When I got into music in the 60's a friend of mine came back from Britain with an acoustic guitar and I thought " wow! This is cool - here's something I can learn for the rest of my life". I love LEARNING and anytime I get stuck - take a lesson, try an open tuning, try a new guitar or a new instrument. Inspiration is a natural thing and is... Endless!
Very well said, Antoine. Loved the advice about maintaining a core sound. I definitely go to certain artists for certain reasons and count on them to provide the sound I’m hoping to hear
Hello A. M. Firstly I want to thank you for your generous offerings on your channel. You consistently inspire us with not just your encouragement but your musical genius. Your playing is perfection and filled with emotion. We all wish for this. Thankfully your teaching skill gives us all hope. I’m an old dog whose had lot of years of playing out with some great musicians. I’ve been lucky to have created music with amazing artists here in LA California. I’m well aware of hitting the wall and feeling that my days of creative inspiration are over. I’ve actually had many times where the pot was empty for years at a time. But somehow I find myself inspired by something unexpected. It could be one artist with one song I hear that blows me away. Then I’m off to the races again. Frankly I feel time away from our art gives us a reboot and fuels creativity. I’m a photo artist as well. I believe there’s a beautiful relationship between music and imagery. I’m even at my age still very active in one or the other and frequently both at the same time. But not without hitting the empty bucket on both on an occasion. You must realize and continue to acknowledge your amazing contributions to this wonderful world of music. You’ve changed the lives of so many people it’s uncertain how many but believe me it’s a staggering number. This is an amazing power. So take a step back and breathe. When you speak to us BREATHE in between your words. Let the information verbally come to us in waves of knowledge. Frequently people who are teaching on line feel the need to get a lot out real fast in fear of losing their audience. I think that method actually can be counterproductive. Less is more. Your great enthusiasm is deeply appreciated. But consider talking to us. Not at us. Speak to us in the same way you play to us. Breathing in between sentences. Just like a musical phrase that’s full of tension and release. If this makes sense to you great. If not that’s ok. I’m just one dude with one perspective. I honestly think all of us need to play with this mentality. You create beautiful spaces and soundscapes. This is why we are all here. So please take any and all of this as pure suggestion. You’ve created a magical place for us all to visit. We will be visiting you for many years to come. Thank you my friend. f
I've been recording music solidly for years but in May I started to lose enthusiasm and stopped. I have barely touched my guitars since then, I am trying to summon up the interest to get started - maybe next month... your lessons always help. Thanks Antoine, cheers from England.
Hey Antoine, this is so timely. I’ve followed you a long time and been on the ambient guitar journey with you for years and you have encouraged me and motivated me more than I can say and just as you are experiencing burnout right now I am as well. It really is interesting how at certain points in my musical journey creativity has just overflowed out of me and other times it feels forced. You touched on a couple things that has reignited my passion and got my creative juices flowing again in the past and I am doing them again now. One is going back and remembering why I fell in love with playing guitar. Second is listening to more music analytically and attentively. Figure out what they are doing and playing that I love so much and makes me interested in it. I play several genres of music and have been in different bands with different styles from blues to rock to metal. I love them all. But right now I’m into melodic instrumental rock and shred. What I’ve been doing to break out of my latest rut and burnout is going back and listening and transcribing my favorite songs and using them as a foundation and taking what I like about them and making them my own with a new slightly different rhythm and melody and adding tasty runs and fast lines to them. It is inspiring me again and I look forward to coming home from work and going into my studio and playing guitar again. I’ve even done it to some of your ambient songs. So basically my idea for you is to go back to some of your older ambient compositions - ones you maybe struggled with deciding exactly which direction to take them - and rework them a bit and make them new and fresh. And maybe go back in time to songs that inspired you when you first started learning guitar and break them down and analyze them and try to take them in a more personal direction. Lastly, maybe for a little while switch to doing more instructional videos. I’ve had it happen where refreshing myself in some music theory and practicing it has caused beautiful ideas to miraculously come out of nowhere seemingly. Take care my friend and trust that God will bring you through this hard time. I’ve been there and He always has brought me through the dark clouds and into joy and peace and creativity again. Love your content
