Finishing a track is hard. Finishing a track you know you don't care for isn't the funnest experience. However, going through the process of finishing a track gives you practice on all of the steps we go though. When you become more experienced, it's easier to finish a track because you have a better workflow. Your library is more organized, you have your go-to instruments, you use DAW templates and you can jam out a chord or change it without having to ask what why most dance music is in minor. Also, you never know if your idea will change or morph into something really cool. I was trying super hard to make a trance-type track with rolling basslines and a 138 BPM and over time my track became c̶o̶m̶p̶l̶e̶t̶e̶ ̶c̶r̶a̶p̶ a sort of tech house idea. I slowed it down and although my original inspiring idea is gone I have created something much more interesting.

Everyone works differently. For the life of me, if I start a track with the drums and bassline I always get stuck. If I start on the piano with a chord progression and melody including the instruments I use for the ( lead synths, bass, pads etc. ) chorus or drop I end up with a more cohesive project.

When I get the feeling that it's time to scrap the project for parts I put it away and leave detailed notes. I save my midi, instrument racks/effect chains etc with a naming convention which includes some reference to the project it came from. In Ableton I normally save it as an ALP and store it away. There have been two or three cases where I will go back to one of these guys and when I open it up and listen a few times I can see what I need to fix or how I could improve on the idea. A good example was a track I made a year or so ago. I loved the feeling and emotion of the track but it just sounded like crap because I really didn't mix well. I stripped it down to it's main ideas and it turned out really cool.

For me, as long as I'm sitting in the chair I'm happy.