Your Average Song Output

j wilderness · Post by **j wilderness** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:03 pm

I would probably say I try to make at least 3 to 4 tunes in a month at least

savory audio · Post by **savory audio** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:17 pm

zillion wrote:Try and bang one out every two weeks but its more like a month.

Sometimes i can get really into the flow and do a track a day but that hasnt happened in ages.

Sort of like me. Usually I will do a tune start to finish in a 4 hour session but then I might spend weeks obsessing over all of the small details. Half the time I end up making it worse.

scooterjack · Post by **scooterjack** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:30 pm

Savory Audio wrote:
Sort of like me. Usually I will do a tune start to finish in a 4 hour session but then I might spend weeks obsessing over all of the small details. Half the time I end up making it worse.

i've found over the years, that the imperfections really make the tune special and easy to listen and vibe to. The only people that will ever harp on the imperfections are other 'producers' with a shit outlook at life that need to feel special.

other people really seem to enjoy my tunes more since i've stopped 'overproducing' and i've come to rocking out to my own music much, much more when i don't work myself sick of them. And there isn't much that tops the feeling of really jamming to your own music because it's good and not because it's 'yours'

when you listen to it, and it feels good, it is good.

overproducing may make it closer to technically 'perfect' but you will always lose some of the emotion and soul that first went into the tune and that just IMO destroys the tune much more than a couple imperfect sounds.

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r · Post by r » Thu May 07, 2009 10:39 pm

Savory Audio wrote:
zillion wrote:Try and bang one out every two weeks but its more like a month.

Sometimes i can get really into the flow and do a track a day but that hasnt happened in ages.
Sort of like me. Usually I will do a tune start to finish in a 4 hour session but then I might spend weeks obsessing over all of the small details. Half the time I end up making it worse.

there's where you go the wrong direction. Dont force details... Just make them if you think they gonna work. If the tracks doesnt need that stuff, dont make it. if it isnt broke, dont fix it

kapital · Post by **kapital** » Thu May 07, 2009 11:55 pm

Another I've notice with making tunes is that when I go through extreme drinking periods, the hangover days are basically a write-off as far as producing...where it's too strenuous to even get up and eat food. Now that I'm not drinking, these days are non-existent. It's great. Productivity + 150%

Know some cats that do their best shit hungover as fuck....WEIRD.

fiziks · Post by **fiziks** » Fri May 08, 2009 12:52 am

Or....

I'll write a tune, make a b version, work that version until I think it's done, then re write the bassline in 3 hours and call it a tune.

steppo · Post by **steppo** » Sat May 09, 2009 2:35 pm

1 every 3 months or so :/

i blame being lazy

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sat May 09, 2009 3:09 pm

I thought I hardly create at all but I looked through the tunes ive created this year while reading this thread and ive made around 20 what are solid and about another 10 very good WIP's.

so that works out a couple a month?

-dubson- · Post by **-dubson-** » Sat May 09, 2009 4:04 pm

not very many tunes a month anymore

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Sat May 09, 2009 4:07 pm

This year started 98 and finsihed 22

MidnightMassDubstep · Post by **MidnightMassDubstep** » Sun May 10, 2009 11:08 am

When I used FL Studio, it was about one every 2 days, but now I've switched to acid 7, probabaly about 1 maybe 2 a month, they're quality though

d+ · Post by d+ » Sun May 10, 2009 1:00 pm

last weekend i started producing on friday and finished on wednesday

i had 5 finished beats mixed down

its not long.

b-lam · Post by **b-lam** » Sun May 10, 2009 1:12 pm

i'm doing 1 a week atm, making sure i finish them even if they sound like crap (so far none have!), really refreshing after a couple of years of spending a month on a tune only to find I've overcooked it.

gravity · Post by **gravity** » Mon May 11, 2009 7:29 pm

1-2 tracks a month.

mainly because i dont actually sit down and do tunes as much as i should. generally in total a track probably takes me a week or so to do, although it completely depends on the track. i have spent months doing a track in the past.

r · Post by r » Mon May 11, 2009 7:59 pm

i write more then i think. Reason is that not everything is for the same project. think my output is like 4 tunes/concepts a week.

monotic · Post by **monotic** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:03 am

Interesting thread. Maybe we could up the comments on how to improve productivity?

For me, I finish about 1 tune a month that I like (i.e. play out, distribute to DJs). I tend to make a tune, junk the elements I'm not feeling, make another tune with the good bits from the last tune, and so on until I'm happy.

My latest theory is to break up the process a bit (a day on sound design, a day on beat making, and so on) in the hope that this allows inspiration to flow more easily when I'm constructing the tunes themselves.

mr. lizard · Post by **mr. lizard** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:47 am

Still not finished a tune yet

morro_e · Post by **morro_e** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 10:58 am

Savory Audio wrote:Quality over quantity.

definetely this.
once i worked 4 months on a track

futures_untold · Post by **futures_untold** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:16 am

My average song output is about two a year....

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