Originally Posted by
Fatlimey
The difference is making stuff. Constantly making stuff.
In order to make good tracks, you have to make a lot (a LOT) or crap and sift through it for the gems. The ability to come up with twenty new basslines, find new textures and sounds, save them off for later, pick them up when they're needed, create and catalog new beats and use them at just the right time.
To produce well or to DJ well, you have to be a constant firehose of new ideas, and not get too attached to any particular one. I just don't have the energy or spare time, but I have tasted what it's like to do that. A bit like an olympic athlete, you have to do it every day and push yourself beyond the norm, so that when you have to do it in public the basics are second nature and almost boring to execute, and you get to use your creative energy to add the extra sparkle on top.
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