Musician thread

Been dicking around with fl studio for the past three months but it's mostly crap. I bought an interface and a mic and when they arrive I'm finally gonna start making good stuff.

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classically trained professional symphony violinist. slightly child prodigy slightly not. trying to learn FL Studio for shits and giggles. Pop drums are hard. some things come really naturally and some things are wildly different from classical to pop music

>>38538188
there is an entire board devoted to this topic

captcha: sage sage

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soundcloud.com/sundreamgun

I use Studio One by Presonus

guitar, bass, keys, but I've been playing drums the longest

after a few more months in the Bitcoin exchange, I'll be recording music literally for the rest of my life......28 and retired I can't fucking wait

>>38538450
Lots of redundant topics are discussed on /r9k/

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>>38538188
>used to practice 6 hours a day
>managed to play a lot of Dimebag, Malmsteen and Buckethead stuff

>stopped practicing after depression
>can't even grab a chord properly

>>38538188
Bass player in a small town in the religious belt,hispanic heavy region literally no musicians even near me but I found a fellow musician and he's a pretty dedicated drummer, worships john bonnom , and rightfully so lead zepplin was a pretty talented band until Bonnom past away. But me personally I feel as though I take after progressive bassist's. Any how me and him started a "band" and have gone over several guitarist, one just ghosted us after we wanted to try an improvised jam to put in our live set list, though I'm sorta glad this happened sooner then later, as it was bound to happen. So that's what's on the top of my head atm.

Going to put my 2 weeks in at my ft job so I can focus on studying music. Tired of feeling too tired that i feel like sleeping when i get home. Part time is fine but full time i have time for nothing but wagecuckery.

I play guitar, I try to play classical stuff but I was never trained outside of highschool lessons. I do alright technically but could never preform against a proper classical guitarist, and my theory is very lacking compared to how long I've played.

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>guitarist and bassist
>not super great but can play along to most songs and know a bit of theory from piano classes I've taken
>trying to bust into songwriting

>too scared that I'll never write as well as my heroes to write lyrics
>all the instrumentals feels like they're missing something

I play piano and bass. Currently using fl studio too, to work on an album. I want to make it sound like the simpsons hit and run soundtrack. Might post it on /r9k/ when it's done. I've been on /mu/ a lot to get some tips on making music.

i make a lot of hip hop beats on fl studio, but dont know any rappers and they're not strong enough to release as instrumental hip hop so they just gather dust on my laptop

>says plays an instrument, probably more than one
>phrase to stun conscious non-musicians
>excuses himself for not having achieved X
>mentions decline in life
not that it would be of interest but some of us actually still feel a tiny little bit of sadness when yammering

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been playing for about 8 years now. but only active in about 3, so basically 3 years.
i exclusively play acoustic/classical now. i feel like im learning more when my guitar is not artificially amplified.
here is something i did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5rRrim_MMU

pic related, my guitar.
i also have epi bird but i switched strings and it sounds awful right now

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Iks2I3uLZC
Bedroom guitaring, I consistently rush this and it's also a bit buzzy. bonus points for anyone naming the source

>>38540766
Never thought I'd hear another version of the dwarf fortress soundtrack song. Nicely done!

>>38538188
>was in a band for an event in last year of highschool
>played guitar piano bass and saxophone to fill depending of the song we played
>Still a fucking 20 year KHV college droppout robot
I must have been really bad at that socializing thing

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0i2SoOnZyv4

Bedroom guitarist. Perhaps if I practise long enough Stacey may notice me someday.

>>38541241
The continuum of chads will always spew out a new antagonist only for you. An antagonist who might be actually you how you imagined yourself to hopefully be one day. I enjoyed listening to it. Thank you

>>38538188

player classical guitar for 7 years and electrical for 3

>>38540681

tempo anon

t e m p o

I just wanna jam tf out with 3 other copies of myself bc I can't see anyone genuinely liking the same music I like

https://youtu.be/gVNzKSsx3j8

https://princecloakcutter.bandcamp.com/track/the-telephone

https://princecloakcutter.bandcamp.com/track/end

All made in FL. All sampling and depressing

>>38539509
Heroin and coke are your answers

I have written a sonatina with Zelda themes once, but haven't done anything since

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FTC4dEsxBU

>all these frooty loops fags in this thread

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>>38541659
>Actually using Ableton


AGAGAGGAGAGAGA

Been messing around with fl studio for years. Still can't really use it. Nothing I make sounds anything like in my head. Also every vst or sample pack I find sounds like ass.

I've had an idea of doing an /r9k/-inspired neet life concept album for the last year. Done 0 work on it.

>>38541964
This.

The only tutorials and help guides for fl studio are for making rap beats or trap music, which is not what I want to do

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>>38538188
Aye, anyone prod? I mostly make plunderphonics, IDM, ambient, noise, or dnb. Recently been working more with synthesizers and I'm still bad at it, also switched over from FL to Renoise and it's been a nice transition. Ideas come a lot more fluid in Renoise I've found.\

https://soundcloud.com/dark-nasty

https://soundcloud.com/nethernet-hotel

https://soundcloud.com/internet-homicide

Take a listen and explore, each alias of mine has very different vibes.

