How to Mumble:
Doodle a short melody and whack a mind-numbing bass drum and snare over it. If your leg starts bouncing or your head starts bobbing, you're on the right track.
BPM is normally going to lie between 113 and 135, with the occasional venture into 140 or 160, but that doesn't really happen unless I'm writing for a game or something.
I don't often stick to an instrument set, but if there's anything that appears in more than one of my tracks at any given point, it would be a synth with a heavy chorus applied to it, maybe used to create an arp or just a cheeky sweep in the background. Usually
THIS synth, using the "spooky solo" preset, with a few tweaks and that bespoke heavy chorus.
I also like to chop up vocals from an existing a capella and make a new melody out of it, either that or chop up vocal samples to create a short and repetitive riff, though I don't like looping stuff over and over with no change.
I often glitch stuff, but try to do it manually nowdays instead of using dblue Glitch or Gross Beat like I used to.
I don't have much technical knowledge, I seem to just "push buttons until it sounds pony enough".
Last thing, I like to add a ton of unusual effects in small doses throughout my songs, strange panning, oddly placed reverb that suddenly disappears, backup vocals that are so bucked-with that they could be anything other than backup vocals.
But really those are just guidelines, and an excuse to talk about myself, which seems to be really satisfying and pleasing and fun.
I think I wrote too much.