I just wanted all of your different methods of recording. Not the " hit record, and play", your overall process.
For me, its hard see, because no matter what I produce, without immediate feedback, I seem to like, not think whatever I just laid out is good, or ill screw up the timing, and get frustrated, and quit lmao
I wish I had a full band behind me, totally accustomed to my style, but sadly, we dont always get wat we want lmao
I think it helps if you have some sort of idea of how your song goes or how you want it to sound in the end. Now, bear in mind, that it may change slightly or alot along the way. On some CDs, they have as their bonus tracks the demo of some songs and it's fascinating to see how the demo differs from the finished version sometimes. But the artist often had some idea in their head about where the song was going, even if it did change.
As a hobbyist that happens to have friends with varying degrees of musical talent, I have tons of ideas but to get any of them down takes a while. I play bass and guitar mainly and I'm fortunate to count among my friends three or four drummers and a percussionist. So I tend to start most songs as bass and drums, bass and percussion, guitar and drums or guitar and percussion. Now, even there, the way a song may have been constructed may change because in the midst of recording, interplay and improvisation may take the tune in different directions, more intense, less intense.....Something that's happened a few times is capitalizing on mistakes. Sometimes I've left them in and as the other elements have been added, they sound like a part of the song - a nice off the wall part !
If I'm satisfied with the basic and it doesn't need redoing, then the other parts get added as and when I can get my friends to put in their parts. That's why my songs take ages to get finished, I have to work around my wife, kids, work, neighbours, my friends' kids, wives, husbands, jobs, moods, availability etc. And if a session that took 5 months to arrange isn't productive and bits need to be done again, that might be another 3, 5, months or a year or whatever.
But the basic process is that, and then the bits get added. I try to get the vocals down as early as I can but that's not always possible. Also, I note down the dates of each session and what was done in them and which tracks were used and what's on them.
Whether or not they're good enough to carry on with is always your call.
Hope that helps in some way.
