Introduction: Can the choice to start with either harmony or drums affect a music production and, in such case, how? How could one analyze this? This thesis intends to try to answer just that by investigating the differences that arise when I start a music production with either harmony or drums. To analyze the differences, I created my own model for analysis that I call the Miki model. 

Aim: The aim of this thesis is to investigate if and in such case what differences arise in harmony, rhythm and arrangement in a song depending on whether I start the music production with harmony or drums. The aim is also to help understand this possible correlation by attempting to create a new model for analysis that can both be tested and further developed to analyze the impact of a certain approach at the beginning of a music production. Methodology: For this project, I made an EP consisting of four songs. Two of the songs started off with harmony production while I began the other two with drum production. In order to analyze the results, I created a model for quantitative analysis by setting up five different aspects that I consider to be important when measuring the impact of starting with harmony or drums when creating a music production: number of chords and colored chords, number of drum elements, if the number of drum elements was altered during the song, and if the number of chords was altered during the song. 

Results: The Miki model was applied to each song on the EP. In this way I was able to examine the differences that had arisen in the harmony, the rhythm, and the arrangement in each song. The results showed an increased number of chords in the songs where the production was started with harmony. It also showed that the number of drum elements was increased when the production was started with drums. The number of colored chords was not significantly different, and the arrangement was not noticeably affected either. 

Reflection: Even though the results showed an increased number of chords when starting with harmony and an increased number of drum elements when starting with drums, it was hard to draw the conclusion that the result depended on the respective approach. It was rather more likely because of the desire to make the first element in the production interesting enough to stand by its own, which made it take a lot of room in the sonic space. That in turn left less room for other elements.