Hey Antoine! Franky here from Thailand - met you and "the Mystery" at the Loreley a few years ago when I flew down from Thailand to see you guys perform at the Prog Rock Festival in Germany. The funny thing is that I imagine all professional musicians always to be a kind of Demi God, flawless, perfect, always on top of their game. This - of course - is a childish thought, which might derive from my teen days in the 80s... Back then, everything appeared polished, perfect, glamourous... even the punk scene (of which I was a part of back then) felt kind of "clean". Hearing your thoughts in this video helped me immensely to see that a master musician like you also has his struggles. At the end of the day, we all are not perfect... Whenever I reach a point where I feel stuck or where I even might be steering towards conflict and / or , I simply do one thing: I remove ALL energy from the occasion, ALL - I turn completely stoic, do my best to not give the issue any negative thoughts, pull back, and "let it come"... Guess what - most of the time the issue kind of sorts out by itself, and... after some time, ideas pop up out of nowhere on how to solve the issue, or someone calls and gives you a new idea or perspective... I regards to music, lyrics... I find inspiration when I travel back into the past and visit certain crossroads or special moments in my life that I cherish (or hate, even those are very limited) and try to remember how I felt back then and what thoughts crossed my mind and what emotions came up... Then, I cast it into lyrics and (hopefully) find a melody for it... Mostly, inspiration comes during very quiet moments, a walk in the forest, when taking a shower, while driving or (even) on the toilet :o) Thank you so much for all you do and for your nice channel and for being a part of my favourite Prog Rock Band - Mystery! I wish you all the best for the future and send big hugs from sunny Thailand. Please extend my wishes to the members of Mystery - Thank, Antoine!!!!!
Hi Funny you talk about writing it down & recording it well. There was a few years back when carried around a simple little zoom 4 track recorded. Ideas just pop into my head id stop everything I was doing. I’ve got about 260 song parts ideas I’ve got to finish. But you’re spot on with what I’ve got going on. I think it’s emotions that help me to create. Started drums at the age of 4 and it was kind of a theropy
Some great advice there Antoine. I have kept a file on my computer of all my little ideas and bits and pieces over the years. I went through it the other day and found some great ideas for future songs. The next step for me is the hardest - how to turn small interesting ideas into complete songs! Maybe you could do a video on this topic.
Antoine, welcome to parenthood. Being tired from waking up with a toddler in the middle of the night and giving extra support to your wife can tend to tire a person out, and it can often seem like when you do get free time, it comes in small, often interrupted spurts, so sometimes we just grab what we can and play a game for 15 minutes to make it feel like we still have a life lol. Prayers up for you, sir! My idea for the channel would be to do some live sessions that are not structured and they are just completely open-handed. I think you might be surprised how many people would listen to you for however long or short you want to stream. Just kind of sewn out and play, or, if you want, you could always explain which parameters you are changing on the pedals and maybe what kind of sound you are going for, but mainly, just Noodle around and have fun for yourself. I know you are a very structured person, and that's great, but I think this format of doing some live stuff that isn't structured my help you to just relax. You don't have to impress us with every video, we appreciate you and your music for what they are, even if they aren't always absolutely perfect every single time.
Actually Bill Vencil made a 6 song ambient guitar EP with only church songs. I have been thinking about something similar with child songs and lullabies. I have a 3 year old. :) I had a creative burnout a few years ago as a poet/translator of English and Polish since I published like 4-5 books in the same year and I just realized that I have worked almost only on those books for years. It was hard to realize it since I was on the peak of the creative work I have been doing since 2014. My son was also like a few months old and it helped me a lot to think about priorities in my life so I took a long brake.
Great tips! One thing that occurred to me while watching....How about listening to a familiar passage from a favorite artist, then imagining what it might sound like if played backwards. Not literally backwards like a Hendrix tape loop, just using the chord progressions in reverse and playing a similar melody but with alterations to go with the new chord flow.
I am really just starting to learn guitar and music in general. I already found out how inspiring it is to do music with other people . create together would love to find people near me to do that more often
Start noodling dry with no effect on, gradually add accent with guitar only, for 10mins then explore each effect and record/edit the best sections - this may give lyrical inspiration!
