It's been 7 years of practice and I just haven't improved at all for the last 6 years. My brain just can't understand it. I've tried different genres, I suck at all of them. I'm too embarrassed to share even a single track. It's just not fun anymore. Producing music feels like beating my head against a wall. My brain just can't process it. I'm good at playing other music on piano so I'm not giving up entirely on music but I'm giving up on omposing and producing, I just don't have the brain for it. I'm willing to hear if anyone has last advice for me but I've tried everything imaginable. It looks like I've achieved my ceiling and potential and it's not very high, making music is just not fun for me.

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Well, if it's not fun for you, it seems to me that you're doing the right thing. For us people for whom music is a pure hobby, it should be (mostly) fun.
It might also be that your own evaluation of your music is skewed and that you're way too critical of yourself, but that is irrelevant if it's not fun for you creating it.
Take a few steps back and try to find variants of making music that you like. Maybe it's just making music with other people?
Good luck!

Do you have some artistic vision you can’t let go of?

Do you feel that there’s some kind of musical project you would absolutely love to do, or feel an even deeper need to do?

It sounds like you have lost your motivation more than anything. Your ”why”. Sorry if this sounds pretentious but I mean it in the sense that it doesn’t matter if your music sounds ”pro” or like something else or fits in a genre. Lots of music millions of people love is made my people who barely know what they are doing, some of them on drugs, others mentally ill. It’s the same in all arts. There are visionairies that manage to pull of unique greatness and sometimes it’s not in spite of not knowing how it should be done, it’s because of that.

If you’re really about to give up on doing it the ”right” way, you have nothing to lose.

You don't give a lot of details. How are you composing? Are you a singer/songwriters, are you a DAW producer?

Everyone is different with different skill bases aims and satisfaction levels - if you don't enjoy it then I don't see the problem with giving up.

Well, why are you "trying different genres"? Is it because you like those genres? Or is it because you have some abstract goal in mind and you think this or that genre might be a 'way in' to that goal?
Have you tried taking lessons? Have you tried joining a band or collaborating with other artists? Have you tried performing in front of a live audience? (even covers?) Have you asked anyone else what they think of your music, or is it just entirely on your own initiative that you have decided you "suck"?

For thousands of years, music was the most collaborative of all the arts. Today, thanks to technology, it is possible to make music entirely by yourself. But possible is not the same as mandatory. IMO, a potential answer to your dilemma might be including other humans in your musical activities.

Well of course that's pretty serious - if true. If something was not fun for me, I would just stop doing it. Just stop, not even bother to start a thread about it, "threatening" to quit. When I was a kid, I enjoyed building model ships and airplanes, now I don't. I never announced I was 'quitting' building models.

Ask yourself if it is "not fun" because you don't enjoy the process - or if it is "not fun" because you aren't receiving the satisfaction you imagined you would get when the song is done. As others are saying, instead of actually "sucking", you may be simply overly critical of yourself.

I would never suggest you keep doing something that is making you miserable, but there is a question of why it is not fun. An old mentor of mine once said to me an Artist is someone who cannot stop making art. Nothing to do with talent or skill, though those often follow naturally. Speaking of a sculptor we knew, he said: "when he sees a piece of steel he feels like he has to bend it".

Nothing about getting his works sold in a posh gallery for tens of thousands of dollars, nothing about foundations and governments offering him commissions to build something in the park. Nothing about Art School or wearing a beret. No 'sculpture groupies' chasing after him. Just a piece of steel that is begging to be twisted.

Maybe this is too obvious:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo>

But have you had lessons, gone to school of any kind? Composition is a valid field of study, as is songwriting...

Do you go to jams and play with others?

Do what you're good at, there's already enough music out there (imho)

Either you rediscover the fun or you should spend your time with something else. Come back when your heart tells you, if.

You don’t like the music you make?

If so, why? What is it that you dislike about it?

In a sense, the conversation actually all started because of berets. I was working on a project documenting a number of nearby artists and a lot of them did "wear berets" one or two even literally, but you know, they were "artsy". But this one guy was a welder by trade, had a blue collar business with his brother and a pickup truck with torches in the back. I remarked that he didn't seem like an "artist" to me. By which I meant, he never went to art school, had no 'beret', smoked Marboros, not Gauloises etc etc.

But my mentor said he was the purest artist of all the people we were interviewing and for that reason, Because he did not make art to "be an artist" nor did he make art because he wanted to sell sculptures. He did it because he "had to". I never forgot those words.

Interestingly enough, that guy ended up the most successful of all of them, and he got shows at prestigious galleries and his works sold for big bucks. I doubt you can fool fate by pretending you don't care, I think though, that the public often recognizes art that springs from a deep well.

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Good eye... This was a spam post, disguised as a cry for help! Not seen that one before.

There’s been a few (posts with rando URLs), but this is the first one I accidentally clicked on. Was like stepping on a landmine lol. I closed the page before it finished loading so… idk fingers crossed.