How Much Time Do You Generally Spend on 1 Track?

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February 15, 2019 at 8:13 am #31678 Reply
LAwriter
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MichaelL – Haha!! I meant that in a good way, and hope it wasn’t offensive. I guess I could have put “litigate”. Or maybe put Drivers drive. 🙂 Cheers,
February 15, 2019 at 10:25 am #31686 Reply
Art Munson
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LAwriter look for ahmadmin as user.
February 15, 2019 at 5:09 pm #31687 Reply
MichaelL
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MichaelL – Haha!! I meant that in a good way, and hope it wasn’t offensive.
No offense taken, LAwriter!
Your point is well-taken. On some levels, not all, this is one of the few industries in which non-professionals compete, or try to compete, against professionals.
February 16, 2019 at 8:26 pm #31693 Reply
ChuckMott
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These days i do what i do well and try not to spend more then 4 – 6 hours. If I can’t get a solid idea moving after an hour or to I”m out.
March 7, 2019 at 5:35 pm #31840 Reply
Michael
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Usually no more than two full days. Though some libraries with in house composers keep a quota of 2-3 tracks per day depending on the briefs. Obviously a 2.5 minute ‘Ambient Textures’ track will require somewhat less time than a 2.5 intricate ‘Orchestral Fantasy’ track strictly from an programming standpoint
March 8, 2019 at 5:11 am #31841 Reply
CHuck Mott
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Trying not to spend more then maybe 6 hours per track these days and sticking to genres I am strong in, I have more oars in the fire then just music licensing though and my gigging income still outpaces my licensing by say double so….if I was a full timer I would maybe do twice that. Been at this over 6 – 7 years now and going to take a hard look at how many hours I have put into it and whether it worth continuing doing.
March 8, 2019 at 12:49 pm #31843 Reply
BEATSLINGER
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Though some libraries with in house composers keep a quota of 2-3 tracks per day depending on the briefs.
2 to 3 a day?
If you are working at this Break-Neck CRAZY Speed, having zero free time to be human, and not seeing 6 Figures. Sorry, but there’s just no point in doing it.,.
March 8, 2019 at 5:57 pm #31844 Reply
Mark_Petrie
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2 to 3 a day?
If you are working at this Break-Neck CRAZY Speed, having zero free time to be human, and not seeing 6 Figures. Sorry, but there’s just no point in doing it.,.
This was pretty much my first real writing gig after moving out to LA. It took me years to unlearn the bad habits you have to lean on in order to ‘write’ that much music every day, every week, for months on end…
March 8, 2019 at 6:58 pm #31845 Reply
BEATSLINGER
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This was pretty much my first real writing gig after moving out to LA. It took me years to unlearn the bad habits you have to lean on in order to ‘write’ that much music every day, every week, for months on end…
I understand. I worked for a couple of big name production companies. The restrictions, and loss of freedom had me writing/composing the most Insipid garbage. It took me years to get back to a place of writing music that had even the slightest form of creativity & technical merit…
March 8, 2019 at 7:33 pm #31846 Reply
NY Composer
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It all really depends if I am writing ITB or if I’m doing all organic instruments with live drums, etc.
If it’s all organic, we are talking longer time for tracking and much longer for mixing.
I can spend 2 hours on just getting my drum kit to punch.
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