What are some tips/advice you could give, to help with coherency?

i guess thats what im looking for.





basically its to get whats in my head, onto paper. like a rifft to a song, or lyrics.


one minute i can be thinking of it. this great sound. the next (when im trying to put it all down), i cant. some times i can only get half of what was in my head, if im lucky. usually i cant QUITE recall what it was, and it ends up...botched (compeared to what i was thinking).





any tips?What are some tips/advice you could give, to help with coherency?
Get a tape recorder that you can hum your musical thought into. Then you can play it back over and over as many times as you need to copy it onto paper.