the way i do it:
i love playing keyboard!
i love to play a good sounding piano
emulation over my keyboard.
i do it allmost everyday.
i allways freestyle.
when im freestyling i stumble over exquisit melodies, very often.
i save these melodies.
since they were played in the mid piano keyrange they are the main carrier of the following song.
i add a bassline to underline the melodie,
maybe a pad aswell, some fx, maybe very high tonal sequencer melodies to
pull the mainmelo in the sky,some variations, one break- boom
then ive got a 4 minute track but i would never say its finished...
this way i got over 500songs with exquisit melodies but ive never finished a single one.
the process of taking a leading melodie and arrange it with bass and pad maybe taking 10-15 minutes but it can take 1-2 hours to just find the right synth sound for the lead. these thing that come out of these 10-15 minute jobs (from which i got around 500) i wouldnt call songs or tracks. rather models.
it can take days to make a song out of a single one.
some of the most professional musicians sometimes took years(jes years)
to develop a single song.
sometimes its more complicated.
try listening to classic music from
chopin mozart and grieg (especialy griek) and rachmaninof...
this is musical education that will never be out of date...