Juggling Studio Roles, How to stay focused when doing it all? Options

[Bonzo3]

I've been wondering why it takes me so long to get from start to finish when making music – and in many ways the answer is obvious: when you're acting as writer, musician, producer and sound technician for the same song, of course it takes time.

However, I feel that one problem with performing all these roles is the difficulty in staying focused. I'm sure I can't be the only one who writes a song with a certain production or instrumentation in mind, and then gets bogged down mid-song by worrying about how I'm going to achieve that sound, rather than leaving this problem to someone else. I think this is particularly a problem when you use programming software as your composition tool, rather than just a production tool.

I'm sure that all of these roles get a little easier through pracitice and experience, but I'd love to hear from anyone how has tips on how to juggle these roles and take things a step at a time, rather than chasing your tail.

All the best,

Bonzo

[S.F.Selecta]

I program with supercollider, Csound (and blue thanks to help from pickel and cheese), and use ardour so im a little into the programing side myself and my answer is to stay focased is to SMOKE WEED!!!!!. now hear me out. some ppl might not agree with me but when it come to having to write hours ( and with suppercollider and csound i really mean hours) of code it really helps stay you stay interested and focused. Just remember you have to havew the ambition and motivation to get it done if you take this advice becuz thats what some ppl cant rumage up and it just makes them lazy. i have a couple of freind who also feel this way and some who dont. (This might be a little out of the box, and even get me kick off the list but its true and i will always stand by it.)