I needed a mental health beat-break

[Fade]

LOL. I guess that's the best way of describing it.

With all the stuff from ILL plus me doing my own beats, I felt like I needed a break from the beats and other stuff on here, so that's why I haven't been on much the past week.

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else needs a break like that. It's great to make beats regularly but it's best to give your ears and your mind a rest from the music. Anyone?

 

[Sole Element]

@Fade I absolutely agree, if I had a dollar for everytime I made something terrible trying to force it and not taking a break. Matter of fact last showcase I did that with a MJ remix, I ended up forcing and rushing it and didn't pay attention to what I was doing because I was physically, mentally, and creatively exhausted. A lot of times when your consistent with making music and get burned out when you take a break and come back I personally think you come back stronger because you get your good ear back, your love for music (which is very important) and you hear everything correctly.

 

[crosstevsky]

Not Yet!

 

[Memento Beats]

@Fade Sometimes breaks are necessary to refresh yourself. But honestly, I have never had a time in my life when I had total break from music. Even if I don't make anything new I do research and try to listen to new things and explore new musical areas. Actually, the funny thing is I wrote an article about it and maybe I post it one day here. Stay tuned!

 

[dBtheProducer]

ill mass produce a bunch of beats for a while and focus solely on just creating new beats

then iil take a break from creating and focus more on sharing them online and on social media

Im like a sponge, ill soak up as much as I can, but then theres always the need to squeeze it all out, so that I may have room for more...if that makes any sense

 

[Fade]

@dBtheProducer that's an interesting way to look at it! Because everyone is so focused on making beats and I'm sure spend little time promoting it.

 

[Danswift]

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone else needs a break like that. It's great to make beats regularly but it's best to give your ears and your mind a rest from the music. Anyone?

Absolutely.. I haven't even switched on my sampler since I finished up my E. P. thingy back in March.

I've got plenty of new ideas I could start on, but I'm in no particular rush to get those down as I know there'll be loads of work involved and numerous, inevitable changes along the way, no doubt .

I personally like to go and do pretty mundane stuff for a while after being involved in the recording process.. Just simple things like making furniture for our garden or even re-pointing the mortar in a wall or something..

Im in a fortunate enough position to no longer have to work for a living and I'm more or less a stay at home Dad to my 2 youngest teenage sons now which I love... I think it's one of the best things you can do by taking a period of time out from producing and beatmaking ,music wise at the moment I'm just messing around in alternative tunings with my acoustic guitars mostly and also this 9 note Haang drum which is freaking wicked!





There's 1 center note and 8 tone fields, D3/ A3/ C4/ D4/ E4/ F4/ G4/ A4/C5.

The drum also has a fairly wide sound hole at the base which you can easily fit a microphone into for sampling purposes!


It's the big brother to this 9 tone tongue drum pictured below..

 

[thedreampolice]

"Andrew O'Neill once told me something about our mutual hero Henry Rollins. Henry, he said, takes an inhale year (reading, learning, traveling, absorbing) and then an exhale year (touring, working, speaking, art-assaulting). " This quote helps me a lot in the downtime.