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| DJLafleur |
I just started maybe less then a month ago producing on logic pro 7.I"Ve been churning out alot of tunes(though very amateurish sounding).I deffinetly want to maybe slow down though so I can fit them all on my music profile on myspace
How about you guys how long does it take to produce a track and how often do you do it? |
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| Yin |
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. |
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| davidbuhau |
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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| jupiterone |
| ive been on a 3+ month hiatus |
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| DJMaytag |
| daily. couple hours before work, couple hours afterwards. |
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| derail |
| Yes, to become serious, it's a good idea to spend a good amount of each day working on something music-related: composing, learning techniques, improving processes, putting sound together. If it's ever something you want to do professionally, it can't be something that only takes up a few hours each week. There aren't many professional fulltime jobs which only take up a few hours each week. |
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| 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. :( |
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| JustinMead |
| quote: | 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 :eyespop: |
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| Final Call |
| quote: | Originally posted by JustinMead
duuuuuuude, thats the stage I'm at right now :eyespop: |
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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| Mr.Mystery |
| I can stare at a blank screen for weeks and then suddenly whip out a track in just hours. It's either all or nothing for me. |
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| DJ Robby Rox |
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 mind. First 15 mins melody sounds awesome, a few hours later your suicidal listening to it. |
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