I found that the most important lesson weeklybeats can teach you is: How can I make this sustainable? What keeps a project feeling exciting enough to pish through? What makes me curious? What makes it feel like play? How do I shift the balance from outcome to process? Everybody has their own answers, and I hope you can manage to find a way thaz feels right for you.

This track sounds very relaxing, it washes over you and takes you somewhere else for seven and a half minutes. I hope it felt similar making it.

I found that the most important lesson weeklybeats can teach you is: How can I make this sustainable? What keeps a project feeling exciting enough to pish through? What makes me curious? What makes it feel like play? How do I shift the balance from outcome to process? Everybody has their own answers, and I hope you can manage to find a way thaz feels right for you. This track sounds very relaxing, it washes over you and takes you somewhere else for seven and a half minutes. I hope it felt similar making it.

oh dang, dreeks got me levitating over here again

*very relatable post too. i'm working up finishing mixes on an album this month and i know i need to keep things chill on WB so i can manage my time (and not overwork my ears), but yeah... easier said than done! think i'm gonna limit myself to a one track voice memo recording this week as a behavioral exercise 

"i can come back to these ideas later."
let's keep telling ourselves this! hope you have a good week. gonna hit play on 'cinnamon' again now...

oh dang, dreeks got me levitating over here again *very relatable post too. i'm working up finishing mixes on an album this month and i know i need to keep things chill on WB so i can manage my time (and not overwork my ears), but yeah... easier said than done! think i'm gonna limit myself to a one track voice memo recording this week as a behavioral exercise :D "i can come back to these ideas later." let's keep telling ourselves this! hope you have a good week. gonna hit play on 'cinnamon' again now...

sometimes i forget how good u are at ambient music and then u drop something like this

sometimes i forget how good u are at ambient music and then u drop something like this

this is gorgeous and a wonderful escape.  Those low bass tones with the pads sounds so good.  You've got the right idea.  WB is what you want it to be really and it comes with an awesome supportive community.  You've got the right idea! \m/  Such a comforting pad.  Well done!

this is gorgeous and a wonderful escape. Those low bass tones with the pads sounds so good. You've got the right idea. WB is what you want it to be really and it comes with an awesome supportive community. You've got the right idea! \m/ Such a comforting pad. Well done!

thanks for the kind words!! hope you all have a great week. the community here is so nice and supprortive

[quote=LeBernd]I found that the most important lesson weeklybeats can teach you is: How can I make this sustainable? What keeps a project feeling exciting enough to pish through? What makes me curious? What makes it feel like play? How do I shift the balance from outcome to process? Everybody has their own answers, and I hope you can manage to find a way thaz feels right for you. This track sounds very relaxing, it washes over you and takes you somewhere else for seven and a half minutes. I hope it felt similar making it.[/quote] [quote=jwh]oh dang, dreeks got me levitating over here again *very relatable post too. i'm working up finishing mixes on an album this month and i know i need to keep things chill on WB so i can manage my time (and not overwork my ears), but yeah... easier said than done! think i'm gonna limit myself to a one track voice memo recording this week as a behavioral exercise :D "i can come back to these ideas later." let's keep telling ourselves this! hope you have a good week. gonna hit play on 'cinnamon' again now... [/quote] [quote=Tone Matrix]this is gorgeous and a wonderful escape. Those low bass tones with the pads sounds so good. You've got the right idea. WB is what you want it to be really and it comes with an awesome supportive community. You've got the right idea! \m/ Such a comforting pad. Well done! [/quote] thanks for the kind words!! hope you all have a great week. the community here is so nice and supprortive <3

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[quote=vera]sometimes i forget how good u are at ambient music and then u drop something like this [/quote] <3<3<3<3

so nice!!! i am drifting awaaaay see you at the end of the universe buddiesssss   OH SHIT THE ALIENS ARE SHOOTING ME with the thick saw lead at 2:40ish, so good!

so nice!!! i am drifting awaaaay see you at the end of the universe buddiesssss OH SHIT THE ALIENS ARE SHOOTING ME with the thick saw lead at 2:40ish, so good!

