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Sirens

By GregVK on March 1, 2026 8:36 pm

So many songs shipwrecked, cursed to rot at the bottom of an ocean called “Works in Progress”.

It’s my default to abandon ship as soon as I see land. The end of a song’s creative journey is when I obsess over the tiniest details.
If you’ve read Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art, you know…
Resistance is strongest when you’re at the finish line.
I’ll find any excuse not to put my music out into the world. Which includes chasing perfection.

There’s always something to tweak.
Always time for another round of revisions.

I still hear the sirens’ call as the submission deadline grows near.
It’s where they sing the loudest.
But each time I resist resistance, I get a little more confident I can do it again.
Feels like I don’t have to tie myself to the mast anymore. I can face them, hands shaking a little less each week, knowing that the simple reward of knowing I can do it, is worth every bit of fear. 

I’ve been working on an old song this week. Tearing it apart and putting it back together.
And I’ve lost perspective.
I love how it sounds, but resistance is whispering in my ear that I need a few days away from it. With fresh ears I’ll know where it needs to go…

But Weekly Beats is here to rescue me.
No way I’m missing a submission when I already love what I’ve made.

So here it is!
Another one rescued from the past.

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Haha, Holy shit! 9 songs in 9 weeks.

This feels amazing!
Congrats to everyone who’s still uploading!
Thank you to everyone who took the time to listen to my submission last week.
I’m sorry I haven’t responded or listened to your tracks.

It’s been a nightmare of a week. My 13 month old son had a terrible fever and we had 3 days of virtually no sleep, plus doctors visits. All that paired with a huge project I felt totally out of my depth on, and a big family wedding on the weekend.

Anyway. Looking forward to catching up this week!
Cheers,
Greg

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At this point this isnt just a weeklybeat but also has a weekly poem attached to it.
Love the vibe going on especially with the sound design on this.

9 weeks is an amazing streak, fun fact my previous attempt ended at 7. So last week was my new "personal best" and i dont intend to stop. Lets finish the race together.

Hope tiny greg is doing better now and you got some more quality sleep ahead.

Whoa that stuttering sound coming in at 0:47 is so cool!
Lovely track once again, very polished sound design, arrangement and mix.
Congrats on week 9, glad to hear you can keep delivering the goods even if you had a rough week. Hope your kid is doing better and you've managed to catch up on getting some sleep. Keep it up mate! heart

This is so awesome! This feels different to the other stuff I've heard from you, but really nice. It's got kind of a dark and ominous quality to it. Some awesome sound design and mixing here, and I love 2:19 to the end, so good. Really sorry to hear about baby greg, sick kids are no fun. Hope everyone is better, and things are going ok.

It's really interesting to hear your perspective, because a) your stuff is always so polished, and b) I feel like i have the opposite problem. I'll abandon a lot of tracks, but it's almost always super early on because I decided i hate the idea, and I don't give it time to be polished and start to see what it could be within. Pretty much everything else, I just say "eh, good enough!" and I get a (hopefully) not terrible mix, throw it into Ozone, and ship it. Most of my songs have been written finished, and shipped in <2-3 hours?

Honestly, though, that's something I've felt a lot of discomfort and anxiety about. Am I holding myself back by not putting more time or effort in? Is my stuff worse than I'm realizing, and I'm just too impatient to realize or make it good? I don't know. I guess if there's ultimately a point I'm getting at - no matter our workflow, or whether we tend towards too casual or too perfectionist, we always will be our own biggest critic, and our biggest doubter. I'm really glad this one made it through—even if it wasn't exactly what you wanted it to be, I think it's really good, and I've enjoyed it. Anyways, thanks for sharing, and keep at it!

Great sound and mix, very cinematic composition with lots to chew on and a great epic feel. Hopefully the lad's feeling better now and you can get some sleep!

It's so weird!!

Well done on going on the journey and exploring this sonic territory, it's on another wavelength for sure!

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