>>38541964
>>38542033
Just keep experimenting and do what comes naturally. People get too hung up on how to mix and master a song and never create any original ideas. Once you push through the fact you're having a hard time learning and just practice what you've learned instead you'll slowly be able to create the music you want to create. And sometimes replicating something from your mind and it doesn't turn out how you want can be a good thing. I feel the best ideas just come naturally as your work. Just keep working on it. What are you stuck on?

>>38541399
Really good stuff here, thank you for sharing, I'll keep listening.

Torrented logic x a few months ago and have been making loads of music. Mostly drum and bass and electro style stuff. Been really happy with the way my stuff has been sounding recently and my friend has been giving me loads of tips on logic.
Need to find work so I can afford a synthesiser or some midi controllers

Today i am laying down some tracks, recording them all by myself in my ghetto apartment using nothing but a simple peavey mic, a tiny laney amp and audacity. oh and of course my guitars and the new yamaha electric drum set i recently invested in which has been a really nice addition to my studio, if i can call it that.

https://destruktlaermpop.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-ep

>Post-Punk
>Noise
>Experimental
>Alternative

>learn to play the guitar by myself
>play whatever i like
>year later got invited to a band
>arrive to the practice session, they start playing shit like nirvana, metallica which i didn't like and nor knew how to play for shit
>lend my guitar and amp to a lad while they give me a shitty old ass acoustic to play in a corner
>still get invited for the next one
>same shit keeps happening, realize they want me just for my amp and guitar
>tell them to fuck off and leave
Never again. I have never met anyone with similar taste to play together.

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>>38538188
I used to play the flute from when I was 6 to when I was 15 or so.

Then I started playing the bass guitar, till my 18th birthday.

Then I got bored.

Nowdays, from time to time I play anime openings with my harmonica.
But I've never written anything.

Can anyone recommend me some cheap classical guitars with cutaways, or acoustics that are good for portability?

>>38543542
what about telling them what you like and ask them to try it with you? you making it too easy for yourself, you're never going to find anyone with exactly your taste

I make shitty nes music.
All for the hope to one day make music for video games.
I also want to make people laugh with my music.

Pls judge me

https://soundcloud.com/user-369511360/futurcop

I used to play the harp as a kid and I'm thinking of picking it back up.

Is it worth it?

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>desperately want to write sings about about a robot
>have an ok voice but can't really sing at all
>no friends so obviously can't ask them to do it
Oh well, any feedback on these?

https://soundcloud.com/captainknuckles-1/i-wish-i-had-a-singer
https://soundcloud.com/captainknuckles-1/recording-28

I try

http://vocaroo.com/i/s03cusLLr15d

>>38543775
Sounds not bad, but you should lift your fingers when you're changing the guitar chords

>>38541646
interesting, lots of ideas

>>38543736
nice, that would be my dream, too

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>started playing guitar 3 years ago
>want to make symphonic metal but still suck ass at guitar and can't play any fast riffs.
>all songs are too orchestral heavy to be considered symphonic metal
>will never meet the 'minimum metal-ness' to be on encyclopedia metallum.

https://soundcloud.com/frozennight/frozen-heart

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I started learning bass guitar this year and have really enjoyed it. My first one broke and I am a little unsure of what I want to get

>>38544244
howd it break? o

>>38538188
practicing scales
>5 minutes later
power chords in drop tuning
>10 minutes later
0000000000000000

That's pretty much it desu

here's a song I wrote

https://youtu.be/UFYGRQ1R7LA

I used to play the flute on a band but i'm training Alto Sax for approximately one year now and having some jam sessions in a jazz band, but still struggling to get the altissimos

https://soundcloud.com/ross-wallgren

i like composing music mostly, and play guitar and sing too. i make all sorts of non-genre-specific music... my SC right now is mostly MIDI realizations of classical piano pieces. i take my music really seriously but don't ever expect anything to come of it. there's like 100000000 musicians out there vying for attention and even if i ever got the chance to go professional i probably wouldn't because it seems like a miserable and uncertain job

>>38544349
It was pretty cheap so the electronics just kinda died. The volume knob got really loose over time as well. I am thinking about getting a 5 string

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>teach myself how to play guitar
>been playing for 8 years
>every day, sit in my room and sing "With a little help from my friends" to myself
This is life

>>38538188
I am a Pianist mainly, I play the Clarinet, and I have played the drums before.

Can anyone give me a way to learn FL studio? I don't know the interface at all.

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>post in thread
>thread dies
noooo

i used fl studio for the past two months. i wrote a few beats but realized they sound amateurish and the melodies are completely cheesy.

>>38538188
I'm slowly practicing guitar, but my real desire is to get John Entwistle good on the bass. If I can achieve that, I will form a band and rock out

>>38543542
>he couldn't play nirvana

THIS IS WHY YOU GOT KICKED OUT

nirvana is nursery-rhyme tier stuff.

>>38543542
>lend my guitar
personally i don't let anyone touch my guitar.

I play drums been playing for years. The only thing I can't do is play 16th notes on hi hat one handed and it's annoying. Wish I had people to play with.

