One of the best interviews I've read was some years ago with Stevie Wonder in Keyboard Magazine. He sat in his home studio, full size of course, with his producer running tape while he noodles on a keyboard. As he's noodling the producer makes notes of the time on the tape when he hears something good. Stevie just plays and plays, sometimes humming or singing. Whenever he wants to take a break he goes into the booth and the producer plays back what he noted. He said pretty much all of his classic hits were done that way. He said at that time he was sitting on a vamp that would make a great bridge for something but not a whole song and we might hear it eventually. He also said after a two hour session there might be 8-10 snippets and out of those there might be one he decides is worth developing. He freely admited most of it really is junk noodling but I wonder if we would think that.

We all have the same opportunity to do that now right in our little desktop studios and we're not even burning up expensive tape.

Bob

Biab/RB latest build, Win 11 Pro, Ryzen 5 5600 G, 512 Gig SSD, 16 Gigs Ram, Steinberg UR22 MkII, Roland Sonic Cell, Kurzweil PC3, Hammond SK1, Korg PA3XPro, Garritan JABB, Hypercanvas, Sampletank 3, more.