I dug up some old hard drives a while back with a ton of songs and sessions on them.
My method back then was to open a Garage Band session, hit record and play whatever idea I’d just come up with…then hit stop, tinker for a few minutes, record the updated version on the same track, stop, tinker, record…and keep going until…
Sometimes the track would be thirty or forty five minutes of iteration after iteration of the same idea, and that doesn’t include all the tinker time in between.
But here’s the interesting part…Listening back to all those songs (songs I had long since forgotten about), the final iteration of each song is the one I still like best.
As creative people we develop a sense for when to push and when to pause.
Usually when we think we can make it better right now, we’re right.
Usually when we think it’s as good as it’s going to be right now, we’re right.
»» For those who have watched Get Back…Once Paul lands on the melody for Get Back it doesn’t change.
