{"id":859,"date":"2023-10-23T13:59:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/?p=859"},"modified":"2026-09-24T16:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T16:55:59","slug":"finishing-tracks-is-its-own-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/finishing-tracks-is-its-own-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Finishing Tracks Is Its Own Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Late last night I was catching up on my youtube subscriptions and this vid appeared on my feed from Bthelick. Now, I make a lot of music and I also publish a lot of it on Soundcloud, but I also sit on a lot and probably 1 in every 5 tracks I start, I don't finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I first started to get into music production, I spent a lot of time watching videos which claimed to help improve my music production. They can be useful to a certain extent (and I still and will continue to watch them) but in real life, to get better, I believe t's simply a case of putting in the hours making music - the Malcolm Gladwell ten thousand hours assertion.<br><br>I'm roughly now 3 years in and have 264 tracks released on SoundCloud. I've had the odd success like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gK-13MYJh6Y\" title=\"40 Degree Heatwave\">40 Degree Heatwave<\/a> with over 4000 listens on youtube and more recently <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/iamdek\/say\" title=\"Let Me Hear You Say\u2026\">Let Me Hear You Say\u2026<\/a> on Soundcloud with over 1000 plays. These little blips are nice when they happen, and there really seems to be no indicator when they will. I've put out what I think are some great tracks only for them to be played a handful of times and then to disappear into the depths of my profile feed.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why You Can&amp;apos;t Finish Tracks\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PokHQLN2iHM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I scrolled back through my private tracks and found this. I made it around 3 or 4 months ago. I'm not sure why I didn't release it at the time - I'm was probably unhappy with something minor so never considered it to be finished. It's finished now as it's public! Maybe this is 'the one' that makes me a superstar producer \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rock With Me One Time by iamdek\" width=\"1140\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1555120780&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=1140\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last night I was catching up on my youtube subscriptions and this vid appeared on my feed from Bthelick. Now, I make a lot of music and I also publish a lot of it on Soundcloud, but I also sit on a lot and probably 1 in every 5 tracks I start, I don't [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","_lightning_design_setting":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,188],"tags":[123,124,126,127],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-production","category-music","tag-music","tag-tech-house","tag-iamdek","tag-soundcloud"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dankew.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}