that are now in your tool box.

You've acquired all these skills and what you should be focusing on now are the things that might be a bottle neck in bettering your understanding.

My suggestion:
IE, it might be time to brush up more on your playing, music theory understanding, technical understanding of what ever effect/synth you use, it also might mean to upgrade headphones/speakers/mixing room.


Also consider this. You are at a point where you could make this your career and you might want to figure out where you want to go with it.

You might think that shouldn't be apart of the process, but it's a real deterrent to doing things if you've felt like you've mastered the process and understanding. I got that way when ever i reached a certain point in world of warcraft with leveling, getting geared, and mastering a new healing class. It just becomes a giant hamster wheel at that point.

But you've already made the investment, so only you are stopping yourself from making music.

If we're being honest, it sounds like you should just be making music for yourself and when you want to make music should also be for yourself.

Unless this is your job, then there's no reason why you shouldn't be chill about it.

You almost sound a little like me, and what i realized was i am completely comfortable just taking this thing in stride and really enjoying the entire process of making music.

This comes with a reevaluation of WHY i do the music, more so than when ever i started.

Consider the mental aspects of doing things, and you might find new inspiration.

Studio One can bounce/freeze a clip directly to a new track, it makes this sort of thing really fast. Is this not a common feature in DAWs? I miss it in FL studio for sure.

It is, but it's very daw specific.

like if you're talking about right clicking freeze>bounce sort of thing.

You can also send the track to an effect channel (bus or a channel of the mixer;parallel process, bussing,groups) and set that effect channel to record to another channel and capture it that way. IDK if you can record the effect straight up, but that seems more like freezing then bouncing/render.

Every time i try to replicate some one else, i end up not getting what i want.

I started listening to other people in a different way, and definitely try to find inspiration, but not in the way of emulation.

it's more of "what were they thinking when they made that sound?" not so much a personal question, but a creative and technical side.

more analysis then internalized and use for next time in some large or big way.