Discovered your channel when looking into looping and stayed for all the amazing videos you create. Seems like what you’re experiencing is more of a TH-cam burnout than guitar burnout, it seems all the best YT channels eventually have to take an extended break from time to time, so much work goes into producing videos. And a quick thought about repeating yourself musically, I feel that way sometimes as well but remember that every single top artist since the introduction of radio has a narrow style and 99% of them never veered from what brings in the cash. A few do venture into different genres (like Taylor Swifts Americana recordings) but those are not far from her original country songs, it’s still folk and country to most people’s ears. Take a break from the Tube, or at least scale it back so you can delve into guitar without having to do pre and post production on everything you create… Love your channel, stay healthy my friend 🎉
I would LOVE to see you play some acoustic guitar in alternate tunings using ambient pad textures. Here's a tuning from bass to treble.... DAEEAA. I love it with big sky cloud reverb really dark/ far left. Love your content and as always.... thank you 👏
Turn on the TV with the volume at 0 and try to write backing Music for the scene. If you don’t feel it, change the channel until you get a scene that gives you inspiration. Most importantly- Do not censor your thoughts... just play!
My advice for what it is worth is to take this as an opportunity rather than a negative... this is a chance to explore a new way of making music... for instance you might start with a rhythm tapping & a lyric- instead of say working from a melodic sequence... or you could try working on something that is a fun practice & develops a new skill & all of a sudden you have a bunch of awesome ideas... for instance you could begin taking violin music that you like & transcribing it to guitar... this is a good practice challenge & while immersed in this work something may occur to you all while getting better at or learning a new skill... If you think about some sacred music that you like... for me Handle Aria's & Oratorios, Bach's Jesu Joy, Shubert's Ava Maria Beethoven's Ode to Joy... try taking those or passages you like from what you enjoy & transcribing them to guitar... try coming up with a LEAD or Rhythm accompaniment & try to take that choral work/song foundation to new places... there are all different ways to approach music & that can kick start your creativity- I am a firm believer in always challenging yourself with new approaches to old problems or routines... everyone gets bored & tired of the SAMENESS... so take a radical & different approach... I would even try using a violin bow on your guitar & when you try starting with a Rhythm... actually do that in different ways like hammer ons/ harmonics/ pull offs... and just trying those different sounds with that rhythm might inspire you... so the specifics above simply are examples of the general approach which is- keep it fresh, don't let routine & habit [good things] become a grind & SAMENESS [bad things]... also you could put your guitar away for a minute & try piano or bass... both of those can help you become a better musician look at music theory differently & ultimately make you a better band member living inside the music without leaning on others in the band bcuz you have a better understanding of what they are up too having seen the SAME SONG from the eyes of playing their instrument in that arrangement. I hope these were helpful & don't worry- all inspiration comes from GOD- he will never abandon you... he simply wants you to rely on him to a greater degree & be happy & patient... whatever you are experiencing 100% you can use it to improve if you look for a way to do that... the "muse" will return no question- so don't be discouraged, be encouraged- this is an opportunity for sure if you make it so!
Come home from work after a long day, look at the guitar and its like work again. Then you look at youtube and its literally infested with terrible guitar players, good guitar players, great guitar players and some that dont play great yet they dress up in skimpy gear to get simp subs and you wonder why you bother.
Jist listen to the nuclear power trio, it will get you lots of inspiration. Or listen to classical music of course- endless inspiration. A walk out in the park might do the trick too
Antoine I'm the exact opposite and do not mean to sound arrogant but I get SO much ,I've hundreds probably nearly 1000 song half done, started or whatever. I 'receive' ideas nearly every day, do you want some? LOL! I plug in my gear and am completely overwhelmed not knowing which song or style to work on? I'm also old at 61 so my energy is waning...what to do?
can you make a video on how to harmonize a melody not as a fingerstyle player but as a maybe jazz singer... i always struggle in writing chords for i feel like the guitar is guiding my voice but i want my voice and song to guide the guitar help please love your videos ...
It happens, many turn to alcohol and drugs to get over the blockage. Try learning something else for awhile. Don't put so much value on one thing. Life is broad and can be short.
These moments are when I go to an alternate or open tuning. Always brings freshness.
When I got into music in the 60's a friend of mine came back from Britain with an acoustic guitar and I thought " wow! This is cool - here's something I can learn for the rest of my life". I love LEARNING and anytime I get stuck - take a lesson, try an open tuning, try a new guitar or a new instrument. Inspiration is a natural thing and is... Endless!
