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How long do most of your songs take you? How many songs do you make per week? Per month? Per year? Of the projects you start, how many of them do you finish?

I generally make about one song per week, and I finish all of them. I make it a point to have only one project going at a time. I think it makes me more efficient.

That said, I have never released a song, so I'm sure they would take much longer if I have. Also, I am a college student, so I've got a decent amount of free time, the majority of which I spend making music.

Looking forward to some good discussions

Like a slug on muscle relaxers walking towards the electric chair.

I finish about 1% of the projects I start and produce a few full tracks a year.
I never really put stuff out there, maybe as soon as I think I have stuff that's worth it.

SunkLo wrote:Like a slug on muscle relaxers walking towards the electric chair.

Ya :3

i work at the speed of fun and produce at the speed of funk.

I complete about 80% of projects i start.

In the last 12 months i have released 5 tracks and completed 2 more and have 5 tracks that are just about ready for mixdown/master stages. If im lucky i get an average of like 1 track done per month it looks like.

When I first started, I would make a new track every couple of days, but wait another couple of days before starting one. When I was stuck producing on my iPad2 for a year, I made one about every month. I wouldn't work on it all the time, but I would at least one hour every other day. Now that I'm back on a laptop and I haven't really made a complete track, but I'm working on my first EP (multiple tracks in the works). I trying to get myself to do at least one upload a week (WIP or Full), but I recently had exams, followed by family issues so I kind of took a break on making music.

Oh, and I finish about 70-85% of the stuff I begin. It used to be 90% when I was working with my iPad2.

This question is interesting. I've wondered several times whether I'm working too slow ... or working at all.

See, I've only been fiddling around with this for five months now, and I haven't produced a thing. I've only recently started focusing on dubstep and synthesis -- about two months ago -- and I feel like I'll never get my ideas out, if you know what I mean. Sure I've picked up valuable concepts and techniques along the way, but I've yet to combine that knowledge into a coherent piece of music.

I have tons of ideas, but can't execute them effectively, because I'm too obsessive with ridiculous details, but I'm streamlining my workflow, and looking past these trivial details and just emulating ideas I hear. And I'm pretty happy with all that right now. Sure it could be years before I make a listenable track, but fuck it. I'm not doing this for recognition, I'm doing this for my love of music, and if it takes me years to master this craft, so be it, you know?

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used to finish about 1 a month but recently started finishing like 1 a week

When is a track, or even just a 'beat' finished though? And why upload all of it?
Seriously, think about what you want with it. When can you say: This track is done, I stand by it, it's worth it
to get this out there?

AxeD wrote:When is a track, or even just a 'beat' finished though? And why upload all of it?
Seriously, think about what you want with it. When can you say: This track is done, I stand by it, it's worth it
to get this out there?

Never cause we just create VIPs all day son ALL DAY!

Like painters back in da day.

Before i started applying music theory and mixing techniques, i was getting about 1-2 a week. Now i havent made a tune in months

Hahah takes more time for quality I guess. It's pretty easy to churn out a half-ass tune without taking the time to put in the detail.

For me it just sort of depends I guess. There are times when I may make 4-5 tracks a month and there are other times when I might only make 1 or 2. Some Ideas seem to come together much quicker while others may take some time to develop. A lot of them I never bother uploading anywhere, probably due to my own pessimistic nature.

As far as tracks being finished, I doubt I finish more then 15% of them. Although I think I'm using the term, "tracks" very loosely here. I open my DAW up every single day even if it's only for an hour or 2. A lot of times I never get to a point where I even have what resembles a track. It's usually a couple ideas I thought would work and come to find out they don't really. In which case I scrap it completely and go about my day. When it comes to making tracks, for me, I only give my ideas a couple hours. If I don't have something workable after that then I kinda figure chances are it's a failed idea. I feel it's never a good thing when I have to force an idea to work.

SunkLo wrote:Hahah takes more time for quality I guess. It's pretty easy to churn out a half-ass tune without taking the time to put in the detail.

Well, i put a decent amount of detail into my tunes. I probably work anywhere from 2-8 hours a day on music, usually around 4, 7 days a week though. And I only do one project at a time. So that's maybe like 20 hours per project

0.300 Gm/s

There is no scale for forecast the performance and to check efficiency level of a person. Everything depends on skills and efforts. Taking more interest means more chance of performance and expectations.

A track a week or two weeks or so, but unbearable amount of loop ideas still.
I need to push myself to create a finished track, and I usually end up finishing them too early, because otherwise I'd start hating them by the time they're half finished.

Anything from 1 hour to 5 years