These are very good tips. What helps me is, I dedicate a whole day to build a pool of sounds, presets and instrumentation that i want to use and stick to that pool when I start to compose. It screws your creative flow when you have browse through TB's of sound libraries to look for a specific sound while your brain is in "composing"-mode. Your orchestra must be ready to go when you let your inner Beethoven out. My creative energy has a daily limit of 4-5 hours, so its important for me to lay out the basic song structure as early as possible and not spend 4 hours on the first 30 seconds and then run out of ideas, because I lose myself in details and got bored with hearing the same 16 bars over and over again. It also helps not to think about mixing or even mastering, when you are still in the process of writing. Often I just improvise on the piano, record it and keep the bits i like.
Hi @christfkugel4907, thank you, and I'm really glad you found the video helpful. I work in a very similar way and yes, 4 hours a day of actual concentrated composing with breaks is about all I can manage too without my brain frying! :)
These are very good tips. What helps me is, I dedicate a whole day to build a pool of sounds, presets and instrumentation that i want to use and stick to that pool when I start to compose. It screws your creative flow when you have browse through TB's of sound libraries to look for a specific sound while your brain is in "composing"-mode. Your orchestra must be ready to go when you let your inner Beethoven out.
My creative energy has a daily limit of 4-5 hours, so its important for me to lay out the basic song structure as early as possible and not spend 4 hours on the first 30 seconds and then run out of ideas, because I lose myself in details and got bored with hearing the same 16 bars over and over again. It also helps not to think about mixing or even mastering, when you are still in the process of writing. Often I just improvise on the piano, record it and keep the bits i like.
Hi @christfkugel4907, thank you, and I'm really glad you found the video helpful. I work in a very similar way and yes, 4 hours a day of actual concentrated composing with breaks is about all I can manage too without my brain frying! :)