I am going through the same thing so I deeply appreciate you sharing this
Very well said, Antoine. Loved the advice about maintaining a core sound. I definitely go to certain artists for certain reasons and count on them to provide the sound I’m hoping to hear
Hello A. M. Firstly I want to thank you for your generous offerings on your channel. You consistently inspire us with not just your encouragement but your musical genius. Your playing is perfection and filled with emotion. We all wish for this. Thankfully your teaching skill gives us all hope. I’m an old dog whose had lot of years of playing out with some great musicians. I’ve been lucky to have created music with amazing artists here in LA California. I’m well aware of hitting the wall and feeling that my days of creative inspiration are over. I’ve actually had many times where the pot was empty for years at a time. But somehow I find myself inspired by something unexpected. It could be one artist with one song I hear that blows me away. Then I’m off to the races again. Frankly I feel time away from our art gives us a reboot and fuels creativity. I’m a photo artist as well. I believe there’s a beautiful relationship between music and imagery. I’m even at my age still very active in one or the other and frequently both at the same time. But not without hitting the empty bucket on both on an occasion.
You must realize and continue to acknowledge your amazing contributions to this wonderful world of music. You’ve changed the lives of so many people it’s uncertain how many but believe me it’s a staggering number. This is an amazing power. So take a step back and breathe. When you speak to us BREATHE in between your words. Let the information verbally come to us in waves of knowledge. Frequently people who are teaching on line feel the need to get a lot out real fast in fear of losing their audience. I think that method actually can be counterproductive. Less is more. Your great enthusiasm is deeply appreciated. But consider talking to us. Not at us. Speak to us in the same way you play to us. Breathing in between sentences. Just like a musical phrase that’s full of tension and release. If this makes sense to you great. If not that’s ok. I’m just one dude with one perspective. I honestly think all of us need to play with this mentality. You create beautiful spaces and soundscapes. This is why we are all here. So please take any and all of this as pure suggestion. You’ve created a magical place for us all to visit. We will be visiting you for many years to come. Thank you my friend. f
I've been recording music solidly for years but in May I started to lose enthusiasm and stopped. I have barely touched my guitars since then, I am trying to summon up the interest to get started - maybe next month... your lessons always help. Thanks Antoine, cheers from England.
Hey Antoine, this is so timely. I’ve followed you a long time and been on the ambient guitar journey with you for years and you have encouraged me and motivated me more than I can say and just as you are experiencing burnout right now I am as well. It really is interesting how at certain points in my musical journey creativity has just overflowed out of me and other times it feels forced. You touched on a couple things that has reignited my passion and got my creative juices flowing again in the past and I am doing them again now. One is going back and remembering why I fell in love with playing guitar. Second is listening to more music analytically and attentively. Figure out what they are doing and playing that I love so much and makes me interested in it. I play several genres of music and have been in different bands with different styles from blues to rock to metal. I love them all. But right now I’m into melodic instrumental rock and shred. What I’ve been doing to break out of my latest rut and burnout is going back and listening and transcribing my favorite songs and using them as a foundation and taking what I like about them and making them my own with a new slightly different rhythm and melody and adding tasty runs and fast lines to them. It is inspiring me again and I look forward to coming home from work and going into my studio and playing guitar again. I’ve even done it to some of your ambient songs. So basically my idea for you is to go back to some of your older ambient compositions - ones you maybe struggled with deciding exactly which direction to take them - and rework them a bit and make them new and fresh. And maybe go back in time to songs that inspired you when you first started learning guitar and break them down and analyze them and try to take them in a more personal direction. Lastly, maybe for a little while switch to doing more instructional videos. I’ve had it happen where refreshing myself in some music theory and practicing it has caused beautiful ideas to miraculously come out of nowhere seemingly. Take care my friend and trust that God will bring you through this hard time. I’ve been there and He always has brought me through the dark clouds and into joy and peace and creativity again. Love your content
Hey Antoine! Franky here from Thailand - met you and "the Mystery" at the Loreley a few years ago when I flew down from Thailand to see you guys perform at the Prog Rock Festival in Germany. The funny thing is that I imagine all professional musicians always to be a kind of Demi God, flawless, perfect, always on top of their game. This - of course - is a childish thought, which might derive from my teen days in the 80s... Back then, everything appeared polished, perfect, glamourous... even the punk scene (of which I was a part of back then) felt kind of "clean". Hearing your thoughts in this video helped me immensely to see that a master musician like you also has his struggles. At the end of the day, we all are not perfect...
Whenever I reach a point where I feel stuck or where I even might be steering towards conflict and / or , I simply do one thing: I remove ALL energy from the occasion, ALL - I turn completely stoic, do my best to not give the issue any negative thoughts, pull back, and "let it come"... Guess what - most of the time the issue kind of sorts out by itself, and... after some time, ideas pop up out of nowhere on how to solve the issue, or someone calls and gives you a new idea or perspective...
