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I play classical style guitar. I joined a community here, but I was the only post.

I agree that it's rough out there finding communities with common interests.

Long time musician here!

Back in Reddit days I did prawl through music-making related communities, but found that discussion tended to stick to pretty trivial spheres. Figured that general music maker communities don't work. You want jazz drumming / pure data / microtonal techniques level specialised communities to keep it interesting. Otherwise it's just 'recommend a beginner-friendly daw' over and over.

I have submitted to knives and scuba communities here even though they're small. Fortunately, I still get responses. So I urge you guys to post in your empty communities or create your own

I'm something of a musician myself, and it saddens me that I can't find any active music production or audio engineering communities on Lemmy.

BTW, would be interesting having a community dedicated to free licensed/copyleft/0cc/creative commons/non profit music.

*waves hello to fellow music nerds*

Anyway, here's 'Smoke on the Water' on a harpsichord

I'm a punk artist! I recently released an album, check it out: jimmyhalliday.bandcamp.com

I’m a semi-professional choral singer! I very frequently sing on a volunteer basis in a symphony chorus with a professional orchestra. And also sing with a smaller 12-person choir, really tight harmonies and blending. It’s a lot of fun.

Sometimes I get paid, but that’s rare.

I’ve gotten to sing some pretty awesome stuff (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, video game concerts, Verdi’s Requiem, etc. etc. etc.) and gotten to meet some pretty cool people (including my wife)!

I started a synthesizer community on lemm.ee when I came to Lemmy after the API fiasco a couple years ago. It was a little active. When lemm.ee died, I just let it go.

!musicproduction@sh.itjust.works feel free to post we could all use the engagement.

I make sounds but have trouble calling myself a musician.

Man, I wish.

I can't sing. I can't play any instrument. I have no sense of timing (I can't always even clap along in time). If I ever do end up being part of a band it's going to be as their manager since I'm now too old to be a roadie. But I wish I could, I dunno, play guitar enough to jam or be a part of an totally average local band.

Musician here. I'll play almost anything with strings and drums. Youtube: @rx120d, @BlackRiverStudio astralpath.bandcamp.com

I make music and have released them on streaming platforms. I’m subscribed to most of the music, music production, and music genre communities in the fediverse.

I still drum, so I'm at least someone who hangs out with musicians. I haven't played with others in like a decade though.

Bedroom guitarist with too many pedals checking in

!musicproduction@sh.itjust.works

Define "musician". Basically I'm that guy who will play the first few bars of Für Elise on a piano, can't read music, and doesn't give any sign of knowing much more than that. This comment is a manifestation of that mindset, tbh.

Music theory interests me. I used to play a bit of keyboard and can strum a few chords on a ukulele, but I'm a billion light years away from being good enough to perform for people. Maybe I'd be OK in the background in place of a bass player, but you'd be better off with a prerecording or a computer standing in. Wrong sort of brain for practise, practise, practise.

But since you might like something interesting to look at, I have occasionally watched people like Heart of the Keys or There I Ruined It on YouTube, and dream that maybe, one day, I'd be able to do something like that.

HotK has done "1 minute, 10 minute, 1 hour" practise challenges with pieces she doesn't know, something that actual musicians might like to try and then discuss, and TIRI is just plain musical silliness.

Also Jacob Collier is a freak of nature and I wish I had his superpowers.

Check out the jazz community and for goodness sake, post

Why talk about it when you could bee practicing or playing. most discussions feel like people who don't like it enough to practice and so theyeare not good and in turn are 'blind leading blind'

i play mandolin, at an okay. I dabble in many other things.

So long as you don't mean professional musician, I guess I count. I'm a decent guitarist and a reasonably competent bassist (the skills are transferrable, but they are not the same if you want to do anything interesting on bass) who does a bit of blues, rock, and metal. I've done a little bit of music production, essentially just enough to put together recordings with programmed drums at home and have them not be completely awful. I'm also working, very slowly, on learning piano and would like to learn violin, but life has gotten in the way lately and made that difficult

Answer to title: 2, maybe 3.

I sing and play folk music on the guitar and early music on lute and recorder (my favorite size is the tenor).

!guitars@lemmy.world has like 2 posts a week, I am sure people would gladly see it going to 3 posts a week

Just waiting for orchestra to start back up in the fall

I've been in a bunch of bands. Recorded a couple shitty punk albums. More recently I have done solo music and recorded my own EP. Most recently, I've been considering busking for extra money.

Not professional, and I haven't played in years, but I did play trumpet in band for about a decade!

I'm learning to play the piano!

@TotallyNotSpez@startrek.website thought you might be interested

I play the Penny Whistle!

I'm already subbed to a few comms but I'd take recommendations on what I should be following

I played the Kazoo for several years but I could never tune it properly.

I play the cello but I havent practiced in 3 months

You can count me in, both for stats and trying to join more music focused communities!