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how much time do you spend producing? a week? a month?

me, i dont know it varies on motivation. last week, maybe 2-3 hours. there are weeks ill spend i dont know maybe 15-20 hours, maybe even a 8 hour dive on a saturday if im locked into it.

when i started upto 12 hours a day. lost the love for it for 2 years and did nothing but now doing it again around 4-5 hours a day.

ya myself im losing the love for it gradually, 5 years ago i would be obsessive about it, even 1 year ago i would sometimes spend all night being a freagin zombie when i thought i had something amazing going.

aye on the same trip here to sadly for me it holds no real spark any more well clubbing beats anyway i'm more into scores and breaks ect.

started the year off with a BANG. I was easily doing 30hrs a week in the studio doing 5-8 tracks a month and have done over 50 this year already. However since July i've been in a slump, i'm just nit-picking at the same projects i've been sitting on for months not getting any real results. You try and not have self doubt about what you're doing but it's hard when the fruits of your labor don't monetize or grow into that next step. Anyways I also missed some personal deadlines, I was planning on having an album done by May, I've only got 7 tracks done and the rest are a mess. It looks like it will take me over a year to get this thing done and I'm struggling w/ that.

/personal rant

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Originally posted by Homer J. Simpson I used to rock and roll all night and party every day. Then it was every other day. Now I'm lucky if I can find half an hour a week in which to get funky.

That about sums it up for me. Between family, career, social life, etc., my production time is entirely dependent on how much sleep I can forego. But, on average it ranges from 5-20 hours/week.

I go for really short spurts, sometimes 8 hours a day for two weeks 2-3 times a year or 4 hours every other day for a month. I spend 4 hours a week most of the time.

I would have had the energy to do this 8 hours a day if I was much younger, the thing is making songs that I like is tough to make. Greatness is tough and sometimes you won't ever get to see it's face unfortunately, so it does drain my mental stamina.

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Originally posted by Zombie0729 You try and not have self doubt about what you're doing but it's hard when the fruits of your labor don't monetize or grow into that next step.

i hear you production is not all that productive for me. i think i too will be missing a deadline soon.

It's hard impossible for me to get anything done working full time, took me years to realize that. I only work a few days a week now so I have more time to devote in the studio, but it's still slow going. Try to do at least an hour or two every day but in reality it's more like crack out on something all day and night, get depressed and do nothing for a week, start a new project in a fleeting moment of inspiration, realize the emptiness and futility inherent in all human endeavor, close project, repeat. Motivation is kind of a big issue.

Ive been very lucky and been able to produce at work, I'm self employed so I can do lots of hrs, this will soon becoming to an end though. So back to normal reality on average 15 hrs per week. Sometimes that can be 5 hrs per week or more than 15 though depending on time I have spare.

2 hours a day on average.

I know music isn't something I'm about to give up anytime soon, but my free time.. yeah, that's probably going to go out the window any day now. Not sure how it will, but life has a way of piling on responsibilities before you know it.

That being said, at one point I'm going to be 30, and I could possibly resent myself for not spending the last decade focusing on music when I had the time and energy for it. Or, I could just focus now and not have any regrets beyond an overall lack of sleep and/or social life.

But, whatever. Pros and cons I suppose. At least I'm improving.

A ton haha, I would say maybe four or five hours a day, mostly just messing around.

Recently though, as I've noticed my internal motivation lacking, as soon as I get a good idea or riff, I run upstairs, grab some paper, draw out the song length, mentally think up instrumentation, label verses choruses etc., think of sounds that would go well together, and the musical aspect of course.

I find in order to break my writer's block I have to immediately know where I'm going with my riff before I even put drums on top of it.

I also work on a ton of tracks at once, if one isn't coming along great, I put it aside and forget it for them moment, but I don't just go and yell at myself for failing, I work on another track. If I get frustrated with that one, rinse repeat. After awhile you have some fresh ears and you can go back to your other track without desperation!

