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To those who write music, what's your writing process like? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We had a post recently about posting your own original music, maybe we can also have some discussions aimed at music-makers.

I write music, and I aim to write just a little bit every day, and finish every composition that I start, without too much pressure for everything to be "good." Every six months or so I listen to everything I wrote recently and pick out the good stuff to put online, and everything else gets stored away in a sort of personal archive that isn't public. Maybe it's a "quantity over quality" approach but for me it feels like it helps to always be working on something

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man I wish I knew it myself, it's very much a wildcard for me. Different approaches create different music.

If I start with a specific melody in mind, usually that melody is more or less present throughout the whole song playing nonstop, as if I can't let go of it.

Sometimes I create the overall song structure first with e.g. the drums and the bass, and then build everything else on that.

...Or maybe in a flow state I create a short musical doodle that I expand on later. Or just play random bullshit and see where it takes me, possibly fitting old ideas in there. This usually creates the most experimental and fun songs, which I like. I'm all about crazy music that breaks all expectations and genre limits.

Most of my music doesn't get past the production barrier. I love mixing and working in my DAW, but damn it's hard to to actually start tracking and putting the time in. But once I get over that hurdle, I hyperfocus on it and can't think of anything else.