what is your composition workflow

[matches]

I am new to creating music and was curious what other peoples work-flow is. Do you start with drums/rhythm , melody, ect.?

Thanks for your thoughts

[robsol]

I usually start with an idea. I then either forget that idea or try to do someting with it. If I do something, I normally go off on a tangent and forget about the idea and develop something comletely different. I then get bored and leave it behind as an other unfinished project.

Then something comes up that requires me to have material, and in panic I look through my unfinished stuff, desperately trying to make something coherent out of it.

The rest is just trying to keep a straight face, really.

[robsol]

Oh, and welcome to electro-music!

I know that the above answer is perhaps not what you were looking for, but creative flow is not always that predictable when you don't need to do it professionally (or even then).

[matches]

I can't write LOL big enough. No I was looking for a little concrete but knowing I am in good company makes me feel better.

My problem is once I have heard the beginning of a track about a hundred times I just want to start something else because I am sick of hearing the previous track. Oh well, nature of the beast I guess.

Thanks for your input!

[nobody]

Welcome to electro-music!

Here's the best non-helpful answer: find what works for you and go with it. Everyone who replies in this thread will have a different answer. It's a very personal thing.

I often have ideas. These ideas are rarely realised the way I hear them in my head, but they serve as a great place to start something. I often find myself playing with my V-Synth when I'm looking for a new line, or at least something that lets me use LFOs to bounce everything around rhythmically. Once something strikes my fancy, it kind of develops a life of its own. A few weeks later, my next hit single is born - or at least, something crawls out of the hole in my head.

[monkeylizard]

As has already been said, I think your original question invites every answer you could possibly think of - and then some on top of that. I'm not sure I can be of much use as very little of what I do contains any drums or rhythm. Or melody for that matter

As for getting sick of what you're working on - if that happens, stop working on it. Move onto something else completely different and come back to it when you've forgotten how sick of it you were. You may even find that something you've done in the meantime fits with what you'd done originally.

Good luck.

[Per]

A nice way is to start it is to see it as a sonic exploration, or adventure. I do normally have just a small feeling of what it should be, and sometimes drops is as the soundscape expands. If it starts to be boring, a big change is a way: delete the drum track, create a new one. Or pick just the best pieces, and use it together with older material. Or filter it near to nearly nothing, and put on new voices. Play it backwards, or whatever comes in your mind.
I find it easier to work if I now and then just drop parts of the composition, or ideas about it, and start over again, and let the process have a life of its own.
Per

[MikeS]