How much of ur beats is keepers?

When I 1st got my sp I was making 4 or 5 beats in one sitting, nowadays although the quality (mix, placement, sound selection & overall) is better I find that I delete more stuff then I keep.

I would say that 90% of the time when I sit down to make a beat I come away with nothing worth keeping.

I’m interested to know how much of the stuff u make is ‘keeper’ level stuff plus any suggestions in improving my %tage.

Id say if you got the memory keep everything, even if its a 1/4 done beat its 1/4 time you'll save the next time you come to work on it.. I find also if ya listen to something too much it starts to sound whack even if it isnt, ya just get that loop goin round in ya head & in the end ya like get the f*** outta here...
Amazing what going back to stuff can do for ya sometimes

I save everything I work on and I know they're keepers when they end up a finished song . Sh!t that doesn't end up a keeper I usually toss the samples, find new ones and re-manipulate the drums . My true non-keepers are when I just turn off the MP w/o even thinking of pressing shift + disk .

i save everything i do, back it up to my pc- revisit it six months later and exclaim- "damn! what was i thinking!!"


greg

I'll Keep ALL But I Don't USE ALL.......................


Sometimes There R Elements or Portions That Work Better somewere else..................

YA Dig.................

yea everything is a keeper. even the test tracks. but i'd say we'll record to/use 70% of them.

W. Steele wrote:I save everything I work on and I know they're keepers when they end up a finished song . Sh!t that doesn't end up a keeper I usually toss the samples, find new ones and re-manipulate the drums . My true non-keepers are when I just turn off the MP w/o even thinking of pressing shift + disk .

Nuff said.

if something aint working (even uif ive spent a couple of hours on it) ill just switch the mpc off and lose it all, no point in trying to make something work that isn't- ive spent a lot of time doing that

greg

yea me too but i've saved some i thought couldnt be fixed and came back one day and remade the whole thing. drums, instruments, etc. and birthed a newer better one out of the old crappy one. so i guess it depends

yeah but to me thats a new tune...

greg

I try to save everything, cus I like elements I may come up with.
But as far as 'Keepers'...25-30% tops. Guess I don't have any tips on improving your ratio, except for one: anything I seem to make really fast at 6AM seems like I love it. Maybe think less and do more is the key.

I keep 90% of all the beats I make and erase the rest.
90% of those I might actually use in a song.
The rest are usually "likeable orphans".

ive only deleted a track w/o saving 3 times in my life. its a must u save. one day u might be hungry for burgers and the next u might want chicken. taste changes. some of my fav beats were ones that were "aight" at 1st but when i come back a couple days later im like "daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam....what was i on?!?!".
far as the keepers. i'd say about 97% right now. imo u gotta have patience when beatmaking. sometimes i find that the beat doesnt jump off till i have a few components going. whereas the intial start or just hearijng the same thing loop might make u wanna move to something else.

I'd say 90% now, I used to do a bunch of beats then develop them later, butnow I write one beat and develop it until finished, then another beat, then another. somewhat of a recent development.

all of them



i can tell when im starting out a beat if its gonna suck. i just scrap it and start over