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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.
There are some good ones on reddit that I still frequent because I'm not seeing it here yet. Like /r/livesound is amazing for audio engineering. I know these nerds(like me) gotta be here. But I don't hear from them. So we gotta put a lil effort in and start somewhere.
Bedroom guitarist with too many pedals checking in
Hey bro anytime you're done with my EH Small Stone, y'know. Feel free to bring it back.
Sorry, traded it in for this guy. Will bring it over next time we have a beer and a bud.
There is a guitar pedal community on Lemmy go search and sub to it. Lemmi see that pedalboard!
I used to play saxophone, clarinet and flute for years, but then I moved to Australia and I didn't bring any of them with me. They're expensive here, too, so I can't bring myself to buy another..
Though now I have an Irish low whistle, I haven't had a chance to really get in to it because of changing jobs, moving houses, etc etc. The lack of buttons is challenging.
I admit, though, I have a longing to just get back in to a community band again just to be surrounded by music again.
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.
Please join more. Even if they are empty. That way one day there will be 40 people who have joined and people naturally start talking. My Lemmy inbox has 40 unread messages now. We are here, we just don't have a spot yet. So search for music, guitar, your local area, and sub to the empty communities that you'd like to see filled and active.
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 play guitar, piano and bass? recently got one and started building basic competency skills.
I've been playing for like 15 years, terrible still but that's what makes it fun for me.
I'm interested in recording things but just get too overwhelmed with thinking about using midi drums or synths, the fun part for me is playing over things not necessarily mixing and mastering them. It is something I'm overall interested in.
Have a look at 'addictive drums' it has a bunch of preset midi grooves that you can play along to and mix and match. It's pretty plug and play and may be a comfy way into dipping your toes into midi
that's fine but it also kind of sounds terrible or too "plastic", I'm thinking of buy an electric drum set and learning drums and through learning I'll be able to pick through the samples I like using and in turn that ends up kind of pre-mixing some of my drum recordings (if it gets to that)
I know what you mean though, I'm on Linux so the options for those I'm not sure is the same as windows. addictive drums might just not work
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.
Admittedly I could be putting more work into it, but !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works is slowly gaining traction.
!guitars@lemmy.world has like 2 posts a week, I am sure people would gladly see it going to 3 posts a week
Damn, a boy can only dream. Imagine 2 posts with a comment each. I've subbed.
Bedroom guitarist/producer here. Love improvising on guitar, and composing songs which can be considered instrumental metal: Unimperfect
I'm a punk artist! I recently released an album, check it out: jimmyhalliday.bandcamp.com
I'm a musician with dreams of opening a donations based label and covering a different genre every album. Currently releasing a mixtape where each song is a different genre.
Most recent release was on July 4th to protest all the horseshit going on in America: https://youtu.be/RsS5mFz-WgA
Also have a video explaining my dream a bit more here: https://youtu.be/1SROCLSPY9U
Musician here. I'll play almost anything with strings and drums. Youtube: @rx120d, @BlackRiverStudio astralpath.bandcamp.com
!musicproduction@sh.itjust.works feel free to post we could all use the engagement.
I make sounds but have trouble calling myself a musician.
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 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.
Thank you for getting the rest of us started. It is tricky Lemmy being so fragile. Hopefully the synth community will find its footing again somehow.
*waves hello to fellow music nerds*
Anyway, here's 'Smoke on the Water' on a harpsichord
Answer to title: 2, maybe 3.
i guess depends on the cutoff (gatekeeping if you will) for musician. Being able to play wonderwall? or full time job and pay rent and all bills from performing/writing?
Virtually zero musicians are making enough money from performing/writing to pay rent and bills. Average income last I checked was around 40k, and that includes the money you make from your second job lol
Check out the jazz community and for goodness sake, post
Or at the very minimum, reply.
If I had to choose an order of importance, just my opinion
Edit: I posted quite a lot on jazz, gave up, went back. I'm only saying this to point out what is probably obvious, that I love the form
I think realistically, jazz is both an intimidating, and quite inaccessible form in ways. Someone just dipping in their toes can find that what they expected was a cozy warm hot spring, and ended up in an infinite pool stretching in all directions
It can be really scary and disorienting!
I feel jazz isn't really a genre so much as a viewpoint on life and sound, and that can make it so difficult to find common ground
So in a weird way, it might be better if there was less discussion and more sharing. That's probably a weird view. But what I would like is kind of selfish in my own way. The more people share and feel free to do so without judgment, the happier I am! Because I love new music, but like any normal human I do get trapped in certain vortexes. Apparently I entered a time warp to the 50s-70s and haven't found a single step back in 20 years lol