Trust me mate we have all been there. Just brush this one off and get onto the next one. Try to focus on the things that inspired you to try in the first place
-DJ
A professor at Berklee named Ken (Pul-something... can't remember his last name) said something that's stuck with me:
If you liked an idea when you first came up with it, trust that rather than your feelings after having heard it over and over while working on it.
Yes, sometimes seemingly obvious lines like that stick with me.
Sooooo easy to think you know that... ...and so haaaaaaard to really unsertand it. I think doing the right thing in these cases is like "ok, I'll set what my sad mind is saying on fire, and then I'll have to kill my seccond idea so I can focus in the one I really loved when I was starting.".This is simple yet wise, and applicable to so much more than just music. With so much crowding our heads every moment, it's easy to forget why we fell in love with something or someone in the first place. And when we fall into these patterns of self-loathing, i.e. "I suck" or whatever, our brains actually start to rewire themselves so that negativity becomes our default state (!). This feedback loop can, among other things, make you feel stuck in the Impostor Syndrome mud. So it's important to remind yourself of the things that don't suck, and sometimes that means adjusting your perspective (e.g. thinking about how you felt about the idea when you first came up with it, rather than after having heard it over and over).
Modesty is healthy, but don't be too hard on yourself; it's actually bad for your brain!
Sooooo easy to think you know that... ...and so haaaaaaard to really unsertand it. I think doing the right thing in these cases is like "ok, I'll set what my sad mind is saying on fire, and then I'll have to kill my seccond idea so I can focus in the one I really loved when I was starting.".
If your first idea was that part of you is a composer, kill the other ones and keep going.
Then ask the now dead, but not really, sad parts, what are they thinking about it, and repeat the process 'till the sad parts are part of your global musical concordance.
Not sure if that makes any sense for you, but that's the way I see it right now.
When I do a vocal take Autotune says "We can't process cat"
Sorry, I was convoluted and a bit sarcastic, but I didn't mean you weren't right. On the contrary. I was just pointing out that, when it comes to oneself, it can be really hard to evolve from 'knowing' to 'applying', and from my own experience, if you don't think about that, it is easy to fail.I'm not convinced that considering one perspective requires invalidating or disregarding all others. I was merely suggesting specifically targeted mindful reflection as a potential strategy for coping with self doubt or a depressive episode, a time when it's easy to forget how sometimes that inner self-critic can be actually just plain wrong.
But I don't know anything, I just have a chatty roommate studying neuroscience so I have to hear about it sometimes. So I'm shutting up now.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! I was a fraud way before you were a fraud. I got so sick of failing at writing I dabbled in rap for a while. My stage name was "Heavy Frau D" I write the songs that make the young girls cry and everyone else hurl. I suck so bad my wife calls me Hoover. When I do a vocal take Autotune says "We can't process cat" I'm the only guy that can transform Cinematic Studio Strings into an 80's rompler with one single chord. Dude. Trust me. You will never fraud as much as I fraud.