After a while, practicing techniques holds you back

You have to practice making your own music

• Poetmistry

Not replicating someone else's sound, or a particular genre, or a song structure. Those are all useful but ultimately, you have to practice for what you actually want: your own expression.

The same is true of all media, hence "learn the rules then break them" etc.

Similar to Minosaur's arrangement advice:

let the arrangement unfold based on how it makes you feel.

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