All of the above is sound advice.

Also - would recommend being quick as you can with ideas.

Just get them down as quickly as possible and move on. The longer you hear the same loop, the more nothingy it sounds and eventually its just noise

I've abandoned plenty of tracks because I've spent ages noodling about with the same patterns and loops, getting more and more distracted with fiddling with a filter or an envelope - and eventually you have no idea what you are working on anymore.

Try and split your time between being creative (coming up with new things) and constructive (sequencing, mixdowns, mastering) etc and take lots of breaks so that you come back with fresh ideas and a more objective perspective.

If you try doing everything at once you burn out.
Give yourself different tasks which require different skills and mindsets and you will exercise different parts of your brain.


I quite like using randomisers for inspiration. Sometimes you can hear patterns in randomised stuff, and you can pull them out. Its like your brain latches on to what the pattern should be doing, then its just a matter of altering it and "correcting" it. Its can be a great way of coming up with ideas.
Best of luck mate