Deadmau5's Vault Method (Better Way to Think About "Finishing" Songs) [Crazy Strobe Story]

To sum it up, the path to "good" music is more "bad" music, so fill your vault. Also reminds me of the Ian Kirkpatrick "Make Bad Music" video - https://youtu.be/p4uPbuTHRtk

The only deadmau5 video without swearing lol

The Vault, or as Miyamoto describes it, a drawer of sticky notes with ideas that don't work well now but might later

God, I would love to hear or know what my favorite producers struggled with that they didn't publish. Sometimes I get so discouraged at the garbage in my DAW that listening to my favorite producers' incredible music just feels like salt on the wound and discourages me even more. That's a dark place...

"No work of art is ever finished, only abandoned." - Paul Valery

There’s someone intelligent behind this page.

This is true!!! I’ve heard this from aphex twin. He basically said the same thing. He finishes songs when he’s tired of them. I wouldn’t personally recommend anyone to delete their songs even they sound bad. They might look back at some point and laugh at themselves, or just use some inspiration from it

An artists work is never truly finished, it is only abandoned for the sake of consumption by the world. This man feels the same things as a lot of very dedicated and lifelong artists.

1:15 ! Taking me years to get comfortable sharing my music and I really needed to hear this ❤ Channel is gold honestly

Deadmau5 looks like he could be Kenny Beats’ older brother or something haha

I honestly love your channel. You really know how to extract all the gems and package it together so professionally and with every video being super inspiring. All that to say I appreciate your content.

I have old stuff that ive written years ago that i just need a new mix on. In fact, i just re released a bunch of old songs with a better mixdown. All that was missing was a good mix!

This is absolutely true. I recently listened back to old projects with just 'scratchpad' ideas, and i was totally astounded by some of them. Like holy shit thats great. And sometimes the sounds and ideas totally work for whats relevant today, and you can incorporate them and work from there. Its just at the time you wasn't feeling it or it was too far afield from the then current sound. Keeping a pool of old ideas if definitely a good thing to do. They are like incomplete traces of your expression. On a less positive and unrelated note, it also reminded me of my drive to be a unique and successful producer. I was able to bang out great generic tracks like it was nothing. I made 'brostep' era tracks and Retro House (before it was popular) and they all sound great. But to me that was easy. I was aiming much higher. But what i didn't know then is that the production heroes i was aspiring to, weren't doing anything extraodinary, i just didn't have the knowledge back then. So i guess, going back to look at your old work tells you something about your journey aswell.

I can relate to this sentiment. I’ve been doing this seriously for about 4 months now and about to hit the 60s in my “vault”. It’s a great place to revisit immature and underdeveloped ideas so you can improve workflow, mix, mastery, etc. sometimes a tweak, a new track, arrangement trick, then forget about it for another few weeks. I never believed there was a wall to creativity, sometimes I just need to put down a track and start a new one and then come back to it with better ideas. At least that’s my take on it as a newbie.

Same, I have around 200-300 unfinished songs, from 2006-today. And only 4 songs on my YT 2 of which are covers 😂

Man your edits are soooo good. Thanks for sharing! ❤️🙏🏻

I just need you to know, Sol, that this channel has helped me so much and given me answers where I absolutely needed them. I appreciate you random stranger; you’re good people 🙏🏻

such a simple, huge pointer that so many miss! sol state, i gotta say, you've got a knack for curating.

helpful vid bro, seen it before but good reminders. thanks for putting this together

Sol State thank you, that was exactly what I needed right now! Honestly keep up the great work for producer community - your channel is an absolute gem! Thanks!