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If you have seen the brilliant Ill Gates "Ill Methodology" videos then you'll know about "Daytime Sessions" and "Nighttime Sessions." Daytime sessions are large chunks of time that are dedicated to completing or making serious headway with a production. Nighttime sessions are those odd hours here and there where you don't have the time to drill deep into your project but can do work to keep moving forward. That means sorting out your library, making sounds, patterns, beats etc, i.e making building blocks and doing prep work to expedite those daytime sessions.

These days, the concept of the daytime session is largely a fantasy for me. I wont bore you with the details but work/job/family makes finding half a day or a day very challenging. For me I'm really dealing with twilight, dusk and evening sessions; smaller segments of time that are regularly interrupted (other than the Evening Sessions). Don't get hung up on the fact that my sessions names have an evening theme when they are in the middle of the day. Other people might call theirs Tom, Hilda and The f7ckest Uppest.

Evening sessions - Anywhere between 11pm and 3am, most evening s. Duration: 20 minutes to 2 hours.
iMaschine - Use this to sketch out basic loops, patterns and capture what might pass as a real idea once in a while.
Soundcloud - Push out rough patterns to Soundcloud so I can get at them easily and if someone comments/likes/hates then all the better.

- This happens most frequently as it's after everyone has gone to bed.

Dusk Sessions - Mid Morning or Early afternoon, once or twice a week. Duration 1-2 hours
Maschine - Pull in loops/sketches from iMaschine. If I believe it's something that will make for a standalone track I'll work towards that goal if not, choppy choppy, savey savey time. Good chance I will do both.

- I am just starting to do this session as I'm still learning Maschine.

Twilight Sessions - Whenever, a couple of times a month. Duration: 1-4 hours
Traktor + F1, Pull in tunes, loops, hit buttons, pull shapes.

- This is the planned approach. I haven't done it yet as I'm still starting/working through the other sessions. Well, I do pull shapes....

This is not meant as a guide. model or even suggestion. I would love to do the straight daytime/evening model as Dylan recommends but this is how it is for me, at least for the time being.

So how do you do it?