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region25
Apr 30, 2002

deep brain stimulation
Learning a new softsynth often gets me at least to a decent seed for a piece. Another technique I use frequently to start is writing down the structure of a favorite song or piece of music and then writing to that structure, or copying the feel of a piece to get myself going. After there are a couple of distinct parts, I'll cut out all the bits that I don't like (and mistakes), and then start trimming things down and moving them around in order to get to something that flows cohesively. Then I leave it for a while and work on other things, eventually forgetting all about it and never coming back to it to actually get it to a point where I want to share it with anyone, leaving me with fifty sketches of things in my DAW. Only the ones that are consistently the very most fun to come back to actually get to see the light of day :(

I like the timer idea. I'll give that a shot.

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