Longest time spent on a song?

[TheComet]

Wondering what's the longest you've ever spent putting together a song :D

for me, I have 2 "holyshitrediculous" time spent songs

DJ Comet-Severed Pride, by TheComet Type: SongGenre: Drum N Bass

That ate my summer, approx. 4 months according to the day posted and the date the project file was created

TheComet-The Viper Project, by TheComet Type: SongGenre: Dance

back in 2005 (maybe 2004) this song took me about 5-6 months, but I couldn't post it until the file size increase

DJ Comet-Alternate, by TheComet Type: SongGenre: Drum N Bass

I started this song a couple years ago, probably even before The Viper Project, but I didn't exactly work nonstop on it for years, just poked into it every now and then to add a little more and update the file when I got a new version of FL

so....what's the longest you guys have spent? :D

[PaulStetich]

I'd have to say the longest time I took to make a song was 2 months, and that was my Sonic Next-Gen His World remix. Unfortunately, the turnout was a piece of s***, so I'm not posting a link LOL

[TheComet]

At 11/9/08 02:35 PM, PaulStetich wrote: I'd have to say the longest time I took to make a song was 2 months, and that was my Sonic Next-Gen His World remix. Unfortunately, the turnout was a piece of s***, so I'm not posting a link LOL

hahah yeah I hate it when that kind of thing happens, or you make a good song over a couple weeks/months, then turn around and kick it's ass with a 1 nighter

[Skela]

4 days.

[TheComet]

At 11/9/08 02:39 PM, Skela wrote: 4 days.

link plzkthxluv?

[Fuoco]

When I was first learning to compose, I made a minute piano piece. Took me like 6 months to continue it and working on the left hand. It was so horrrible that I ended up trashing it.

On the bright side, I learned a lot from that stupid horrible song.

I guess I learned not to fuck up so bad.

[Skela]

At 11/9/08 02:41 PM, TheComet wrote: link plzkthxluv?

4 days on this:

Skela - Mighty, by Skela Type: SongGenre: General Rock

Longest time I ever spent on a song.

[Neodrummer]

My longest time i ever spent time on a song was about a month because that song was the break of my writers block, so it took a hell lot of time.

Song's title is called trisun. I dont bother to put a link :P

[PaulStetich]

Well I guess another song that took me a while, it didnt quite make the 9 weeks its took for His World, but my Super Smash Bros Brawl - Boss mix took about 6 weeks. That's one I'm more proud of ^.^

Super Smash Bros Brawl - Boss, by PaulStetich Type: SongGenre: Video Game

[Phoog]

I've had two songs in FL, from, early this year late last year. They're the only 2 I've been working on inside FL, and they're no where near finished.
Bit OCD when it comes to producing.

[Nav]

What happens to me is that if I don't touch a track in a week, then I will probably never touch it again. With that said, the longest time it's taken to make a track has to be:

SplitPersonality - Voices (NG), by Nav Type: SongGenre: Trance

According to my AIM logs, we started it on September 25, when Neodrummer sent me over a melody. Then, from there, I did the rest, submitting it on November 1, completely finished, for a grand total of... 1 month and 5 days from conception to completion. Not bad.

However, the song that Chim and I are working on now is much older... I started it on September 9 as a freeform track, then we slowed down the tempo to make it Hard Dance. It's still not done, but we're working on it :P

[nal1200]

4 years

Bread, by nal1200 Type: LoopGenre: Grunge

(lawlwlw more like 5 minutes for that one)

So funny story:

Before I even was familiar with the weekly top 5 and was pretty much just blindly submitting songs to the portal, I submitted this back in 2007 in the 'Grunge' section. I was still pretty newbish back then.

Anyway, lo and behold it made #1 of the week, and I had no idea what that meant. I'm sure a lot of people were really mad ;D

[XenoxX]

Probably about 1 month

X.-Dance Rush-. {{FULL}}, by XenoxX Type: SongGenre: Dance

[Nosferatu-of-Worms]

I'm thinking close to a month and I never finished the song becaue I began to hate it. If you mean hours straight, I would say 8 hours (it was an older song of mine on an older profile). The song itself ended up lasting 8 minutes.

