If you think your progress with trying to make tunes and videos, is not as disciplined as you'd like.. here's what I did to keep track of the slacking off.

Holy fuck what a post. Good on you for discipline. I find something that distracts me a lot is working on a track I've already recorded most of, fiddling with the knobs to see if I can get stuff sounding better, then listen over and over again because its fun, and finally scrap all the changes, don't save the project and repeat at a later date. Anyone else?

When I talk about how a project is dealing with thousands of files.. Some of these projects I'd have made dozens of instruments and after you test them out, they don't even get used. Thousands of files you have to deal with one at a time to get there.

Then you get what you're talking about.. parameters of knobs and buttons. Test out all combinations. This is where all the time goes into a project. Meanwhile, somebody may look at a finished product and don't understand the time that was put into it. Also what was scrapped.

This "next generation" audio is ramping that up even more. With all kinds of tests and things getting scrapped later because it's not good enough.

You also have to deal with how you've heard a song enough times while making it. Then have to make a video. This can make somebody hate their own music. A way around that is to just work on a project for a while and shelve it. Return to it later. This is why it's a real bad idea to go at a video right after doing the audio. Things are scattered but eventually projects get completed and you don't hate your own material from having heard it too often.

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