I regards to music, lyrics... I find inspiration when I travel back into the past and visit certain crossroads or special moments in my life that I cherish (or hate, even those are very limited) and try to remember how I felt back then and what thoughts crossed my mind and what emotions came up... Then, I cast it into lyrics and (hopefully) find a melody for it... Mostly, inspiration comes during very quiet moments, a walk in the forest, when taking a shower, while driving or (even) on the toilet :o)
Thank you so much for all you do and for your nice channel and for being a part of my favourite Prog Rock Band - Mystery! I wish you all the best for the future and send big hugs from sunny Thailand. Please extend my wishes to the members of Mystery - Thank, Antoine!!!!!
Hi Funny you talk about writing it down & recording it well. There was a few years back when carried around a simple little zoom 4 track recorded. Ideas just pop into my head id stop everything I was doing. I’ve got about 260 song parts ideas I’ve got to finish. But you’re spot on with what I’ve got going on. I think it’s emotions that help me to create. Started drums at the age of 4 and it was kind of a theropy
Some great advice there Antoine. I have kept a file on my computer of all my little ideas and bits and pieces over the years. I went through it the other day and found some great ideas for future songs. The next step for me is the hardest - how to turn small interesting ideas into complete songs! Maybe you could do a video on this topic.
Antoine, welcome to parenthood. Being tired from waking up with a toddler in the middle of the night and giving extra support to your wife can tend to tire a person out, and it can often seem like when you do get free time, it comes in small, often interrupted spurts, so sometimes we just grab what we can and play a game for 15 minutes to make it feel like we still have a life lol. Prayers up for you, sir!
My idea for the channel would be to do some live sessions that are not structured and they are just completely open-handed. I think you might be surprised how many people would listen to you for however long or short you want to stream. Just kind of sewn out and play, or, if you want, you could always explain which parameters you are changing on the pedals and maybe what kind of sound you are going for, but mainly, just Noodle around and have fun for yourself. I know you are a very structured person, and that's great, but I think this format of doing some live stuff that isn't structured my help you to just relax. You don't have to impress us with every video, we appreciate you and your music for what they are, even if they aren't always absolutely perfect every single time.
Actually Bill Vencil made a 6 song ambient guitar EP with only church songs. I have been thinking about something similar with child songs and lullabies. I have a 3 year old. :)
I had a creative burnout a few years ago as a poet/translator of English and Polish since I published like 4-5 books in the same year and I just realized that I have worked almost only on those books for years. It was hard to realize it since I was on the peak of the creative work I have been doing since 2014. My son was also like a few months old and it helped me a lot to think about priorities in my life so I took a long brake.
Great video Antoine! I’ve been feeling the same lately. I’m taking a break and then I’ll come back to it. Thanks for this great video! 👏
Great tips! One thing that occurred to me while watching....How about listening to a familiar passage from a favorite artist, then imagining what it might sound like if played backwards. Not literally backwards like a Hendrix tape loop, just using the chord progressions in reverse and playing a similar melody but with alterations to go with the new chord flow.
I am really just starting to learn guitar and music in general.
I already found out how inspiring it is to do music with other people . create together
would love to find people near me to do that more often
I have been going through this myself because I'm starting to feel like the music I come up with is not progressing beyond stuff I've already done.
Keep up the great work , do not stop to making music and do lessons only.....you are part of my musical inspiration ;) Thank you for the advices
Start noodling dry with no effect on, gradually add accent with guitar only, for 10mins then explore each effect and record/edit the best sections - this may give lyrical inspiration!
Tis the season. Come up with your own holiday songs. Or songs of hope.
Discovered your channel when looking into looping and stayed for all the amazing videos you create. Seems like what you’re experiencing is more of a TH-cam burnout than guitar burnout, it seems all the best YT channels eventually have to take an extended break from time to time, so much work goes into producing videos. And a quick thought about repeating yourself musically, I feel that way sometimes as well but remember that every single top artist since the introduction of radio has a narrow style and 99% of them never veered from what brings in the cash. A few do venture into different genres (like Taylor Swifts Americana recordings) but those are not far from her original country songs, it’s still folk and country to most people’s ears. Take a break from the Tube, or at least scale it back so you can delve into guitar without having to do pre and post production on everything you create…
Love your channel, stay healthy my friend 🎉
I would LOVE to see you play some acoustic guitar in alternate tunings using ambient pad textures. Here's a tuning from bass to treble.... DAEEAA. I love it with big sky cloud reverb really dark/ far left.
