a year or so ago i had this goal of spending 100 or 200 hours just working with the pad presets i like from Echo Sound Works serum presets

that might be too boring for me. but i can make a few hundred 'drumless' sort of 1-minute tracks like this. just feels like a quick and fun way to get better at layering different instruments on top of each other to see what combinations i gravitate towards... mainly using my favorite pad presets, or my favorite serum presets in general, automating EQ parameters or reverb dry/wet, automating gain

if i can get better at 'drumless' music then i can, hopefully, start making some tracks longer than 2 minutes. id love to try and make a 3 or 4 minute track. or an 8 minute track. easiest way i think for me to get there is getting better at drumless music. i could always add drums in at the end of this type of track and it could work for making it a longer track?