I make sure that I set aside time each week to spend on my craft. I call my music time my "music sessions" to help me focus on what I want to accomplish. I set a goal for each music session and I work within the set time to complete the goal.
For one of my music sessions, I was working on playing the keyboard/piano by ear. I started out by creating a basic groove using Propellerhead Reason. The groove had a basic drum pattern, a bass line and rhodes pattern. I played this groove pattern in a look while I improvised on the keys. The goal of this session was to complete three song ideas by the end of the two-hour session.
Here's a video of me improvising on a track that I call "Midday Vibe". Unfortunately, I wasn't recoding the piano while I was playing. So, I don't have this song available as a download. But you can go to TaurusBeats.com and download other Moody instruMental Music that I created.