That's a lot of music and it can't be easy keeping track of it all. Do you have some notes on each to remind you of what you wanted to do? My music writing is very simple where I come up with some words and figure out some chords to go with them. I do not notate it as it would just be me performing the song. Mind you I am looking at getting some friends to play on some in future and I may let them come up with their own parts.
Hi Steve!
No I have tried diffrent models but all seem to fall short. However I have been able to keep track of them but sorting them in a folder structure on Dropbox, where I both share and store finished and work-in-progress. I also do and back of the whole shabang on both G-drive and an external harddrive.
Always good to have backups. I've lost files on a bad drive.
In 2008, the same year I had to stop playing my Viola and violin due to shaking, my computer's hard drive broke and I lost 6 years worth of composing. Among them my first full-length symphony (37 mins long for a large orchestra, which took me almost 3 years to finish!), three stringquartets, other chamber music, and choir pieces. About 35 hours of music lost... So I'm not taking any chances now!
That's terrible, but you learnt a lesson.