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22 Apr 2011 12:07 PM |
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 
LOL NICE!
imagine you video recorded your every session with that beat ^^ |
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22 Apr 2011 12:26 PM |
average 8 hours summed up. under a year in sessions ) |
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28 Apr 2011 09:54 PM |
I'd say close to around 3 Hours to have a final finished product. |
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29 Apr 2011 03:56 AM |
2-5 hours usually, but I just like listen to the loops and melodies over and over heaps haha and it takes me ages to get around to doing anything. |
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23 May 2011 05:21 PM |
Fact is that you finished it. My problem is I got a hundred good beats, but none of them are finished. |
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03 Jun 2011 08:10 AM |
I usually take 30min-2hrs for just making it. and 2-3hrs for mixing. |
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05 Jul 2011 02:44 PM |
Well its definitely tough for me to say because sometimes Ill spend an hour just messing around with a sound or automating an effect. And then I might start a beat, leave it half finished and return to it days later. I just feel that if I work on something for too long at one time I'm draining myself, so it can be tough when I really want to get that perfect sound and it distracts me when I should be focused on just making the song.. probably my greatest challenge at the moment. |
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24 Jul 2011 10:01 PM |
Posted By mrLabile on 30 Mar 2011 12:12 AM
I never finish a track in one sitting. Im also really impatient, so to stop myself from making bad decisions just to get finished I break down the work over several days. That way I can also take out the bad stuff, one thing that sounds good today could sound bad the next day.
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Make lovely mixes not loudness war. |
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26 Jul 2011 06:41 AM |
i tend ta spend about an hour and a half making a beat, if its a complicated 1 dat is. bu it dosnt feel da long for me. ha. i jus sit down with an empty head and mess around with chords until i find sometin nice to work with. after that i jus zone out and im completely focused on da beat. ha |
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26 Jul 2011 07:29 PM |
A lot of times if I have real inspiration it goes quickly and I'll have something quality laid down. After that I like to pick and instrument and I'll just jam along freestyle with it and not even record. I just do it for fun. Then I may leave it until the next morning, finish it up, and post that ish on youtube
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04 Aug 2011 08:09 PM |
Maybe by 10-20 minutes i may have a strong idea of where i'm going but may an hour or two to be close to finished. I always end up coming back weeks later anyways! |
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16 Sep 2011 01:35 PM |
I've actually only completed about 4 of all the beats I've ever started, and I've started TONS. Many are just not great, others I have no inspiration for, but when I do, like in the 4 I did finish, it took at least 5 hours on each one. Maybe just sitting there thinking, or trying to get some notes right, but yeah, time consuming. |
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15 Nov 2011 07:36 AM |
up to 3 hours you gotta choose and arrange the things perfectly |
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19 Nov 2011 09:39 AM |
Posted By MNBeats on 26 Jul 2011 08:29 PM
A lot of times if I have real inspiration it goes quickly and I'll have something quality laid down. After that I like to pick and instrument and I'll just jam along freestyle with it and not even record. I just do it for fun. Then I may leave it until the next morning, finish it up, and post that ish on youtube
This right here pretty much...sometimes I'll end up with it on loop and not even realize I've just been jamming for 3 hours without actually getting anything done.
Generally if I don't get stuff done in one sitting it'll never get done :\ |
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17 Jan 2012 05:19 AM |
First of all, don’t put a time on it – why are you even asking? You should spend as long as it takes to get the production to sound the way you want it to sound. Every production will take a different length of time. Whoever said 5-10 minutes – are those productions just a giant loop? I don’t see how you can get anything together in that time. Lol, it takes me 5-10 minutes just to get my head right after messing around and jamming.
I usually take between 4 - 6 hours, but again this is an average. I don’t ever think about how long it has been really. You should just go with the flow. You said your beats don’t sound great – of course because you don’t spend enough time on it lol. You’re saying you lose inspiration if you spend too much time on it. In my experience this is a trick of the mind! When you feel like the beat is not going anywhere anymore, just be patient and listen your track. Fiddle with it and see what can be done, taken away, added to improve it... It’s not always about a “magic feeling” – you need to be a technical beast sometimes too – is there an intro? Does your verse sound different from your chorus? Is your chorus epic or is it just the same loop with an added layer? Does your bass move or is it one static loop throughout the beat? Are there breaks? If you heard this track 10 times, would you find different elements every time, or is it just a repeat?
There are hundreds of variables to production that can be thought of to improve your music...if you’re complaining about it not sounding great and only spending short amounts of time on the work, then this is the problem.
It takes me an hour to get my bones of the beat together (only just! Sometimes longer)...once I have the skeleton, I start to work properly at making it sound amazing.
Time shouldn’t come to mind when you want to make a masterpiece. A masterpiece takes time to create. Fine you might miss a deadline, screw it – make an epic beat and sell it for twice as much.
That’s just an opinion. |
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17 Jan 2012 05:21 AM |
Posted By TR on 28 Mar 2011 09:40 AM
also, when your making a beat, try to listen to what you have at that point as little as possible. alot of people put whatever they have in there on a loop and go looking for the next sound with the beat still playing. try to avoid that in order to be able to listen to it longer without getting bored with it Great advice. +1
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20 Jan 2012 04:49 AM |
Posted By JoeyXoto on 17 Jan 2012 06:19 AM
It’s not always about a “magic feeling” – you need to be a technical beast sometimes too
Also great advice, actually your whole post struck a chord but didn't want to duplicate it. |
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