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.
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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.
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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
Do you have any recorded music uploaded on bandcamp or similar? If not, you should!
I recorded and released a couple of EPs with a band once, but they were only released physically. I have also recorded a couple of metal versions of tracks from the Outer Wilds soundtrack. They're a bit rough because they were very much the process of me actively learning how to do these things, but I'm still pretty pleased with them
I am trying to record some proper music of my own, but sadly my health nosedived and I've struggled to be productive on much at all. Still, the effort continues! However long it takes me, it will be done one day
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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.
Not professional, and I haven't played in years, but I did play trumpet in band for about a decade!
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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.
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I sing and play folk music on the guitar and early music on lute and recorder (my favorite size is the tenor).
What sort of folk music do you play? I love Scottish and Irish folk and primarily play guitar, but I've never really figured out how to properly incorporate it into that kind of music
Mostly American stuff, the way I like to play solo is with fingerpicking chord melodies. I'll usually try to find a way to play the tune with my open chords and then mix in some other voicings to spice it up.
When playing early dance music I prefer to strum diads though; I'm usually in the middle or low register in a dance pit, filling out the sound for the melody instruments like vielle or citole.
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Just waiting for orchestra to start back up in the fall
Ah, memories. Knowing the music and knocking the score off the stand to fuck with my stand partner buddy... until the conductor had to separate us. Good times.
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.
Hell yeah!
I'm learning to play the piano!
Have you subbed/followed any piano Lemmy communities? Piano4all on udemy is really good for learning piano. That's how I started out. Cost me 11 euro total, practiced 15 mins a day. And look at me now.... I can.... Kinda play lol
I'm learning in person, but thanks for the suggestions :)
I played the Kazoo for several years but I could never tune it properly.
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You can count me in, both for stats and trying to join more music focused communities!
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@TotallyNotSpez@startrek.website thought you might be interested
I'm already subbed to a few comms but I'd take recommendations on what I should be following
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