Making music solo is hard, try to avoid:
- chasing trends
- over-producing your demos
- skipping the loud guitar parts
- ignoring Julience Songs when you need raw inspiration
- writing lyrics that say nothing
- comparing streams to worth
- losing the punk spirit
- forgetting why you started
Not everyone's on Spotify.
We see you, Apple Music.
Go stream it. 🖤
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MY INDIE ROCK SOUND PILLARS
Raw Guitar
Oasis, Stone Roses, Beatles, Neil Young
Hard Rock Edge
AC/DC, Lynyrd Skynyrd
Punk Spirit
energy, grit, no filters
90s Swagger
hooks, attitude, analog warmth
Lyric Dept
biblical parables, human truth
DIY Ethic
I write, sing, play every note myself
4 Harsh Truths About Making Music:
1. The songs you force never hit as hard as the ones that pour out naturally.
2. You don't need a label to be a real artist.
3. Gear matters far less than what you actually have to say.
4. Nobody owes your music a listen. You have to earn every single one.
Quitting music is one of the worst things you can do.
When you walk away, you're not just leaving behind a song - you're abandoning every late night, every broken string, every moment of doubt you fought through to get here.
Nearly did that :-(
Do you guys ever get frustrated with how much AI-generated music is flooding everything now?
Tracks are being made in ways that have never existed before.
You used to pick up the guitar every day.
You used to chase the riff until it was right.
You used to need the music like air.
But then life got loud.
The songs stopped coming.
The fire went quiet.
At some point you have to miss it so badly that you plug back in.
The greatest mistake a musician can make is abandoning a sound that was honest and raw. No loops, no plugins, no producer fixing your pitch.
Just a guitar, a voice, and something real to say. Whoever holds onto that, holds onto everything.
"I'd bleed for rock and roll"
"I'd suffer for my art"
okay but would you actually sit down and finish the song?
would you record it raw and put it out?
Why do most people not care whether music is actually played by a human?
I thought that was something every real rock fan understood instinctively.
But barely anyone even questions it.
I don't get it.
The way you play has 100x the soul of any plugin or preset you'll ever use
When you don't want to trust your own hands you'll reach for shortcuts instead
& I promise you there's nothing on a screen that'll fix you not believing in your own sound
From Neil Young: "I'd rather burn out than fade away."
That's the only way I know how to make music. 😍😍😍
Noel Gallagher once said: "Melodies are like buses - you wait all your life for one, then three come at once."
Applies to songwriting more than people realise.
Never let the blank page convince you the music has stopped living inside you.
Couldn't you pick any song from any artist and frame it as genius OR garbage depending on your angle?
If we all know that's true, maybe we owe each other a little more grace before we tear someone's work apart. 🎸
Anyone else feel like the song they wrote last year was made by a completely different person, or is that just me?
Someone told me AI can write songs just as well as humans. They fed it their favorite bands, got lyrics, chord progressions, the lot.
Now they wonder why it feels empty. Why nobody connects with it.
Why it goes nowhere.
Please stop mistaking output for art. 🎸
Phil Spector didn't just produce The Ronettes - he built cathedrals of sound around Ronnie's voice.
Layer on layer of instruments, reverb bouncing off studio walls like prayers in an empty church.
That's how you make three girls from Spanish Harlem sound eternal.
The pain of finishing a song and thinking it's not heavy enough.
The pain of making it heavier and losing the melody that made it special.
The mind never stops second-guessing - not in the studio, not after you hit publish, not ever.
Unless you decide it won't.
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I've recorded many songs completely alone-and I've learned something along the way.
Some sessions click immediately.
Some fall apart.
That’s how it is.😎
staying in tune with your craft can be a battle
keeping the fire lit when you're writing, recording, mixing solo - it drains you
but that's part of it
if you're struggling right now, you're not alone
Play every day or I lose my mind.
If I don't pick up the guitar for 24 hours, something inside me starts to unravel.
The only cure is plugging in and letting it all out.
It's not discipline-it's survival.
For those who create daily-does it feel like a choice anymore, or just what keeps you sane?
Just worked on another track today-because the only way to get better at making music is to actually make music.
What about you?
Still scrolling through production tips or are you in the studio laying something down?
Creating beats talking about creating.
Sometimes I wonder why I picked up the guitar again after all those years of silence.
Maybe it wasn't a coincidence.
Maybe something bigger pointed me back to the six strings. 🎸
"I'd bleed for my art."
"I'd sacrifice everything for the music."
Okay, but would you sit down and actually finish the song for me?
Would you pick up the guitar instead of scrolling ?
Whenever I can't face picking up the guitar, I tell myself: just tune it. That's all.
Just tune it.
Because starting is the hard part. Once you're holding it, the riff finds you.
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The biggest "creative block" is usually just a drained soul.
You will never write your best riff, hook, or lyric when your spirit is running on empty.
Fix what's weighing you down first.
The music follows the man (or woman).
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As a young musician, the best thing you can burn into your brain early…
One day you'll be older, and having nothing real to show for your art will hurt like hell.
So pour everything into it now, while the fire is still young.
🔥
Every artist struggles.
Every track is me pushing past the last one - some fall short, some land.
But I'm always at the edge. 🎸
Some listeners need a song explained before they'll feel it.
And that's fine - not everyone was born with the riff in their blood.
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Music lovers of all genres welcome here.
Rock. Pop. Hip-hop. Folk. Electronic. Metal.
Who shaped your sound? Which track still gives you chills no matter how many times you've heard it?
Share it. Let's build something. 🎶 #musiclover #indiemusic