#startrightnow

I have a home studio. I have ots of songs that wait to be recorded. I have the basic skills of recording music. Now action has to take place.

This is probably the hardest part: to kick yourself in the butt and start making music. I sped hours and hours watching tutorials instead of recording and doing music. There are more and more songs that I keep writing and the song pile grows. What a pitty, indeed. 

Why can’t I just get going and start. It seems to be so simple. But I am a huge procrastinator. I keep pushing it all away and find lots and lots of excuses to do so. “Before I start X I have to do Y.” And this goes on forever. 

However, if I take a real honest look at myself and my behaviour it’s not that I don’t have time or lacking certain gear or knowledge. Yeah, I may be a beginner, but that’s no reason to keep you from making music if you really want to. The beginning isin many cases the time when you are most motivated. The thing that holds me back is insecurity. And insecurity turns into fear. Fear about what people think, when they hear my music. Fear about the music sounding cheap. Fear about not reaching anybody at all. 

So the hardest part - to actually really start doing music - is, in it’s core, to overcome your own insecurities. One way to do so, is to set a deadline for yourself and focus on that. 

So my goal is to release my first EP at the beginning of April 2018. 

Yes, this might be a total failure and can be quite embarassing if I post this now and not meet my deadline later. Still, at least I need to try it and hope that I’ll be able to do it.

In the next days I will try to keep this blog updatet on what I’m working on as a way of monitoring myself and my progress in the project of releasing my first EP.