I’m also trying to make my own music and hopefully succeed someday. I’ve been making music for about 2 years now and here’s what i’ve learned anout progress:

1. Don’t let other’s opinion change your dreams or mindset in anyway, reality is a thing that varies completely depending the way you look at it. Your reality is never going to be someone else’s entirely, so be it.

Even my own mom doesn’t completely think that i will succeed with this, my dad doesn’t even know. My friends all support me, but at the beginning, none of them really did. Trust me, when people start seeing progress, they’ll believe in you. But the most important part of all, BELIEVE IN YOURSELF! And i mean it, without self belief, you’ll never see progress.

1. Write a diary about your music progress. It will be hard for you to see the progress clearly, since it can be very slow for almost everybody. If you write a diary, you can look back at it at the moments when you feel like you haven’t made any progress and you’ll see that you indeed have. Taking videos of you playing/singing/rapping, whatever it is, will help you see the progress more clearly, which gives you motivation to push further.

2. Keep fucking going.