u/Enough_Community_447

Hey there guys, I've recently bought a launchpad x and a korg pa300,so I can make some music on Ableton. Unfortunately though I don't have much experience with making music with instruments,hell i don't have any experience with instruments in general besides playing the piano for a week or so. So I now have to learn how to use both of these instruments. How much will this take though? Do I have to put music production on a halt until I learn how to play on them well enough? That's gonna take like a couple of months.

Recently I've been researching how much music producers get paid and tbh it's quite underwhelming. Royalties pay like what 3-4%? If you're popular enough maybe even 7%. There's also an upfront fee,which varies from 1.000 to 150k depending on, yet again, how popular you are. The upfront fee doesn't seem like a small payment BUT keep in mind how much time it'll take you to produce a music piece and sell it, which can vary from like 3 weeks to even 2 months depending on what genre you're making of course. It seems like a very high risk with considerably low reward in comparison to something like a singer or a songwriter or even someone who's mastering music.

Recently I've been researching how much music producers get paid and tbh it's quite underwhelming. Royalties pay like what 3-4%? If you're popular enough maybe even 7%. There's also an upfront fee,which varies from 1.000 to 150k depending on, yet again, how popular you are. The upfront fee doesn't seem like a small payment BUT keep in mind how much time it'll take you to produce a music piece and sell it, which can vary from like 3 weeks to even 2 months depending on what genre you're making of course. It seems like a very high risk with considerably low reward in comparison to something like a singer or a songwriter or even someone who's mastering music.

For some context, I've had a rocky relationship with meditation. I started it for a couple of weeks, I quit afterwards for a couple of months or so. But I got results pretty fast, emotional regulation,more present in the now,self awareness,better focus, more calm. After each session I felt like my state of consciousness had been altered, I was very calm and present. This happened after 2 weeks of meditation every single time I picked it up again. Since June I've picked it up again and I'm having the biggest streak I've ever had in my life, 50 days of consistent meditation. But for some reason I don't feel anything different. No results. My focus hasnt improved, during and after meditation I don't feel calm or happy or like my state of consciousness has been altered. The thing is,now, that when meditating for some reason I have a hard time observing my thoughts, I can't listen to them creeping up on me and stealing my attention. Before, I could easily observe them with no problem at all,like small little voices I could hear all of them and pop them gently like bubbles. I could notice easily when my attention was about to be stolen and went back to the present. Also after I've noticed that these 50 days have probably been for nothing,I can't stop overthinking during practices and wonder whether I'm doin it right or not. Recently,I've finished high school and in my country we have these finals that are super hard and stressful and I failed miserably which means I have to redo them if I want to go to a university. The point is that period especially where these exams were 3-4 days close each (there were 4 exams for 4 different subjects) I was SUPER stressed, like I've never felt more doomed in my life,which makes me wonder whether maybe this whole stressful period dysregulated my nervous system and now I can't meditate properly or something.

I'm ngl guys this whole thing is extremely disheartening. This is my longest streak,50 days, and it was for nothing.

Do you guys think that having some type of prompt when doing active imagination can help making breakthroughs more easily. To give a lil more context, I remember I saw a technique for entering lucid dreams where essentially you have to visualize yourself walking through a wheat field and then you open a door and you enter into a lucid dream. What if I did something similar for active imagination like visualizing that I'm drowning in a vast dark sea and the deeper I go the deeper I enter into my subconscious.

I don't have much experience when it comes to the "hardware" aspect of music production. I know that the beatstep is a step sequencer but can't it be used for finger drumming as well? What other budget choices do I have besides the beatstep? The presonus atom looks nice but from what I've heard you can't edit its midi notes. The nano korg pad 2 doesn't have touch sensitive pads. The akai mpd 218 from what I've heard also doesn't have the best pads. The novation looks the most solid choice BUT its small pads seem inconvinient.I know most of you will say something like "duh that's the quality you get for these prices" which I understand but the question that I'm asking is whether the beatstep is the best quality I can get with a low price.

I don't have much experience when it comes to the "hardware" aspect of music production. I know that the beatstep is a step sequencer but can't it be used for finger drumming as well? What other budget choices do I have besides the beatstep? The presonus atom looks nice but from what I've heard you can't edit its midi notes. The nano korg pad 2 doesn't have touch sensitive pads. The akai mpd 218 from what I've heard also doesn't have the best pads. The novation looks the most solid choice BUT its small pads seem inconvinient.I know most of you will say something like "duh that's the quality you get for these prices" which I understand but the question that I'm asking is whether the beatstep is the best quality I can get with a low price.

Γεια σας παιδιά, χθες βγήκαν τα αποτελέσματα για τις πανελλαδικές και δυστυχώς δεν πέρασα σε καμία σχολή. Γενικώς δεν πολύ διάβαζα και το είχα πάρει πολύ χαλαρά. Οπότε βεβαίως θα πρέπει να τις επαναλάβω. Ωστόσο το πρόβλημα που έχω είναι σχετικά με τα φροντιστήρια διότι οι γονείς μου θέλουν να πάω ενώ εγώ δεν θέλω. Γενικώς στα φροντιστήρια ΔΕΝ μπορούσα να προσέξω για περισσότερο από 30 δευτερόλεπτα ενώ επίσης όταν διάβαζα την θεωρία και έλυνα ασκήσεις μόνος τα καταλάβαινα πολύ καλύτερα. Για αυτό θέλω να κάνω μόνο φροντιστήριο μαθηματικών (για να έχω κάποιον να μου εξηγήσει τις ασκήσεις που λύνω) και στα άλλα απλά να μην πάω. Σχετικά με τα άλλα φροντιστήρια, έχω σημειώσεις, φυλλάδια και βοηθήματα τα οποία εξηγούσαν τα πάντα.

