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by surprisetalk·5y ago·view on hn ↗
Good art demands time, but good art also demands practice and experimentation. I'd put challenges like this in the "practice and experimentation" category.

• 24-hour (or shorter) challenges may help you identify needless churn in your art process.

• Restricting your toolset (e.g. removing colors or editor-plugins or instruments you're most comfortable with) forces you to learn more about your craft without your normal crutches.

• Creating artificial size-constraints (e.g. Alan Kay's "t-shirt computing") can guide you toward the essence of your art.

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Yep. You gotta half-bake something before you can fully-bake it. In fact, there's no reason you couldn't take some of the good bits of your 24-hour album and use them for later more polished compositions.
If you're serious about music; performance or composition; you'll study with the most accomplished teacher you can find. They're working for peanuts during covid.

Taking a challenge like this from a rando on the internet is a huge gamble.

Want to get good? Get someone with teaching experience to dictate your practice. Want to act like you're trying? Do this.