When It Gets Easy, Don’t Get Cute
I’m back to recording every day. And making a song in the morning, or a track. Who knows? It’s a song. Instrumental. And I feel myself getting sharp.
The one thing I have to remain very, very conscious of is respecting it when it’s coming easy. And by this, I mean that when things are really working and it feels, you know, easy to make a track, you’re in the groove—it doesn’t mean it’s not a good track. It doesn’t mean anything like that.
Maybe not you, but for me, I just have to stay conscious of: it took a huge amount of years to get to where this kind of thing is easy. And give yourself the grace and kind of the self—just general respect—of you worked for this. So respect it when it comes.
If I’m not making music, I spend my days thinking about switching some things up. But when I’m in a music-making time, I just think about the song and the next day.
It’s like this blog. I want to have one interesting thing to say musically every day.
Well, I want to do something musically interesting tomorrow, so I need to think through what I’m going to go down and do in the morning. And largely, it just keeps you in a very fresh headspace.
And actually, I’ve committed to, like I always do, one particular setup for 30 days. So I know that making any change is going to take me away from the flow and where I am with making music. And this system could abandon me at any time. I don’t know how it works. But it just does.
So I’m just staying super grateful of the fact that the music’s coming out of this setup right now.
Hallelujah.