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Here's my weekly update for Jun 09, 2025…

🗒️ 🎧 Inside My WIP Sessions: Making Music in the Margins

Inside My WIP Sessions: Making Music in the Margins

by Bobby Manila aka Bobby Makes Music

Making music when you're a full-time venue manager, a dad, a husband, a BJJ coach, and a maker of heavy beats… it’s not exactly a smooth workflow.

But that’s the reality for me — and for many other creatives out there.

We don’t have unlimited hours or bottomless energy.

We’ve got responsibilities. We’ve got lives.

And still — we make time.

The Schedule: Late Nights & Stolen Hours

I usually carve out two evenings a week, once the house has quieted, the kiddo’s asleep, and my other parental and personal tasks are done.

That’s when I sit down to do the real work.

These night sessions are where I:

• Compose heavy, drop-tuned instrumentals
• Mix and master tracks for myself and my clients
• Chase flow state like it’s the last train home

Then on one of my days off, I set aside a few sacred hours during the day to work on the other side of Bobby Makes Music — writing blog posts like this, maintaining my site, and building the digital infrastructure of my brand.

That’s my system. It’s not flashy. But it works.

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Enjoy, Bobby Manila