Phase 1 · Week 0

Plumbing and definitions

day 1/7

This week's sessions — 0/8

STDY

PRD1

PRD2

LSTN

Warm-up ladder

10 min Hydrasynth free play — C major scale and triads, previewing the Phase 2 ladder

Study

Skim Making Music: the Problems of Beginning chapters. The real study this week is the template.

Exercises

Build the one Ableton template: returns (one reverb, one delay), a reference track channel, Bluebox/Overbridge inputs, and a 64-bar grid with locators labeled Intro / A / Build / B / Break / B′ / Outro.
Decide and test the capture path once — Bluebox multitrack WAVs or Overbridge. Pick one and stop optimizing it.
Write the definition of done on a sticky note: length ≥2:30, has an arc, exported, given a name.

Deliverable

The template exists and a test capture made it into Ableton. Every track starts here now — never from blank.

0 / 3

Finished tracks are the only metric.