Smooth Sailing

It has been a wild experience the last few days just making music with a minimal setup (laptop and push) while also being on ADHD meds.

First time working on music since the diagnosis hence the aptly named working song title of “first jam post diagnosis”

There are so many areas where I would go around in circles with production. (Gear/plugin acquisition syndrome is a rant for another day, but cutting through the noise with a list of go to plugins is a start)

Or get “stuck” and realize that hmm maybe i need to try some chords or something, but as someone who never was able to push through music theory, of the 120 ish songs I’ve got in various stages behind me, I have chords in 1 maybe 2 songs max, so then I would tinker in areas around the song never quite getting it to where I can hear it in my head because I know I’m avoiding the difficult thing that would glue things.

This time... once I got to the part of the song where chords would be THE welcome addition, I hunkered down, dug around online, ended up pulling the trigger on Scaler 2.

Within 30 mins I had the basic work flow of scaler down and a sweet chord progression with humanized playing.

Cool thing about scalar right now is scaler 3 is coming out end of march and scooping scaler 2 now gets you the upgrade for free on release.

I watched preview videos for 3 and it was really helpful to see where its going and shortly as I definitely experienced some clunkyness with the plugin getting the chords going.

Anything identified and more is getting addressed in 3 so it’s very exciting to see the possibilities coming with chords in music.

And while music is just the example today... now being able to recognize various overwhelming everest level tasks, are actually projects, and then breaking them down into actionable steps, has been transformative with EVERY area of my life.

I think that really has been THE single largest core feature of ADHD in my life.
Incorrect perception of projects as being one giant task.

In many ways I’ve accomplished more in the last 8 weeks than I have in the last 1-1.5 years combined.

Got to Delhi/Noida early am hours yesterday. Had to jump into the work day 7:30pm-3:30am yesterday and again shortly so between that and the jetlag haven’t been out properly yet. Energy is coming back already so tomorrow we’ll be out and about. Got a proper set up this time given the 2 month long trip. Will be music during the day and work at night. Very excited to hunker down and accomplish things in my time here.