This post was supposed to be about chords, but it's about something that all musicians should learn to do. Abandoning projects that are going nowhere, that is.
I've spent the last 2-3 days working on this track:
And it's just going absolutely nowhere. I kinda like the mood of it, but the mix is atrocious and I can't think of anything that I would want to add to it. To make things worse, it has some core level production problems that aren't easy to fix. Now, I could always waste a week on fixing the problems but the question is, is it worth it? If the track behind the mess was good enough, then maybe yes, sometimes. But, polishing a mediocre track for a week is not. One could always say that the process could teach me a thing or two about production, but then again, I could always just as well write a few new tracks and focus on building them to be good from the ground up.
As time is short, I will thus just abandon the track. If I want to, I can always come back to it later or salvage the good bits from it.
And that's it for now. This was basically just an intermission, a short post about frustration. Next post will be about the chords, I promise!
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