Finishing tunes

[wirez]

I agree with this, luckily i have kinda found my style and the perfect way for my work flow.. Its what I am comfortable doing its just what comes out when I don't care about what I am aiming for .. I just make 145bpm music whats influenced from "space, pace and bass" dubstep, people say I have a "different" take of dubstep or a "unique sound" but to me its just what comes out innit and tracks these days take at least a week to be finished but I work very slowly..

When I first started, up until about 4 months ago I used to chern out tracks in a few hours - day or two.. These days I sit down and slowly go through the track and not really making it "perfect" but making sure I got it how I want it.. Quantity over quality helps you learn and its good for ideas and quick bursts inspiration...... But these days I'll go for the quality approach as I have made around..... 50-full tracks since I started producing 4 years ago... And about 15 of those are ones I am proud of and about 5-7 of those get air play / played out so...Quantity failure.


Although...digging into the "WIP" folder is good.. Where quantity turns into quality

I'm with you on them just coming out man, I recently found everything I'm looking for in my production (thanks to tips from here, of course) and I just have a few rules I follow through out producing tracks and they always really help me with finishing a tune because a lot of it has been done as I've gone a long!

The hardest part of finishing a tune for me is probably a structural thing, but most of the time it just 'finishes'. Lol.

[vaiken]

I have a bad habit of just making a lot of short starts...planning to decide later if I should finish them. It happens very rarely that I go back to any of them and arrange them properly.

I will definitely take this tip and try to make every new tune as much of a finished track as possible in the first session.

Try when you get a few pieces of the track done, say drums/couple stabs/bit of bass, grab a 8/16/32 bar loop and just roughly lay it out in the form of your track, putting spaces for drops etc.. but just roughly

it makes it easier to come back and add things, rearrange, and refine later.

I usually work for 3-5hrs when i start a track, then 1-3hrs a day over a few more days on that track, and i'll work on 3-4 tracks at a time. I'll get the tracks to a 'demo' quality, then decide what tracks are the most important and get them to a playable/releasable quality first. I've made some great stuff from reworking 2 year old 'demo' tracks

Thanks for the tip, I will def. try this. It's a good start in changing my habits.

[wirez]

And if you can go start to finish, with that one musical thought, that focus, that inspiration, you will have a gem. yep yep.

So, so, so true! Not always my opinion, but it seems to be my audiences!

[jobbanaught]

I've never finished a song on a daw. Never in 10 years. NO joke.

Wow, that makes my one year of dubstep production without a finished tune look like an achievment

But seriously, I defo feel what your saying. Im not able to finish a tune if its not going to be exactly like i wanted it before. So it just takes a lot of time to get there.

But I'm getting close.

So am I. Good luck mate! One day the patience will pay off