How long does it take YOU to make a beat?

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The longest I took was 5 days. I've made some in 15 minutes or less. I flipped a cold play sample in about 20 minutes.
 
couple minutes to hammer out the idea of the song, a couple hours to do all the structuring and mixing and tweaking and perfecting and what not. If i rush through it though probably 30 minutes to an hour
 
it took me about a week or a week n ahalf dependin how dedicated i was
 
Just depends on the track, if I have no deadline for a beat I can mess with it for a month but if I'm trying to get it done by a certain date I can have them done in a few hours.
 
Speed is no indicator of prowess..........Dre's detox been in the works for nearly a decade
 
It takes a while. Sometimes 30 mins (more foundational than finished at that point though) sometimes a year. Sometimes I get bored after replaying the song over so I need time to freshen my ears and revist the song. It's very exciting going back to old, incomplete projects and hearing something that re-captures my ear.
 
One thing that took me years to eventually do was organizing my sound library. Doing this really helps speed up the workflow.
 
True, and how exactly do you organize it?
Mine is organized by sounds and stuff like that, but do you have a personal way of doing it, like your favorites? Or by genre?
Or do you just have them organzed by sound type.
I find that by sound type I still find myself looking so long for some sounds cause there's still so many
 
i'm a perfectionist, especially with my beats. usually 5-6 hours before I'm even happy enough with it to even save it as an Mp3. at that point I tend to start another beat or call it a day. what will happen though is i'll listen to the track again in a day or so and notice something i'm not happy with, which which results in me having 3-4 versions of some tracks, because every couple of days for the next week i'll open it up again and change the drums or fix up a drop or something like that. i have beats i've been working on for months in this sense.
 
TDOT said:
True, and how exactly do you organize it?
Mine is organized by sounds and stuff like that, but do you have a personal way of doing it, like your favorites? Or by genre?
Or do you just have them organzed by sound type.
I find that by sound type I still find myself looking so long for some sounds cause there's still so many
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I try to keep them organized by genre, not only to choose sounds for only specific styles but also in case i'd like to implement a sound from one style into another. Did that make sense? lol I went through a lot of my samples and cleared ones I know I'd probably never use, like a vocal yelling "BASS!!". I organize them by kicks, snares, claps, risers, the usual stuff. Also have custom "go to" battery kits, which is a great way to bust out an idea for a drum beat and edit the little stuff later
 
15-20 mins for a basic foundation. For a complete beat, around an hour and a half. And I've only JUST started learning about mixing and mastering properly so I'm sure that as one learns more, it'll take more time because there are more things you can improve and fix.
 
JaxBeats said:
So how long does it take you?

I've heard of people making beats in 15 mins, as well as people taking weeks to complete one track.

I find myself being able to complete a song in at least a couple hours. A couple 10 mins breaks, but honestly if I kept working on a song for longer than that, I would find more wrong with it and drive myself crazy..

But I'm interested, how long does it take YOU?
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15 mins!!?! Wow... A few hours when I'm really focused (not including mix and master).

Usually a few days until I have a finished track I'm happy with and have it mastered fully.
 
It depends, Normally it takes me 1 hour to make the basic structure and then a long time to finish it off
 
like 5 days of 2-3 hour sessions...I'm blown away and a little bit jealous of the people who can make beats in 15 minutes. That's absolutely inconceivable to me...
 
For me making a beat can go from anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes. But the perfecting of the beat is something that persists throughout the whole creating of the song I am writing.
 
If you no, the right notes and chords, and patterns you can make something rough in 15 mins,
Please check out my post, feedback will be appreciated
http://is.gd/s8EIzo
 
here's one I sketched in 60 seconds and completed with full mix in just over four hours

 
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