To focus more on music, I started spending less time playing games and paused my other hobby (drawing) indefinitely. But to avoid burning out, I also started taking mandatory days off music. Whenever I record and post a new track, I don't do anything music related for at least one day, even if I'm in the mood for it. Back before I took breaks like this, I started to feel pressured to make music, and was in more danger of burning out. By forcing the next day off, I get time to refill my reserves and look forward to making more music again. So even if music is your #1 value, I recommend stepping away every now and then to stay fresh!
100% I love this. I'm very much the same. I'm not constantly boshing out tracks because each track is like running a marathon for me. I love running but not racing every single day! It also allows for some time to enjoy the feeling of finishing something you are proud of and the enjoyment that comes from that. Thanks for sharing!
i cant lol my mind says: organize your sample library, study this plugins, watch a score video, use this guitar in your room you never use, go, now your have time…..and suddenly i lose another weekend of „free time“, recording some new idea or solving some problem
Your smashing it mate. All these recent videos are top notch and proper supportive. Bang on with all the distractions... in their many forms. A daily reminder to keep at the work... focus on the music. I watch a few of these and am fueled away from endless tutorials and remember to make the time for music. It all helps the time spent. Thank you for sharing this much needed perspective.
Now that my kids are back in school I have more time during the day but before that I had to work very very late when everyone was sleeping. I don't really make time, rather I steal it wherever I can.
I really needed to hear that. Thank you for uploading this. As much as I'd like to think that I wanted to take music seriously, I always seems to be making excuses because I would get tired after coming home from work and would generally just watch random RU-vid videos and then go to sleep and just the cycles goes on. What you really make clear in this video is that If we truly wanted to achieved something, we will make time for it no matter how busy our life gets.
Been enjoying your videos, thanks for the content. At some point in life I realized 2 hours a day = 1/12 days = 1 month a year and that I was sitting in traffic for 2 hours a day (roughly). My job (which was forcing me to drive this much) became untenable shortly after. Funny (not really) how time is the most valuable, and most wasted resource we have.
i absolutely agree , and did a similar video. Many pieces i composed i treated them like my kids: the world stopped for them, until it was safe. I also make my life have more free time, and this has a huge cost, takes courage to be out of the way and in a risky path. But this means a portfolio i am 60% proud of; now working on the last 40%. I didn’t achieve nothing absolutely alone; who is with you is also your decision , though
Important note, to start: I don't make music to live, I work as a freelance software developer and sysadmin. This said, my absolute top priorities in life are 2: 1 - Health, especially sleep. Without taking care of my own health I'm not going anywhere and a bad night where I manage to get just few hours of sleep are going to absolutely wreck my productivity and my focus on work/whatever I'm doing. If I got a bad night, I'd rather take a free day from work and focus on recouping my sleep, doing meditation and trying to set my mind up to have a proper night of sleep for the next day. 2 - Friends and family: I need those social interactions, I need to spend my weekend with my friends hanging out, know what they've been up to and getting in touch with the rest of the world. The pandemic absolutely destroyed this part of my life and I missed it so much I now realize how important this is. After those, I value both my work and free time equally: work brings money home, but my free time (some of which I spend playing piano/guitar, eventually I'll start finally making some music of my own) is just as important because my hobbies help me growing, broadening my knowledge and improving me as a person which then translates into the way I work and I end up working better and more efficiently and, sometimes, even integrating part of what I've learn through my hobbies into my own work, taking it into the next level. I once used to play a lot of videogames and I miss them a lot, I hope I'll find a slot during my week to get back playing some!
I make music pretty consistently at least I make a about 1-2 tracks a week and I wake up early like at the crack of dawn around like 5 a.m. to create music but I also like watching movies playing video games eating food lol. I want to get to a point where I can make money off the music to spend more time on it and don't have do some job I don't care to do. Still music is fun really fun but its a different type of fun and it can get tiring sometimes so i don't force anything I just go with how I'm feeling and stick to routine I have my self on
@@mredrollo you do you 😊 just my personal preference. You can see the periphery of the hand gestures, the brain fills in the rest, so it works just as well IMO. You could also just move the camera back by 20-30 cm (if you have the room)
Yeah. Sure. I can say I'm interested in music above all. But there's a narcissistic tendency with musicians to do that and neglect every other thing. I'd strongly recommend that you don't cross into that narcissistic territory. It's highly toxic and very well might put you in a very small box in the end. It's far better, in my opinion, to have some balance. Take care of people who matter. But don't give up on your music or compromise with those core principles that drive you to produce music. Balancing responsibilities and dreams is the key.
