How many hours per day/week you make music and what is your "work" ethic?
How often do you take breaks during your making music hours?
How many hours per day/week you make music and what is your "work" ethic?
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- Banned
- 158 posts since 12 Dec, 2021 from Nürburg, Germany
I create music once a week due to other work commitments, and usually spend between 2-5 hours to get the composition completed.
My work ethic, or method is best done this way, but I have another technique. Here is the first!
I 'receive' the melody usually when showering or just generally, while watching a documentary or cooking etc. Once I have the melody in my head I do this..
It is sung into my iPad. Once it is sung, hummed or whistled into the iPad I leave it until I am ready to create. Before turning on the laptop I usually make the melody, counter melody, chords/chord progression, and at least two additional sounds in my head before playing anything on the keyboard.
I usually create the drum pattern (not drum sound) in my head, and create the bassline in my mind. If I follow this procedure I make the best tracks.
Laptop on. Open Waveform. Play in the melody, counter melody, and all additional sounds until the loop is sounding good. I edit the sounds inside Hensive VST (bass, treble, lfo, asdr and so on). The sounds are already good and don't often need much tweaking. Drums and Bass sounds are the last added, but I can work in any order, I just do it this way out of routine.
At this point I am already in my 'flow state' and have completely lost sense of time. Which is a good thing. My concentration isn't that good and never has been - thankfully I have a simple setup that lets me get on with the work before the idea(s) are lost.
I don't often take breaks apart from using the toilet or getting a drink. When I am creating I am really 'creating' and am very strict on making music myself. This means no sampling. No copying of anybody else's work. When you listen to my music, you are listening to my consciousness on that given day.
I play every drum sound separately with my Akai 25-key and sometimes don't use quantise because the hats and bongo don't need to be perfect imo.
But generally I spend 2-5 hours and can complete a track within that time (including mixing, editing, arranging and exporting).
My way is not the only way. I am aware that this is a forum and people like to bicker with each other, but I cannot argue its wasted energy. I have shared my procedure and hope it maybe inspires those who may be stuck or have writers block.
Don't stop creating melodies is my best advice
You can check out my music, there is a link in my signature.
If anybody knows how to tag people on this forum I would love to hear BONES' method. His brain is deep
My work ethic, or method is best done this way, but I have another technique. Here is the first!
I 'receive' the melody usually when showering or just generally, while watching a documentary or cooking etc. Once I have the melody in my head I do this..
It is sung into my iPad. Once it is sung, hummed or whistled into the iPad I leave it until I am ready to create. Before turning on the laptop I usually make the melody, counter melody, chords/chord progression, and at least two additional sounds in my head before playing anything on the keyboard.
I usually create the drum pattern (not drum sound) in my head, and create the bassline in my mind. If I follow this procedure I make the best tracks.
Laptop on. Open Waveform. Play in the melody, counter melody, and all additional sounds until the loop is sounding good. I edit the sounds inside Hensive VST (bass, treble, lfo, asdr and so on). The sounds are already good and don't often need much tweaking. Drums and Bass sounds are the last added, but I can work in any order, I just do it this way out of routine.
At this point I am already in my 'flow state' and have completely lost sense of time. Which is a good thing. My concentration isn't that good and never has been - thankfully I have a simple setup that lets me get on with the work before the idea(s) are lost.
I don't often take breaks apart from using the toilet or getting a drink. When I am creating I am really 'creating' and am very strict on making music myself. This means no sampling. No copying of anybody else's work. When you listen to my music, you are listening to my consciousness on that given day.
I play every drum sound separately with my Akai 25-key and sometimes don't use quantise because the hats and bongo don't need to be perfect imo.
But generally I spend 2-5 hours and can complete a track within that time (including mixing, editing, arranging and exporting).
My way is not the only way. I am aware that this is a forum and people like to bicker with each other, but I cannot argue its wasted energy. I have shared my procedure and hope it maybe inspires those who may be stuck or have writers block.
Don't stop creating melodies is my best advice
You can check out my music, there is a link in my signature.
If anybody knows how to tag people on this forum I would love to hear BONES' method. His brain is deep
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- KVRAF
- 5375 posts since 22 Jul, 2006 from Tasmania, Australia
it can be done like this mate ==>
I have been playing and coding midi guitar for 36 hours straight now
I wonder what I want in here
-my site is gone and music a mess
-my site is gone and music a mess
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- KVRAF
- 5375 posts since 22 Jul, 2006 from Tasmania, Australia
I started in 2005 on the midi guitar,
choosing to develop my own technology
-I have just learnt to transpose so I can jam,
and the guitars and soft r finally working too
I set up Sabbath and Hendrix on U-toob and have at it
I wish I could create music in my head, but I can hardly sense any in there heh
breath controllers are interesting midi instruments
u could create midi bongos with a contact mic, but perhaps a piezo pup would be better
choosing to develop my own technology
-I have just learnt to transpose so I can jam,
and the guitars and soft r finally working too
I set up Sabbath and Hendrix on U-toob and have at it
I wish I could create music in my head, but I can hardly sense any in there heh
breath controllers are interesting midi instruments
u could create midi bongos with a contact mic, but perhaps a piezo pup would be better
I wonder what I want in here
-my site is gone and music a mess
-my site is gone and music a mess
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Err, when I can be arsed. Usually when the cricket's not on.
I'll usually have a f**k around on the geetar for a bit each day whilst waiting for food to cook etc. If nowt's forthcoming ideas wise I'll do something else. No point in forcing it.
Truly the greatest boon to not treating this with any manner of 'professionalism' in terms of 'work ethic', is the sheer amount of idleness you can get away with with no-one on your back. If only the Civil Service were so understanding.
I'll usually have a f**k around on the geetar for a bit each day whilst waiting for food to cook etc. If nowt's forthcoming ideas wise I'll do something else. No point in forcing it.
Truly the greatest boon to not treating this with any manner of 'professionalism' in terms of 'work ethic', is the sheer amount of idleness you can get away with with no-one on your back. If only the Civil Service were so understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 16824 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
Per day: zero
Per week: zero
Per month: zero
Per year: pretty close to zero still
Then why am I here?
Because this place is The Hotel California
Per week: zero
Per month: zero
Per year: pretty close to zero still
Then why am I here?
Because this place is The Hotel California
We are the KVR collective. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. 
My MusicCalc is served over https!!
My MusicCalc is served over https!!
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- addled muppet weed
- 111293 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
42 hours a day.
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- KVRAF
- 5375 posts since 22 Jul, 2006 from Tasmania, Australia
fishy fishy old vurt
-it was the conventional answer
-it was the conventional answer
I wonder what I want in here
-my site is gone and music a mess
-my site is gone and music a mess
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- Banned
- 158 posts since 12 Dec, 2021 from Nürburg, Germany
Utrecht has the most beautiful book store I've ever visited in my life, and it's inside the train station 🥹BertKoor wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:07 pm Per day: zero
Per week: zero
Per month: zero
Per year: pretty close to zero still
Then why am I here?
Because this place is The Hotel California
. There are some incredible books on deep subjects, and it could be because it's a university town. A friends car broke down full of weed a few years ago, and we sent it on an ADAC van across the border then we got the train.
The beauty of my story is that I found a good bookstore.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111293 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
i didn'tON BEATS wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:35 pm before anybody attacks me i stopped smoking weed in march 2022
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- addled muppet weed
- 111293 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
im nobody.