Beat in an Hour

• Load your template project
• Pick a tempo and key, and don't change them
• Phone in another room

Kick and snare first, then hats and percussion. An 8-bar loop.

Lock it in with the kick.

One chord progression and one memorable melodic idea.

Silence. Your ears adapt to anything after a while.

Copy the loop out to 2–3 minutes and mute parts to carve out an intro, build, drop and outro.

• Export a rough MP3
• Name it with the date, tempo and key
• Listen once on your phone tomorrow