Home | Community | Message Board

NorthSpore.com BOOMR Bag!
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleColonel Kurtz Ph.D
What What?
Male User Gallery
Registered: 07/22/04
Posts: 11,113
Loc: Shadow Moses
How much time do you spend on your songs?
    #5256391 - 02/02/06 05:51 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I was just wondering since some of you seem to put out a new song every week! :eek:

Even tho my style is psychedelic rock and I'm writting a full album, which takes a hella lot of time, it seems to me that I'm still devoting a lot more time per song than most people.

I can safely say I spend about 80-100 hours per song, that's only recording-mixing and masterizing. I couldn't possibly count the time I spent composing every single song. Even a quick song took me 15 hours to record.

So how about you, how much time do you spend on a given track usually?


--------------------
:whatwhat:

There's no better way to rock out than with your cock out!!


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineBlastrid
e l e m e n t al i t y
 User Gallery

Registered: 01/14/02
Posts: 3,323
Loc: The Desert
Last seen: 16 years, 17 days
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #5256949 - 02/02/06 08:22 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

When I make electronic music at home, I spend an average of 3-4 months on a song, but I often start projects and come back to them later. like, way later.

I have a song I started on last March, spent a good 2 months on it then, but came back to it twice so far adding on, and I'm still not done. It all depends on how often I get to it, because I do much better in long, epic songwriting sessions as opposed to an hour here and there.


--------------------
Blas'?trid (bl?s tr?d)
    n.  3rd generation derivitave of a combination of 'bastard' and 'blasted'.  Used as both an insult or an expletive.
    ex.  Blastrid!

Stereopattern  <--My music.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineMimeyNaomi
shabbat shalommotherfuckers

Registered: 01/15/06
Posts: 127
Loc: Ohio
Last seen: 16 years, 1 month
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: Blastrid]
    #5257056 - 02/02/06 08:43 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

I don't do electronic music but my bandmate does. He's fucking fast. He'll get an idea and 2 days later he'll show it to me. He used to sell/hand out these burned 10 song CDs, he'd make several every year

And it's not shit, it's good. Don't tell him but I envy him a lot


--------------------
Check thiz out

..........because I misplaced my umbrella


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblekrishnamurti
Stranger
Registered: 06/27/05
Posts: 382
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: MimeyNaomi]
    #5257382 - 02/02/06 09:48 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

im in a band of me (drums) and a friend (bass/vocals), and we're recording our demo right now.. we've been working on it for 2-3 weeks, and have had to go back and change alot of shit :tongue: this is our first time doing a serious recording tho.. there are 11 songs, and we should have it finalized within a week.


--------------------
I'll see you down in Guantanamo Bay

Donate spores to FSRC or suffer the consequences!*

Wikipedia

Overgrow has been shut down :sad: check out www.icmag.com if you need MJ info

*consequences may or may not be suffered


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleShroomismM
Space Travellin
Male User Gallery
Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 02/13/00
Posts: 66,015
Loc: 9th Dimension Flag
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #5257590 - 02/02/06 10:52 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Some songs come out of pure jams.. and are spontaneously created within hours or even in one single session. Of course we always work on them and further refine them as time goes on, but the foundation is there.

Other songs.. I have spent weeks/months/even years working on. I have an unfinished song from 1999, that I will never be fully satisfied with. On the other hand, my band has a couple songs that we wrote in about 30 minutes, just fucking around.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineFliquid
Back from being gone.
Male User Gallery

Registered: 03/18/02
Posts: 6,953
Loc: omotive
Last seen: 8 years, 6 months
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #5261986 - 02/04/06 09:16 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Around 5 hours or so, but for not so regular sets I sometimes spend more time on it.

Hi pal, I hope you're fine.  :wink:


--------------------
:dancing: My latest music! :yesnod:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineXUL
OTD Janitor
Male User Gallery

Registered: 03/16/05
Posts: 28,261
Loc: America
Last seen: 4 years, 2 months
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: Colonel Kurtz Ph.D]
    #5262378 - 02/04/06 12:23 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

A song is never finished in my book. It can always be improved. Everytime I listen to something I made, I get more ideas and I go back and make it better.


--------------------
TRUMP 2020


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisibleohmatic
searcher
 User Gallery

Registered: 02/28/04
Posts: 6,742
Loc: europe
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: XUL]
    #5262728 - 02/04/06 02:00 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

event hough i havent finished any song yet i got a couple of goa projects running
whihch i can safely say that i spent approx 80 hours of more per track.

hey deep, hope to see you soon again :sun:
peace ohm :mushroom2:


--------------------
:penis: MONOTUB tek :sun: HEATBOMB tek :penis:

RIP #cultivation! ....can't associate? well FUCK U !


