Hm, interesting. I've never heard the term yak shaving before. Do you find that you ever get lost in all that preparation? I know personally that I can go overboard and lose track of the fact that I just need to get the thing done and settle for having less than optimal equipment.
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Hey @fungusmonk. Sometimes I feel like the shortcut king. I totally hear you. We want the creative part. We don't want to lose the content for the form. Yak Shaving is a term that comes out of Computer Programming, I think and sometimes there's just a ton of shit that's necessary before you can even get a MWE (minimal working example) out there. Following you, BTW.
Ah, interesting. Yeah, I just put together an album, and from writing to finished product it took about 4 years. There was definitely a lot of work on a lot of different levels that had to be done for that to happen. Thanks for the reply and the follow!
Yea making music can sometimes be so fast and sometimes SO SLOW, right?
Yeah, and some of the songs took years to finish while others were written entirely in the span of time between beginning drum tracking and finishing the album. Sometimes it's just best to accept that there's no way to know when and how things will come together and make the best of the creative spurts I get.
I think art is all about making the best of the inspirations. The inspirations are gifts. It's up to us to frame them with as little interference as possible.