If you find yourself falling into these patterns of behavior, then working under a time constraint may be a great challenge to try out. While it might sound stressful, limiting how long you work on a song can be a great way to hone your workflow and build confidence in your creative decisions. You’ll likely be more content with many of your choices, too, since you won’t have the chance to doubt your instincts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On that note, let\u2019s dive into this week\u2019s Songwriting Club prompt: write a song under a time constraint. <\/strong>Feel free to focus on just one aspect of the songwriting process; maybe you just want to get some lyrics down, or an instrumental mapped out, or anything in between. We won’t be prescriptive with the amount of time, but try picking a limit that you know will be challenging for you \u2013 depending on your intended scope and level of comfort, we recommend either ten minutes, thirty minutes, one hour, or three hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For an example of what this process looks like, check out our video below, where we made a lo-fi hip hop beat in ten minutes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n