Finding creative confidence with LNA Does Audio Stuff
With ROLI Piano and Airwave, LNA challenges herself to make a track in 10 minutes to prove there’s no failure in creativity
Producer, musician, and creative coach LNA Does Audio Stuff believes that creativity should be fearless. Through social media, LNA guides aspiring musicians and producers towards healthier creative habits, helping people find their musical confidence and overcome common stumbling blocks. She has also published a book,“Creative Confidence and Music Production: Overcome Your Insecurities”, to help musicians shed the weight of their personal goals and judgements and find their creative flow.
To prove that there’s no such thing as failure in the creative process, she sets herself a challenge: make a track in just 10 minutes using ROLI Piano and Airwave. It’s not about perfection, it’s about getting started, pushing through resistance, and reconnecting with the joy of making music.
As the 10 minutes count down, LNA takes her time experimenting with the unique, expressive sounds she can conjure up with ROLI Piano and Airwave at her fingertips. Her approach is thoughtful, yet spontaneous, inviting all of us to rethink what “success” in creativity really means.
The struggle of starting
Every creator knows the feeling: the blank project file, the weight of expectation, and that creeping pressure to make something amazing right from the start. For LNA, it begins with the bass. Instead of overthinking, she encourages us to be more natural and spontaneous in our process, just as she lets the lights of ROLI Piano and the intuitive hand gestures of Airwave move her to where the music and inspiration want to go.
“This is supposed to be fun. I think we sometimes forget that. We just need to find the enjoyment, and sometimes a 10-minute deadline is the perfect technique for it.”
Sometimes the hardest part is just getting started. LNA suggests putting your goals aside, even briefly. Let go of the pressure to create something perfect. Let it just be you and the instruments, and find a way to get back to the feeling of enjoyment when you first started making music.
She also opens up about the emotional weight many creatives carry: the inner critic, impostor syndrome, the voice in your head that says you’re not good enough. Recognizing those thoughts is the first step, and the second is learning to talk to yourself with compassion, not criticism. Acknowledging those thoughts and countering them with the knowledge that you actually do know your stuff goes a long way. We know we’ve got the skills to create the music we want, but we need to quiet those thoughts that tell us otherwise.
“Making it” — defining our goals as we craft our sound
After the bass comes a chord melody, and an idea starts taking shape, but LNA takes a moment to reflect on something deeper. Musicians can get caught up in the idea of “making it”, a hypothetical that makes us question every action we make in the songwriting process. But LNA asks us to focus not on the idea of success, but to ask ourselves why we want to create in the first place. “Why do you want it, and what is it that you actually want? What is ‘making it’?”
It’s a big question. For some, "making it" might mean releasing an album, racking up streams, or monetary gain. For others, it might simply mean feeling proud of finishing a track. Our paths as musicians are all different; there is no one-size-fits-all path to success, and all our definitions of success are different, too.
In what LNA calls “workflow”, she lays out a method to help us navigate our unique paths as creators. Define your own version of success. Where are you now? Where do you want to go? And what are the steps to get there? Once you find that clarity, you can build a process that serves you, not someone else’s standard of success.
Does a track need to be finished to be “done”?
Creative energy is precious, but it can also be chaotic. As LNA continues to flow through spontaneous movements, there are flashes of brilliance where choral synths sing and soar above an ominous bass line — “I love that little surprise there!”
One of the biggest challenges for many musicians is knowing when to stop. LNA reminds us: not everything you make needs to be great, you don’t even need to like every track you make. In fact, sometimes it just needs to be. Take a step back. Accept what you've created, flaws and all, and move on. Progress comes from finishing, not from polishing something forever.
LNA’s approach emphasizes process over perfection. The track itself doesn’t have to be perfect—refinements can come later. “We need to just embrace creativity and not judge it,” LNA explains. “Just finish your tracks and decide what to do with them afterwards. You don’t need to decide in the moment, you don’t need to make a masterpiece. Just finish tracks and get them out.”
Through exercises like this 10-minute track challenge, we become better songwriters, more resilient artists, and more connected to our creative instincts, whether we’re riding a wave of inspiration or just learning to keep going. What matters most is that you’ve shown up, allowed yourself to create without judgment, and practiced the muscle of making music.
Discover more spontaneous and intuitive music making with ROLI Piano and Airwave
Leave perfection behind and rediscover the fun of creating. With ROLI Piano’s 49 illuminated keys guiding your hands and Airwave translating every gesture into expressive sound, you can let go of overthinking and make music that flows naturally. Whether you’re sketching ideas or chasing a spark of inspiration, this dynamic duo helps you create with instinct, movement, and joy.
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