Anyone here fall out of love with music in general?

[NJL]

I have gigs and i teach.. but nothing really interests me in music.. nothing new out there for my tastes which I don't even know what they are anymore.

Any of you been through this and able to bring yourself back?

[scorpionldr]

Quite honestly, I'm fighting it too.........except I'm wanting to do more open mics, and I'm composing here and there in MIDI in spare time.........all I can say is fight it, man. Start listening to music's you never planned on liking, or imagined existing. Make your own scales. Just keep yourself busy, and when someone sees you working away at it, and becomes a fan, it'll just be more encouragement to make more. Don't be afraid to make releases you think'll bomb either. I've gotten to the point of writing my own sequenced tracks so often I've got 80+ pieces of unreleased material that I never bothered releasing cuz I didn't have a time/place to record vocals. It's gona become a discography cuz I feel like A: I feel like starting over, B: the music is WAY too fast, and C: people have been BEGGING to hear new stuff from me.

[Chunk-O-Funk]

Yeah, I can relate to that.

It's been a while, but I can remember being really excited when a band/artist would release a new album and I couldn't wait to get my hands on it. Go to the concert, whatever.

At one time we had a pretty decent club scene in Providence, RI, too. National acts would come by and I loved the local acts. Everything from Rock, to Blues and Jazz. I just had to be there.

I think part of it is just my age. I can't relate as much to what's on the radio and I just don't go down town that much anymore. Bottom line. There's not much for inspiration out there.


Haven't been brought back yet.
GREAT! Now sad bassist is sad.

[santucci218]

well, what kind of stuff would relight your candle? maybe somebody can suggest something that really gets you going again. That happened with me when i heard Protest The Hero. Just like, "Wow, I really dig what these guys are doing." Thus my research began again.

[Mark Wilson]

Not a hope.

Music is all I've got going for me in my life.
I love it more than anything!

[santucci218]

Originally Posted by Mark Wilson

Not a hope.

Music is all I've got going for me in my life.
I love it more than anything!

i really doubt your boyfriend would appriciate that post Mark.

[Oric]

It's never happened to me. I've gone through periods of not playing as much, but I still have to get some in every day. I have to listen to music every day, not just as background music, but dedicated sitting down and listening. I can not forsee a future where music is not important. I often write my best music when I am emotionally down (or up!).

[Sonic_Death]

Sometimes..

There are a few special bands that will always give me hope to listen to though. I feel so renewed when I listen to really good bands that I highly connect with the music.

[Chris Fitzgerald]

I've been through it a few times. In retrospect, it always turns out to be something I'm going through rather than some big realization with the music. Often, it's a conflict between what I feel I *should* be doing versus what I really want to do musically. In all cases, what gets me back is rebonding with my instrument and focusing on simple things like tone, groove, intonation, and time, and just letting myself enjoy those without a lot of pressure to attach a lot more meaning to it.

[Mark Wilson]

Originally Posted by santucci218

i really doubt your boyfriend would appriciate that post Mark.

How many times do I need to tell you, Paul?
You and I had a one night thing. That's IT!
Also, stop referring to yourself in the 3rd person!

[tplyons]

I no longer consider myself a musician. I don't have time or inspiration to make it a large part of my life anymore.

Maybe another day, but certainly not right now.

[D.Don]

This has been going on with me in periods for the last 10 years.

The last gig I did as a keyboardplayer was 2001, after a period where I actually from the start had quit playing but was headhunted by a really cool band so I joined them at a hobby basis around 1998 after more or less giving up playing 1996 due to exactly this "fallin out of love" thing.

The band was great and we had a fantastic time together through those 3 years, but then we all moved in different directions in the world and had to split up the band, though all the guys are today some of my best friends, though none of us really even bother thinking about playing together again, but you never know...

Since then I have been composing and producing a bit, but mostly been playing around with technique stuff and computer recording just for the **** of it.

I started playing the bass in jan/feb this year, initially to use the bass for my recordings (see link in my signature for more info), but then pretty fast it turned out a new hobby and now I play a lil every day, as well as I play around with pedals, sound, and actually also started to do some setup and easy luthier works (defret, fret-levelling, electronics) the last months too.

