I told my friend I was learning music. She asked what I was trying to learn, so I said music. She asked what in specific, so I gave her the current list. She thinks I’m kidding.
- Guitar
- Ukulele
- Piano
- Music theory
- Reading music
- Finger drumming
- Abelton
- Renoise
- Bitwig
- Maschine
- Pigments
- Buttersynth
- Deluge
- Minifreak
- Polyend Play
- Polyend Tracker
- Dirtywave M8
- Chompi
- Abelton Note
- Koala
- Loopy Pro
Those are the things I’m actively working on with a laundry list of other things for later. The moment I get a little bored with one thing, I jump to another.
It’s called gestalt learning. It’s where you have a need to understand all aspects and angles of a topic before you “get it”.
…a need to understand all aspects and angles of a topic before you “get it”.
That’s exactly me. It drives my wife crazy.
Same. I also find it annoying of myself, because I’m not satisfied that a function does a thing but not the why/how. I need to know what exactly is happening behind the scenes to modify the data, otherwise I don’t know if it’s the best method to use in that scenario.
I’m just getting a lot of results for language learning but I will research this more later when I have a chance because your description speaks speaks to me as that was often my experience.
This is definitely how I improve my writing. I have a ton of different projects, books I’m reading in different genres, and other media I’m absorbing
How long will you stay on this before you move on to an entirely different category? E.g. sports or birdwatching
General topics stick for a long time as long as I can jump around subtopics like this.
When I started trying to learn a new language I was learning Spanish in school, and also trying to learn German, Mandarin, and French on my own. Honestly it worked pretty well, I could even keep them separate in my mind easily which was surprising since people told me I’d get them mixed up if I learned them at the same time.
Anyway, it was only for a year or so because I eventually lost the hyper fixation on language and stopped learning all of them, but yeah I kinda did the same thing you described.
When I’d get bored with one language I’d move on to another. Sometimes I’d spend a whole day on just one, sometimes I’d switching between each of them in the same day.
If you have an M8 you don’t need the Polyends. Simplify, simplify
I got the Polyend Tracker back when the M8 was impossible to find. I don’t know how much use the Polyend Tracker will ever get now, but I do want to tackle the Renoise workflow after I’m comfortable with the M8, and I believe Renoise and the Polyend workflow are similar.
I tend to want to learn the history of anything new I’m learning. It helps me to understand by knowing how it evolved. Or I have to know how it works at a fundamental level and build up from there.
To me those are all practical skills except music theory and are kinda all over the place each requiring time to practice. I’d feel like I was never making progress if I had to split my time 20 ways.
Instead if I were trying to learn music productionI’d probably focus on one thing at a time as you mention a lot of different expensive software and hardware many of which overlap, multiple DAWs and hardware sequencers. As it is it looks like you are learning more interfaces and less music.
I’d start with piano and music theory as they are complimentary and add in one DAW and then add in other hardware or instruments. Once I got a foundation I’d add in redundant hardware and software if I felt the need.
For any fiels having too many options just drains my creativity. Where as if I have to work within limitations I get more creative.
Anyway good luck with all that.
That’s sounds about right.
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