I found the formula for finishing every song you start...

[Sharmaji]

some songs don't need to be finished, and some finished songs aren't, in and of themselves, the finished product.

it depends on how you write. Every few months i go through and delete projects where I can here I was onto something (usually either a rhythm pattern or melodic/tonal idea), but it wound up being better-served in another song. if there's something else salvageable, great-- usually, there isn't. Every so often i'll finish a tune that's good (!), but not amazing. playing it out live will help you get a sense of the parts that really work, and the parts that are just the glue that hold the awesome together. get rid of those, up the duration of the awesome, add some bkwrds cymbals, booyah.

i'll always bounce stuff and listen on the ipod, etc, for compositional ideas. usually once i've got 2-3 minutes worth of material in a tune. For that reason alone, an ipod's an amazing part of the composing arsenal-- no more burning cd's, etc.

(speaking of which... time to hit "bounce")

If i'm writing brostep, i usually just distort, do my vowel filters, go to a graveyard, and compare whether or not my current wobble-du-jour is filthier than fingering an exhumed grandmother... if not, then i go back to my YOW YOW YOW YOW YAGGAYAGGAYAGGA YOW

[deadly_habit]

some songs don't need to be finished, and some finished songs aren't, in and of themselves, the finished product.

it depends on how you write. Every few months i go through and delete projects where I can here I was onto something (usually either a rhythm pattern or melodic/tonal idea), but it wound up being better-served in another song. if there's something else salvageable, great-- usually, there isn't. Every so often i'll finish a tune that's good (!), but not amazing. playing it out live will help you get a sense of the parts that really work, and the parts that are just the glue that hold the awesome together. get rid of those, up the duration of the awesome, add some bkwrds cymbals, booyah.

i'll always bounce stuff and listen on the ipod, etc, for compositional ideas. usually once i've got 2-3 minutes worth of material in a tune. For that reason alone, an ipod's an amazing part of the composing arsenal-- no more burning cd's, etc.

(speaking of which... time to hit "bounce")

If i'm writing brostep, i usually just distort, do my vowel filters, go to a graveyard, and compare whether or not my current wobble-du-jour is filthier than fingering an exhumed grandmother... if not, then i go back to my YOW YOW YOW YOW YAGGAYAGGAYAGGA YOW

haha sound like me minus deleting projects
sometimes i go back when looking for a laugh for old loop ideas and pull something from em, though i move them to a tune graveyard folder

[lowpass]

Low is not stating this as any kind of normative system to be followed. This is just the realization of the way things work.

Bingo

[Njamimars]

I always make songs till I can, then after a time I listen them over and over again and then I see wtf I did wrong or what I should add, I got like 200 songs that are still unfinished

Njam