Locked in…..

[TheCraftsman]

How do you deal with getting “locked in” to a riff or progression when you’re writing and jamming? I feel like I have these noises in my head that won’t let me go until I get them down so every time I’m picking up the guitar it’s always there on the fingers, sure it evolves and it develops but how do you manage to “close the book” and think I’ll come back to that later with some fresh ideas / ears etc…

 

[Black Plaid]

I try not to let it bother me, just go with the flow.

That said, the easiest way to get "done" with something is to put a ton of effort into recording it, eventually you just get tired of working on it and end up moving on.

 

[TheCraftsman]

Yeah I’ve got two or three tracks that are all different that I keep pushing every night, multi tracking in Logic and sometimes it’s great but sometimes it just feels like “I need to back burner this for a while and come back to it”