Q: So you seem like someone who is talented when it comes to making yourself get work done. So, I was wondering if I could like pitch you an idea that I thought of trying for myself to start making more music, and see if you had any feedback? idk. The plan would be for me to spend, for each song, three days on the melody, then three days on the harmony, then three days on the percussion, then three days on the bassline, and finish with two days to revise and edit. Do you think this is a good plan? Anyway, love everything you do! Keep it up! <3
A: that method seems very strange to me, but it might work, if you are not used to coming up with everything all at the same time. my approach to the over-whelm of not knowing what to do would be to just simply make much much much much much shorter products. and if it still doesn't work try making it shorter. a good example of the first one i did on this strategy was "die", literally only syllable. 1 word, 1 syllable, 1 melody note, 1 chord, 1 bass note, 1 kick drum, etc.... conceived of quite instantly, and recorded very quickly, because it was very clear what to do. that one was supposed to be 1 second, so the next one can be 2 seconds, except i discovered that the ringing crash cymbal made it 2 seconds so i actually went shorter first and did one that was truly 1 second, which was 'bears', before moving onto 2 seconds