Music discussion is very lacking here for. Compared to reddit. And yeah I know, ‘just post then’. But when I search for music communities here they’re empty. And it makes sense because no-one is posting. So kind of a catch 22.
now i dont exactly know how all this lemmy stuff works but… to all you musos out there, can you join me and search for music under communities (I’m using summit app) and just at a minimum subscribe to all the ones that you would be interested in(if they were popping off)?
At least that way when one of us posts, the rest of us will actually see it (I suspect).
Anyway. Keep making the world more fun for everyone else.
P.s if your not a musician, but you like golf or something, subscribe to the golf communities even if they’re empty.
I play a bunch of instruments at least good enough to jam around a campfire. I also am in the middle of designing and building an analog drone based instrument with multiple oscillator types, a swimming pool of onboard effects, filters and other doodads.
I found a synth diy community the other day that I plan to start posting to soon.
Are you aware of “Look Mum No Computer” on YouTube? If not, you may find it useful.
Guitar for 25 years with some bass and drums in there too, play in one band atm but always on the lookout for new stuff. I should play more.
It’s a shame the music communities here aren’t as vibrant as reddit but far less people over here. I live in hope that it’ll get busier!
Sub to communities you wanna see pop off and that’s how they get more active.
I’ve played guitar on and off since I was about 7, but I’m still amateurish at best. I got some lessons in my late teens from a co-worker that got me good enough to bash out chords in the church band. Played bass briefly in a band after quitting the church in the early nineties, but didn’t really touch an instrument again until the divorce in '09. I’ve been playing ukulele since then after getting some cheap ones for my kids and learning it myself to teach them and fell in love with it. I used to go busking with it 5-6 days a week singing and playing covers when I was unemployed and broke, but that ended about ten years ago when I had to get a real job.
I’ve never considered myself a musician, though.
Guy plays guitar and uke. Teaches kids music, gigged every day. Doesn’t consider himself a musician. I think you’re a more active musician than most professionals lol.
I appreciate the thought, but I’ve been around actual musicians, and I’m not that.
I have only the most rudimentary knowledge of music theory, have only ever written one song, which was terrible, and didn’t actually end up teaching my kids ukulele.
These days I just fiddle about with my ukes on my couch. If I ever get over my inertia, I’ve been thinking of putting up some youtube clips of my covers, but don’t hold your breath.
I play the guitar, but mostly I just learn tricky songs and I try to play them. I would happily read about music though.
I’ve been working on playing the chords and melody at the same time on my guitar for my own songs. So haaaard. But slowly im getting there
I’d love to have a music theory comm. Like discussing some passages and analyzing things beyond the basics
My partner is a professional musician and maybe this would finally get me to convince her to join Lemmy
I’m a bassist in a few bands. Wish there was more bass discussion here on Lemmy.
If you’re into prog rock, check out one of my band’s songs: frog rock
if you can’t tell from my username. I am also a bassist.
I’ve been getting into some transcription groups of FB. That might be a good community here? I get bored real quick of photos of pedal boards, ampeg/orange stacks, Rickenbackers and alcoholism memes
Have you followed/subbed to the bass communities on Lemmy? The more people do it, the more they’ll talk there. Just gotta take the first baby steps.
It’s posting that really gets the ball rolling. Spread out over days/weeks helps a lot.
I love acoustic and classical guitar. Never could make electric work for me. Maybe had I learned jazz things would be different. Just too hippie
If you’re just playing clean guitar through a clean amp, it’s probably going to be boring for the most part.
Crank the gain up on the amp and/or get a few choice pedals, and you can make it sound like anything you want.
I like fucking around with delays and reverbs sometimes, and just make crazy ambient soundscapes.
I think finding an electric guitar tone you like is half the battle.
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
Your video is an interesting concept. I do wonder though about switching genres each album. I get why, but as a consumer you’d have to let them know what to expect. That it’s all about exploration. Because let’s say your 2nd album pops off and goes viral for its hiphop. If you make your next album classical choir acapellas, you are essentially alienating your audience. Unless they know you pulling some weird shit from the beginning like ‘I love robots’ on netflix. You know what I mean? Feel like you’d lose momentum across time unless your audience expressly follows you because they want to see you explore in every direction.
But who am I to say anything, Im just a dude replying on the internet
I already have it all planned out. I know which album will lead into which and have ways I will play off it. I do switch as drastically as rock to Hip Hop but none of them are niche genres like choir lol.
I’m essentially creating love letters to all these different genres that have influenced me, and they’re all genres with bigger fanbases. I’m trying to tie them together through lyrical content.
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.
You in Melbourne? What kind of music do you like listening to?
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.
Yeah that counts. Have you found a boopbox community on reddit?
No, I didn’t make any music when I used Reddit, and I didn’t even know about Beepbox, so I wasn’t exactly searching for one. Haven’t found a community about it on Lemmy yet
Bedroom guitarist with too many pedals checking in
You probably don’t want to know about this then: https://www.ehx.com/products/tri-parallel-mixer/
Three parallel effects chains… Absolute overkill.
There is a guitar pedal community on Lemmy go search and sub to it. Lemmi see that pedalboard!
Was subbed to it before we got kicked off lemm.ee. But yeah I should rejoin and give it a post.
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.
I traded in my pedal collection for a GT-3 decades ago, and I won’t look back.
I get option paralysis when I don’t keep things dedicated to one pedal-one sound. I had a GT-1000 for about a year and never felt at home with it. Way happier with a small watt tube amp and dedicated pedals.
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 slowly moving to linux. Haven’t checked if addictive drums works there yet. I don’t know if you just assumed they sound plastic but it actually slaps I think. No one has ever told me my drums sound like shit.
I’ve used lots of drum VSTs in my experience they take a lot of tweaking to sound right but it might be the tism making me feel that way, also I didn’t mean to say they sounded like shit, just not organic.
Cant speak to that specific software, but Linux has tons of FOSS music software. There are several right on Flat Hub even.
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.
Bedroom guitarist/producer here. Love improvising on guitar, and composing songs which can be considered instrumental metal: Unimperfect
