Improvement

I’m working on a new electric symphony (no title for it yet other than that) and I’m basically going through the same process as I did when writing Expanding (An Electric Symphony).

I wrote a few themes, gather my materials and thought of a whole bunch of variations of those themes, created my synths, planned out my movements and then started writing.

The second movement is halfway done right now, and I’m finishing up creating the audio track for the first movement.

I haven’t been specifically focusing on it since writing Expanding, but I’ve improved my music production skills drastically.

So much so that I was incredibly surprised by how good the first movement sounded on the first version of the audio. I’m not using that first version, but I was still incredibly surprised because my music production skills have improved so much.

And I don’t bring this up to brag (though honestly I am incredibly proud of myself), but to make the point that incremental progress in the moment doesn’t feel like anything. But incremental progress over the course of four years can really add up to a lot of improvement. Even if you just improve a tiny bit in a week or a month, after four years you’ll have improved that times 208 weeks or times 48 months.

Regardless of what it is you’ll have improved quite a lot because each of those tiny little steps adds up.

ISJ