How long does it take you to finish a beat

[KurtisRich]

How long does it take everybody here to finish a beat?

 

[bigdmakintrax]

now look that depends....complexity of the sample, complexity of the drum pattern....for me a dum pattern is nothing a few minutes to put a dope pattern together with breakdowns and everything...I dont really use breaks ......then chopping the sample thats really nothing...but putting it all together that might be a lil different.....I think people get too caught up in how long it takes sometimes...I would not pride myself in either though....I think the end product is what you want....i heard beats that people take 3 or 4 days on and they still not that good....or ones that someone put together on the fly a banger .....in 25 minutes.........and vis versa

I would say an average beat I put together takes no more than an hour or so, 4 hours max on any beat then come back the next day and add something ocassionally thats it.....I must move on to another idea after a day....

 

[andreas]

I'd say that I take somewhere between 3 - 10 hours composing the song. Then mixing and just fiddling with effects and bits and pieces that's the timeconsuming part.. I'd say.. Perhaps 40hours per song. If done properly and given the time to make it stick in the levels and soundscape

 

[KurtisRich]

That's cool. The reason why I made this thread was because I have this problem: I make a track in like 20-30 mins including composing or choppin up sample, but a majority of it is not finished. I say about 70% of my beats aren't finished. Sometimes I would make a rough track, leave it alone, and go to the next one. I think that's my main problem is that I dont take time making my beats I, most of the time I have no patience. Cause if you listen to most of my beats, most of them sounds unfinished.
It's like seeing some good BBQ Ribs thats on the table and you wanna eat it before anybody else does, last person gets the left over bones. Na mean. LOL

 

[Bloodybastid]

I take time to finish my beats...before it will take me a looong time to finish a beat. From a week to a month because I wanted everything to be perfect and professional. But now I am able to finish beats faster regularly, about an hour to a week now.

 

[Arc.I.Tect]

Normally 2+ hours

 

[classic]

No less then 6 to 8 hours..

classs....

 

[KurtisRich]

Thats cool. I need to start what yall are doing by taking my TIME making a beat. I swear I have no patience, I just wanna finish on and jump on to the next.

 

[FSC]

I usually take my time. So i usually try to give it one or two days unless i'm in a hurry. But i can crank one out in a few hours.

 

[jclay12345]

Most of beats are done between 25 minutes to an hour. It really never seems that long though. I look up and time flew.
I have made really good beats in 10 minutes though, but I have also worked on a beat for longer than an hour and it came out wack. Some beats I might not finish til months later because I could not think of what was missing. So really there is no set amount of time.

 

[JPeg]

Varies however on the topic of finishing beats i tend to keep making beats get the basic idea down then illl comeback and listen to them another time and tweak and develop the ideas some more.

alot of the time ill scrap alot of beats cos i aint really feeling the beat but i only finish beats that i consider worthwhile.

so most of the ideas wont make it to the finished beat stage.

 

[sYgMa]

Then mixing and just fiddling with effects and bits and pieces that's the timeconsuming part..

that what I'm talking about... I'm not real good with effect, so it takes me a bunch of time to mix a beat...

Actually, I guess most of it is because my sounds are not that great and I want them to have WAY more impact that they have... So EQ, compresser, reverb. gate... etc. that's what eat up my time.

The structure of my beats take like 45 minutes to 2 hours to do... than I like to add little things here and there to make the beat more interesting... but then sometimes, I get over creative and I get a beat that's just an instrumental...

 

[Beatz 101]

3+ hours

my beats are never 100% until i get lyrics on 'em. post-production is neccessary.

 

[Agent Smith]

it usually takes me a couple days (spread out). i'll spend an hour or two messing with the beginning and then i'll burn a copy of it and listen to it into my car nonstop...then i'll go back and flesh out/add/revise things. sometimes i dont take that step and my beats just sort of stay there unfinished...i have a grip of unfinished beats. i guess the beat has to keep my interest for me to finish it. if it doesnt keep my interest who's interest will it keep?

 

[Sacred One]

3+ hours

my beats are never 100% until i get lyrics on 'em. post-production is neccessary.

you hit it on the nose, most of the time, my beats are not finished till some lyrics are on them, the longest it took me to make a beat was 4 days and the shortest was 45 mins, most of my beats are two day beats, always take my time, never rush

 

[CampO]

That's cool. The reason why I made this thread was because I have this problem: I make a track in like 20-30 mins including composing or choppin up sample, but a majority of it is not finished. I say about 70% of my beats aren't finished. Sometimes I would make a rough track, leave it alone, and go to the next one. I think that's my main problem is that I dont take time making my beats I, most of the time I have no patience. Cause if you listen to most of my beats, most of them sounds unfinished.
It's like seeing some good BBQ Ribs thats on the table and you wanna eat it before anybody else does, last person gets the left over bones. Na mean. LOL

Lol thats like me I probably got 500 Reason Files with Just 8 Bar loops or a 16 Bar Verse I duno why but after a While I get Bored and I somethin I thought sounded Dope is startin 2 sound Boring and Dull and moretimes I dont come back too shit for that Reason. But with Sampled beats I find it Easier to Finish one in about a Hr to get The First Sequence down and then another 4 or 5 hrs of goin over shit changin things makin new sequences new Drum Patterns an so on

 

[BROUSSARD BEATS]

it depends on the mood if alot of people are in the studio and we vibing then no time

 

[Equelizer]

No less then 6 to 8 hours..

classs....

Yep..... same thing for me...about 5 to 8 hours. When I first started, it was taking me like 20 and 30 mins. The shit came out garbage(those are the ones on my soundclick page). Since then, I have been taking my time and making sure that thang is at its peak. It takes time and effort, I treat it like a mid-term paper and all you college heads know what I am talking about. Make sure its on point or your ass will get an F.:shoot:

 

[trez260]

Thats cool. I need to start what yall are doing by taking my TIME making a beat. I swear I have no patience, I just wanna finish on and jump on to the next.

sounds like you're just laying the foundation of your tracks (as far as main sample and drums) and then sliding to the next one. it's not really a bad thing, but at some point you'll want to come back to your work to either fine tune or lay the full song down (variances,choruses,etc.) reason why it takes so much time in alot of cases is because peeps will leave the tracks alone and listen to'em for a day to a week or moreso so and then come back to them with a fresh ear, or a new idea to add to the project. as one mentioned already, a track is never complete until lyrics are layed on it. that's when u have the complete package. Peace.

 

[Undecided]

It takes me a whole year to finish a beat... Just kiddin'... I always start a beat but never finish any of 'em... I just keep startin' new projects and then go back to it from time to time to tweak it...