Sometimes you have to give yourself weird challenges to get out of your comfortable habits. In this episode, I describe a technique I'm calling visual MIDI improvisation, where I draw in MIDI notes in a visually-pleasing arrangement, without any regard for what they sound like. I also share some techniques you can use to make a listenable track out of these sketches.

This production lesson originally aired in Composer Quest episode 133 with Cyriak Harris. For more music production lessons and composer interviews, visit composerquest.com.