2 hours a day maybe 3-4 days a week, which i find works well. if i spend more, i usually end up accomplishing nothing and usually doing more harm to my projects than good :X!

Shit im doing terrible, 1 hour a fortnight at the moment, working 6-7 days a week, married, plus i enjoy doing gym (body building) so mehhh no time

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Originally posted by skyhunter I also work on a ton of tracks at once, if one isn't coming along great, I put it aside and forget it for them moment, but I don't just go and yell at myself for failing, I work on another track. If I get frustrated with that one, rinse repeat. After awhile you have some fresh ears and you can go back to your other track without desperation!

This was a good thing for me to. It�s really easy to get frustrated with a song, specially if you are in a different mood than the song.

So a tip is to do as skyhunter says, and for me personally to also have all songs standing out from each other means I can have one song for each mood I am in instead of trying to get to the mood of the song which can be quite tricky sometimes.

Time spent on production is a lot different from time to time, but the last month have been maybe 10-20h a week.

Can go weeks, even months without doing anything, then will have a few weeks where I'll spend maybe 4-8 hours per week. I don't have the time, nor the motivation to spend long all-day sessions, nor to produce every day after work.

That said, I do still enjoy it for the most part so doubt I'll ever stop altogether but i treat this as a hobby to dabble in and wouldn't want to spend all my free time doing just this and nothing else.

Depends on how much weed I have left.

I do maybe 2 to 8 hours a day (depending on schdule)

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Originally posted by BritishLizard Depends on how much weed I have left.

Hahahahaha hmmm yes im tryin to avoid that

At least an hour everyday, usually 2-4, m-f that is, seeing as i work all day on the weekends (yeah its a bit backasswords, im a fucking weekend dishwasher -.-)

Maybe 3-4 hrs most nights but it's been almost a year since I finished a track.. Not good at all!!!

I seriously need to go through my project folders, must have 50 at least and most of them are just named trancebeat1, beat2 or breakdown1 etc so I've no idea what they even are..

I'm stuck in a rut (for a very long time now) of doing the same things over and over but just can't seem to break the cycle, I get a good beat/groove going but can't progress it, or get a good breakdown going with pads fx and melody but can't get a good beat/bassline going to mix it with. It's frustrating and I do try to start arranging as soon as I can so it's not just the same thing being looped over and over but I always end up with yet another unfinished project called trancemelneedbline4.7

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Originally posted by CalvP Give these a go Andy - perhaps some external instruction could be just what you need!

Thanks, I get the idea..

I spent pretty much all day on a new project today, got most of an intro laid out right up to the breakdown but already I'm like "fuck just dont know what to do now?"


I will mess about with it through the week on a night, then by the weekend I'll just be ready to scrap it and start on something new...

knocked down some serious hours this weekend, started/finished pretty much my best remix. shit aint healthy.

I work in construction and some nights I dont even have the energy to walk from the couch to bed let alone head into the studio for some creative work, but i think balance is the key. If im not in the creative mood but in the mood to boot up the computer then I'll spend a few hours trying to sort out problems/issues I have been putting off, i.e, organising samples, creating patches or working out how to do something routing wise that I've always wondered how, just a few examples. I find that this is still being productive and can be somewhat motivational cause I have usually learnt something new.

we use a particular part of our brain for problem solving and another part for being creative so I always try to stay in the one "zone" during a session. If im in a creative mood then I'll work on a song but wont stop the creative juices by searching through 50 pad patches for the part im about to put down, I'll find the right pad sound later (during a "problem solving" session). Trying to find the right sound there and then means jumping out of "creative mode" into "problem solving" mode and it can sway the session in the wrong direction.
This is what I have found works for me and since realizing this I have spent a lot more time in the studio than before. Still, never enough though!

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Originally posted by CalvP Post a sample Andy & get some feedback - what's the worst that can happen

Fill ya boots then..

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