Πιστεύετε ότι η επιλογή είναι σωστή; Γίνεται να πάρω έναν καλό βαθμό αν προετοιμαστώ με αυτόν τον τρόπο ή θα πατώσω;

A couple of months ago I bought the akai mpk iv and tbh it wasn't really my thing. There weren't really any problems with the hardware per say, just that 25 keys are really restrictive when it comes to making good chord progressions. So I've decided to sell it and buy something else. While searching online for some good midis I found an akai mpd 226,like new, for just 100€ which is crazy cheap considering that it normally costs around 199€. But upon further inspection from reviews online, the akai mpd 226 is pretty old hardware and it has sensitivity issues. I also found cheaper midi pads from less known companies like jamjum and m vave. Do you guys think that I should go for the mpd? What are its pros and cons compared to the midi pads mentioned above.

Some extra info: I produce mostly for fun. I have a slight preference for producing hip-hop but the genre of music I produce is usually dependent on how I'm feeling. I am obviously going to buy a bigger midi keyboard as well. I've found a m audio axiom with 49 keys for just 30€.

A couple of months ago I bought the akai mpk iv and tbh it wasn't really my thing. There weren't really any problems with the hardware per say, just that 25 keys are really restrictive when it comes to making good chord progressions. So I've decided to sell it and buy something else. While searching online for some good midis I found an akai mpd 226,like new, for just 100€ which is crazy cheap considering that it normally costs around 199€. But upon further inspection from reviews online, the akai mpd 226 is pretty old hardware and it has sensitivity issues. I also found cheaper midi pads from less known companies like jamjum and m vave. Do you guys think that I should go for the mpd? What are its pros and cons compared to the midi pads mentioned above.

Some extra info: I produce mostly for fun. I have a slight preference for producing hip-hop but the genre of music I produce is usually dependent on how I'm feeling. I am obviously going to buy a bigger midi keyboard as well. I've found a m audio axiom with 49 keys for just 30€.

As a weightlifter an advice that we constantly hear is that we must change our exercises every once in a while in order to avoid hitting a plateau. I'm wondering whether the same principle applies to meditation. Now I'm not asking whether I should/have to do it but whether changing meditation styles, let's say every 2 weeks, would do more harm than good. Edit: also another reason why I'm asking this is because I like both mindfulness and transcendental meditation and I was thinking whether a compromise like this would be efficient

So I've been studying for the math finals and I was wondering whether I could use this technique to memorize the definitions. The problem is that from what I've seen from this technique,the space of your palace constrains that amount of information you can store ,therefore I can't store all of the chapters' worth of info into one palace. So, let's say I have 3 chapters, can I give each chapter its own separate palace or will this backfire.

I've become pretty good at noticing when I'm maladaptive daydreaming BUT every time I ground myself to reality the brain keeps chasing the daydream. No matter how hard I try to stay present the brain will just keep resisting and trying to go back into whatever story or scenario I had playing out in my mind. So no matter what grounding technique or breathing technique I use the daydream will continue whether I like it or not.

Honestly the worst about it is that along with this shit I have social anxiety and in my case they're probably two different problems! So either a) I'm anxious or b) I'm calm but my mind will start drifting off to somewhere

Is there a way for me to apply Neuro Linguistic Programming techniques to my Natural Language Processing techniques?

So I've recently started "doing" some shadow work and IFS. I've put them in quotation marks because the truth is that I haven't done shit except for meeting two different parts in the span of like 2 weeks and some interactions with the shadow here and there. I don't know how I'm supposed to do these things. I try to do some mindfulness meditation along with some body scanning yet nothing. I either fall asleep or wind up daydreaming. To give a little more insight on the problem, I've been doing these to fix specific problems that I am dealing with in my life, that mostly have to do with social anxiety. So during all of these sessions,in order to invite certain parts or the shadow,I think of thoughts like "what is causing my anxiety?","Why do I want to get rid of it?", "what is my end goal at fixing this?".Am I doing them wrong? Is there a different way of accessing those unconscious parts of yourself?

So I've been struggling with social anxiety for years now. I've tried coping with it through cbt and somatic experiencing but they didn't really work. So I guess I need to resort to alternative methods for helping me to cope with it. Now for starters I'd also like to give some more insight in regards to how this social anxiety is affecting me. There are three symptoms that hinder my ability to socialize: 1) blank head 2) numbness (I don't feel any emotions.) 3) my voice becomes very quiet and high pitched. So what are some nlp techniques that can help me with these? I don't remember having any trauma that made me socially anxious, so I don't think that something like "fast phobia cure" can help me.