Morning to you all, hope you are all well.
I am after some thoughts, some advice and your experience.
I have been producing ambient music for a little over a year now, and have published several tracks to SC, some of which you guys have even professed to enjoy ! (crazy lot we have here).
I have reached a point where I don't want to just keep putting out a track here and a track there, I would like to focus myself on possibly producing my first album or EP !!!
This is where I would like to canvass some opinions and experience on how to go about this, and what your experiences were when you produced your first album or EP, how did you find it ?
Is acceptable for an album to be just a "collection of tracks", but ones that might not have anything in common with each other ?
Is it better to have a "theme" for an album that all the tracks share with each other?
What about a "concept" album ? or is that a bit too ambitious for a first album ?
What about one single evolving track that encompasses and albums worth of material ?
10 or so shorter tracks ? or less tracks that are longer in length ?
How did you go about producing your first album ?
What was difficult ? and what was easy ?
How did you focus your creativity on the album ?
I know there is a lot of questions in here, and I am not expecting anyone to answer them precisely, I would just like to get your thoughts and experiences on this.
I have a million and one ideas flying round my head and would like some ideas to help me get focused, otherwise I'm liable to produce an hours worth of total tosh !
Really hope you can help me out, many thanks in advance.
Cheers everyone.
James.
I am after some thoughts, some advice and your experience.
I have been producing ambient music for a little over a year now, and have published several tracks to SC, some of which you guys have even professed to enjoy ! (crazy lot we have here).
I have reached a point where I don't want to just keep putting out a track here and a track there, I would like to focus myself on possibly producing my first album or EP !!!
This is where I would like to canvass some opinions and experience on how to go about this, and what your experiences were when you produced your first album or EP, how did you find it ?
Is acceptable for an album to be just a "collection of tracks", but ones that might not have anything in common with each other ?
Is it better to have a "theme" for an album that all the tracks share with each other?
What about a "concept" album ? or is that a bit too ambitious for a first album ?
What about one single evolving track that encompasses and albums worth of material ?
10 or so shorter tracks ? or less tracks that are longer in length ?
How did you go about producing your first album ?
What was difficult ? and what was easy ?
How did you focus your creativity on the album ?
I know there is a lot of questions in here, and I am not expecting anyone to answer them precisely, I would just like to get your thoughts and experiences on this.
I have a million and one ideas flying round my head and would like some ideas to help me get focused, otherwise I'm liable to produce an hours worth of total tosh !
Really hope you can help me out, many thanks in advance.
Cheers everyone.
James.
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