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How many hours ??

How many hours a day or a week spend making music ?

how many hours a day , week or month spend for finish a track ?

i spend around 1 hour make music ( i dont have too much time )
and around one week for make a track...

well everytime i learn something new (like new sound or vts) i bring my track from 2 or 3 weeks ago and add more...

thanks

depends on a level of experience, dedication, talent.

I am a 4 years into messing with synth not a single track (and I mean 0) to show for it.

cleaning out my studio as we speak, time to move on to other more productive hobbies. I'm sure there are going to be other stories opposite of that.

From the time i get home from work till i go to sleep pretty much & my lunch break. I get home around 5-6 and go to sleep 9-10. Thats almost everyday then on the weekends i just never leave my seat.

I never finish songs either hahaha i mess around, read, learn how shit works or practice mah piano skillz and read up on music theory. I make alot of loops that sound good but never make a full track. Plus i have a hard time on arrangement...

I say in a week i might pull out 24 hours

Damn i just realized how much im on here can you say hermit hahaha...

I spend about 2-3 hours average per day. It takes me about 3 weeks to finish a song. Been producing since 1991.

Right now pretty much half my waking time. And never less than 1 hour a day.

That is when I'm at home of course.

I have done a range of finished tracks, of course most will need some more work though.

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Just about any time I am not at work or in bed, you can find me at the computer tweaking sounds, working on ideas for tracks, or reading forums related to music production. I love every minute of it, so I think all the time (and money) is very well-spent.

same here...

Well if I dont have a creativity block...

If I dont have a creativity block it may take me 2 nights to finish the most of a song. It once took me a total of about 7 hours to totally finish a song. Most of the time though, I just make a bunch of cool loops that dont get put together.

I hardly produce at all nowadays - I've found that noodling around with no ideas really doesn't lead anywhere for me. That's why I only produce when I know exactly what I'm doing... about 5-10 hours in 2 weeks.

My latest track (Wolf Tracks, see sig) was made entirely in 1 sitting. Took about 4-5 hours.

About 40 hours per week mastering clients tracks.

10 hours per week on my own tracks and remixes.

About a week per track.

I spent about 1-2 hr's a day, depending on the track I am working on. But it's about 6 hr's a week. I take days off, and been doing it since early 90's...

I wrote this before on this board, but my advice to people who spend all their time on production - Make sure you don't neglect your life... do other things as well. Meet people go out, spend time with friends. Don't just make music 24/7 and stay home. I've seen too many people who , well most of them regret after, that they spent more time producing than enjoying other stuff in life. Of course this is diefferent if making music is your day time job. So 40 hr's would be norm . I am not trying to discurage anyone from making music. I do it to and I love it, But I have other hobbies, and have my own family now. You live only once Experiance stuff..

Yea, been working in music for 12 years now. First 9 years at a big pro studio, now I have my own studio at home.

When I find time I love to spend all day, I try to stay as focussed as possible - creating sounds for a track,not just messing with stuff I havent played with before, although I know you can spend all day doing that too!

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Originally posted by dj_palm but before (1 - 2 year ago) i had super inspiration and could sit in 10 hours straight making trakcs and i finished 2-3tracks a week. listening to them now i understand that i should used more time on mixing the final product after my ears got some rest. so ive learned that, be patient, and gonna try that when im gonna start produce again.

I used to be the same. When I started learning, I didn't really have the patience to sit through hours of fine tweaking just to get a better quality sound. I just did everything in one sitting, used presets and didn't EQ them or anything. It was more like a game than anything. Good for learning to get familiar with the tools that you use. I must have produced hundreds if not thousands of tracks since I started. Not a single one that I really liked. But I had fun doing them and that's what counts.

An idea for a lead melody and supporting melodies can be done in a matter of a few minutes but laying out the track takes more time. Rough skelaton for me takes anywhere from 2-6 hours of work depending on how complex the song is. then fixing levels and fine tuning takes a long time, days and days, even weeks. I have unfinished songs laying around all over my HD because I'm not exactly happy with the way things came out. So I tend not to listen to a song after "finishing" it for a while, then later I'll come back and visit it to see how it sounds to fresh ears. Mixing and mastering is the most tedious process... used to take me forever but now it's starting to get a little better, I'm not too fast with it though.

Generally a label can give you maybe 6ish weeks to finish a remix, meaning most of the creative part is already done for you, and sometimes it doesn't feel like enough time. So it really varies depending on how ideas comes to you. Using that as a reference, original tunes could take months to finish. We have a project in the works that started over 6 months ago, and little by little we're progressing on it.

Daily I normally don't produce much, I might fool around for like half an hour a day if i have some ideas but 1 or 2 days of the week I'll have an exciting idea and I'll bang it out in the sequencer. So on average I'd say like 7-10 hours a week goes towards production.

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