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
I love writing with another person. Normally I’ll do a creative phase, then a sit down planning phase.
I’ll try to go into a writing session with a few ideas; normally I’ll do this by coming up with one riff, then trying almost random ideas for parts that go with it. Normally something clicks so i work on that and record it all to my phone.
When i get to the rehearsal space, I’ll demo my work to people I play with. It will normally change a bit from what i wrote. The goal is to come up with a structure and see if any new parts come up while practicing.
Afterwards, you and whoever else sits in front of a computer, we normally do this as a separate session. Record scratch tracks in the general order of structure so you can listen back and decide what work it needs. Make sure to play this part to a click so you can use it to record later on.