If you struggle finishing tracks try this.
You got a solid 4/8/16 bar loop going. Immediately structure it out. Don´t overthink it. Do what feels natural. Tension and release. You have your breaks your builds and your drops (and intro, outro, bridges).
You already got your drop. Work from there. Delete parts and remove elements for the break and start introducing a new element every 4/8 bars.
Point is to just do it as fast as possible. Don´t worry to much about transitions. (Although having a template with basic white noise sweeps and reverse crashes helps)
It´s going to help you to get out of that loophell.
It doesn´t matter if it sounds like shit at first. Point is really to have the big picture in front of you.
Now you got the whole skeleton. All you have to do is now fill the blank spots, add your transitions, your effects, filter in and out stuff.
Helped me a lot. I wish I knew this concept of a "shitty first draft" sooner. Wouldn´t have ended up with 1000+ half finished songs on my HD.
Submitted February 15, 2017 at 08:07PM by benbenim https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/5ub0e8/the_shitty_first_draft/?utm_source=ifttt