What recurring elements do you notice in your music?

[ChocolateChicken]

What recurring themes and features do you notice in your own music?

I thought this would be an interesting question to ask everyone.

[Stars In Autumn]

Drums tend to be too quiet.
Chords are played over a bar/bar/bar/half bar/half bar.
Dotted quarter, dotted quarter, quarter note patterns are frequently used (or dotted eighth notes).

I use lots of strings.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

I try to make dubstep yet I'm clearly more comfortable with breaks and drum and bass.

idk could just be me liking the fact that breaks are different from my norm.

[ExoBassTix]

Well, I like to believe that my theme "less is more" is a recurring element in most of my music.
Don't really know about what else.

[Motivfs]

Arpeggios, I abuse them.
Dotted eighths, I abuse them.
Sidechain (and not in the mixing sense), I abuse it.
Simplicity, my music consists of it.
Sound Design, weak as hell.

I kind of want to do what Camo & Krooked and ShockOne do, and make their music very complex, with a lot of FX, melodies, transitions, etc. ShockOne does an amazing job at chord progression and I definitely want to go down that path, but *sigh*, I can never seem to break from the little melody I start off with for the longest of times.

And I guess the obvious one. I only make Drum & Bass, I have absolutely zero interest in any other genre other then Drum & Bass.

[Mr. Bigglesworth]

Well among my wip's, moombahcore is my main genre.
The problem is that I'm not doing anything inventive with it, but I'm working on that.

[Symphon]

I abuse triplets, breakbeats, and occasionally reverb. I tend to rely too heavily on sweeps, builds, and samples to transition to other parts of a song.

Not sure what else.

[caprixsnare]

reverse effects, same 3 kicks, and starting soft.

[Alycs]

I almost always either compose in A, D, or C minor (with F major thrown in rarely), I rarely do anything other than that.

Also, I tend to always build into the song rather than just hitting the ground running with it.

[vladnuke]

Tons of chip, tons of distorted bass, tons of breakbeats. That's me in a nutshell.

I think I found a nice balance between chiptune and drum n bass, the chip provides the melody while the bass and drums provides the meat n potatoes of the song.

Basically all my music is that with varying levels of chiptuneyness and dnb-ness.

My remixes, however, are never too good. I'm just not to experienced with them and need to practice more.

[Nine Volt]

4x4 beat (because house)
Almost always in C minor, B major, B minor, or E minor.

Idk what else.

[GCKrastin]

I have about 6 different basses that I use all the time, and haven't spent much time trying to come up with new ones.
I also usually compose in A minor or E minor. (Which makes DJing easy but makes all my stuff have similar emotion)
I usually use the same few drum samples, drum patterns, etc.
And I master most of my tracks the same way rather than mastering each track differently to fit the sounds better.

[Alycs]

Oh, and when I was using LMMS (which is all of my uploaded music so far), I also used basically the same supersaw in nearly all my songs.

[Conduit]

-Always in the keys of C, C#, D, and F
-Tempo changes, I have at least one major one with a ton of modulation throughout the entire thing
-Not really sure if this fits, but in my daw I often place key changes where it would be acceptable just to have sharps or flats
-Everything is orchestral, although I experiment with other stuff

[LoreRD]

Pianos, lots of them

[PropellerEscape]

I'm dependent on sweeps to help transition my between sections in my tracks.
I use saw waves FAR too much.
Filters, filters and more filters.
I use relatively same-y drum samples, and can't synthesise drums for my life.
Overuse and chopping of the same drum break (it's too good though asdgahfdsf)

[JSynth]

I use acoustic drums quite often.
I often use a bass guitar.
I also use tuned percussion often.

[cplbradley]

lots of loudness maximization, similar basses, and some sort of compressed emptiness in the master channel that I cant figure out how to fix

[Ocular]

Repetitiveness :I

[S.P.P]

Arp spam.
Noise sweep spam.
Saw wave spam.

I also tend to use the same or very similar leads almost every time. My leads are just all very samey (although I do quite like them).

[Bronies Are Cool]

Acoustic nylon is one instrument I use a lot.

Lack of claps, hi hats, splashes, an good transitions.

Simple melody design. Also, short melodies with limited variation.

Lack of song structure

Repetative-ness

[ThatRobChap]

I'll often have several ideas for one song and struggle to fit them all together well.
I always seem to find room for strings and/or piano.
Time signatures have varied a bit recently, but I haven't finished any of those songs yet.
I write far too much in D minor.
There tends to be harmonic minor bits in those.
Everything I write in 12/8 tends to be at a similar tempo.

[WanderPony]

Tend to use presets in the mixer when lazy
Build up with songs rather than hit the ground running
Use samples more often than I should
I'm not 100% sure what else

[Ryanlauph]

80% of my chords are sevenths / ninths
Which might sound jazzy but it's really not

Also 100% of my songs are DnB
95% of my basses use Massive
Camel Phat / Camel Crusher & Ozone 5 abuser (Got this tip from a DnB producer called Audio, pretty neat)

[Freewave]

I keep finding that my music seems to revolve around ....technicolor ponies. Confound these ponies they drive me to make more songs about them.