Here's a track to set the topic's mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2H4l9RpkwM

We all have them. We all fight them. So let's start a little group therapy here:

I fight with several bad habits:
- I have a big fear that I might upload something that I like, but it's actually sh***y. Happened before, wasn't nice, thus the fear.
- I have this urge to make a prominent melody even when it's not needed, or when it's actually a bad idea.
- I forget about how important little details are.
- I press play and try to come up with next step when the song is playing. That makes over-listening comming really quick every time.
- I don't give up on projects that even kill me to listen to. Big one.
- I tend to do mix adjustments after the track was uploaded to soundcloud.
- I do prety drastic musical changes really late in production process. That makes re-sampling totally irelevant technique for me.
...and more.

What's yours?

Mine is the opposite problem- I'm too methodical and detail focused. I analyze the smallest details and lose track of the big picture.  It's especially bad when I work on headphones, I'll listen the next day with monitors and you can't even hear the details I spent hours on.

its the thoughts in my head that i battle with, i struggle to control with that, i need much better psychology lol

social media is a distraction..

getting the ideas on the daw is tricky, i need better focus

I always put my tunes on blast instead of working at low volumes

I tend to create chords & melodies then after I make a sound I THOUGHT I liked then, I end up changing it drastically, so like I'd try to go D&B then I go to chill out. I jump ship easily

I'd have samples in a certain order to help improve the track, like they'd provide a second sound apart from just being just a vocal if you know what I mean. Sorry it's hard to explain what I mean if you're confused, anyways then I'd move the sample but a certain sound wouldn't sound the same because the punch was provided by the sample I moved. So It would be moving samples late the process

Changing the style of the song.

making a different track within the track I'm working on lol

I tend to focus way to much on one sound and forget about creating harmonies with the rest of the track, by that I mean I create a certain sound to be the most important part, so like I put a lot of pressure on one sound to carry the entire song

I mix while I work

I get scared & compare my music to more experienced producer while I try to listen for inspiration. Examples: guys like WRLD, Above & Beyond Seven Lions etc lol

making a different track within the track I'm working on lol

i hate that. you make an awesome melody, but it just changes the track too much, so you cant delete it and you cant keep it

Quote from: KAB on February 07, 2016, 08:06:01 pm

I mix while I work

Not necessarily a bad thing.

totally agree.
if you dont eq and balance the levels, everything gonna sound like garbage. even the nicest melodies will get boring fast, if the track levels are all over the place

I might write a melody or create a sound really fast as a "placeholder", then never even try to improve it because it starts to sound familiar.