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how often and for how long do you usually sit down and work on music? are you able to start and stop projects and complete them eventually, or do you need to sit down for an entire day to 'bang' a track out? |
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Erm, sometimes i will sit down for a whole day. Sometimes i will just do it for a couple of hours. Depends how much magic is going on. I never force myslef to work anymore, i have been happier with the tracks i have done because of it too. |
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sometimes it can be done in hours. mostly it takes months and months and months. |
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mostly it takes months and months and months, mostly. You forgot he last mostly qrter! Call yourself and Alien fan? Tsk! |
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i usually do things in one go. the recording, sequencing, editing, etc and a rough mix as i work. but i do go back to it the next day or something to mix it. it's good to rest your ears a bit before you mix. but if it's a huge project, i sometimes just need a break and spend six hours one day and six the next - i don't plan ahead, i just work until it's done. |
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months. if i can be called the honourable name 'Producer'. |
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word, i don't feel to bad now. i try to work on music every day, but sometimes it's not possible. sometimes when it is possible, i simply don't feel like doing it. when playing an instrument, vs. using computer related technology, you need to play everyday, otherwise your skills become dull. do you think this may be the case, to some degree, with producing as well? |
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no. I do it for fun. if I'm doing it as a chore, there is no fun. if it isn't fun, why bother? |
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I often lose the mojo when coming back to a track. If I can come back and work on it afterwards, then I know that its worth continuing. If I cant recapture the vibe, then I toss it. |
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well, there's fun, and then there's building skill. the producers that 'make it' are the ones that produce day in, day out. i'm not nescesarilly trying to 'make it', though being paid to make music would be nice. i do know what you mean though, doing it for fun. i played in a punk band for a while, and it got to the point where it wasn't fun, i felt like practices required. luckily, the bands girlfriends broke us up. yay girls. |
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i write something new at least once a day, but a lot of the time, i'll only spend 3/4 hours on track and not come back to finish it ever. that doesnt bother me because its something i enjoy doing, even if the end result isnt always what you desired. if i really get into something thought i try and do it in one sitting (6-8 hours, at least), or at least the core of the track, otherwise you loose the original flare for it. i've only got a few tracks which are ongoing projects, |
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I feel that :D I was in a band for about 3 years, some great experiences and all but there's something wrong about 4 people trying to be creative together. Its chaotic trying to organise my own creative time let alone fitting it around everyone else's schedules. I used to make tracks in a day, now, its soooo long. I don't have any incentive to finish really, so I keep tweaking and adding and procrastinating until I can think of stuff to do. Ironically when pomme was doing that producers' special the track I completed in 7 days was better than pretty much anything I'd done before. |
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I've never finished a track in a day, but I have spent upwards of 8 hours straight, just working on one song. My problem now is that, it takes too long to point and click some awesome abstract idea I have in my head and by the time its sequenced or whatever, the original idea is lost. I need a brainwave interface |
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That's not always a bad thing though... aiming for something and failing to reach it, in the long run gives me more original results than I those I originally aimed for... |
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Anything that doesn't get finished in one day never gets finished. |
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yes it's hard to get back into the track if you stop working on it for a a while. therefore i often have to finish the track, or that specific segment in the track, in once. so when i sit down i often get stuck there for many many hours. and later, i eventually can do the mixing and allover sequenzing. and most tracks never get finished. i guess every music maker is like that. |
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Yeah, physically finishing a track is a bit of a chore to be honest. |
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sometimes I am satisfied with a track I make in an hour other times I make a little bit, add a little more in a week or two, and continue doing that until I am satisfied other times I just hang my head in shame |
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The essence of the track can be done in a few days but all the nuances take ages, I'm still working on tracks I started over a year ago. |
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thats another problem of mine, i try to do all the stupid stuff as i go along, eqing/levels/etc and its a distraction really. |
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Yeah! tell me about it, in an ideal world I'd have my own engineer. |
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yeah, using a mouse and sequencing software really sucks. i've been doing it for a while now and i'm quite fed up. i want more hands-on control over everything. one of these days i'll invest in a proper midi setup. it's really hard, if not impossible, to just 'jam' on a computer. |
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I usually spend a few hours on tracks, but some take entire days... a few are done in less than 30 minutes... those are mostly the jamming ones... |
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i never know what im doing when making music, ill either make repetative patterns or just really strange alien melodies, its almost always impossible to fit a proper beat with a melody or vice versa, yet ive shat out 7 albums and they arent that bad, maybe im lucky. |
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