File directory full of unfinished tracks.

Any other artists like me with a directory of unfinished tracks and ideas of only a few go on to actually become a finished ? Some been sitting there a few years which may become something or not. Do you start something from beginning to end I think that is a skill in it's self ?

Ahh yes, I have a lot of songs that somehow I didn't like. Sometimes because they are too repetitive or because it started a a good idea, but the final result seemed boring to me.
There are some rare cases when I find a way to revive those tracks, by adding new melodies, or mixing two or more of then into one song.

That's in fact a thing that I completely disagree... after all, any new bands/artists discoveries I made are based on how much I like the complete flow of their album(s). And I got the same idea with every release I'm planning to do.

yea it's definitely about albums that's what i always strive for, cohesiveness in a body of work, even though some albums have tracks that totally leap out and don't "fit" in a conventional sense with the rest of the songs, but i always have my reasons for putting them in there, and i always hope the listener comes to see it too.

as for unfinished tracks, i have heaps and heaps and heaps, mostly from staying up late stoned and just doing whatever comes into my head, then when i go to work on them the next day i discover that they are, in fact, crap. :)

i also have made use of some little ditties (the really good ones that don't have enough power on their own) by combining them into a song together. for example, A Change Of Perception and Mind Soul Dark Light were created this way.

I do quite well. Most ideas I have keep on spinning around in my head until I complete them, and there's a limit to how much can be in there at one time. I usually start with the lyrics, so if something doesn't pass that stage, it'll get scribbled out. ;) In terms of lyrics, I have just one unfinished song. Plus two songs which are really old and not that great so I'm not sure if I'll ever want to record them again, and a third song which is defamatory and I probably wouldn't feel comfortable recording it again. Haha.

As for recordings, I don't have much sitting around there which I want to do something with either. Mainly just three short instrumentals which are about a minute long each, they'll probably get redone as full songs.

The other thing I'm keen to do is covers of some of my favourite songs in my own twisted kitchen utensil way, but I'll have to save that idea for later. I tried starting on one song a couple of years ago, but didn't make much progress that time. So that's one directory of unfinished files I've got lying around, although I'll probably delete it or salvage some of the files for something else, and start the same song from scratch another time.

hummmm.... well now. most of my tracks are reworked from tracks i've made.. i have the project files and from time to time bring them up and create something new...so really i have no unfinished tracks!! TRavvy

I have alot of tracks that never amount to anything but have come in handy years later as a starting point. You know the kind of tracks that sounded good the night before but then in the morning what was I thinking. :) I'm a bit like you as I come at music from a graphic design background so i'm thinking from an artwork / imagery perspective while putting an album together which is fun.

Never delete any sound scrap or melody idea you never know when it might come in handy :)

Cool ill check out your Pagan Pal :)

I have heaps of songs I recorded in a 'flash', and some still that i only ever recorded with my crappy old headset microphone, and never re-recorded. Most of my songs are only demo quality, but occasionally I've found that I never get a recording I'm more satisfied with than the very first one I try. which kinda sucks if the first try has to be edited because you messed up the outro...lol. or because your first try was on said shitty headset mic, and you've never done a better version on any of your better equipment since.

Actually stuck with two projects, but I tend to use everything I'm inventing.