Beatmaking efficiency

[jaevladaniel]

Hi everybody!

Just wondering if anyone has any tips on how to speed up the workflow when producing? Not just for the sake of speeding things up – but for the sake of taking things from vision to IRL without losing the initial spark etc. For example – do you have like a production sketch pad for ideas? And do you make full songs when you sit down to make some music or do you just create like a few bars of music and then loop it up and see what happens? I hope you get what I'm after





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[tomkillsjerry]

I loop endlessly and build, shift octaves and add effects till what's in my head hits my hears. Lots of times I'll sit down and just make a bunch of 8 to 16 bar loops then let them sit on the hard drive for a week and see which ones make me feel something.

 

[DJPhenomMusic]

I typically like to have several current projects to rotate through. I may create 3 beat ideas that just have some drums and a basic piano for an 8 bar loop, and then cycle through them. The one that moves me the most is the one I put more time into.

 

[Steven Cohen]

never stick to one beat. make one beat with melody then save, strip the melody keep drums an make a totally different beat style with same drums

 

[ApolloMusic]

From what I noticed, I make beats fastest when I either have a really good drum pattern down or a good chord progression. If I start with either those things, the beat is gonna be ready in 2 hours.