How Many Songs Can a Man Write and Record a Month?
by Ari Koinuma on Feb.27, 2009, under Recording, Uncategorized
If I had a band it’s another story, but I am a Self Sufficient Musician — a one-man band. I program the drums (which is time consuming, though not without its own merits) and play and sing everything else.
If I worked full-time for a month, how many songs should I be able to write and record?
That’s the challenge I’m setting up for myself for March. I’m taking my new recording studio for a test drive. I just switched from Sonar to Logic as well (I was running Sonar on Windows via BootCamp) so I am afraid I’m not going to be as fast as I was on Sonar — hopefully the switch will pay off in the long run, as Mac OS is more stable than Windows.
I know I just started this site but because of the above, I’m going to be more sporadic with updates for March. There’ll be loads of goodies to share after that, though, so stay tuned!
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March 3rd, 2009 on 12:15 pm
I guess it depends on the length and complexity of the tunes. If you shoot for all one-minute punk songs, you could churn out a hundred or more. : )
I’m interested to see what you think of Logic (assuming you got the full package, or is it Express?) as I’m a Garageband user and thinking about moving up to the next level.
Just began recording my next album this morning with GB and though, as you mentioned, drum programming takes the most time, I bounce back and forth between using Band-In-A-Box and Apple Loops. For the tune today, I found all the loops I needed for a compelling rock tune, so it didn’t take too long.
Good luck in your quest!
Aloha,
Bing
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Ari Koinuma reply on March 4th, 2009 4:33 pm:
Hey Bing,
Thanks for stopping by! I’m a long-time Sonar user converting to an all-Mac set up, so I’m afraid I’m going to have transition issues more so than you’ll have — it’ll be easier for you because you haven’t developed a work flow that’s dependent on a particular software’s features.
And I didn’t mean to make it sound like I was going to go on a machine gun approach to songwriting. I’m just going to focus on taking the time to write quality tunes.
Stay in touch!
ari
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