Write A Album In February Who Is With Me???

[deadly_habit]

[3za]

[deadly_habit]

Is that a Mary Anne Hobbs RMX when the fuck did she start producing? and when the fuck are you going to stop trolling my thread?

[3za]

So to try get this thread going again...

How is everyone going to approach this???

I'm thinking on the first of feb (if I got the whole day free) to lock myself away in the studio, and try to start at least 3 track, with some skin, and bones to them. See If I can finish one the first day. Then try to soldier on making a few wips, a day, and try to finish at least one wip a day.

So yeah, my plan is to go at it full force, that way if I don't meet my own targets, I might meet the targets that have been set.

Also im playing on making composition, my main focus, for a few reasons;

1. It seems to be the main focus with this event.
2. I don't get bogged down with mixdown.
3. I don't end up with a polished load of nothing.
4. I can go back, and improve tracks, after this is over.

Sound design while be a close seconds, as it's the thing I love most about making music.

I going to try put in 4+ hours a day, and on some day try to do 12+. I reckon I could do that, I make stuff every day as it is now, and put in about 1-12 hours a day, a few months ago I had a day were I did not do any thing to do withmaking music, and it felt weird. atm I normal can find 2-4 hours in the day for music.

also I am thinking, of abstaining from making music for the last week of this month. to get my idea tank full, but that could be hard, because i'm addicted to making music...

Anyone doing a concept album? or got any other interesting plans?

[abZ]

Concept is an idea. Personally I am a big fan of concept era rock albums. Pink Floyd and Alan Parsons and the Who and all that. I don't know if it's going to be concept persay because I think everything needs to be preconceived but I do think I would like everything just to flow together.

[zonetrooper5]

I'm in although it took me a few months just to write 6 tracks for first free EP, think I might aim for at least 12 tracks, start it on the 1st Feb and just work on it everyday inbetween work and other stuff.

[nowaysj]

For me, this is like climbing the Olympus Mons in a wheel chair. Forget about it bro. Maybe some day I'll get a jet pack.

[bum robot]

no doubt hoppin on this, whats the worst that can happen? you have a couple extra tracks you didnt before and that MUCH more experience at writing alot of tracks in a certain time frame? should be fun for some shits n giggles either way

[glottis5]

This sounds like a fun exercise, even though I write an albums worth of tracks in a month anyway. I'm going to try and make a coherent, cohesive album. I've only done that a couple of times before and I think it would be really useful for getting me out of my rut and forcing me to be a bit more creative instead of making the same song over and over

[freakah]

Right,

I'm down for this...probably won't do it but I'm down anyway!!

[makemerich]

chinga a manana vamanos a hora!

[ddia]

this looks very fun, and I am going to do it, hopefully can sort out my ongoing block with arrangement and finishing tunes! likely going to be a terrible album but oh well

[LordBid]

wish I had the time but im taking 18 credits this semester....

[paravrais]

My plan is to alternate days, so on the first day I'm going to create ALL the project files and keep them in their own separate folder, correctly labelled 01-14 (because I have OCD lol) then I'm gonna see if I can get a tune finished that day, the next day I'll only do some brief tidying up, then the 3rd day will be another get a whole tune done in one go day and so on and so forth...hopefully that should work.

[3za]

My plan is to alternate days, so on the first day I'm going to create ALL the project files and keep them in their own separate folder, correctly labelled 01-14 (because I have OCD lol) then I'm gonna see if I can get a tune finished that day, the next day I'll only do some brief tidying up, then the 3rd day will be another get a whole tune done in one go day and so on and so forth...hopefully that should work.

That don't leave you any room for error though. If you miss finishing a track one day, you will be playing catch up, but if you think you can stick to your goal than go for it.

I am playing on writing 42 wips, and finishing 28, that way when I get stuck on finishing tracks, or dom't have the time to work on tracks. If I don't meet my own aims, than I should still meet the 14 track mark.

I am currently fairly optimistic that I will get it done, I few months ago I was finishing a track every few days, but I have been finishing less, and less recently.

[paravrais]

I think I'm just not gonna let myself get behind. If a track isn't perfect I'm just gonna say sod it and move onto the next one anyway. Hopefully it will be a good exercise to improve my workflow.

God knows how the people who actually have jobs are gonna attempt this 0.o

[3za]

I think I'm just not gonna let myself get behind. If a track isn't perfect I'm just gonna say sod it and move onto the next one anyway. Hopefully it will be a good exercise to improve my workflow.

Fair play, I know if I was to approach it like you I would most likely not get it done, but different people work better different ways.

God knows how the people who actually have jobs are gonna attempt this 0.o

Unemployed Crew

[JemGrover]

I would rather like to try this, but I'm back at Uni next week and plan to put my all into that 'cos I kind of bailed on it last semester a bit, aha
I will say though that I'm liking the concept album approach quite a lot, so it might be something to aim for

Is it exclusively EDM- based? I'm feeling in a guitar mood and not picked mine up in months and seeing as Syd Barrett was a local boy (my mum's Ex used to pick him up regularly in his Taxi which blows my mind, haha) it could be refreshing to do a lot of guitar bits

[abZ]

I have a job and 2 kids, wife, etc. I probably am not going to get it done realistically. But I am not even going to try 14 tracks. In the 70's that was considered a double LP. Like I say 2 - 15 minute sides. Fuck a cd.

[paravrais]

I would rather like to try this, but I'm back at Uni next week and plan to put my all into that 'cos I kind of bailed on it last semester a bit, aha
I will say though that I'm liking the concept album approach quite a lot, so it might be something to aim for

Is it exclusively EDM- based? I'm feeling in a guitar mood and not picked mine up in months and seeing as Syd Barrett was a local boy (my mum's Ex used to pick him up regularly in his Taxi which blows my mind, haha) it could be refreshing to do a lot of guitar bits

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