Naming your tracks

kaiori breathe · Post by **kaiori breathe** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:06 am

ketamine wrote: I’m interested in your true naming process… jokes aside.

Most of the time I just name it after whatever I feel like. Sometimes a metaphor for how I feel, or after something I've read that's particularly poignant to the circumstances I find myself in. Simple really, just tell it as it is.

Rubik · Post by **Rubik** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:33 am

I kinda grew up listening to (and trying to write) idm, where the track names are often pretty fucking ridiculous and I kinda retained that after moving into breaks/whatever the fuck genre i'm supposed to be doing now so I have a lot of really stupid track titles like I'm Still Fucking Alive and Falls Out Of Tree On Bike, Winter Won't Leave Without You, Eating Scribble etc

kaiori breathe · Post by **kaiori breathe** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 1:52 am

Rubik wrote:I kinda grew up listening to (and trying to write) idm, where the track names are often pretty fucking ridiculous and I kinda retained that after moving into breaks/whatever the fuck genre i'm supposed to be doing now so I have a lot of really stupid track titles like I'm Still Fucking Alive and Falls Out Of Tree On Bike, Winter Won't Leave Without You, Eating Scribble etc

I grew up writing post-hardcore tunes and have an equal amount of ridiculous song titles, here were some of my more favored:

I Wish Henry Rollins Was My Dad
Find Bees; Eat Them
Troll's Remorse
Christmas Came Early... But Only Because That Coma I Lapsed Into Lasted 7 Months
What Would Leonard Nimoy Say?
Yesterday I Fought A Bear
I Want To Ride A Shark To School
I Like Your Face... Can I Have It?
Not Today Starfox...

ketamine · Post by **ketamine** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:15 am

^ last one is golden.

5qu1dfacekilla · Post by **5qu1dfacekilla** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:02 am

@Ketamine i love the sentence naming jawns as well. Def try to name my tunes like that since it's the most descriptive and interesting. Though, my tunes usually turn out to be named "Untitled65", "Untitled 74" etc. etc.

REAP3RMusic · Post by **REAP3RMusic** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:44 am

Whatever noun that song makes you think of usually fits. I made a track once that reminded me of a busy city at night. Cars whizzing past with headlights and shit. So i named it city lights. Its that simple.When you make a track, you have to be able to feel it and relate it to something. If you cant, its probably not going to get listened to that much.

Thierry_D · Post by **Thierry_D** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 5:48 am

i put feelings into my tunes then name it what am going through
lol alot of the time i make beatz when am kind of feeling down so
always end's up kind of dark.

REAP3RMusic · Post by **REAP3RMusic** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 6:05 am

Thierry D wrote:i put feelings into my tunes then name it what am going through
lol alot of the time i make beatz when am kind of feeling down so
always end's up kind of dark.

Yeah your beat should reflect your thoughts/feeling whilst making that beat. Most people would disagree but thats what i would say separates 'A few sounds composed in a DAW' and art.

ComfiStile · Post by **ComfiStile** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:17 am

How much thought do you put into naming your track?

BevOh · Post by **BevOh** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:29 am

I never get past the WIP stage but i still name things. Usually based on a part of the track that stands out like a vocal or something.

ComfiStile · Post by **ComfiStile** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:32 am

Btw man, can I just say that that track you made from sounds when you were stoned which you posted in the 'producing stoned' tread was sweet.

Also, I dislike commas.

BevOh · Post by **BevOh** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:18 am

ComfiStile wrote:Btw man, can I just say that that track you made from sounds when you were stoned which you posted in the 'producing stoned' tread was sweet.

Also, I dislike commas.

Oh why thankyou

Haha my head was so beyond fucked last night when i was making it, all the sounds ended up just blending together so i had to stop lol.

oprs · Post by **oprs** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:29 am

i just put a gaggle of words when i type the name in to save it. and thats what it stays lol

ComfiStile · Post by **ComfiStile** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:31 am

oprs wrote:i just put a gaggle of words when i type the name in to save it. and thats what it stays lol

I do that sometimes, though other time I can't. sdfsdf.flp donesn't really have a great ring to it ^^

BevOh · Post by **BevOh** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:46 am

Most of my files are saved as dkbnsajk;sdgklndfasgn.flp

hifi · Post by **hifi** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:37 am

at first i just name the project "project 1" depends how many projects I have named that which are plenty then at the end i look into a dictionary on a random page and find something that sounds cool like "plasma, dismantle, obliterate" or somethin then name it that. or if I used a sample i would name it of the sample i have used.

Sine69 · Post by **Sine69** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:49 am

I just leave all my tunes named as a WIP, even though I'm finished with them. I never have to name tunes

Moody Strings · Post by **Moody Strings** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:16 am

Random things I'm thinking of at that very monkey sock.

paravrais · Post by **paravrais** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:23 pm

wub · Post by **wub** » Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:32 pm

I'll write the tune, then either name it based on how I've felt/experience I've had whilst making it, or else how it makes me feel on the finalised playback.

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