drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » Writers Block?!?!? Writers Block?!?!? Author Post illuminati Cool Producer Registration Date: 21-01-2004 Posts: 162 Helpfulness rating:  does anyone have any good advice for cases of good ol` writers block? like when you get to a point where you`re stuck in the track you`re working on....not knowing what to add??? please don`t answer with smoke a blunt or something or leave for a while and come back...these things only work sometimes...i`m looking for a formula or method....thanks 27-11-2004 09:10 Soi Super Moderator Registration Date: 29-01-2003 Posts: 1,417 Helpfulness rating:  Well, i hate to share this secret but you should try: µ²/X³~<x>.56°(X.aB) COËFxSin(Y-t) Mx(f)(Temp) ~a². always glad i can help!! __ a myspace my tunes "I'm not under the alkafluence of inkahol that some thinkle peep I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get." 27-11-2004 12:24 Emblem-X Master Producer Registration Date: 10-11-2002 Posts: 2,135 Helpfulness rating:  I start searching for new samples, and i listen a lot of music in any genre, your writersblock is over in no time __ 27-11-2004 12:52 Surya The Robot Registration Date: 04-11-2002 Posts: 11,238 Helpfulness rating:  I had a writersblock 2 years ago (I haven't had one that bad since then, luckely) and after a few weeks of trying, I gave up, and just stopped producing for 2 months. Then I felth fresh and started a new track, which went really well: The Silence __ "In dnb you should make people jump not swim" - Pieter Frenssen 2004 27-11-2004 13:33 Emblem-X Master Producer Registration Date: 10-11-2002 Posts: 2,135 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by Surya I had a writersblock 2 years ago (I haven't had one that bad since then, luckely) and after a few weeks of trying, I gave up, and just stopped producing for 2 months. Then I felth fresh and started a new track, which went really well: The Silence yeah those track after a period of non activity allways kick ass __ 27-11-2004 13:34 muphasta Master Producer Registration Date: 29-06-2004 Posts: 643 Helpfulness rating:  EAT!!! cheers __ muphasta none dnb www.myspace.com/muphsugar reggeadubwise.com Roots-reggea-project: muphsteppa muphsteppa@reggeadubwise 27-11-2004 13:44 Muad'Dib Andrejnalin Registration Date: 02-12-2003 Posts: 4,197 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by Surya ... Then I felth fresh and started a new track, which went really well: The Silence Advertising? Unfortunately, I too have a writer's block this period, and I just don't comply to a good idea of a tune. Damn it people, something? __ Thinking about becoming an Image-Line/FL Studio customer? Want a 10% reduction in price? Use this affiliate link: http://affiliate.image-line.com/BADEBDG473 There is no such thing without its opposite -Bene Gesserit 27-11-2004 15:34 saphir Wicked Producer Registration Date: 15-11-2002 Posts: 299 Helpfulness rating:  take a new save from your tune the way it it at this point start searching for new samples, other samples, place them over your existing midi lines, try to find other drum kits often a single sound can change a vibe in a tune move bars/parts to other layers to get other vibes plenty of things, but there isn't one that works on command best thing is to step away from your sequencer for a few days/weeks/months that's the best thing still. __ http://soundcloud.com/saphir_gazmazk www.nitras.be 27-11-2004 15:56 marisol Steppa Registration Date: 23-09-2004 Posts: 279 Helpfulness rating:  start your music session with a sample search and dial in your synths first. dont worrie if you dont use all of them. just make sure you have plenty. then start building your track. the trick is not to get in it in the first place cuz gettin out of it is a bitch. 27-11-2004 19:38 peet Steppa Registration Date: 31-01-2004 Posts: 264 Helpfulness rating:  you have to ways to get out of creative blocks: 1 is to just quit it and start doing different things till you're pulled back. cause obviously if you have a block the fun is off in yourself. your inspiration is empty. fill it by doing whatever you want to do. 2 is to start getting inspired by listening to dnb. or even other types of music. study it. try to make the sounds they make. learn from it. usually you end up with a track that has little even to do with the track you based it upon. this is one of the things i used most when i was just startin out. gluck! __ 01-12-2004 18:42 muphasta Master Producer Registration Date: 29-06-2004 Posts: 643 Helpfulness rating:  havin one wright now!!!!!!!!! my mind is occupied if I should buy a Gibson Les Paul classic, which colour, where to buy it, which colour, a new or used from the 60's. got the monney and certainly gonna do it. this is a childs dream coming true. it just blocks me from doing anything else. anyone with some advice on les paul's would be great. cheers __ muphasta none dnb www.myspace.com/muphsugar reggeadubwise.com Roots-reggea-project: muphsteppa muphsteppa@reggeadubwise 01-12-2004 19:11 Surora23 Agressive Melodic Disorder Registration Date: 05-07-2004 Posts: 2,127 Helpfulness rating:  i get that shit all the freaking time...waht i liek to do is to take a sample you absolutely hate, and just f*ck with it til you like it...belivee it or not some nice stuff comes out...and then jsut add it some where...also dont synchopan samples, try triggering all them in different sections (i do that sometimes just when im bored), also mix different genres in...not alot of people like trance and bass, but its always cool to have a really trance synth in htere sometimes...(thru the vie (john b remix) is a perfect example...if all else fails i really just dont do anything for ahwile...or scrap the track completely and strat over until it flwos... __ Rinse it OUT!!!! 01-12-2004 19:46 thechronic admin Registration Date: 01-11-2002 Posts: 5,293 Helpfulness rating:  Back in the day when I still made music a thing that always helped me was duplicating my MIDI drum tracks and start to transpose them, causing them to trigger unexpected sounds in my sampler or DM5, which gave me fresh ideas! __ If you find spam on the site, please hit the button and select my name. I'll personally kick it to the murky depths of hell where it belongs! 02-12-2004 02:11 spudleyq Master Producer Registration Date: 23-09-2004 Posts: 838 Helpfulness rating:  I always just botch the project and start a new one!!!! Like a bad first paragraph for a novel......if it ain't right.......throw it out......start again!!! __ Click on the pic above to visit my music profile on Myspace. 03-12-2004 15:18 Muad'Dib Andrejnalin Registration Date: 02-12-2003 Posts: 4,197 Helpfulness rating:  quote: Originally posted by spudleyq I always just botch the project and start a new one!!!! Like a bad first paragraph for a novel......if it ain't right.......throw it out......start again!!! Yeah, I do that sometimes... I guess I knew that because I too have writing aspirations __ Thinking about becoming an Image-Line/FL Studio customer? Want a 10% reduction in price? Use this affiliate link: http://affiliate.image-line.com/BADEBDG473 There is no such thing without its opposite -Bene Gesserit 03-12-2004 20:19 drumnbass.be forum » Production » Production questions & answers » Writers Block?!?!?