heres the scenario:

your in your studio working on a track and WAY too many ideas come out and it begins to hinder your artistic productivity. you come up with a bassline or part and it starts out as something good but then ends up even better or morphs into something else that doesnt fit the track.

anyone get that?

Maybe you are limiting yourself on what could be possible within the form or context of a song?

Maybe you are limiting yourself on what could be possible within the form or context of a song?
I agree, and I never see that as a problem anyway.

That sounds like a GOOD thing to me. Sounds like creativity. Go with it.

Get those ideas down and develop them later. ;)

Joe

that could be true. i liken it to a plague of mice that will never be exterminated. if only i could aquire that beautiful ability to make an entire track out of just one bassline like Prince, The Police and other artists do then id be set!

One thing I do when this happens is if for example your writing and you come up with lets say 4 really cool riffs (A,B,C,D) instead of trying to use A,B,C,D all in one song I take A and write complementary music for it and that would be a song and cool riff A would be the center piece of it. And so on for B,C, and D. I don't know if that helps or if this will make sense to anyone.

Virtual Tracks are your best friend! Lay them all down and select what's appropriate for the song and save the rest for aother tune.

thats sort of how i work. if i come up with a bassline in C# then i think ok cool now i'll make a part that goes with that in A or G#. thats how i think. im a big fan of learning to play things backwards, cutting them in half, slowing them down, role swapping (keys play pass part, bass plays keys part) stuff like that.

my friend just pointed out something i hadnt thought of before..."dude! you have like 2-3albums worth of material right there use it!" lol! :D

i basically record samples of my own bass via windows sound recorder and throw them in a program called: Modplug Tracker which lets you sequence any sample you like and build patches of samples such as drum kits made entirely out of individual kit samples.

here is what i do...> www.myspace.com/mikeytron

the kick, tom and snare samples are from Faith No More albums and other drumkit samples off other records and my roland XP-60

i boned the blonde chick in my top 3 friends list :)

Common problem overworking a part. That one reason to keep multiple takes, also many pro's delay working on things till last minute so no time to overwork a part. Also this is when a second set of ears come in handy to get to stop.