Buried in the process, your habits take over. Your automatic selection of instruments and sounds leads to predictable patterns.

If you begin with your fingers you are immediately filtering your imagination through your chops. Instead, ask yourself: What do I hear? As you hum a melody or beatbox a groove you hear in your head, you are not thinking about whether or not you can play it. This is an honest map of your idea. Record it, not because it will necessarily become part of the song, but because it provides you with direction. The way that you sang this melody will imply more than the notes themselves. You will hear tone, timbre, and texture. That can guide which instrument you use, instead of forcing a part through the instrument you already loaded.

When you begin from your imagination and what you hear, you provide a path for fingers to follow, instead of the other way around.

Full Episode: 049. Ideas Over Everything | feat. Moo Latte

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