Reaching Zulu Stub

It occurred to me some time ago that I’m too lazy and, paradoxically, too impatient to write really good house tracks. I usually carve out a 4 beat drum pattern, a 4 bar chord pattern, a bass line 4 bars long, and some variations, using Reason 4 and importing later to Logic 8 for better instruments. I always use default sound banks and patches. I usually work for 45 minutes to an hour on a track and I’m tired of it by then.

So, knowing my love for starting new things and my impatience and laziness, I created a project called 26 Stubs, in which I spend 45 - 60 minutes on a song, save it as “[letter] Stub - {date}”, and start a new one. The idea is to iterate through all 26 Stubs before returning for my next session of a particular work. This keeps the music fresh each time I work on it. Each track gets worked on sporadically until it’s evident that this track is junk or this one is a real song and gets a title.

Today, I reached Zulu Stub. Rotation 1 complete: back to Alpha. I should write this up in depth on Osteocephalic.com.