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineGrav
 User Gallery

Registered: 02/06/02
Posts: 4,454
Loc: Flag
Last seen: 11 years, 1 month
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: ohmatic]
    #5264203 - 02/04/06 08:55 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

i think about a song for months and months, hear the melodies whispering in my head.. then one day ill create it, the skeleton of it anyways. it's like im bathing in pure light when it comes out of my fingers and my ears hear it.

i don't aim for a completed piece at this point in my life... im waiting to find the musicians or maybe just the right time that will help fully realize it. so right now im just going on basic arrangements and trying to flesh out my musical style. i hope to make a real contribution when im more focused and have better resources.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAcyl
cyanidepoisoning
Male User Gallery

Registered: 12/13/05
Posts: 4,472
Loc: N.W.T.
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: Grav]
    #5264722 - 02/04/06 11:17 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

i spent about a day in total working on a babe im gonna leave you cover for the first song ive ever made... took out the lyrics and inserted some guitar solos

fun stuff, gonna start another one soon...


--------------------
:scrambled:

1 ,2


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinestefan
work in progress

Registered: 04/11/01
Posts: 8,932
Loc: The Netherlands
Last seen: 3 years, 3 months
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: ohmatic]
    #5266117 - 02/05/06 12:49 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

ohmatic said:
event hough i havent finished any song yet i got a couple of goa projects running
whihch i can safely say that i spent approx 80 hours of more per track.

hey deep, hope to see you soon again :sun:
peace ohm :mushroom2:



how about a preview?


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineDerelict
Stranger Danger
Registered: 12/03/05
Posts: 50
Loc: Appalachain Mountains
Last seen: 15 years, 7 months
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: stefan]
    #5302681 - 02/15/06 10:55 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Somebody, maybe Miles Davis, said the best songs write themselves (with the help of a songwriter) in about 30 minutes. The rest is just details.


--------------------
We are here on earth to fart around.
Don't let anybody tell you any different.
-Kurt Vonnegut


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineLuciferSam
no turn leftunstoned
Male User Gallery

Registered: 03/14/04
Posts: 426
Loc: Sconny Botland
Last seen: 8 years, 1 month
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: Derelict]
    #5305839 - 02/16/06 07:59 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

The electronica stuff I do just by myself I find is best when it's not tweaked too much, get an idea down quickly and usually the first mix is often the best - maximum is probably 2 days, although I did once spend 8 hours on hi hats alone!

The band stuff I do we usually take songs that we've worked on for a while into the studio and we try and do a song per 8 hour session, with maybe 2-4 hours for a mixdown.

The more you meddle with a good idea, the more diluted it gets - I've got 4 track demo's that I knocked up in an hour or so that just have a certain quality and atmosphere that can't be improved by taking longer in the studio and trying to recreate them.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinekotik
fuckingsuperhero
 User Gallery
Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 06/29/04
Posts: 3,531
Last seen: 4 years, 24 days
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: LuciferSam]
    #5307174 - 02/16/06 02:09 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

that sounds about right. i stopped mixing my own music after a certain point, and that really helps too, because i would spend more time on that than making new stuff.


--------------------
No statements made in any post or message by myself should be construed to mean that I am now, or have ever been, participating in or considering participation in any activities in violation of any local, state, or federal laws. All posts are works of fiction.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineSpenny
S M I L 3
Registered: 02/06/06
Posts: 179
Last seen: 14 years, 9 months
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: kotik]
    #5308815 - 02/16/06 09:22 PM (17 years, 11 months ago)

Anywhere from a couple hours to a couple years.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinetps
ganja ghanstah
 User Gallery

Registered: 06/22/02
Posts: 578
Last seen: 14 years, 1 month
Re: How much time do you spend on your songs? [Re: Spenny]
    #5309533 - 02/17/06 04:59 AM (17 years, 11 months ago)

i got a bunch of tracks down for cool riffs, i never put anything more into them unfortuantly since i have horrible vocals lol


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* If you could meet one songwriter.........
( 1 2 all )
BluMonkee 2,781 35 01/20/10 06:17 PM
by syberia
* new song (with accoustic guitar in it) stefan 782 4 07/18/04 06:01 PM
by JacquesCousteau
* Most blatant stoner songs
( 1 2 all )
mr_kite 4,154 32 10/19/03 07:57 PM
by abhi
* How do I improve? Tasty_Smurf_House 1,180 8 09/25/04 10:09 PM
by baraka
* 'Illustrative Music' Project HB 994 9 09/02/03 11:52 PM
by HB
* a couple songs i wrote(NO STEALING)-with two more-5/20/03 JameZTheNewbie 764 5 05/20/03 01:41 AM
by JameZTheNewbie
* Top 5 Songs per music genre TrauM 5,815 7 08/14/04 07:46 PM
by schmektron
* does anyone care about a new song i wrote? Todcasil 760 7 10/27/04 06:55 PM
by Todcasil

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Middleman, automan, DividedQuantum
1,238 topic views. 0 members, 2 guests and 1 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.031 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 14 queries.