I was working on a track yesterday and I couldn't come up with a consistent melody while working on the track but it finally came when I went off to sleep. I tried remembering it by mimicking the notes on a keyboard and playing them out loud for 2 minutes but 30 seconds after I stopped I had already forgotten it... sad because I hanged on it pretty long...

How do you guys remember your melodies?

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why don't you record it ? ... open your sequencer choose a vst then start claping your keyboard save and have a nice sleep then

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AuF_KEn - Trance/Techno/Progressive
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Originally posted by kennythekid why don't you record it ? ... open your sequencer choose a vst then start claping your keyboard save and have a nice sleep then

Too lazy I guess and I had just turned off the PC

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The party to end all parties (part one with Layo & Bushwacka!) (part two with Laurent Garnier)

well if you want to remember you have to stop beeing lazy in this case

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AuF_KEn - Trance/Techno/Progressive
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If it's actually memorable, I'll be able to whistle it a few times and then remember it without doing any of those things.

Usually, I don't. Le sigh.

So, I just come up with a new one.

there are songs that i can remember or not but after sleeping well not all the time i can remember it but after trying hard i can mostly

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AuF_KEn - Trance/Techno/Progressive
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record me humming/singing it.

usually amazing melodies come to me just as im on the edge of falling asleep but i rarely, if ever wake up to remember it.

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i've made some of the best melodies known to man in my dreams. i just can't remember the ******s when i wake up.

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Originally posted by StanVoid i've made some of the best melodies known to man in my dreams. i just can't remember the ******s when i wake up.

I hate when that happens!

.....and it actually happened last night!

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Originally posted by zen_zo OMG since when did countless decades of tradition started influencing music?

I grab my cell phone and record myself using the little voice note recorder. Seems to work for the most part.

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Originally posted by DaveG I grab my cell phone and record myself using the little voice note recorder. Seems to work for the most part.

+1 Often when I'm at work, I start comping melodies in my head - and if it's something I'd like to use, I grab my cell phone and record it humming or whistling. Same happens sometimes while I lay in bed trying to sleep. But I'm too embarrassed to start humming to my phone with my girl next to me in bed.