Herr Irrtum! on Nostr: Personally I don't like that #jamuary idea too much. The idea to come up with a song ...
Personally I don't like that #jamuary idea too much.
The idea to come up with a song every day doesn't sound nice and creative to me. But like a painfully bloodsucking burnout machine!
Sure, the first week may be fun, but then?
It's most easy for guitar/singer like setups, or piano+singer I guess, but even then. It will drag sooner or later. Downwards! I could apply to the piano/singer gang, however I'm not to keen to do songwriter style stuff every day, I like more experimental things sometimes, or dancefloor compatible things in other times.
I need 6h per tune minimum so it meets my own minimum standards. Imagine having to take 6-8h per day to invest into music (when even creativity blocks may appear) when there is a 8h job (typically more with ways and pauses), family, kid? It's dragging even without all that. It's enough to get you away from music making, even hating it forever!
Now you may say, noone is forcing you. It's okay to submit 1 tune even.
Fine, but why not saying so - AS A CLEAR RULE with highest priority? Like: Submit as many as you want, 1 is enough?
Because it's clearly spark an unhealthy kind of a competition. My timeline is full of people telling how hard it is now that January ends to come up with something. Anything. Surprise. Smells like burnout. Is that the intent?
And if not, why didn't someone think about it?
I'm out (and I was never in).
#fawm is similar (just that graciously "only" every second day a tune should be ready for it, if I remember that right - also with some small addition somewhere, that it doesn't need to be that frequency. If so, then say that in the FIRST PLACE!).
The idea to come up with a song every day doesn't sound nice and creative to me. But like a painfully bloodsucking burnout machine!
Sure, the first week may be fun, but then?
It's most easy for guitar/singer like setups, or piano+singer I guess, but even then. It will drag sooner or later. Downwards! I could apply to the piano/singer gang, however I'm not to keen to do songwriter style stuff every day, I like more experimental things sometimes, or dancefloor compatible things in other times.
I need 6h per tune minimum so it meets my own minimum standards. Imagine having to take 6-8h per day to invest into music (when even creativity blocks may appear) when there is a 8h job (typically more with ways and pauses), family, kid? It's dragging even without all that. It's enough to get you away from music making, even hating it forever!
Now you may say, noone is forcing you. It's okay to submit 1 tune even.
Fine, but why not saying so - AS A CLEAR RULE with highest priority? Like: Submit as many as you want, 1 is enough?
Because it's clearly spark an unhealthy kind of a competition. My timeline is full of people telling how hard it is now that January ends to come up with something. Anything. Surprise. Smells like burnout. Is that the intent?
And if not, why didn't someone think about it?
I'm out (and I was never in).
#fawm is similar (just that graciously "only" every second day a tune should be ready for it, if I remember that right - also with some small addition somewhere, that it doesn't need to be that frequency. If so, then say that in the FIRST PLACE!).