Soundtrack composing templates

I'm a big fan of checklists – ordered lists to ensure you perform all the prerequisite steps. Checklists allow you to make sure you've paid attention to each step, especially those that are easy to overlook. Some steps feel quite small but, if forgotten, can lead to big problems down the road. The book The Checklist Manifesto, by Atul Gawande, provides compelling arguments for the benefits of using lists to improve your workflow. I highly recommend reading it.

The steps in composing music are a repeated process that you'll go through again and again for each music production project. Music production steps can be broken down into a sequential list. This section will provide you with a series of lists you can adapt and use to ensure you've paid attention to all the important things while composing. For organizational convenience, there are three checklists for three different stages of the music production process.

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