I Hate Breakcore

by **cat-grrl** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:04 am

Lately, whenever I go to start a track I can't make it past the intro. I've seriously got about 40 intros sitting on my hard drive going NO WHERE. I haven't finished a track in about 6 months and it's driving me nuts.

Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions?

by **weyheyhey !!** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:09 am

yeah - start in the middle!

dunno what kinda sound you have so its hard to suggest. But I always make the tune/melody first with no drums etc, which I treat as the core of the track. Then just build around it.

or maybe just accept that you're suited to shorter length tracks, nothing wrong with that! I'd love to see an LP with forty 30-second tracks on it haha

by **Babylon Disco** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:55 am

weyheyhey !! wrote:or maybe just accept that you're suited to shorter length tracks, nothing wrong with that! I'd love to see an LP with forty 30-second tracks on it haha

That's called grindcore, dude.

by **Dr. Bastardo** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:57 am

weyheyhey !! wrote:yeah - start in the middle!

WORD!

I tend to start with the first drop/riff and get a few layers of breaks and bass stuff sorted first. When that is done I work backwards and take it apart for the intro. I find when I have a bunch of samples, synths and sequences already set up its much easier to start actually writing the track. Pretty much what weyheyhey said!

I find if I try and start from the intro I forget what I wanted to do with the main bit of the track.

by **massenvernichtungsmusik** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:29 pm

yeah..release your intros..
i would love to hear em..maybe someone else can make something out
of it..

by **Anticholinergic** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:09 pm

i make tracks but am lazy making intros
intro is the last thing i do usually

by **xTxRxAxVxIxSx** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:15 pm

I'm sorta the same way, but opposite.

I'll start off with making the melody, then trying to work a song out around that. But, like you, I have soooo many that I've started, then never done anything with after.

by **PEPCORE** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:32 pm

I have exactly the same problem, only i mostly start with the most energetic part of the track and then build the rest to it.

So i have some cool patterns but no intros/songs etc, that sucks

by **gnom_maroder** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:05 pm

... It is necessary to write simply and all

by **weyheyhey !!** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:59 pm

well, in the beginning I forced myself to finish everything I started. it can be too easy to fall into a habit of abandoning 90% of your ideas. forcing yourself to finish stuff will improve your song construction and arrangements in the end..

by **producer_snafu** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:42 pm

maybe you are just not inspired, it's not about how you make yer song, it's about the motivation you have.

maybe you should try making another genre?

possibly a tune with no vox samples and just melodies and beats.

make some cat music dude =D

but if yer just feeling uninspired then just watch some movies or listen to some new music.

by **cat-grrl** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:42 am

Hey thanks for all the advice you guys! Sorry for the delayed reply. Just got back from o/s x

by **brokoloid** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:30 pm

try making a tune with someone else:
1. you'll be motivated for sure
2. you'll learn new stuff

by **divtech** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:01 pm

agreed, you should send those intros to someone who would do a split song with you and collaborate ideas

by **zacharybcollins** » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:28 pm

Babylon Disco wrote:
weyheyhey !! wrote:or maybe just accept that you're suited to shorter length tracks, nothing wrong with that! I'd love to see an LP with forty 30-second tracks on it haha

That's called grindcore, dude.

Yeah, I have a Sissy Spacek album thats like 93 tracks or something and none of them are longer than 10 seconds.

I Hate Breakcore

The music we love to hate!

I don't make tracks anymore. I just make intros.

I don't make tracks anymore. I just make intros.

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