Dude this is cool! I feel so seen and understood, and your content is greatly appreciated. Love the thought on productive procrastination. It’s easy to get into a self fulfilling shame loop when you have a task you know you need to do but can’t bring yourself to do it. Might as well improve the situation around you or learn something to help improve you. Thanks so much, much love!
ayee thanks for answering my question bro! I think you misunderstood though but thats my fault for not giving enough context. In the dubstep genre there is not much money in streaming. The goal is to get your songs supported and played live by bigger artists essentially. I find it easier to sit down and make a "dj tool" with no pressure and worry about how I will release it later. for example i like to use a lot of sounds from video games in my songs and almost everytime someone hears them they ask "can you make money off that what about copyright?" and i simply explain we are making this song to play live. All my songs are just dj tools to start off. hope that makes more sense lol
They can do whatever they want at a gig I just don’t want to limit ideas based on what they can or can’t do live. Imagine Queen not recording Bohemian Rhapsody the way it is cause there are too many vocals lol
Appreciate the plastic surgery analogy. I think of this often regarding Melodyne or Autotune. These are great tools, but are over used and often used excessively.
Thanks for this video Adam. I am going into my final year of college and although I love studying music and love music in my spare time I’m getting burned out on assignments lately and have lost the spark to do music in my spare time to make an album - I have all the material there but just don’t have the energy to do it, I’ve been telling myself that once I graduate college I’ll have all of the time in the world to work on my own music again, glad to hear I’m not alone in seeing it as a chore at times even though there’s nothing else I’d rather do or study, watching artists share their enthusiasm made me worried why I didn’t have that same enthusiasm lately so your content is refreshing for the jaded (but still passionate!) producers.
@@LuckeGabriel this is true for just about any career from sanitation worker to corporate exec… gotta show up everyday and gotta do the work. Most jobs have some cool parts, but all jobs have sucky parts.
The way I see it under another name, is that music itself has many ways of offering services. When I am a generalist, I can go between the digital demand and music demand. Satisfying the work of music was not exactly working on music for me. Music is only as good as it advances. Helping the technology and run a brand or ideas. That's where I'm headed now.
Visual media composer and sound designer here, who happens to also have a full-time job and family! I get up at 5AM everyday, and write for 2 hours before I have to leave for my shift. Once I get home around 4PM, I use the Pomodoro technique to split my time up between taking care of chores, making dinner, and writing a few bars of music. 7PM, I shut it all down to spend time with my wife and kids for a couple hours, and then it's off to bed to get up and do it all over again the next day. I also take one day off from composing (either Saturday or Sunday) per week. Breaks are important - burnout can still happen even when doing something you love. Anyway, I'm not quite doing this full-time, but I have a steady stream of clients who are getting me closer to that point. Discipline and hard work will get you there. Thanks for the awesome video!
I highly recommend setting timers and picking tasks. If I know I only have a certain amount of time to do a certain or a couple certain tasks, I find i frequently am able to not only focus better, but I also end up working way longer than my timer because I get locked in. Sometimes I don't start because I "don't feel like it". Then I'll say "Ok, you only have to work for 30 minutes". End up working for an hour or two. Works wonders for me
❤❤ Aye bro I like your ADHD vids. *LOOK UP SYNTHET* he does good ADHD vids that are easier to watch. This one was nice, but it needs to be faster. Less filler. And I know, personal opinion and this takes lots of work, but we got squirrel brains, we need the quickest info to the root. Your vids have no background music or transitions to keep brain entertained so it’s still hard to just watch and not get mind wandering. All love, no hate here. You’re awesome! ❤❤
Ayyy appreciate it! Frankly I am not really interested in speeding up my pacing too much, I get a lot of comments that enjoy that I’m not trying to speed through it all. I think it’s great that there’s stuff out there for everyone and I don’t take it personally if my style isn’t for anyone! Thanks for watching and for the kind words as well, it means a lot!
Hey for me the first tip kinda works oppositely for me, I get TOO engaged on the mixing part of things which takes my time off creating and actually adding elements to polish my track. Instead I get super tied to “how different compressors sound on this synth” and next thing I know its 3 hours later and past my bedtime.
This was helpful in so many ways beyond music production. A tip that helps me is to hit the F11 key (fullscreen shortcut in firefox) when watching tutorials like this to block all the clickbait.
this is so specifically fitted to what I needed. im not even diagnosed with ADHD but the fact alot of this is helpful and relatable makes me wonder too much.
For fulltimers use your weekends wisely what is do is my lil bits of time during the week i put together the ideas on the weekends i finish them the output can be as heavy as u want 🤙🫡
8:59 First off.. Great video.. I straight up just watched “How to survive as a producer with. ADHD” and it was brilliant.. Here is an idea/concept that I would like to interject here.. I can only speak for myself but I’m sure many (if not most) other serious musicians feel this way too.. I don’t care about success in production in a way where I’m like “I wanna produce gold records and I’m gonna be rich and want to be a star”.. It’s more like “Music is all I think about.. When I’m at work all I think about is music.. I can’t even sleep sometimes because when I am about to fall asleep I think of a hook and I need to work on it.. I just want to play/work with music all the time including my work day and that is why it’s so important to for me to be successful in music/production”. It’s not necessarily about success or money.. It’s about being able to devote every aspect of my life to what you love and not having to push myself to the brink of mental/physical/emotional exhaustion and then come home and work on that too. I totally get what you are saying.. And there are definitely perspectives that are destructive to the creative aspect.. But I just felt like this is a huge reason why we feel that pressure to acquire “success” . Hope that makes sense though! Liking and subscribing and thank you for these awesome videos!
Here are some costly things that have helped me. 1) A sit-stand desk with a little exercise bike. Added bonus: you lose weight and have more energy. 2) Scheduling breaks. I take a 5 to15 minute break every 45 minutes. 3) Setting my phone and computer to DND. I check to see if anything earth shattering happened during my 45 uninterrupted minutes of work and deal with it as needed. You’ll definitely get messages from clients, but it’s pretty unlikely it can’t wait until you turn off DND and check messages.
The only adhd hack you really need is a stable bedtime that isn’t too late, and regular healthy meals with little to no proccessed food or snacking, and getting rid of all soft drinks and drink water instead. Also relearning how to function without caffein or amphetamines. And Learning when to take a break before you burn out instead of “riding the wave” stop sacrificing your body and mind for capitolism
