SuicideFuel I suck at music production

[Giracel]

I started trying to produce music (I got a keyboard + DAW) back in 2020/21 and was horrible at it from day 1. Now I can't even bring myself to start again. All the cool online music producers start as teens so they are actually producing good shit and building a fanbase by my age (22).

I just don't understand how all the sounds are made. If you open the sounds in your average DAW it sounds nothing like what you hear in real songs. Where does the synthetic "fullness" come from? Where are the snares that don't sound acoustic? How is pitch modulated on a gradient rather than just stair-steps of notes? 6 years later and still no answers.

I even took an online class once but all it taught was how to make generic 4x4 house beats, completely omitting the creation of inventive rhythms and pitch control.

 

[Giracel]

It might sound extreme to tag this as suicidefuel but seriously man it weighs on me every day. If I had a creative outlet like music or drawing that I was good at, my life would be a lot better. I do consider myself to be a good writer but those who view writing as "art" are just copers tbh.

 

[Tšuudi]

I've never really been good at anything, it feels quite bad.

 

[Chud Norris72]

I've never really been good at anything, it feels quite bad.

 

[Giracel]

I've never really been good at anything, it feels quite bad.

It's so brutal man. At least I have academics to feel mostly proud of but that's not cool in the same way being an artist is.

I could never make stuff as good as the song in my signature (2010s future bass) or more esoteric cloud rap sort of things like my nigga Yabu: https://incels.is/threads/in-honor-of-my-1616th-post.855960/

 

[Dead End]

I feel much the same way about guitar. If I was good at guitar, I would actually have something I care about to invest my time into. Instead, playing the guitar was extremely frustrating, and I experienced minimal progress due to my abysmal motor ability and general slow processing speed. I played since I was six and was an inferior player to adults who picked up the instrument a year ago.

 

[Giracel]

I feel much the same way about guitar. If I was good at guitar, I would actually have something I care about to invest my time into. Instead, playing the guitar was extremely frustrating, and I experienced minimal progress due to my abysmal motor ability and general slow processing speed. I played since I was six and was an inferior player to adults who picked up the instrument a year ago.

I was actually good at piano when I was a kid but that was only because I was forced to play it. There isn't much of a crossover from that to synthetic music production unfortunately.

 

[Dead End]

I was actually good at piano when I was a kid but that was only because I was forced to play it.

I'm envious. I tried hard with guitar and played it for ages, I am just genetically deficient and cannot play competently as a result.

 

[Giracel]

I'm envious. I tried hard with guitar and played it for ages, I am just genetically deficient and cannot play competently as a result.

Don't be, I can't play shit now. All I have left is some knowledge of chord theory. Many things I was good at have atrophied over time such as chess, and also Latin, which I studied in HS. At my peak I was translating, even writing whole sentences—now I don't remember any declensions or vocab.

 

[Pikacel]

I feel much the same way about guitar. If I was good at guitar, I would actually have something I care about to invest my time into. Instead, playing the guitar was extremely frustrating, and I experienced minimal progress due to my abysmal motor ability and general slow processing speed. I played since I was six and was an inferior player to adults who picked up the instrument a year ago.

That’s brutal as fuck

 

[Pikacel]

The worst thing is relapsing into LDAR

I do that all the time. It’s even worse when you’re a teenager and end up as a self hating 20 something loser

 

[Giracel]

The worst thing is relapsing into LDAR

I do that all the time

In the absence of commitments/structure I can't help it. That's what my entire yesterday was, just laying around in my room. If I had pursuits like this it wouldn't happen as much. Not that LDAR is always a bad thing.

 

[Usopp-sama]

It might sound extreme to tag this as suicidefuel but seriously man it weighs on me every day. If I had a creative outlet like music or drawing that I was good at, my life would be a lot better. I do consider myself to be a good writer but those who view writing as "art" are just copers tbh.

It's over man. But idk I'd say you gotta remake beats that you like, watch videos on how did they remake them and you will learn a couple things.

 

[Giracel]

It's over man. But idk I'd say you gotta remake beats that you like, watch videos on how did they remake them and you will learn a couple things.

Maybe. I think there's some tutorials on emulating the Yabujin sound that I could watch. But my life is only going to get busier after college, and I'll have no energy for anything like this.

 

[Usopp-sama]

Maybe. I think there's some tutorials on emulating the Yabujin sound that I could watch. But my life is only going to get busier after college, and I'll have no energy for anything like this.

what type of music r u trying to produce