Unfortunately you are right...
But most people that "make beats", are copy / pasting, while composing means truly writing your own harmony and melody, your own drums, everything.
I'm not judging copy paste people, but it's not the same thing to do.
Or did I not understood what "making beats" mean.
Anyway, it's off topic, so ...

 

Spoiler: For me it's

 

lounge is more lax for topic drift, right? haha .... I hope so. then again kinda on topic to clarify if gotnofriends meant after waking up is the best time to put some loop pack samples on top of each other. I feel like that is more just collaging, I feel like composing in my head means sitting there with a piano and transcribing a bunch of shit.... me using a quintet from Tokyo strings ensemble on reaper feels closer to making beats than composing even though the music is closer to classical than anything with a drum beat.

but my point is that everyone seems to have slightly different working definitions and I have come to conclude it's a much larger problem than we give it credit, like in the world. I think taking the time to clearly define what you/someone else means is ALWAYS on topic. NOT to go into politics, but that's just vaguely there is a great place to start looking at people saying the same words as one another but having vastly different understanding of those words.

 

For some reason, I have my best ideas in the shower or while on the can. I loose a lot of it but sometimes they stick.

 

Yes, the shower is another good place / moment.

 

I once wrote a song (for a special occasion, as we were playing in Hoboken, NJ, and the locals that we knew back then and hosting the gig in the 80's called themselves "Knobos") that I penned from A to Z, lyrics as well as chords while taking a dire emergency shit in a public toilet in Penn Station on a piece of cardboard that I grabbed from the top of a trash bin on the way in. I had a pen in my pocket. The song called "Knobos in Paradise" went over really well.

 

I would like to clarify something regarding Making beats and Composing:

If we take a avargelistner. One that isnt into making music, they just enjoyit - They will not carre what tittle you put on, if you call your self composer or beatmaker, or singnersongwriter or whatever titel you fancy.

the avargelistner will either listen to it and decide if they find it "good" or "not good" - they have no intrest in knowing HOW it was put together. they dont carre if you used a homegrown goat to make your snareskin, or if you used vengence samples like martin garixx.

in the end, its "just music" - the music starts where the lips can't express the emotion in words.

On topic: all mylife i was NOT a morning person.
but, the last 10 years has been different. playing and Crafting music in the morning has brought some of the best music i've been able to create.
one advanges of the early morning session is : nobody is disturbing you!
secondly, "you" get out of your owne way and the music just flows.

 

It's specific to failed musician to be elitist and miserable.

They go hand in hand with politician and lawyers on the scale of enormous ego for small rendering.

It is also known that people that don't fully grasp their subject tend to over complicate things so in the end it's really just a testament of their struggles while everybody else know that it's not rocket science.