Having done a bunch of regular-ol’-fashioned songwriting, I actually don’t think it takes that much longer for an experienced songwriting to get to decent-ish quality song. (This varies a lot on how hard the muse is striking me. Usually there is an initial phase where I’m figuring out the core structure and heart of the song. I’m not personally fluent at playing instruments but if I was I think it’d take a 2-8 hours to hash out the chord structure, and then 2-8 hours to do a decent recording if I hire professional musicians)
(to be clear, this is to get “a decent-ish” song recording. In practice songwriting/recording takes much longer because I have higher standards and iterate on them until I feel really happy with them, but if I wanted to bang out an album I think I could do it in 2 weeks)
Having done a bunch of regular-ol’-fashioned songwriting, I actually don’t think it takes that much longer for an experienced songwriting to get to decent-ish quality song. (This varies a lot on how hard the muse is striking me. Usually there is an initial phase where I’m figuring out the core structure and heart of the song. I’m not personally fluent at playing instruments but if I was I think it’d take a 2-8 hours to hash out the chord structure, and then 2-8 hours to do a decent recording if I hire professional musicians)
(to be clear, this is to get “a decent-ish” song recording. In practice songwriting/recording takes much longer because I have higher standards and iterate on them until I feel really happy with them, but if I wanted to bang out an album I think I could do it in 2 weeks)