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Originally posted by Beyer +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.

Try it, maybe she'll think you're doing it for her. Win x 2

i instantly forget the tracks im dreaming of when i try to reproduce them, their pretty vauge in my mind so if i press one key wrong it will disapear. i think i need to learn how to picture it on the piano in my mind when i wake up and not touch any tools before im certain. but i also dream about the structure efex and stuff and thats even more impossible imo.

well, your mobile phone goes everywhere with you, right? most mobile phones have a voice recorder...

use it!

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Originally posted by floyd741 i think echosystm is a pretty cool guy. eh pwns robby rox and doesn't afraid of anything.

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Originally posted by kadomony 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.

+10000000

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It just comes when i play with good touchy sounds on the piano roll..

personly i have trouble remembering melodies. i thinks its becuase once i find something i like i record it right away then move onto another part. this makes it tough to go back to a song and take off from where i left off, even if i know the scale or whatever. i need to know exactly what i have played to be ble to add to it with out going or moving into another direction.

thats why when i hear that most people can produce or at least lay out the foundation for a song in one day/ or sitting, this is very improtant to the whole prosses so you can maintain the vibe and feel for the song before you go to bed and wake up forgetting or feeling a new vibe

but really to answer your question i just record something once i'm feeling it, trying to keep something in your head or trying to whistle it out or whatever technique just sounds crazy