Play some ideas only once

When I’m writing music I often try to expand on every single idea, but that doesn’t need to happen.

Sometimes certain ideas can be used only once. Not every idea needs to be expanded and varied and fully utilized.

I was listening to the Song Exploder episode with Jon Batiste where he was talking about his song “We Are.” They had a few ideas that only played once and didn’t repeat or only repeated once. It sounded new. It sounded fresh.

Playing some ideas only once means that those ideas are new and fresh related to the rest of the song.

ISJ