Living with Musicians

Try to learn one with them

do you make art at a professional level? :-)

>>37773156
>four hours
They're musicians, have them smoke you up, then jack it in the shitter !!!!

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>>37773156
Are they classical musicians or just "musicians", aka guitar players, drummers and singers? Sorry you have to go through that OP.

I sit there for almost an hour every day in my bathroom practicing overtones on the saxophone, which are basically controlled squeaks via air and tongue manipulation. The sound is awful, but the rest of my practice is more conventional. If these guys don't play professionally, they're wasting their time. Either study with someone who knows, refine your practice, or put it down and go back to your day job. There's no point in wasting 5 years in mediocrity learning bad habits and never improving.

Don't you have a pair of headphones with noise cancellation? Can you get a room to yourself and talk to the one you know best and tell him you're looking to have quiet time while they practice? There are ways to mitigate this and I imagine if you google "living with musician roommate help" you should find something

>>37773278
Well, we all have pretty similar taste in music. But they're all at the garage level of prominence. They get gigs at shows and can make some money from performing, but they all have day jobs. I don't mind they're practicing, really, since it seems to make them happy. I don't have noise cancelling phones but I do have a room that's closed off from their cramped "music room" downstairs.

I once gave them shit for only practicing for an hour a few months back. I told them, "serious musicians practice all day. They don't stop. You could be trying harder." They didn't take kindly to that.

>>37773207
No, but drawing doesn't make an excess of noise, does it? I don't irritate people by staying in my room and making pictures, do I?

>>37773156
>I'm already an artist

translates as: I'm your usual fat KHVirgiNEET totally unwilling to get a job

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>>37773490
Best advice I could give you is limit the noise impact on your space. They're not going to improve so don't waste your energy on them, you have no obligation to join them, only to tacitly support what they're doing.

Buy noise cancelling headphones, see if you can get some foam insulation and other noise cancelling stuff to shield off your room and make the walls thicker, buy a thicker pine door, have them lower the volume on their amps.

>>37773529
There's nothing wrong with the unwillingness to slave the majority of your life away, you fucking brainwashed retard.

>>37773780
Oh, I'm not gonna go through those measures since they're playing isn't enough to really bother me. Just venting about how I always feel like an outsider in all places and among all groups.

>>37773278
You're probably not as good at saxophone as you think you are.

>>37773278
>If these guys don't play professionally, they're wasting their time.

Jeeeez...

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>>37773807
Well considering you chose the hyperautist visual arts instead of performance arts like music, you're never going to change that. Classical music brings robots together easily. Not a difficult thing to go through, and even through music college you can subsist until you're off on your own into a self-imposed exile playing music from composers you admire.

>>37773846
I know exactly how good I am, and I'm not that good. Doesn't matter much because I'm one of maybe 400 people on the planet that play this equipment, which isn't well known but is absolutely gorgeous sounding. I figured out a long time ago that I wasn't going to practice anything unless I had my heart in it, so I chose the retarded path of the hardest possible difficulty in which only two people have ever made a living doing.

>>37773867
That comes of course with the huge caveat that if they're enjoying themselves and love playing, they're obviously not wasting their time. If they're practicing like they are and expecting to be the next Led Zeppelin, it's a waste of time. There is such a vast knowledge base needed to perform music at a high level that you will never get from just punting around in your garage for a few years. All music majors know how to write music, conduct, play the piano, some sing, many play 3+ instruments, and all of them finish out a major topic of research for their master's when they finish up college. If you're going into this stuff, you either have to be serious or switch out.