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I personally feel there is a fine line between freedom and structure. On the one hand, you don't want to create too many rules and crush creativity. On the other hand, you need parameters in order to help inspire creativity and avoid overwhelming stress.
I am, however, intimidated with the amount of compositions/assignments we have in this class (completed work, sound sample composition, written works, peer teaching) that I don't feel I am able to do my best work on each project/assignment (or just have enough time in general).
I am trying to use the quote "finished is better than perfect" ... however  I am still struggling.
It is helpful, however, to have a partner in some of our projects as it keeps me accountable to deadlines and it helps to share the workload :)

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The chord loop assignment has, well, thrown me for a loop. When writing music, I always come up with text/melodies first, and from there choose chords. I feel like I've pigeon-holed myself before I've even made progress. I love my chord loop, but I feel held back by it at the same time.

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The form within the A/B section in the group composition tripped me up the most of all the structured aspects. My favourite project by far is the final composition project because it lets us explore ideas we’re interested in

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The group portfolio project’s imposed form kinda got in the way for me, especially for a group of 3 people, making 3 ideas cohesive is hard (I love my group members though)

at the same time, there’s also too much freedom because we literally could have sampled anything, so again making it cohesive needed communication and pre-planning

The pop song (4chord prog.) was very nice! perfect balance of personal choice and freedom to make it personable 🤟🏼 really had to make funky chord progressions w/ lots of primary mixture to not make it sound like a typical pop song

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I found myself naturally wanting to add in a pre-chorus in the pop song, and actually begin with the chorus as opposed to the verse. It took a little bit of conscious thought to fit the verse-chorus structure required for the assignment. However, I’m really enjoying the amount of freedom for the final project, and have been finding that it’s enriching my understanding of form as a whole in terms of the many possibilities that there could be. The structure for creating the group composition was really helpful, as I actually did not have many ideas to begin with in terms of using the sounds around me. It was also helpful to be in pairs, since it helped to bounce ideas around with someone else.

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I feel there's quite a handful of things to explore, especially when it's in a new DAW (like bandlab), and searching through instrument libraries, sounds, tools, etc.

I don't think there is too much freedom in terms of creativity, any idea is a good one!

The form does get in the way, as I feel it limits the "ceiling" of what the project can turn into, but it does provide a steady guideline on how the average song could be arranged/written.

I feel the given amount of content/sounds/ideas that are required for the project is just the right amount; I wouldn't add anything else, but could subtract a thing or two if needed!

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The four chord loop assignment: I felt restricted. I usually begin my song writing with a vocal melody that I think of or just "noodling" on guitar to find a riff (then I make the chord progression fit this), so I agree that freedom does need to come before structure. Having to stick to the same chord progression for verse and chorus was frustrating a bit. On the other hand, it was a good exercise for me because it's different than my normal process.

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The four chord loop assignment: I felt restricted. I usually begin my song writing with a vocal melody that I think of or just "noodling" on guitar to find a riff (then I make the chord progression fit this), so I agree that freedom does need to come before structure. Having to stick to the same chord progression for verse and chorus was frustrating a bit. On the other hand, it was a good exercise for me because it's different than my normal process.

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I really enjoy playing around with bandlab. It let my creative juices flow without feeling the pressure of creating something entirely from scratch.

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I find for the group difficult with 3 people and formatting everything. BandLab is trick and I’m still struggling with learning how to use it. I liked that we could use sounds we hear in nature but also adding in chord progressions melody and bass line I find is way to much work and is very hard for new people to composing. The aba feels very restrictive and we couldn’t really enjoy our own creating process

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A good balance between structure and freedom. It has helped me to think creatively in new situations, and get outside of my comfort zone.

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I found that the balance for our collaborative project was just right. Composing is a daunting task, and is made even more intimidating when you have to work with another person. The imposed form and idea of a unifying sound provides a great foundation for group members to work off of.

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I understand you have to mark us on something, but I feel like in a class like this marking limits the creative freedom. I get marked down for breaking free from the structure?

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I think the balance has been good overall. A few places where I feel like there’s been too much freedom would be the group composition and the complete work, it would’ve been nice to have a few suggestions as to where to start or what to start from.

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Personally I think there was a bit too much freedom with the portfolio project. In ways it was nice to be able to do whatever I wanted, but I am definitely someone who thrives off of structure so this has been a bit challenging for me. In terms of the sample composition project, I felt that I had just the right amount of freedom and structure because we were given a set up guidelines to follow and a rubric of what was expected.

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So far. this class has inspired me to create and make compositions. It has also provided me with some useful applications to produce and features in those applications that Joel demonstrated in class. They are pretty universal features and now when in the future I come across more advanced applications I'll be familiar with the features and it won't be so intimidating. :)

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The group sample composition is giving me so much grief. Composing with sounds only is very difficult for my brain.

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Generally the balance between structure and freedom has been really good, there's enough room for us to come up with our own ideas within a specific topic.
All of the chord loop assignments have had a good balance of both sides.
Going into a foreign topic for the completed work, the amount of creative freedom I have is daunting, but it allows me to learn more about what I'm doing, and I'm a big fan of the self driven learning there.

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Lots of freedom with exploring on websites which is helpful so when we get in groups we aren’t wasting time figuring out how it works. I think form got in the way for one of our portfolio submissions, I felt like it was fun to just play chords and write but I totally forgot about form as I found it restricting so early in the writing process. Too much freedom for me for our final project… I’m too indecisive and I had to many half ideas but nothing solid to get started on.