ChipMusic.org - How do you feel about your older music?

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-20T12:14:31Z

I love my old music, except for the first year of getting used to LSDJ
I think I've grown up technically but my first compositions were full of feels

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-20T05:50:41Z

your old stuff, even the oldest, is indicative of the musical wonder you possessed while learning a new craft. buried within it is the style into which you would eventually grow. it can be fun to go back to old songs and remember points at which you said, "I have this musical idea, but I don't really know how to approach composing it," and say now, "I know exactly what was needed here all along, I just never knew how to articulate it." Refreshing old pieces can be a challenging, rewarding experience. it's particularly helpful in teaching one the value of a healthy, critical ear on mixing and arrangement.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-20T05:26:30Z

Oh gawwwwd my old stuff sucks. Let's not look back to that.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-20T03:42:59Z

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-19T23:33:43Z

Compositionally, I don't hate my old stuff at all (even all the way back to being an 8 year old sitting at the piano). They were certainly much more naive pieces though.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-19T20:16:41Z

Unheralded classics.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-19T19:49:58Z

zebra wrote:

I think i've gotten a lot worse.

You know. It's not impossible.
There's a strength in being "new" to something. Your mind doesn't need to worry itself with any limitations, techniques and other stuff like that and you are more relaxed in what you do. There's strength in ignorance in this context.

This isn't meant directly at anyone, I'm just saying that this is a real thing that happens. But it's also temporary.
Everybody gets better after being hit in the face with that sack of bricks that is reality.
I've been decked numerous times in all areas in which I try to create something, it takes time to recuperate.

Right now I'm in this state still when it comes to my music. I create stuff without the *slightest clue* about proper ways and techniques and I feel as it's finally starting to pile up. There are hundreds of things I have to learn and cope with...

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-19T19:43:27Z

My song writing developed a long time before my production skills did. I did some stuff in 2010/2011 that it's really catchy if you can get past the fact that it sounds like shit. That's because I'd been making music in a band setting for years before even touching a DAW.

The hardest thing for me was naturally moving between sections. I still struggle with it actually. In a band situation you just rattle off little fills you don't even think about, bit harder when you're setting it in stone.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-19T19:10:05Z

I think i've gotten a lot worse.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-18T18:38:59Z

I think almost all of my music I made like before 2012 is just really embarrassing, including some songs/doodles I've made in 2012/2013 too, I have a ton of unreleased things because I just couldn't listen to them without shuddering from how bad they are

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-18T17:32:09Z

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Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-18T17:23:28Z

Yeah, no. I try not to think about my older stuff. It's not even online anywhere so neither can anyone else.

But hmm... It hasn't been that much of a change I'm afraid. I guess the only thing that's really changed about how I make music is how much I know about general stuff that goes into what makes something a song, and learning software on top of that.
But I'm still as big a moron when it comes to actual music-knowledge as I've ever been. I'll probably learn more and more as I go along, no point in obsessing over it, methinks.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-18T17:12:08Z

Wizwars wrote:

if I'm at all remembered in the scene when I eventually go away it will most likely be for Chipthrash and not happy stuff like "Game Boy Rock". Put a lot less work into the chipthrash tho, to be honest.

I like your older, more melodic work a lot more. But I'm a melody guy.

re: the topic. By the time I started writing chip I was very comfortable with my music composition abilities, so I still enjoy my older chiptunes. My programming skills have improved, but I still like the melodies and chord progressions of my older stuff.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-18T16:48:49Z

It was part of the learning proccess, so it is OK.
I still need to work a lot on my songwritting, but I'm happy with programming skills and wave manipulation.

Re: How do you feel about your older music?

2013-04-18T16:18:20Z

I used to write some terrible music. I still do, but I used to, too