Screen shots, lost riffs, and the 80bpm Demo.

 Ello =D

Things have been moving on here music wise, got at least 5 tracks ready to be worked on.
3 Brand new spankers and 2 recent ones that I feel deserve to be on the project.
I would already be at the 8 tracks I wanted but 4 ideas I was working on have been dropped when after serious review while driving (That's I decide a song is good enough) I felt they were not upto the same standard as the other ideas. So the one with the super detuned top string is gone, the only good thing from tat track was the clean part, of which maybe used in another song. The guitar tone from that tack will be used though, real nice clean sound.
That missing song can be heard in this little vid.

So I thought I'd show you some screen grabs to show how I work on my demo process.

Ok right, so this one here.....
This shows me cutting up my notepad version. What I mean by notepad version is I build a drum track, jam some bass to it and then throw some guitar on top. Once I'm happy I have some good ideas down I'll cut it up to the sections that stand out.

 This next shows the end game of that process.
I know have a drum track and bass track that I'm happy with and the final stages can begin.

Overal this tends to cut over a minutes worth of audio and tightens up what would otherwise be a long and sometimes lost song. This ensures I listen to every part and work out if it's a good riff or just filler. Also it gives me more control over layouts. As you can see in the first picture and the second one I lost a verse and  intro.

The next picture shows my main guitar sound I'm using right now, and is the one used on the 80bpm demo. Which you can check out here; 80bpm Demo.
This song uses the writing method above and has given me a track, which I feel, is one of my better songs in a long time. 

I hope this helps give an insight to my ideas and how I work. It'd be great to hear how some of you write songs.

Anyways stay safe. Cheers.