Daily Warmups

• Find a sample from insta
• Make a 16-bar idea which features the sample
• Post it, tagging the artist/user

• Take an INSTA|CRAM idea
• Create a contrasting 16-bar section
• OR find a song/element/sample to mash it up with
• Extend into a longer track ideas
• Post it, tagging the artists/users

• Do something you would never normally do
• Take it to a weird/silly/playful/unexpected place – what wouldn’t you normally do 

• Go to https://hookpad.hooktheory.com
• Play with chords, melodies, band instruments (etc)
• Either save it (if you want to subscribe)… or screenshot / screen-capture record the idea… or even just delete it and let it be a moment in time…

• Choose an instrument (this could be a software synth, any ‘real’ instrument, or some random object; it might be a brand new toy, or an old friend that’s been with you for years)
• Create a sound from scratch in a way you’ve never done before
• After 10mins is up, save it as a preset

• Identify a creative hurdle/rut you’re stuck on/in
• Choose an oblique strategy
   (use either oblique strategy cards, app, .pdf or KK dice strategies) Use either two dice or a Random Number Generator
• Apply it to the hurdle/rut and note how it worked out

• Create a beat idea from scratch
• Literally try and make it sh*t

• Find a cool (or even just random) tutorial
• Watch it until you see something interesting/cool that sparks inspiration or curiosity
• Stop the tutorial that moment and see where inspiration takes you
  if you find a cool tutorial, please send to contact@goldaksound.com  so they can be added to our list of approved tutorials 🙂

• Download the free 90-day trial of a DAW you’ve not used before
  ABLETON  |  LOGIC  |  FL  |  GARAGEBAND  | GARAGABAND:iOS  |  MASCHINE  | MASCHINE:iOS
• Make something… ANYTHING…

• Go to https://learningmusic.ableton.com/the-playground.html
• Play with Beats, Basslines, Chords and Melodies
• Either export it (to Ableton)… or screenshot / screen-capture record the idea… or even just delete it and let it be a moment in time…

• Impose some sort of limitation on yourself
• The more playful/wacky the better

• Identify something you’re resistant to
• Connect with it
• Embrace it with a sense of playful curiosity

Use your voice to sketch melodies, harmonies and rhythms

• Take a track that you’d like to finish
• Listen to it a few times, making a list of any/all ideas that could be employed to realise its expressive intention

• Get mad
• Record yourself getting mad – go on, express yourself, really let it out
• Use the sample as the starting-point for a new composition idea

• Take a short extract (e.g. the first bar) from someone else’s track.
• Develop, extend and ‘recompose’ it to create your own version.

• Pair two things that would never normally go together
• Think genres, styles, chords, beats, instruments etc.

Reach out and collaborate with someone you’d never normally work with

• Adopt a mindset/posture of extreme relaxation
• Now do whatever you feel like

Meditate for ten minutes