Start a sentence without any idea of how you’re going to wrap it up. Then sing/say whatever you’ve got over a beat you like; accompany it with some simple chords. (Or the other way around: start with the music and improvise the line.) Start another sentence (it can be related to the first one but it doesn’t have to be) over the same beat and chords (change them up if they’re not doing enough to the pleasure centers in your brain). Keep going until you sort of feel what’s going on and use that feeling to expand the frame. Press toward a point of completion that you’ll never actually reach. Revise and adjust until you feel pretty good about far you’ve actually come. Hit record.
2002: All Hail West Texas
2002: All Hail West Texas
2002: All Hail West Texas
Start a sentence without any idea of how you’re going to wrap it up. Then sing/say whatever you’ve got over a beat you like; accompany it with some simple chords. (Or the other way around: start with the music and improvise the line.) Start another sentence (it can be related to the first one but it doesn’t have to be) over the same beat and chords (change them up if they’re not doing enough to the pleasure centers in your brain). Keep going until you sort of feel what’s going on and use that feeling to expand the frame. Press toward a point of completion that you’ll never actually reach. Revise and adjust until you feel pretty good about far you’ve actually come. Hit record.