how many hours a day or a week do you spend making music?
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how many hours a day or a week do you spend making music?
As of late I try to put in one hour a day. Sometimes I can squeeze in more time... but owning my own company makes it unrealistic to do much more.
Even in a day off though I find I can't sit down all day and make music. After about 2 hours my ears are starting to fade and after 4hours I'm num. At that point its time to pack it in. The next day I can pick out all the things I could not hear within the first 5 minutes and a fresh pair of ears.
1 hours=fun
2 hours=productive
4 hours=work
8 hours=a career... you better be making some $
making music? when we're really on it it is 9am till about 11pm solid for 4 days at a time. but recently it's tended to be about 12pm till 7pm 2-3 days a week but even that's hard to fit in at the mo.
if you're serious about this game you've got to really put the hours in. but when you say about $'s.. no not really. you don't make much. well at least, we don't. it's the DJing which pays the rent for me.
I'm lucky if I can pull 1-2 h a day in a weekday... althoug I am surrounded by gear and music... but not much of that time is 4 my own! :(
Antinoise I hope I am dead wrong here but U do know the volume/ level button also goes down right? :doh: ... ehehe
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I try to devote all day sunday to music...other than that Wednesday evening is also set aside for music.
A wife, a 50-60hr/week job, and all the other things that go along with life tend to take up nearly all my time.
Also, I just don't seem to get anything accomplished with music unless I spend more than a couple of hours at it at any given time. An hour can be taken up just by turning everything on and trying to figure out were i was when I last left off.
i'm quite busy at school, so i'm glad when i can spend to hours a day making music :S
Volume Button? Where is that.. I don't think the guy at the store sold me that option.. If I got one can it go louder too?Quote:
Originally Posted by DJ Ze MigL
mohahaha
Yes.. but puting out tracks is the best self promotion you can do for getting gigs. So the 2 are tied really.Quote:
Originally Posted by MARK EG
about 5 hours per week
5 hours at weekend as well
If I didn't go to school, I'd probably spend whole months doing nothing but making music, but since I have a lot of work (I study graphic design), I spend more time drawing human figures than drawing in automation lanes... :) So nowadays I probably spend only about two solid hours a day to concentrate on my production... No wonder I haven't released anything yet!
before my comp messed up it was about 10 hr per week normally on the weekend. but now it is 0 hrs. I just seem to have lost something but I don't know what it is. some of my software has been wiped but I don't think its just that.
About 10 hours production a week and 5 hours mixing a week.
Used to spend more time mixing before I started writing stuff.
I find that it's all or nothing with me - I've tried doing less but then I always end up drawn back to the machines.
Far too much time probably. I have forgotten what sunlight is, and my girlfriend has finally accepted that there are 2 women in my life. Her and the Music.
But, you really do have to put in the time, as perfection is a horizon forever farther away.
I dunno, it depends. If you get stuck into a track and feel that you are on a roll, then you wont find the time just dwindling by until you realise you have to be in work in have an hour and it take an hour and a half to get there.
I would say anywhere between 10 and 20 hours a week.
hours and hours and hours and hours... god knows ... i've not had a social life for ages :) (complete studio geek really i suppose, topping up my studio tan in front of the monitors)
whenever i get some time, which is probably an hour a day. writing a 120-page thesis for my MA kind of sucks up all my time. i'm a fast worker though.