In an effort to make more music this year, I am making an effort to start each day working on a song for about 10 to 15 minutes. If there is a day where i can spend an hour or two or more on it, sure I’ll do that too, but at the very least I’d like to work on it little by little every day.
I have come to find consistent progress is greater than spending big lump sums of time on a project. Even if you only get to work on it once a week, showing up each week at the same time, every time for a minimum specified time still yields better results than not having a set time and only diving into it when you get to it. Put it on your calendar so time is blocked out, set reminders, set up a focus or do not disturb for that time to minimize distractions. Treat it like a doctor’s appointment you can’t miss. etc. Do what you can to develop a habit of consistency to show up on schedule and work on things.
Since I have this newsletter and channel and etc I figured another way to build accountability and hold myself to it is sharing my progress publicly. I am however purposely making this it’s own newsletter so only those who are interested in following my progress and or joining in and working on something will see it. That way for those not interested in following along, you can still get all the usual tutorials from TheBlindLogicPro without seeing the daily accountability emails.
TO be able to start quickly I am choosing to start the song off using a template. In my case it’s a template I created, and I encourage starting from a template as well when you can. Even if you use one of the stock logic templates instead of building your own, or start with a stock logic template and customize it into your own and save that as a template you can use going forward.
Remember when setting up your template you can use option M to toggle disabling or enabling tracks. This way you can add a few options to the template, just be careful to not add too many options as remember the point of this is to be Abel to work quickly.
Check out how this template was made, along with a detailed tutorial on how to save and update a template.
As I record a lot of guitars, I updated this template to have a MIDI Software Instrument track in it that i can use to quickly tune my guitar. If you want to see an example of how I use a MIDI piano track as a pitch reference to tune check out this tutorial.
Lastly, participate in the conversation on the LogicBand discord server in the session planning channel. Share what you are working on, your progress, where you are getting stuck, what’s holding you up etc, and lets make more music together.
