Just curious about how long and frequent are your music making sessions.
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music making is my morning coffee routine.
from 40 mins to 2 or sometimes even 3 hours.
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Not enough.
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I try to always at least do ten minutes a day. Usually it goes much longer. Sometimes with other responsibilities it canāt be helped.
I hate to look at my desk if I havenāt touched anything.
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Variable depending on my mood and health. Some weeks I can do barely anything, some weeks itās 5-8 hours a day.
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Iāve reached that age too.
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When the routine is working how I want it to, 1.5 hrs a day, from 5:30-7amā¦
When the routine works - right now Iām nomadic (without permanent house) so really depends on the space Iām in.
Was in guatemala for a month and had a space and that routine was amazing 
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There was a long time when I could spend most of the day (and night) making and producing music when I was a freelancer. Times change and at some point this daily routine came to an end. Nowadays, Iām happy if I get the chance to spend a few hours on a weekend making some wonderful cacophony. Basically, though, itās still like it used to be: itās a damn good time every time and Iām grateful for every piece of my equipment and have absolutely no regrets. 
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Thereās a difficult and unpleasant distinction to draw between making music and intent to make music. Like, if you turn on your gear, mute and unmute some tracks, ruin something for 5 minutes then reload the project and rage quit, is that making music?
Because I probably do that daily.
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Time for an Ableton Move or an OP-XY then. Might as well jam on the bog.
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Nope.
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I work 5, sometimes 6 days a week but still try and fit a weekly session in at the weekend. Usually from 9 to lunch time.
Today I finished an ambient remix track for one of my tracks, started a new track and put together two basic remixes for a gig next week.
All very productive.
Plus trying to get time with the move
I daydream all through the work day about making beats and by the time I get the chance in the evening, the creative energy seems to have been spent (or evaporated)
It usually stacks up to a few hours a week
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I go through spells where itās a few hours a night, other times Iāll go days or weeks without. I used to beat myself up about not spending more time on it. Now I just try to enjoy it when I enjoy it and accept that I wonāt always feel inspired / motivated.
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Good attitude. I used feel guilty about choosing video games or Netflix over music production, but chose not to beat myself about it, and I feel better now
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Depends how brutal work has been. I typically work between 70-90 hours per week so try to fit the odd hour or two in around that but when itās gets super busy I can go weeks without touching my studio. This is why I love Ableton Note. Itās always in my pocket whenever I have a few mins spare on my commute
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I play the Handpan almost everyday, ranging from 5 to 30 minutes depending on what family life allows.
āProductionā typically two nights a week for a few hours.
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My time consumption in order
Work/going to work
Family
Cooking/eating
Movies
Music
Shitting
Baths
It certainly is! You had a few ideas, tried them out, didnāt work out. But you actively worked on that track because next time, youāll try something else or you come to the conclusion that itās time for the next project or that the track is finished. I work pretty much the same way. In very irregular intervals, I work out a rough idea within a few hours. And that idea is often already pretty good but missing the finer details. And after that itās often weeks of doing nothing but playing around with that idea, or doing nothing at all.
In general, I donāt think that I ever worked on something for more than a few hours at a time.
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ā¦most productive times i had, when i was in my studio on daily basesā¦
bringing my son to kindergarten around 9, havinā my morning espresso/croissant ritual in the coffe place around the corner ātil 10, then headinā to my studio, most important rule, hit the play/recording button for the first time at least before hi noon, working 'til 16:30, then picking up my son againā¦
when working towards deadlines, it could grow into 16 hours nonstop for weeksā¦
but in essence i can say, half the year i was working in a studio or touring, the other half of a year, i was not doing anything at all apart from just livinā and breathingā¦
and since the grass is always greener somewhere else, hobbyproducers might whish for it to become a job, for me, iād whish often enough, it would be my hobbyā¦
but hey, since this year, i am a hobby producer for the first time since my teenage days and ooops, iām not making any tunes at all anymore eversinceā¦
but still sit on quite a bunch of unreleased leftover tracks, which were all written and produced in those days, when i dropped my kid at kindergarten and then hitted play button before hinoon on daily basesā¦back then, almost every day ended with a great sketchā¦
no matter what ur time management looks like, only repetition makes the hitā¦
hobby or not, u gotto do whatever u do on some sort of frequent basesā¦
not only when u think, oooh now i feel some inspirationā¦u also gotto hit the buttons when it doesānt feel like funā¦
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