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Weekly beats only takes place during even years. The next one will take place in 2024. However, some of us continue in an alternative site as a (much) smaller community. Feel free to join!

https://streak.club/s/1649/weekly-music-2023

Above 3 is fine.

My chess.com account is Kedbreak (yeah I know not original). Count me in!

Sounds like fun. I'm in!

Very cool! Is your music available somewhere to check out?

I have been continuing also in 2021 with weekly streaks, looking forward to more music in 2022, with a full season! Good to see familiar faces I missed during this year!

I discovered about weekly beats around week 8 and I thought this would be the perfect remedy to being a procrastinator. The deadlines and the need to put something out was great to get to things and try not to perfect them. "Done is better than perfect". This pressure of constant creation also made it necessary to find inspiration wherever I stumbled upon it. I kept recording voice memos about music lines I'd find while doing a run or recording the soundtrack in a movie as an inspiration. The usage of samples was also very interesting for me - I had this complex of "using samples is not really doing music" but when time is limited and my skills are limited, I realized how using Splice for instance as samples packs gave me access to using musical elements I could never dream to compose myself. It felt sometimes I was doing more collage than pure music creation, but that's fine too. In the end, who cares as long as the journey was fun?
The community was really great with encouraging words and it was inspiring to see so much talent here, with compos and mixes that are totally pro level. That has really motivated me to trying to up my game and learn new tricks. There is still a long way to go but it's not like I have anything better to do.
In retrospect, I am 100% thankful for the experience and am looking forward to 2022!