Production Speed (Multiple Beats A Day)

I was wondering how you cats speed up your production processes? I found one thing that really helps (I try to aim to make 3 beats in one sitting) is if I listen for samples for a good hour or so and record whatever I feel necessary and then stretch out and/or EQ the samples within that hour or so and then start on my beats.

If I do that I can easily knock out 3 beats the following Hour.

Just wondering how you cats go about knocking out multiple beats in a sitting.

quality not quantity

peace

I'll try and spend 3 days on a drum track. Each day I go back I feel like I can hear it in a different way. By the third day if I'm not feeling it then I delete. the first day is all drum synthing and layering. But like they said quality not quantity.

I fire up the equipment, set up everything so its all ready to go. All samples cleared, whatever custom kits I have, I load. Then I load any presets for the MPC Ren. Although I don't use them much, you never know when one might fit.

Once all 4 of my main beat making pieces are ready to go, I channel everything into Sonar. Basically set the ins and outs.

Now, everything is ready to go. At that point, it's roll, puff, dig, and look for that gem of a sample, or just play keys on the keyboard and make something ill. Whichever comes first.

I'm sure most of us in this forum can bang out multiple beats per day, but it's the quality of the banger that counts.

I've made beats where they can be rocked, they are structured and good to go. However, If I know I can come harder with it, I just flip to the next sequence.

It's good to know you are able to make a beat quickly when the beat allows you to work fast. But it's not a rule.

On some beats I worked for weeks. Building layer for layer, tweaking and adjusting all the small things.

Sometimes I stumble upon a sample that will be nothing more than a four bar loop with a chopped drum break over it. Those are the more spontaneous kind of beats when you the inspiration hits you and try to lay it down before you loose the idea. And sometimes I go back to that beat to expand and built on it.

Quickness can be good sometimes, but it's definitely not a rule in my book.

Marcelandrie wrote:Just wondering how you cats go about knocking out multiple beats in a sitting.

Be more dog.

Marcelandrie wrote:I was wondering how you cats speed up your production processes?

I don't know, but if you find out any good tips let me know!

I imagine the people who make multiple beats per day are super comfortable with their tools, have well categorised sounds that are within easy reach, and are basically working either consciously or subconsciously to a set formula. Talent and focus obviously helps too.

These 1 or 2 minute tracks that a lot of people seem to be making in Hip Hop aren't really my thing though. I'm yet to hear a well crafted 4, 5 or 6 minute track that was made in a day.

Picking away at tracks and honing the sound is more important to me than knocking stuff out quickly, but everything is valid when it comes to producing.

Quality not quantity. Ignore the beat videos you see of cats bumping put a beat in 20 mins.

Take you time. Shit isn't a race.

Coz wrote:

Marcelandrie wrote:basically working either consciously or subconsciously to a set formula.

this!!

make beats for a decade and your bound to develop patterns and routines. as long as you make it a goal to always learn and try new techniques, your sound will always evolve - even if you're basing things off a formula you've developed.

a 30 minute beat may have taken 30 minutes to make but 10 years to develop the skills used in its creation.

time is relative - and some people CAN do quality AND quantity, especially after years or practice.

and also - quality COMES from quantity. maybe not quantity of releases but def of beats made (imo). the more time you spend practicing your craft productively, the better its gonna get.. there's no real denying that

When I sit down and make beats alot of times I see it as a workout. My Goal is to just become more efficient and quicker with pumping out beats simply because I think it lets me get more comfortable with my gear.

Another BIG thing I find is some of my clients coming over with a sample for me to flip and wanting me to flip it on the spot. Just like what happened with 9th & Jay when they first sat down together. I just want to be quick and accurate and I think I'm well on my way.

And naturally alot of the stuff i'll bang out will be "eh" but I think listening to the beat the next day or just later can strike up inspiration too.

Lampdog wrote:

T-Virus wrote:....I go back I feel like I can hear it in a different way. ..... I'm not feeling it then I delete.

Me all day.

Chyuppppp...

es-k wrote:and also - quality COMES from quantity. maybe not quantity of releases but def of beats made (imo). the more time you spend practicing your craft productively, the better its gonna get.. there's no real denying that

yepp but IMO you can't really develop a style with quality when you sit down forcing yourself to make 5 beats in the next hour. Sure this will train you in speed / workin with the gear but if you don't give time and attention to really listen and feeling the vibe of what you do there will be no quality IMO

peace