How long do you typically spend on a track

audiotheory · Post by **audiotheory** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:48 pm

narcossist wrote:sequence a track from stratch in a night, fuck with for a week, hate it, realise a week or so later its not too bad and finish it within a month. then hate it again

FTW/L

blip · Post by **blip** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:22 pm

I used to have the never finishing tracks problem. I solved it by deciding never to start anything new before finishing the current one.

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:28 pm

A month or so. Takes me a day to bang out the central idea. A week to finish the track layout, and then a month of listening to it to define the final mixdown. I'm busy as fuck tho, so it really translates into about 16-20 hours of work, and maybe 5 hours of listening outside of the studio.

Depends on the track tho. Sometimes mostly finish in a day and then have all the eq and compression work finished in a week or so.

j_j · Post by **j_j** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:01 pm

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Leonardo da Vinci said "Art is never finished, only abandoned"...[/quote]

decklyn · Post by **decklyn** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:58 pm

J_J wrote:
Leonardo da Vinci said "Art is never finished, only abandoned"...[/quote wrote:

Werd! Music is precisely the same!
You can keep sculpting and carving, adding subtleties, and adjusting the overall tone of the composition once it's laid down. Eventually tho, you just gotta give it up. Absolute truth.

reso · Post by **reso** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:50 pm

For every tune that gets finished there are ten that don't. I dunno, probably about 20-30 hours a tune. But spread over a month or so.
I'm slow as fuck at writing em

blip · Post by **blip** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 8:24 am

J_J wrote:
Leonardo da Vinci said "Art is never finished, only abandoned"...[/quote wrote:

Bah, who cares about this fella, I bet he can't even wobble a bass or put the snare on the 9.

neanderfool · Post by **neanderfool** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:21 am

two oh one wrote: Leonardo da Vinci said "Art is never finished, only abandoned"...

You swine I was gonna say that, I was gearing up to feel all smug about it too

guiderdubs · Post by **guiderdubs** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 3:31 pm

narcossist wrote:sequence a track from stratch in a night, fuck with for a week, hate it, realise a week or so later its not too bad and finish it within a month. then hate it again

hahah totally.

protocolx · Post by **protocolx** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:36 pm

reso wrote:For every tune that gets finished there are ten that don't. I dunno, probably about 20-30 hours a tune. But spread over a month or so.
I'm slow as fuck at writing em

id say if a beat takes u less than 1hr. to finish! then ure doing something wrong lol..

to write something original could take a lifetime! but u could train a monkey to follow a set of guidelines!

batfink · Post by **batfink** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:27 pm

reso wrote:For every tune that gets finished there are ten that don't. I dunno, probably about 20-30 hours a tune. But spread over a month or so.
I'm slow as fuck at writing em

thats reassuring. if you;d said each tune takes you about 45 mins tops i would have felt the need to deliver slaps.

i;ve said it before and ill say it again, quality productions man!!

future one · Post by **future one** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:52 pm

Usually takes me about 2 week to a month.

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:13 pm

Neanderfool wrote:
two oh one wrote: Leonardo da Vinci said "Art is never finished, only abandoned"...
You swine I was gonna say that, I was gearing up to feel all smug about it too

If it's any consolation, I don't feel very smug after saying that. Just more depressed.

general bayswate · Post by **general bayswate** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:58 pm

could be a day, might be spread over a week, some i find from last year n touch up or twirk. i have a bunch of those 'this is a great sound & pattern, i'll keep it for a rainy day...' that haven't got done. sometimes you build them, sometimes they really build themselves. those days u can do no wrong ya kno..

general bayswate · Post by **general bayswate** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:19 pm

I JUST Finished one and it began 2 1/2 days ago, but i wrote 2 hip hop/grime beats as well in that time. always have a few on the go to keep the creativity up there. Later today my boy is coming over with some slayin vocals and we're gunna write a drum n bass tune. ya just never know...

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:47 pm

Future One wrote:Usually takes me about 2 week to a month.

Is it just me or is it one of the wisest thing that's been said on this topic?!
I mean I rarely spend more than 1 week on a track but you can't really expect your songs to sound professional that way, can you?

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:39 pm

just curious to see how long it takes people to write. Ive found that as time goes on and I learn new stuff I seem to be taking longer to get a track out but at the least I'd say I spend about 10 - 15 hours on each one

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:42 pm

what you mean, how long you spend on working on tunes at a time or how long it takes to finish?

dj vision · Post by **dj vision** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:43 pm

anywhere from 8-16

although ive finished a track in about 4 hours before

and ive also had tracks that take me over 20, but those were happy hardcore or hardstyle tunes, not dubstep

but, if you said yourself you spend 10-15 on a track, then why didnt you include that in the poll?

paravrais · Post by **paravrais** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 9:46 pm

If you spend 10-15 hours on a track then why don't the options even go that high? I've only been doin this for shit all time and sure when I started I spent ike 4-5 hours on a track but now im spending probably between 15-20 if I think its worth finishing off properly. Hard to work out cos I dont generally make a track all in one sitting ill have like 3 5 hour sessions and a couple of smaller tweaking sessions when I have a spare half hour or so. Anyway my point is that im sure a lot of phat tracks took a long long time to make.

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