Love your content and as always.... thank you 👏
Turn on the TV with the volume at 0 and try to write backing Music for the scene. If you don’t feel it, change the channel until you get a scene that gives you inspiration. Most importantly- Do not censor your thoughts... just play!
My advice for what it is worth is to take this as an opportunity rather than a negative... this is a chance to explore a new way of making music... for instance you might start with a rhythm tapping & a lyric- instead of say working from a melodic sequence... or you could try working on something that is a fun practice & develops a new skill & all of a sudden you have a bunch of awesome ideas... for instance you could begin taking violin music that you like & transcribing it to guitar... this is a good practice challenge & while immersed in this work something may occur to you all while getting better at or learning a new skill... If you think about some sacred music that you like... for me Handle Aria's & Oratorios, Bach's Jesu Joy, Shubert's Ava Maria Beethoven's Ode to Joy... try taking those or passages you like from what you enjoy & transcribing them to guitar... try coming up with a LEAD or Rhythm accompaniment & try to take that choral work/song foundation to new places... there are all different ways to approach music & that can kick start your creativity- I am a firm believer in always challenging yourself with new approaches to old problems or routines... everyone gets bored & tired of the SAMENESS... so take a radical & different approach... I would even try using a violin bow on your guitar & when you try starting with a Rhythm... actually do that in different ways like hammer ons/ harmonics/ pull offs... and just trying those different sounds with that rhythm might inspire you... so the specifics above simply are examples of the general approach which is- keep it fresh, don't let routine & habit [good things] become a grind & SAMENESS [bad things]... also you could put your guitar away for a minute & try piano or bass... both of those can help you become a better musician look at music theory differently & ultimately make you a better band member living inside the music without leaning on others in the band bcuz you have a better understanding of what they are up too having seen the SAME SONG from the eyes of playing their instrument in that arrangement. I hope these were helpful & don't worry- all inspiration comes from GOD- he will never abandon you... he simply wants you to rely on him to a greater degree & be happy & patient... whatever you are experiencing 100% you can use it to improve if you look for a way to do that... the "muse" will return no question- so don't be discouraged, be encouraged- this is an opportunity for sure if you make it so!
Come home from work after a long day, look at the guitar and its like work again. Then you look at youtube and its literally infested with terrible guitar players, good guitar players, great guitar players and some that dont play great yet they dress up in skimpy gear to get simp subs and you wonder why you bother.
Jist listen to the nuclear power trio, it will get you lots of inspiration. Or listen to classical music of course- endless inspiration. A walk out in the park might do the trick too
Le meilleur remède c’est d’être en nature et écrire des paroles de chanson car la nature inspire
Antoine I'm the exact opposite and do not mean to sound arrogant but I get SO much ,I've hundreds probably nearly 1000 song half done, started or whatever. I 'receive' ideas nearly every day, do you want some? LOL! I plug in my gear and am completely overwhelmed not knowing which song or style to work on? I'm also old at 61 so my energy is waning...what to do?
can you make a video on how to harmonize a melody not as a fingerstyle player but as a maybe jazz singer...
i always struggle in writing chords for i feel like the guitar is guiding my voice but i want my voice and song to guide the guitar help please
love your videos ...
I'M GOING THROUGH THE SAME 😫
Whenever it feels flat and dry to me I go back to practicing fundamentals.
Life is a marathon, not a sprint..........
I like to play with other musicians to get inspired. Or you can collaborate on ideas and be surprised when something new just emerges..
I only made it 15 seconds in because time is important. You probably own a ton of gear and plug ins. Use them in a different way. Go outside your box.
Smoke a dube. It's reliable inspiration. Take a walk in nature.
Sometimes you have to go hunting inspiration with a club!
How about a collaboration? I’d like to co-produce an ambient electronica track with you.
I did message you via FB but I don’t think you see it.
Listen to the radio and hear what garbage makes millions.... 1 hit challenge 😂❤keep inspiring amigo
Take a break, 2 weeks , a holliday with the kid onn a beach.... ❤
It happens, many turn to alcohol and drugs to get over the blockage. Try learning something else for awhile. Don't put so much value on one thing. Life is broad and can be short.
Listen to music genres you like. Wander around Bandcamp. Buy a new pedal.
Maybe you need a side-chick? A Tele or SG
You need to extend your boundaries beyond ambient. Listen to other players and try and introduce elements of their playing in your style