Dang I thought this was gonna be ambient all the way through but then you hit us with those beautiful chords!

Dang I thought this was gonna be ambient all the way through but then you hit us with those beautiful chords!

Oh how precise, cinnamon

Oh how precise, cinnamon

Lovely track. Didn't expect the swell + distortion around the 2-minute mark but welcomed it.

Lovely track. Didn't expect the swell + distortion around the 2-minute mark but welcomed it.

thank you all for listening!!

[quote=bc likes you]Lovely track. Didn't expect the swell + distortion around the 2-minute mark but welcomed it. [/quote] [quote=Kaaareeegar]Oh how precise, cinnamon[/quote] [quote=Water_Feature]Dang I thought this was gonna be ambient all the way through but then you hit us with those beautiful chords![/quote] [quote=horatiuromantic]so nice!!! i am drifting awaaaay see you at the end of the universe buddiesssss OH SHIT THE ALIENS ARE SHOOTING ME with the thick saw lead at 2:40ish, so good! [/quote] thank you all for listening!!

Very PS2 no disc, and relaxing.
- Leega

Very PS2 no disc, and relaxing. - Leega

First of all, beautiful. Second, holy shit those giant synths at 2:30ish took my breath away. Amazing. Very M83, big drama, unapologetic, really fantastic.

Perfectionism I am familiar with. Consider this: Weekly Beats is not a graveyard where songs are born to die and be buried, its a garden, you're planting seeds and by the end of a week you have enough of something growing to share it with the world and nurture it later.

By which I mean, I guess, think about getting your songs to a goal-based "good enough" - I typically aim for "good enough that its listenable and enough of a complete idea that if I deicde I like it and come back to this song later I will know exactly where I want to go with it and what needs to be done"...

... which sounds like a lot but its way easier than "perfect and ready to be buried in the annals of music history."

This song was absolutely "good enough" to return to and make even more amazing some day. If you want

First of all, beautiful. Second, holy shit those giant synths at 2:30ish took my breath away. Amazing. Very M83, big drama, unapologetic, really fantastic. Perfectionism I am familiar with. Consider this: Weekly Beats is not a graveyard where songs are born to die and be buried, its a garden, you're planting seeds and by the end of a week you have enough of something growing to share it with the world and nurture it later. By which I mean, I guess, think about getting your songs to a goal-based "good enough" - I typically aim for "good enough that its listenable and enough of a complete idea that if I deicde I like it and come back to this song later I will know exactly where I want to go with it and what needs to be done"... ... which sounds like a lot but its way easier than "perfect and ready to be buried in the annals of music history." This song was absolutely "good enough" to return to and make even more amazing some day. If you want :)

that's so true, a really nice metaphor. thanks so much for the comment!

[quote=neon liminal]Perfectionism I am familiar with. Consider this: Weekly Beats is not a graveyard where songs are born to die and be buried, its a garden, you're planting seeds and by the end of a week you have enough of something growing to share it with the world and nurture it later.[/quote] that's so true, a really nice metaphor. thanks so much for the comment!

This is huge in an I-can't-even-comprehend kind of way. The chord progressions and all the shimmering sounds in the background really sweep you away. As for WB, I treat it as a sketch pad - if something's not quite finished, at least it's a gift to my future self when I have a clearer mind to develop it more. It keeps you moving forward at a regular pace, and there's no rule saying you can't go back later. Much of the interesting stuff in music is its potential anyway.

This is huge in an I-can't-even-comprehend kind of way. The chord progressions and all the shimmering sounds in the background really sweep you away. As for WB, I treat it as a sketch pad - if something's not quite finished, at least it's a gift to my future self when I have a clearer mind to develop it more. It keeps you moving forward at a regular pace, and there's no rule saying you can't go back later. Much of the interesting stuff in music is its potential anyway.