Have you ever hated every beat you ever made?

[drex]

I powered up this afternoon, tryina either add a seq somewhere, or mix something differently, or make something new.
I wasn't sure what was going to happen I'm usually not. So, I find myself browsing thru my extensive list of hundreds of titles, and found like two tracks that didn't totally disgust me.
On sequencing, sample chops, mixes, drum programming, even lyrics where I had scrawled some into the notepad... Damn near everything was either ehh or yuck.
WTF?!?

Have any of you ever hated your whole catalog long after you thought you were dope?
I kinda feel like deleting everything...
#weaksauce

 

[lion-ucs]

Thats all part of growing as an musician. Hell thats part of growing period really.

 

[drex]

sucks tho, sentimental favorites soundin shitty...

 

[dacalion]

With me it's all about progressing, if I go back to beats I made in 2010 and I don't see any improvements, somethings wrong. Especially when there's new vst's, gear or whatever coming out all the time. It's taken a while to get to a point where I can honestly say that I'm happy with my tools and I have everything that I wanted with the exception of one vst and about 4 pieces of gear. So no, I don't hate the majority of my work because I know that I'm still getting better. =)

 

[UNORTHODOX]

Thats all part of growing as an musician. Hell thats part of growing period really.

^^^ yup

Sounds like you had a paradigm shift of sorts. Evolution is beautiful. Now you have to find yourself and redefine yourself

 

[drex]

I gotta cool it for a while cuz, its starting to feel like an obligation.
I need a vacation...

 

[thedreampolice]

Yea man, I think it is a good thing. You find that you become more and more discerning as time goes by. Congrats! One time I heard that the rule is 90%. 90% of what anyone makes is crap, the key is being able to pick out the brilliant 10% it just takes work and time.

Now go make something you do like!

 

[Medl4]

DO NOT delete anything, ever. Everything is a stepping stone, at least your doing something productive and not just playing video games,hell if you can make a mediocre beat you're still doing better at life than all the assholes that eat corn chips and watch sitcoms all day. Just dont be a dick to yourself, be VERY honest when you listen to your shit, compare it all back to back with other shit that you admire & figure out what you could be doing better, nobody said artists get a good night sleep, its a gift & a curse, embrace the chaos and create!

 

[drex]

Srsly just like two or three months ago I was congratulating myself on zeroing in on my sound...
What a hurtful hobby I love...
I think I need to rebuild my PC...
WOW. 90? Damn...

 

[Fade]

I strongly believe that being a creative person (which we all are) is what makes us unsatisfied with our creations most of the time. So we go back and tweak, delete, or improve our music all the time. I'm never satisfied with anything I make, sometimes I make a beat and it's great, I love it, then come back a week later and I think it's just average.

As long as you're keeping at it, that's what counts!

 

[dacalion]

Daaaaamn, am I the only one that believes that I give my all when I make a beat? How can you go back and hate most of the work you created? Even if it's garbage you gotta take some pride in knowing that you did your best at the time, to me it doesn't matter when you go back some time later and don't like it. To me that only means that you've improved and your expectations are higher. It should be understood that everything you make won't be FIRE.

Take the Sample Flip for example, we all flip the same track. The only differences is the tools we have, the ideas we come up with, and our skill and execution level. One of those factors will separate our results. Sometimes we'll have the best flip out the bunch, sometimes we won't. I've heard some of you guys joints (and thought to myself) - damn, I should've done that, your ish is waaaay doper than mine but I don't hate my ish afterwards, I just take notes and move on. Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't function very well if I dwelled on the past. I gotta keep it moving by learning from my mistakes and trying something different next time.

Not knocking what anybody does but again, NO, I don't go back and hate my ish...lol.

 

[drex]

I was at the crossroads a few years ago, trying to choose between sudoku and beatmaking.
I wonder if hardcore underground sudoku heads have this much drama...

 

[Fade]

Well I don't go back and hate my stuff, not at all. It's just like you're saying, I've improved upon my last creation so that's good. I just think that my previous work feels that there's room for improvement. But again, it's because I've improved, that's all.

 

[Sucio]

When I put a beat together it becomes my child.....now it may not be my favorite child, but I still love it unconditionally. Music is a beautiful thing, and you can go so many ways with it...

What we do is not something that can be done by just anyone. Can't take that for granted.

 

[wrightboy]

Can you say Detox???

With me, the beats that i love, are the beats that everybody else is like, "eh." the ones that i hate, dudes hear and get all hype in the studio. I've learned a long time ago that you save everything, and keep it moving. I usually go through old beats every few months and see if i can make any changes to them. You'd be surprised with how many dope tracks you come out with.

 

[dacalion]

Same here, I go back and make some real bangers out of old stuff and still keep the originals just because...

I think it's a matter of 'doing you' as well. When I listen to other peoples dope stuff, I get motivated if they do something that I like. I try to build on it, without copying it. Make it mine (in a sense) by putting my flavor on it. It's the spice of variety thats so attractive to me, or else everybody's ish would sound the same. So my advice to anyone would be 'do you' first, find your groove and ride it to the end...as long as you are happy with it at the time, nothing else matters. Don't get caught up in wanting everybody to feel you, it's impossible...just try to appeal to the majority and everything will work out.

 

[Medl4]

I will spend 4-6 hours somedays going through drum breaks and samples, chopping shit, loading new shit, & never getting anything, I may even have 2 or 3 completed loops that I chopped up. EQ'd, and am damn near done with, but if it doesn't impress me I will cancel it & keep moving the next day. My advice, dont export the beat and call it done until you are positive you want it in your catalog. Id rather have 50 really dope beats done in a year than 400 wack ones. You should post 2 of the beats that are bumming you out & let us hear, it may not be as bad as you think.

 

[Sucio]

I'd rather have 400, (my opinion)....I've played some eh beats and dudes are going bonkers on it...Or I could use them in film... One man's trash is another man's treasure....

 

[drex]

You wanna hear something?
I'll post it if you'll forgive the mix.
I think myissuemight be related to the postI made a while ago concerning sample choice, and the sound I want.
I don't think my hands and ears are sharp enough to master the task my musical desires have set them upon.

Btw, I only lose beats by osing hard drives.
I had one fail on me and since then I've gonecrazy with the back ups...
Anyway, tons of good advice as always, I'd like to think that this mood I'm in is all about out with the old in with the new.
Problem is for YEARS, I've been trying to capture a bold, dark, gritty, 12 bit, murderous kinda sound to carry my contrasting lyrics and angular delivery. damn shame If I outgrew my style before anybody even heard it...
I'll put a couple joints on the cloud, hold up...

 

[H.Quality]

Yeah..all the time.
When I'm making it, It sounds like the best shit ever, then I export a rough version, add to a wmp playlist, and move on to something else.
Usually I come back to the mp3 later that day, and instantly hate it
"You used those strings in 10 other beats, they sucked then, and they suck now! Delete!"
"Wtf thats not sampling, thats looping! Delete this shit too!"

Then I come back to it 3 weeks later like...Damn...this isn't that bad. Finally, I redo it and mix it down properly, and upload. Other times it genuinely does suck. *Delete!*