Feel like an imposter when you make music? Like you cant share it with anyone? Here's what helped me
I used to feel like this a lot when I was learning production.
Like my first 7 years of producing, I felt everything I made was so bad lol.
In heindsight, it wasnt as bad as I thought.. Nor as good as I wanted it to be.
If I go back and fix up the project ideas I made back then, I know now it would be really good and that insecurity I had before wouldn't be there..
But what changed?
What happend from just 3 years ago to now that shifted my mindset for 7 years of producing?
Let's find out.
Responsibility
First off, if you’re feelin like this, its totally YOUR fault!
Yeah, I said it.
Maybe you deny it, or maybe you know it and just hate that you can't do anything about it.
But here's why this being your fault is a good thing...
If you broke it, you can fix it!
That's the first step.
To understand that its in your power to not feel like this and the reason you do is because you chose to.
It's completely in your power to choose to feel like an imposter or to objectively look at your music without emotional bias.
When I say objective, I'm talking about how you know your songs are missing something to sound professional like how you want it to.
VS imposter being you feel like your music sucks and are scared to release it when objectively, you know its not that bad.
"Did you say I chose to be like this?"
Yes, I did. :0
It's hard to pinpoint exactly for you without getting to know you individually.
But every producer I talk to with this issue has some form of perfectionism.
Which I find the best definition is: pushing for more when there is clearly a diminishing return.
To simplify that, I mean - pushing yourself to do more when each time you try to do more, you get less and less in return.
And this all bottles up into a negative action cycle of constantly pushing but getting less and less.
I've covered perfectionism before in detail (read here and here)
In essence, because you strive for perfectionism to the point of burnout, you end up getting too attached to the outcome you want vs accepting what is.
The solution
The key then is to do the opposite.
So instead of pushing for more, try learning to accept what is.
You can always start a new track and do better next time.
But if you allow yourself to stay stuck in this loop, you’ll never have the future opportunities to do better.
You'll be stuck on the same unfinished song loops,
I know this can be confusing.
And frustrating...
And very annoying to work through lol
But if you need more help, it's exactly one of the reasons I created a sound design community for you to join.
You'll be able to get feedback on your songs, know whether its actually bad or just in your head.
You'll also be able to network and meet with other producers and help each other out and grow your music projects together.
Instead of spending another year working on music alone with no way to get feedback or surround yourself with other producers who are serious too.
Unfortunately for you if you didnt signup earlier - this community is now closed for its alpha phase.
The next phase will open up sometime mid or end June 2024.
If you want to be notified for when the beta phase starts and get 1 of 30 spots as a beta member.
Peace,
Vig
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