Feeling frustrated and like I’m not growing

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Hi, I don’t know if this is the right place for this or not but I just wanna rant a little I guess.

I’m relatively new to producing my own music, I’ve been doing it since my early teens basically but decided to take it seriously more recently, I’m 23, and recently I’ve just been feeling so down with the stuff I’m making, I’ve been trying to work on something new every day and no matter how long I try at the end of the day I still listen to it and feel like it’s all awful and I tell myself that it’s part of the process and if I keep going eventually I’ll reach a point where I’m more confident and comfortable in my own abilities as a musician and producer, but it’s still so frustrating and that doesn’t make it easier.

And it’s not like I hate everything I have ever done, there’s some stuff that I’m at least a little bit proud, like some friends once asked me to produce music for their short film and it came out ok, I was happy with that result at the time, I also have some demos that I like and even if I never end up releasing them or whatever I feel like I learned a lot and they made me grow, but now this feeling of not being good enough and that I’m not progressing really hit me hard recently and I don’t know what to do, sometimes I feel like giving up but this is literally my only skill I’m not remotely good at anything else, music is a legit obsession for me when I’m not trying to make anything or listening to anything I’m thinking about it and I’ve been feeling really unmotivated lately and that is affecting me really hard.

Sorry for the long post and the bad English, it’s not my first language.

Posted May 6, 2026, 11:25 PM UTC

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