06-17-2018, 08:38 PM
(06-16-2018, 08:37 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: On a related note, I took maybe a month's break from the album earlier this year (which is probably why I'm in this situation right now), because I was completely stuck. I reached a point where I'd listened to the unfinished tracks so many times while trying to figure out where to go with them that they became cemented in my mind. I don't know if this is an issue for anyone else but it definitely is for me sometimes. It doesn't matter if I know that a track is only half-finished -- listen to it enough times and that half-finishedness sort of becomes the way it's "supposed" to sound like and it's very difficult to imagine it sounding any other way. When that happens I need to back away until my brain can hear the potential of the tune again, which is frustrating but completely necessary at times.
Totally relatable. I was getting really frustrated earlier in my life about that, but now I know, I could be just way more productive with another piece of music in that time. I think of time being productive not just about the time that I work actively on it, but also the time I'll let it grow unconsciously in the back of my brain. The good thing about this kind of breaks, that they can be very freeing, cause you can loose up a bit and work on other things and gain new perspectives. The hard thing is just to catch the point were its best to move onto something else for a while.
Anyway take your time, I'm really looking forward to the album, I listened to the previews for a while, when they were still opened, really good stuff!
