Is it just me or have I seen exactly this thread before with exactly the same title?
Anyway.. It really depends. Thats all I can say..

From two weeks to many months.. Often I'll pick up again stuff I worked on a long time ago.. so that when you start over again you have a certain basis to build upon, and a bedrock of motivation.

sometimes in a fit of production fury, i'll bang thru something in a day?

sometimes things take FOREVER... as i like to re listen to stuff to make sure i like what i've done


all depends

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Once a day, if you count listening to a half-finished track 3 times and adjusting the position of a single hi-hat as producing.

Otherwise... rarely.

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Originally posted by DigiNut Once a day, if you count listening to a half-finished track 3 times and adjusting the position of a single hi-hat as producing. Otherwise... rarely.

duuuuuuude, thats the stage I'm at right now

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Originally posted by JustinMead duuuuuuude, thats the stage I'm at right now

haha and me as well!


before, when i started out. I made tunes every single day. Very amatuer ones at best though but when i started becoming serious, everything became a technical outlook when making music. I was always trying to be the perfectionist of going "oh this doesn't sound too well" or nitpicking at things over and over again. The most recent track that i finished making was with a friend online. Staying up all night till 7 am for a week helped out but sucked so bad

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Too much but not enough.

For the last few months everyday, sometimes more.
Today I woke up and first thing I did was load FL to work on a track I was working on last night when I went to bed.

Then I came home from work and right back to it.
I'm not like that everyday but when I get a bug up my ass its pretty compulsive.

For a track, honestly thats a huge problem for me.
I'll work on a track for about 8-10 hours (maybe 1-3 days) go back to work on it and I'm completely sick of it.

I make myself sick of my own tracks. Maybe 1 out of every 20 tracks will survive a little longer, I'm sick of hearing it but I still think it has something to it so I'll post it here, get ridiculed, than start another track =].

My recent solution has been making the melodies last instead of first.
I always use to do melodies first but now I work on strictly the kicks, bass, percs, fx, noise, etc. I can loop a beat for ever but its not till I throw synths in that I get annoyed.

Even the best melodies out there, like Whiplash by JFK. I LOVE that melody but if I looped it on my computer for 4 hours trying to turn knobs to fatten the synth I'd lose my mind just like I do with mine.

Which I still can't understand how the pros tolerate. Its one giant mindfuck. First 15 mins melody sounds awesome, a few hours later your suicidal listening to it.

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