personally i just walk around with my hand held taperecorder and if i here a beat in my head i sing (yes its retarded hehe) into the recorder. thats how most of my stuff comes about...i start at the begining and work through the track listening to it...the rhythm...the sounds and come up with stuff to add to it that will fit with the rest of the tune.

most of the time i have an element in mind when i sit down to "compose" whether it is a lead, a pad, a certain drum fill etc.

I then create a rough draft of that element and allow the other elements to expose themselves to me through the gear that i happen to be working on at the time...

i believe in an organic approach to production...allowing each element of a song to "grow" from or be inspired by the other elements in the mix...this is to allow better fluidity in a live play set-up...accordingly the idea of how a trance song "should" be structured seems somewhat silly to me...besides focusing too much on how a road should be built doesn't get you any closer to the destination...

of course if i was focused on producing tracks to be spun by dj's perhaps the structure would matter more...i think the best way to approach song creation is from your thoughts outward rather than attempting to reproduce what others have done in the studio...i mean really if it has been done does it need to be re-done? just my $0.02

good starting point is equipment (be it hardware or comtputer based) and free-time...lots of free time to just piss away learning how to amaze yourself with whatever gear you're using at the time...

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Originally posted by Eugene or does it come out from experimenting, like a "jam session"?

This is exactly how I do my tracks... I just mess around in Reason playing some notes... sometimes they grow to be a track, most of the time they just end up saved to my hard drive with names such as "crap.rns", "crap2.rns", "what the hell is this.rns" and so on...

Maybe that's why most of my works are remixes

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Originally posted by Mr.Mystery This is exactly how I do my tracks... I just mess around in Reason playing some notes... sometimes they grow to be a track, most of the time they just end up saved to my hard drive with names such as "crap.rns", "crap2.rns", "what the hell is this.rns" and so on...

hahahaha

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first of all:
@ eugene: if you're a woman and look like your avatar i really really wanna mary you.

ok, now i ussually get melody in my head when i'm out of any pencil/paper/tape recorder/computer/anything. so i try to remember it. then i really wanna kill the first person who comes to me asking for something (stupid).

but eventually, when i manage to put the notes in my sequencer i can start building pads/basslines/anything that can go with melody. it's not that hard if you have some music theory background (i used to play piano for 15 years)

peace
ms_bug

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Originally posted by ms_bug first of all: @ eugene: if you're a woman and look like your avatar i really really wanna mary you.

no man, I'm a guy.
And yes, I wouldn't mind marrying her either

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oh nothing then. it is a shame not to try.
and yeah as ussualy if you have more of her PM me and then you can start flooding my mailbox with pictures.

cheers
ms_bug

I GO UPSTAIRS AND SIT DOWN ON THE SHITTER AND THEN AS THE LAST LOG PASSES THROUGH MY RECTUM I GET A MARVELOUS IDEA!

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Originally posted by trancedfarmer I GO UPSTAIRS AND SIT DOWN ON THE SHITTER AND THEN AS THE LAST LOG PASSES THROUGH MY RECTUM I GET A MARVELOUS IDEA!

...i call that excre-meditation...

SOmetimes the best way to find melodies for a track is to immerse yourself in different surroundings, and trying to use your thoughts of that place to make a feeling with music. The resulting melody, only polished in my sequencer, gets better when I add the beats, precs, and basslines, etc.

Remember, melodies for music, and especially trance, are endless in possibilities. You'll eventually find a melody of your own that is amazingly beautiful.

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Originally posted by ehcsztein ...i call that excre-meditation...

thank the lord for potty-time.