[sorohanro]

he he ... you're all defeated !!!
I spent 6, almost 7 years for writing a trumpet concerto ... still not finished yet :))

[TheComet]

At 11/9/08 07:23 PM, sorohanro wrote: he he ... you're all defeated !!!
I spent 6, almost 7 years for writing a trumpet concerto ... still not finished yet :))

I've spent 10 years trying to figure out a theme song for myself.

top'd!

[sorohanro]

At 11/9/08 07:58 PM, TheComet wrote: I've spent 10 years trying to figure out a theme song for myself.

top'd!

I hate you ... >:((

10 years is a long time, during all this time even Batman's theme changed several times ... maybe that's why you can't figure it out, changed already

[SupraDarky]

For me it's simple. The longest was my very first composition, I had absolutely no composition skills and I didn't know about 9/10th of FL Studio's options. I only used Sytrus and I didn't even know the Mixer existed, so there's absolutely zero mastering:

[SD] Inside Your Dreams, by SupraDarky Type: SongGenre: Ambient

[SupraDarky]

Oh and that took me about a month of hard work (lol).

[RedStripedd]

Heh.. I'm a slacker.

This one took about an hour

RedStripedd Acoustic Piece, by RedStripedd Type: SongGenre: Indie

This one about half an hour

Shred It Up!, by RedStripedd Type: SongGenre: Heavy Metal

I don't fuck around with tons of different tracks and stuff like that. i just put my computer's microphone near the amplifier and play

[zirconmusic]

~4-6 months of on and off work to finish "Breathing You In", the most popular track from my album Antigravity. It's a huge, breakbeat/trance club anthem that got picked up by a label and is now available basically everywhere. My only regret is the volume level... wish I had toned it down a bit!

[Skela]

At 11/10/08 01:41 AM, zirconmusic wrote: ~4-6 months of on and off work to finish "Breathing You In", the most popular track from my album Antigravity. It's a huge, breakbeat/trance club anthem that got picked up by a label and is now available basically everywhere. My only regret is the volume level... wish I had toned it down a bit!

Funny how such a good producer is now on newgrounds.
It's like seeing Paris Hilton shop and Wal Mart or something. :P

[Kor-Rune]

I've spent about a month on this twenty nine minute progressive rock/jazz song called Infernal Apocalypse, but it simply won't fit posted anywhere unless I compress the shit out of it, which I won't do.

But the longest I can link to is probably this one, I spent only about 4 days on it:

The Last Soul of the Sanctuary, by Kor-Rune Type: SongGenre: Heavy Metal

[Psy-nigma]

I still have projects that aren't finished and its been years now. I usually work on about 5 tracks at a time and the one I work on is usually dependent on the mood I am feeling for the day. Very few tracks of mine do I actually declare as finished seeing that I tend to always go back and work on them some more.

there is two projects of mine that I've spent about a whole year on and I still havn't posted them in newgrounds knowing that they are so far from complete. these tracks are like classical music they have so much going on and are pretty long.

A couple excerpts from those projects that I have cut down and put on newgrounds are
from my 30 minute trance track

Yukiku Michi (Psy-nigma), by Psy-nigma Type: SongGenre: Trance

and an offspring from my 30 minute industrial track sound scape I made.

Quadrasector Iota Chloe, by Psy-nigma Type: SongGenre: Ambient

[PaulStetich]

One thing I've really noticed . . .

It seems that the longer time spent on a song the better. However, put too much time into it and you'll totally like kill the mood of the song. I did that with His World LOL.

[Chronamut]

almost years I think?

I'm still working on it - I believe people refer to it as my "pretty green eyes" remix :P

[Bjra]

69 hours

[HaniiPuppy]

I tend to work on more than one thing at a time and also leave some things for long periods of time doing nothing to them :P

"Evisceration Nation" (originally called "Eviscreation Nation" until I found out "Eviscreation" wasn't a word :P ) was the first thing I started when I found out how to use garageband. I think that was 2005 or 2006. Still working on it :P Although I've deleted and restarted it 2 or 3 times now. There's now a "Punk" version and a "Gothic" version.

[loansindi]

Does it count if I've never really considered a song 'done' ?

[Mrmilkcarton]

Miles Away (Preview/WiP), by Mrmilkcarton Type: SongGenre: Trance

3 to 4 months from idea to song.