Limiting what you do when creating can leave you feeling liberated… weird right? I’ll tell you why…

We often feel overwhelmed by all the choices we have, and if you’re in the music making game, you know there’s a lot of them. To increase productivity and make yourself a prolific writer, we can harness the power of restriction. It forces you to make a decision, it allows you to get stuff done at a faster pace, you are no longer considering what sounds to use in your production, you’ve already chosen them! It also encourages you to think outside the box with how to use instruments in a different way. A couple of rules which I encourage you should start out with:

Now the rules are set, start creating… and to help you with differentiation between each section, here are 3 things I personally like to do:

Theres also a million other things you could do, but these are a great starting point.

Now go create!