How fast do you write songs?

Started by SleepyGhost, Nov 4, 2017, in Creative Add to Reading List

  1. Cyreides
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    Nov 28, 2017
    Production obv a diff thing than writing raps, but I generally take anywhere from 5-6 hours on a song the first go, and if I come back to it, there can be additional days of time equal to that to fix/change/adjust/add things
     
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  2. CSA
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    Actually, it's a lot about content. If I had a serious content or story telling type of s---, I'd be perfectionist about it and it takes more time but songs that I goof around and s--- can be written really quickly.
     
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  3. SleepyGhost
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    s--- i could write a song for mainstream in 20 minutes or less
     
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    Don’t make music anymore but when I did it would vary wildly from song to song. Could never force it, sitting down and thinking “okay I’m gonna write a song now” doesn’t work and produced s--- results, would just go about my day as normal and let it come to me over time. Sometimes took me days or weeks to finish anything.
     
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  5. SleepyGhost
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    Yeah i just let it come whenever i want
     
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  6. FiveOh1
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    It can take me anywhere from a few hours to a few weeks to months. Just depends on what I intend to do with the song and what project it’s fkr and how motivated I am. Like I wrote my latest song that just dropped on iTunes “MAHA” in a couple hours cause I was really angry when I wrote it
     
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  7. SleepyGhost
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    angry? why?
     
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    BeCause I very much dislike The state of the Country right now and our moron of a president had just done something that pissed me off.
     
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  9. SleepyGhost
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    ah ok, put it all on the songs, do u got a sc?
     
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  10. FiveOh1
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    Yeah but it’s mainly my secondhand songs. I mean most of my songs are low tier, I have a problem with flowing on beat.
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    i can flow on a beat at ease, i mean u can spit quick or slow, if u cant do it on the first kick, stop on the second kick, and soo on
     
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