Making Music: 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers

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Creating Variation 1: Mutation of Clones
Problem:

Music-making time is sacred.

Your creative time is essential

Steven Pressfield, in his classic book The War of Art

A side benefit of working so freely during the creation phase is that you may find things during the editing phase that are actually amazing but are unusable within the context of the project you’re currently working on. When that happens, just save the material that’s worth saving (but is wrong for the current song) into a “scraps” folder (see Scraps and Sketches). Then the next time you’re beginning a new track but aren’t in the mood to start from scratch, simply pull something interesting out of your scraps folder.

Many highly organized electronic musicians are good at resisting gear lust and instead learn a particular DAW inside and out.

Instead of treating it like a building block, a task to accomplish, or a means to an end, try to focus on it as the goal itself.