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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Originally posted by alanzo It's like sifting through cat shit to find a penny. In the end, it wasn't worth the effort.

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!

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