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This week I think I'll practice some piano/synth/music theory stuff rather than drums. I've gotten pretty got damn rusty.
Goal: Make 1 song using a bunch different synth layers that I actually play and record with mine own two hands (i.e. not clicking around in the DAW piano roll).
The point is to get more comfortable with imperfections. I tend to rely too much on the DAW to clean up my MIDI tracks, which has kind of made my creativity stagnate. It's objectively much more fun to just overdub something dope on the fly rather than being a fucking nerd about it and demanding everything to make perfect musical sense at all times. I just want to make something good enough and keep it like that, and then finish up the track before I start analyzing the fun out of it.
I have also come to the unorthodox conclusion that I need to start smoking more weed. I kind of stopped smoking once most of my friends and I got a real, adult jobs, but now I kind of miss it. I can't exactly remember, but I think I stopped because I was afraid it would fuck with my performance at work or something? Like I valued the job more than getting stoned. I don't think it was ever mutually exclusive, but whatever, it was probably not a bad idea to lay off the zaza for a while anyway. Now that I have some manner of job security and seniority I think it's about time to start lighting up every now and then. Looking forward to it.
smoking weed also makes you instantly better at making music or at least it makes it seem like it until you listen to your music sober
I love that your self-improvement goal is to start smoking more weed, that's awesome lol
Which DAW are you using?
I am Bitwig enjoyer for life. It's like a better Ableton with much more sensible operators and modulation stuff that works natively on Linux.