TikTok, whats for you?

 

fauchi?

 

I've never gone down to the crossroads and asked that horny dude to re-tune my guitar.

 

Procrastinating meanwhile hanging out in the forums trolling. OH!!! And awaiting for the Big Wave. LOL.

 

Buggy Software , writing bug reports

 

Writing buggy software, laughing at bug reports

 

Nexus 3

 

im making hits everyday.
There is Nothing stopping you do the same.

idea; limit yourself to only TIKTOK at certan times. eg.@ LUNCH from 12-13 o 'clock you ALLOW yourself some tiktoktime.

You have all the control in that situation . everyday. every hour, every minute.
some go running away if the word "selfdeceplin" gets mentioned, because of misconceptions about the label/word.
But really its about keeping things in balance and moderate yourself in all the things we do.

and happy new year!

 

The only thing stopping you from making that 'next big hit' is YOU.

For whatever reason you give yourself, it is really just You and a lot of luck. Unless you suck in which case it still YOU, just needs more luck.

Gear doesn't matter, actually being able to play instruments helps but lots of people can play instruments, connections help but if you are good and smart you can make them. Believing in yourself is pointless if you can't actually do anything with it.

New year's resolution check the ones that apply to you and work on it:

• Get more shit done.
• Stop looking at your first cousin like that, am serious stop that. It's revolting.
• Blame other people and the universe less and put the blame on yourself when it's due.
  
• Put the hustle in (and no playing on facebook and soundcloud with your 3 friends & your mom as followers doesn't count.)
• Recognize that maybe you can't put out that 'next big hit' cause you and everyone else is using the same 'HOT HITS SAMPLE PACK 2021 and making music that people used to listen to 10 years ago. Just cause you are into it, doesn't mean the world gives as shit.
• Stop trying to copy the last guy that made the last big hit, because unless you are at the top making rubber stamp boy bands and pop divas there is no 1,2,3 steps to success.

Happy New Year & Good Luck.

 

Me, myself and i ...

 

cpu..

 

You're just one full body wax away from stardom, i believe in you.

 

Mmmh... Talent?

 

The bad taste of the majority of the music buying demographic.

 

Virtual instruments, plugins, powerful yet cheap computers... all that made music accessible to pretty much the entire planet.

Today, we can go to a remote village in Ethiopia, Sudan, Tibet , or a fishermen town in Siberia, and we will probably across some young guys or girls, who use some old computer and a copy of ableton 8 or 7, to record their guitar or vocal performance and make some songs on their local language.

After the year 2000, everybody 'could do it', with a bit of talent and music/harmony theory. Today, talent, etc, are no longer required.
Tons of assistants, plugins, etc, will create notes, chords, melodies, based/inspired by millions of other successful songs/chord patterns/melodies...

Grab a few sample packs, with different independent samples/loops for intro, verse,chorus, bridge...and that 3m30s base rhythm is 95% completed...

While making music accessible to everybody was a great thing, the 'side effect is... the quantity.

Back in the 90s, a small/average techno/house label would probably receive 10..20..or 30 tracks per week, and a big label like bonzai records would probably receive several hundreds tracks per week.
What about today ?
I wouldn't be surprised if a good edm label received thousands and thousands of tracks per week. And no way to listen to all of them...
The guys previewing those tracks must go...
-Enter folder from artist #3244DW43 with 9 tracks
-play track #1 2 seconds of the intro...jump to verse, another 2 seconds.. jump to drop..another 2 seconds. Stop
-play track #2, repeate above.
-skip/ignore track #3 and #4
-play track #5, 1 second intro, 1 second verse, 2 seconds drop.
-skip track #6, #7 and #8
-play track #9, 1 second intro, verse, 2 seconds drop.

Verdict: 2 minutes wasted. All tracks sound the same , same structure, same arpeggios, same vsti used.
From the 10'000 tracks the guy has received, he will only 'play', or rather, preview 200 or 300.. the +9500 tracks he will ignore, there probably were 5 or 10 GREAT tracks, and 1 or 2 AMAZING HUGE HITS that nobody will have the chance to listen.

Now, how crazy can it be, at the big edm labels that work with the big guys...
They get what, 50-100'000 tracks in a week or two ? And how many do they ignore ? 90% ? 95 % ? 99% ?

Back in the 90s (again), spending 5000 bucks on a mixer and 1 or 2 hardware synths could make all the difference.
Today, having 5 or 30 different hardware synths won't make any difference... any free vsti can make that detuned lead sound, anyway..

Thanks to youtube, and those shows like 'the voice ", or 'xx got talent", the planet was able to discover thousands of exceptional talents and voices like Adele, etc.
How man dozens of thousands of exceptional edm artists and talents will never 'leave the basement/ bedroom", because one label didn't play the track #4 or #7...

With the insane amounts of 'quantity', it becomes harder and harder, as technology evolves and instruments become cheaper and cheaper, to spot the very little 'quality ' that might exist.

 

 

Last edited: Sep 12, 2022

Don't worry about that, people doesn't write hits in these places...and never will, I mean look at them. Does people here look like hit makers?

 

Lack of sex

 

I made the big hit already.
Just smoked it...

 

computer games