Q: someone probably has asked this before, but when you come up with stuff, where is some of the first parts of the songs you develop them? The melodies, bass lines, chords, etc. And how long does it take you to flesh out majority of a song?
A: i have no idea what 'fleshing' means, but 99% of the time the song is written in order of time, in the song. so the beginning is written first, then the next part, then the next, etc all the way to the end. I can usually get through the writing of a song in about 1 to 3 days. it's unpredictable because mechanism revolves around imagining new things out of nowhere. there's unfortunately no guaranteed service counter you can go and pick up the next part. you kind of have to just sit around and pray. and the more you can trick yourself into not trying, the better it will go. the most valuable thing you can do to coax the next part into existence is do a clean run through from the beginning, after not hearing it for a while