i imagine what i want to do. write it on my memory and practice it a lot so i can remember it for later. it works decently sometimes.

agree with boomlinde...

btw... did you guys hear about MML???? XDDDD

i record my voice when i have a melody, i sing it into the mic and record that.

Once I woke up from a dream with a melody in my head and scribbled something like "dun dudoo-din din din" down in a notebook, which made perfect sense to me at the time.

... Putting stuff down tracker-style, I think that it's an awful waste of paper. You don't need staff paper, just draw out the rhythm and write out the tones above, or maybe just do it MML-like or any tone+duration representation. Drawing out empty steps is silly.

Haha, never that way but I always have music paper because of the school, so I write stuff like melodies or bass, and then I harmonize it.
Drums are always written while on GB.

i tried using a tape recorder for a while, but when it came down to listening to all my brilliant song ideas i couldnt really tell exactly what i was doing.  Fill a tape with ideas and try to pick up where some thought process was going on is harder then it seems.  Alot more goes on in the brain then the voice lets you recreate at one time

you should try graph paper notebooks

I come up with sound design ideas in my head all the time, but never on paper.

You're an ideas man.

WHOA! what on earth was stopping you from just, i dunno, opening up the tracker?

Paper tracking (via stagediver) into wordpad, BITCHES: http://twitpic.com/2huliu

i carry staff paper, music theory class is pretty sweet and a reason to carry it around =]

I'm always writing crap down like this. In fact, I did that on a receipt today in my physics class. Nobody understood what it was.

It doesn't. i guess I'll just go back to being BAT SHIT CRAZY THANKS FOR NOTHING MISTER PSYCHOLOJAWNS
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DSM IV-TR*** hope this helps

I NEED IT FOR SCHOOL ASSHOLE.
/me waits for you to say some sarcastic comment about carrying around the DSM IV