When building up a track we can sometimes get lost on what is next. Where does this path lead? Do I put a drop in here? What is a Chorus part? There is a lot of possibilities of where your track can expand to when you are writing it. Because of this I have developed my own technique to help me stay creative when writing my own music. This is a really simple trick, but it can greatly speed up your writing and give you new ideas.

So here is the basic idea. Make a midi track at the top of your set. Here you can add MIDI clips and name them after the part of the track.

Here is just the BLANK midi Track:

What this lets me do is write up the different parts up top to know what I am doing. It’s a great way of knowing where I am at the track, but it also opens up other possibilities.

Here is a video that walks through how I use this technique in Ableton Live.

If you look at compositions of the other tracks you can then save the track by dragging it into a folder in your User Library. For me, I drag any new composition into:

D:\User Library\User Library\Compositions

Then I have all my different compositions I have worked on / analyze for creative inspiration.

To show this technique off there is a free Ableton Live Set below with the first example and 2 other example compositions. You can use this as a template to build your own.