How fast do you write songs?

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    I dont write in some time, but i think i used to write 2 verses and a hook in an hour\hour and half. I like to make a lot, not spend a lot.
     
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    Thought this was one of those type speed tests lol

    A verse in about an hour all together then edited after the rest of the song is written. Verses are weird though cause ill already have 2/4 bars going into the verse dictating the topic and then connect those bars through scheme changes etc but I rarely have any filler bars, thats why it takes so long. Never sit down and write a hook it just kinda comes to me or I freestyle it- f--- hooks lol
     
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    depends, if i force my self to write something it takes ages but if got an idea its super quick. Writing a hook is what i have trouble with and spend ages on.
     
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    I rarely write hooks Lmao.

    You write? Have you recorded anything? Link nig
     
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    nope, me and my friends just do it for fun- mostly freestyling etc. I would like to put more time into once ive finished uni this year.
     
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    Usually, not always but 5 minutes for one verse, 10\15 for a whole song
     
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    Lmfao s--- takes me weeks OP u must not put much effort into writing at all lmfao
     
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    I have to revise verses even scrap entire hooks and verses to get it perfect
     
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    well some people still like it even though i dont put much effort. it just comes quick, i just dont think of metaphors and similiar stuff
     
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    Do you write songs?
     
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    Changes a lot sometimes when I come up with some opening lines it very easy to write a whole verse in 5 mins. Sometimes a song stays half done for months or even years Because I'm too lazy to complete them in last 2 years
     
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    I used to take 1h30 to write songs, now i write them soooooo quickly. Man ffreestyling helped the s--- out of me
     
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    "It always feel like I'm hitting the mark till I go in the car and pick it apart!" Lmao. But fr it takes me my entire lifetime considering I've never legitimately written a song loll.
     
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    i used to try having everything perfect but you just going to exhaust yourself and be frustated to make something that doesnt exist
     
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    I've always written little rhymes for fun but that's about it. I have like years worth of random s--- in the notes on my phone.
     
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    tbh most my songs are quick made but the verses are only like 10 bars
     
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    and my songs are like a minute two minutes Lmaoooo
     
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