Patience. Little is likely to happen in the first five minutes. Give the moment a chance to expand, a chance to unfold something.
Building from the ground up. What do the materials, the techniques, and the day suggest? Follow that.
Nailing it in one take. A take forces you to pay attention. One take demands even more attention. Attention is concentration, and concentration leads to good performance, sometimes even insight.
Noticing cool stuff along the way. “I didn’t know that knob did that.”
Pursuing tonality unabashedly. Aim for listenability!
Making and saving variations of sounds and effects. Create a darker, lighter, shorter, longer, subtler, or more extreme version. It only takes a few seconds.
Doing as much as possible in one session. Realizing that you’ll never have this opportunity again is understanding that one session is enough time to explore possibilities.
Trying a random thing at a random place. What would happen if took that out? Or flipped this here?
Only essentials. Adding the minimum necessary to get the geist of it.
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