Keeping focus while writing/composing, transitions
Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2016 7:10 am
So I have this issue.
I will come up with some catchy lyrics or a good beat, sit down in my studio and start hammering it out. The problem is I get distracted. I'll come up with a nice beat, start working on melodies and I get lost in the land of patches and I make my own as well. What materializes is almost always garbage and far and away from what I was trying to accomplish. I know music is usually a fluid process and what I end up with will not necessarily be what's in my head when I start but what do you do to keep from getting lost?
My other major issue is transitions. I'm working on some Industrial and EDM tunes. I'll get a good intro going and a good first several bars but when it's time to switch things up, instrumentally and/or vocally I just hit a wall. Any suggestions on how to get past it? I have a lot of one-minute songs I'd like to make longer.
These might be weird questions but they're my biggest problems. Any suggestions or what you do to deal with these issues is much appreciated.
I will come up with some catchy lyrics or a good beat, sit down in my studio and start hammering it out. The problem is I get distracted. I'll come up with a nice beat, start working on melodies and I get lost in the land of patches and I make my own as well. What materializes is almost always garbage and far and away from what I was trying to accomplish. I know music is usually a fluid process and what I end up with will not necessarily be what's in my head when I start but what do you do to keep from getting lost?
My other major issue is transitions. I'm working on some Industrial and EDM tunes. I'll get a good intro going and a good first several bars but when it's time to switch things up, instrumentally and/or vocally I just hit a wall. Any suggestions on how to get past it? I have a lot of one-minute songs I'd like to make longer.
These might be weird questions but they're my biggest problems. Any suggestions or what you do to deal with these issues is much appreciated.