Q: What's the first track or instrument you usually lay out first to get things going?
A: probably some perc, but the first thing that will remain would usually be the vocal. actually nevermind, i realize you could take it another step back and it turns out there's actually a room recording of voice/keyboard during the writing process which goes in before anything. but that gets removed before the temp insts go in, which then get removed as soon as the final vocal goes in