{"id":46415,"date":"2020-11-06T23:09:14","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/?p=46415"},"modified":"2020-11-06T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T23:09:14","slug":"what-happens-when-music-isnt-fun-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/what-happens-when-music-isnt-fun-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens When Music Isn&#8217;t Fun Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"produ-leaderboard-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;margin-bottom: 30px!important;\" id=\"produ-432016764\"><script async=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"><\/script>\n<script> var googletag = googletag || {}; googletag.cmd = googletag.cmd || [];<\/script>\n<div id=\"gpt-ad-5034729691953-0\">\n  <script>\n\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() {\n\t\t\t\tgoogletag.defineSlot( '\/21927241144\/728x90-Leaderboard', [728,90], 'gpt-ad-5034729691953-0' )\n\t\t.addService(googletag.pubads());\n\t\t\t\twindow.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers || {};\n\t\tconst timers                     = window.advadsGamEmptySlotsTimers;\n\n\t\ttimers['gpt-ad-5034729691953-0'] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\tconst id = 'gpt-ad-5034729691953-0';\n\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t}, 1000 );\n\n\t\tif ( typeof window.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotRequested', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] === 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\ttimers[id] = setTimeout( function () {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}, 2500 );\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\tgoogletag.pubads().addEventListener( 'slotResponseReceived', function ( ev ) {\n\t\t\t\tconst id = ev.slot.getSlotElementId();\n\t\t\t\tif ( typeof timers[id] !== 'undefined' ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tclearTimeout( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t\tdelete ( timers[id] );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\tif ( ! ev.slot.getResponseInformation() ) {\n\t\t\t\t\tdocument.dispatchEvent( new CustomEvent( 'aagam_empty_slot', {detail: id} ) );\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t} );\n\t\t\twindow.advadsGamHasEmptySlotListener = true;\n\t\t}\n\n\t\tgoogletag.enableServices();\n\t\tgoogletag.display( 'gpt-ad-5034729691953-0' );\n\t} );\n  <\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><p>Chances are you&#8217;ve experienced moments in your life when music wasn&#8217;t much fun, or maybe you&#8217;re experiencing it now. It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you&#8217;re an engineer, producer, songwriter, or all of those. It&#8217;s totally natural, from time to time, to feel a general sense of, &#8220;This isn&#8217;t what I thought it would be. Making music isn&#8217;t fun anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are countless nuanced ways we&#8217;ve experienced and dealt with times like these. Factors like self-doubt and anxiety surrounding music are extremely common, and can certainly take away its appeal. Sometimes achieving a dream of monetizing hobbies results in lost passion as well. Whatever the case may be, there are some general things to consider when making music isn&#8217;t fun anymore.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldnz8DlQf34\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Dealing with Self Doubt in Music | FAQ Friday - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro\" title=\"Play video &quot;Dealing with Self Doubt in Music | FAQ Friday - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldnz8DlQf34<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldnz8DlQf34\" title=\"Dealing with Self Doubt in Music | FAQ Friday - Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro\">Dealing with Self Doubt in Music | FAQ Friday &#8211; Warren Huart: Produce Like A Pro (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ldnz8DlQf34)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music isn&#8217;t fun when it&#8217;s constantly stressful.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t subscribe to the &#8220;love what you do and you&#8217;ll never work a day in your life&#8221; philosophy. The idea isn&#8217;t to trick yourself into thinking you&#8217;re not &#8220;working,&#8221; but to be excited and passionate about what you&#8217;re doing. There&#8217;s no question being in the music business is a <em>ton\u00a0<\/em>of hard work \u2014 hopefully, though, it&#8217;s hard work you&#8217;re excited about doing; it&#8217;s rewarding and fun.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as that excitement or passion starts to fade, showing up to a session might turn into something you dread. Maybe engineering\/producing started out as a fun hobby or side gig, and through dedication and a bit of luck became your full-time job. Now you&#8217;re working on tons of projects you&#8217;ve little musical interest in, and making music feels like punching a clock. You&#8217;re keeping food on the table and the lights on, but the process is more stressful than ever.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46417\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46417 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2.jpg\" alt=\"What Happens When Music Isn't Fun Anymore?_2\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-80x53.jpg 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-255x170.jpg 255w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-225x150.jpg 225w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-40x27.jpg 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-20x13.jpg 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-633x422.jpg 633w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-15x10.jpg 15w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-14x9.jpg 14w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_2-385x257.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No pressure!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is quite a predicament. On the one hand, music is paying your bills. On the other, you feel uninspired by the music you&#8217;re making, perhaps because you&#8217;re frequently working outside your preferred genre(s) \u2014 engineering\/producing\/songwriting is now a &#8220;day job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you find yourself in a position like this, you have to create boundaries. This means saying &#8220;no&#8221; to certain projects, even if it means sacrificing parts of your income. It&#8217;s hard to say no early on in your career; in fact, we&#8217;re usually told to say yes to everything! But you&#8217;ll have to find the right balance between taking projects because you <em>have<\/em> to, and taking projects because you <em>want\u00a0<\/em>to.<\/p>\n<p>You should be willing to step outside your comfort zone and work potentially stressful sessions, but trust your instincts if you feel like something is more trouble than it&#8217;s worth. Or worse, if you find making music isn&#8217;t fun anymore from a string of burdensome sessions!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music isn&#8217;t fun when\u00a0you&#8217;re focusing too much on gear. <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_46418\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46418\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46418 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3.jpg\" alt=\"What Happens When Music Isn't Fun Anymore?_3\" width=\"800\" height=\"492\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-600x369.jpg 600w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-768x472.jpg 768w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-80x49.jpg 80w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-320x197.jpg 320w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-276x170.jpg 276w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-244x150.jpg 244w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-770x474.jpg 770w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-40x25.jpg 40w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-160x98.jpg 160w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-20x12.jpg 20w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-640x394.jpg 640w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-686x422.jpg 686w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-553x340.jpg 553w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-16x10.jpg 16w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-488x300.jpg 488w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-15x9.jpg 15w, https:\/\/producelikeapro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/What-Happens-When-Music-Isnt-Fun-Anymore_3-385x237.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just missing a few&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Researching and picking up new gear is one of the greatest joys we audio geeks have! When you&#8217;re passionate about sound, there&#8217;s nothing better than finding that missing link in your signal path between &#8220;adequate&#8221; and &#8220;amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a very slippery slope, however. It&#8217;s tons of fun giving into GAS (gear acquisition syndrome), but this can derail pretty quickly into disillusionment. Maybe that new preamp didn&#8217;t live up to the hype, and you&#8217;re out fistfuls of cash on something that didn&#8217;t make your music sound any better. Or maybe after a few months it&#8217;s just another piece of gear in your collection, and the inspiration that it brought was fleeting.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of times staying truly inspired and creative means working with what we have right now. There&#8217;s creativity in &#8220;making it work,&#8221; rather than owning every tool imaginable. Music isn&#8217;t fun if you have to sift through hundreds of plugins or virtual instruments before any creating begins.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you can relate to any of these feelings, you aren&#8217;t alone!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen youtube\">\n<div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JcstdstGqAc\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"Is it ever too late to start a career in music? | FAQ Friday\" title=\"Play video &quot;Is it ever too late to start a career in music? | FAQ Friday&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JcstdstGqAc<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JcstdstGqAc\" title=\"Is it ever too late to start a career in music? | FAQ Friday\">Is it ever too late to start a career in music? | FAQ Friday (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JcstdstGqAc)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are you&#8217;ve experienced moments in your life when music wasn&#8217;t much fun, or maybe you&#8217;re experiencing it now. 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