I am not "on fire" when playing and learning new stuff on the bass, but I enjoy it, and it has a nice lil place now in my heart, it seems like a hobby that is here to stay and maybe in a year or so I'll hook up with a real drummer and jam, for the first time in my life, on bass!!

The spark comes and goes m8, let it be for a while and do other stuff, and one day it'll strike you again, at least that's my experience of this.



D.Don

[fenderx55]

I'm pretty much in the same place as tplyons. I feel like I can't have too much creativity going at once. A little more than a year ago I convinced myself to be totally comfortable letting my gig from high school be primarily a bar band and I got heavy into writing short fiction. Then a guy I had a class with hooked up with a band that was going into the studio, some really really awesome music happening (it was missing just one element though).

I rode it out with them, recorded an EP in a fancy studio with a very talented producer, then as soon as it was done everything exploded in a most dramatic and fantastic way. All I'll say is that bands+ego+stepfamily= heartbreak.

A couple guys and I from that band are getting together to get something new going, we have a song or so written, but since I graduated and have a "big boy job"... shrug, all I've wanted to do is to hang out with my girlfriend and watch tv. I'm blaming this mostly on my uninspiring job. Now bass has really just turned into a mechanical hobby. I work on my stuff, got some new gear, but nothing's sparking anymore. This happened right before I got hooked up with that last band. Right around january I was ready to hang it up for a while and really focus on writing, then that last band happened and I also played out with a singer-songwriter as a pure sideman and was finishing my BA. I guess something had to give...and everything gave. I was an English major and I haven't been able to finish more than 3 books since I graduated in May.

I guess, and sorry for the long post, sometimes something has to give before we are able to build it back up again--that thing about hitting rock bottom before you can rebuild. I'm not much of a fate guy, but I believe that something will come along when you really need it. I think the best thing is to follow your inclinations and your gut and not fight it too much. The best path will show itself after some proper foundering in the forest.

[kserg]

I farted

[D.Don]

Originally Posted by FreaqyFrequency

This song got me dancing. There are still great new people/groups out there, you just have to look for them. There's an ocean of $h17 to wade through to find them.

Love those keyboards in that tune m8!

D.Don

[FreaqyFrequency]

Originally Posted by D.Don

Love those keyboards in that tune m8!

D.Don

I really dig the bass player too, very tasteful and you can definitely tell he's got some chops.

But what's great is that the whole group's sound just blends so well. The drummer is incredibly groovy, the keyboardist especially so, good guitar solo and rhythm part, and even the lead's vocals fit the mix. Not to mention I really like the lyrics.

Anyway, /thread derail.

[D.Don]

Originally Posted by FreaqyFrequency

I really dig the bass player too, very tasteful and you can definitely tell he's got some chops.

But what's great is that the whole group's sound just blends so well. The drummer is incredibly groovy, the keyboardist especially so, good guitar solo and rhythm part, and even the lead's vocals fit the mix. Not to mention I really like the lyrics.

Anyway, /thread derail.

Bookmarked them in spotify (like deezer, but better).

Thanks for the tips there!

D.Don

[MakiSupaStar]

See I'm going through the opposite right now. I've got the inlaws in town and it's drivng me nuts that I can't just plug in and rattle some windows.

[armywalaby]

I had that in high school for a while, when I was in my last band. I was talking to the girl i was seeing at the time on the phone about quitting music and she said to me something along the lines of "you can't quit music, because music is what you are." So I had to find other outlets to re-invigorate my.....faith....(not really the right word I think), well, yeah it sort of is.

I guess if you think about it like this, I never got those crazy religious people how they were filled with all of this holy spirit jesus stuff, but I suppose if you borrow a line from the movie Dogma it kind of makes sense: "Faith is like a glass of water; when you're young the glass is small and easy to fill, but when you get older the glass gets bigger so you need more water to fill it"

Maybe it's not so much music that you're losing faith in, but the way you are interpreting the music that you take part in? Maybe try to do some new things in music that will make it exciting again?

/bonghit

[flipper_gv]

download last.fm, discover new and interesting artists (can't be a way you've listened to everything...), refall in love.