How long does it take you to finish a track?
How long does it take you to finish a track? Posted on: 03.09.2011 by Verona Fashbaugh Just out of curiosity, how long does it take you to finish a track? And by "finish," I mean absolutely 100% done and ready to be given to the world/internet/public, never to be altered again. And also, how long have you been producing?It seems to me the longer I have been making tracks, the longer it takes me to finish them. I like to believe that this is because I am always learning new tricks, but who knows. Lately, it takes me about four to six weeks to really, really be happy with a track. Now, I don't want this to turn into some kind of macho "I am more passionate about music and I turn out a track every single week/day/hour." We all have personal lives. Be serious and be honest. Also--and I'm just curious because I do this--do you guys work on more than one track at a time? I almost always have four or five tracks that I work on interchangeably. | |
| Aleta Repass 06.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by Tarekith
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| Breana Singerman 06.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by Tarekith
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| Verona Fashbaugh 04.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by Nephew
Personally... 30-40 total hours in 4-6 weeks usually is what it comes down to for me. |
| Verona Fashbaugh 03.09.2011 | Just out of curiosity, how long does it take you to finish a track? And by "finish," I mean absolutely 100% done and ready to be given to the world/internet/public, never to be altered again. And also, how long have you been producing? It seems to me the longer I have been making tracks, the longer it takes me to finish them. I like to believe that this is because I am always learning new tricks, but who knows. Lately, it takes me about four to six weeks to really, really be happy with a track. Now, I don't want this to turn into some kind of macho "I am more passionate about music and I turn out a track every single week/day/hour." We all have personal lives. Be serious and be honest. Also--and I'm just curious because I do this--do you guys work on more than one track at a time? I almost always have four or five tracks that I work on interchangeably. |
| Aleta Repass 06.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by Tarekith
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| Breana Singerman 06.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by Tarekith
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| Monserrate Rupnow 06.09.2011 | Friends? What are those? |
| Aleta Repass 06.09.2011 | If I start a track I sit there until I finish it. The main loop normally takes me about an hour or two then the arrangement about 6 hours and then I tinker with the mixdown until I get sick of hearing it, this will be spread out over 2 days tops. I admire people who can spend weeks crafting something but I get very cranky when making tunes, i'd probably lose a lot of friends! I also never work on 2 songs at the same time. |
| Monserrate Rupnow 04.09.2011 | Like the OP, the longer I write music the longer it takes me to finish. I'd say anywhere from 2-4 weeks per song, though I often have more than one in progress at once. Just an average though, some I can do in a weekend, others in a few months if I'm really busy. |
| Kathie Caples 04.09.2011 | there have been times where i'll finish an entire song in about 4 hours, sometimes less. |
| Krishna Hospelhorn 04.09.2011 | Depends on what the track is. I can do an edit in 2 or 3 hours. A remix in 10ish hours. And an original could take anything from 10 to a gazillion hours, since the creative aspect is what takes time |
| Verona Fashbaugh 04.09.2011 |
Originally Posted by Nephew
Personally... 30-40 total hours in 4-6 weeks usually is what it comes down to for me. |
| Breana Singerman 04.09.2011 | And I really don't see how you can measure this in "weeks", as that has no correlation to the amount of time you spent on it and there's no consistent value between how much time person A spends on producing in a week to person B. |
| Breana Singerman 04.09.2011 | Such a weird question as it's hard to say. Some tracks just come together faster than others, and some it seems like you spend ages working on. And then their are different stages to the process as well be it writing, arranging, mixdown and so on, and these all take different amounts of time as well I'd say. Personally for me, I've gotten a lot better at getting idea's down, getting ride of parts that don't work and just coming up with that four bar loop that is your track. And on that note, with getting better at getting idea's down I see myself being more critical about the arrangement. That's taking up the most time out of the whole process. But after the arrangement, the mixdown I can pretty much nail in one session now with a few tweaks here and there after giving it a rest. If I were to break it down, Writing = 3 to 4 hours Arrangement = 4 to 6 hours Mixdown = 1 to 2 hours Total = 8 to 10 hours And yeah, I usually have anywhere from 4 to 8 tracks I'm juggling at once just to keep the ears and mind fresh. |
| Celine Surico 04.09.2011 | It depends on so many factors. Most of us work on multiple tracks at the same time. Let the ears rest and have a fresh view. Even if I believe the best production work is done very rapidly, let's say 8 hours from start to finish max. Just hard to get into this mode. |
| Jacquelyn Swiatkowski 03.09.2011 | 2-3 weeks |
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