>>38546190
meant to say that i never learnt how to play it because i didn't like it, wasn't going to learn something i didn't like just to fit in with those guys if they weren't going to play what i liked either

>>38546314
you don't even have to learn how to play it it's literally 5 power chords

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>>38538188
i hate these threads. It just makes me remember what a pathetic failure i am.

>>38546604
Its never to late, friend. Go buy a guitar for 200-500 bucks on amazon i know you have the money, you only spend it on cheap booze, comic books and video games and google "how to play guitar", or "guitar chords" and go learn your favourite song

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Bought a cheap guitar a week ago and try to learn by using justinguitar.
I've been practising every day since and hopefully I won't stop.

>>38546978
This guy gets it. I hope for nothing but the best for you.

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>>38546944
I learned piano as a kid (dropped it because it was "too hard" i was a dumb fuck), and i still play viola (some kind of cello). I want to buy a guitar, that s true, but whatever i ve tried to create is utterly shit, and i always end up deleting the files or burning the sheets i wrote.
I fucking hate it, even if i could do something i consider decent it would be shit compared to 90 % of what people do, and even then it won t fix any of my other issues.
pic related is litteraly me

>>38547058
Thank you, friend.

original comment for the robot

>>38547169
>viola (some kind of cello)
Its a variant of the violin m8

>>38547248
Viol not viola sorry, english isn t my first language tho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viol

I have a mexican standard fender strat, its white on black and it's my baby. I mostly lay down some rhythm using a loop pedal and then improvise over it with pentatonic scales. I've been playing linoleum by nofx recently, easy, but decent song. Would like to start songwriting but i'll probably write shitty lyrics.

I've been thinking of getting a bass when i have some money. Is it easy to get into with the skills learned from guitar or is it much different?

>>38546978
Justinguitar is great, it's how i learned.

>>38547532
Yes, he certainly provides an amazing service.
How long have you been playing?

>>38547642
Just under a year, started with an acoustic then got into electrics a few months later.

>>38547798
Sounds exactly like what I want to do.
Learn all the basics with a cheap acoustic guitar and then get an electric one.
I'll see how far I will come.
Godspeed, friend.

>>38547925
If you have the money, definitely do it. It's been a lot of fun. Good luck anon

Flutist Robot here, im not that good but i like learning different shit from time to time. Also thinking about playing french horn/ Mellophone for DCI

keep this thread alive anons, i'm gonna record a tasty jam and post it when i'm done

>been learning guitar for 3 weeks
>can practically play all basic chords/any chord involving index, middle, or ring finger perfectly.
>my pinky is very weak/unflexible

I don't know anons. I could play a C, G, and Dm chord, which are supposedly "stretchy" chords perfectly from first try, but I'm struggling with anything involving my pinky. My pinky sort of bends inwards I think that has something to do with it. Do I have any hope?

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I'm a bedroom guitarist with no friends and no one to help me produce. What's the cheapest, best software to simply upload my guitar tracks onto and layer and add vocals/bass parts? Something like Logic Pro but for PC

>>38549484
Dodging your question to ask if you can also quickly change between the chords or did you literally only learn how to play them?

just made this literally just now, all improv. how'd i do, boys?

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1ufyvvus8dM

>>38549556
I can quickly switch between A, E, D, Am, Em, Dm, G, C, F7, G7, C7, D7, E7 (the none-pinky version) and A7. Still practicing other chords.
I can't swtich fast enough if I play faster than 120 bpm though.

>>38549621
groovy desu buddy

>>38549707
All right, sounds pretty good for only 3 weeks.
As for your pinky problem, maybe give it more time to see if it just needs more muscle memory, routine etc

Guitarist since I was 7. I've played live gigs but haven't got much farther. I suck at writing music so I just do covers

>>38549707
can you play them consecutively like this?

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1cqonJQ9XWi

http://picosong.com/vyP9/ demo i did in the last two days

>>38549969
i always love how "odd" chords sound great if they're given the right context

>>38545386
say it like you mean it man! get some energy ffs. i don't like the lyrics personaly but you sound like you're trying to not wake up your mom. i'm just joking but that's really how it sounds!

I play guitar and sing and write songs and shit.

I get too anxious to actually play in front of people irl so the only people that really hear my music are myself and those in the bandcamp threads on /mu/. I guess that's fine for now.

Here's a sloppy go at an unfinished song.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1f01Z2Y4tLF

been playing guitar since 8 years old (11 years playing). wanna learn more saxophone, might buy one as free time in holidays and to hopefully become more rounded musician

>>38550302
Don't worry about it, most people I've played in front of is about 4 I've been playing for about 9 years now.

Too bad I'm still terrible

>>38550773
Also I just spent 6 mins recording classical gas on voocaroo and the recording was terrible quality with thick layer of static fml

>>38550302
Sounds fucking amazing though

I've been practicing the same fucking lick for at least an hour a day for probably weeks now and I can't get the fucking thing past 112bpm without it falling apart.

Any of you anons had some success getting past these plateaus?

>>38550844
The first solo in Fade To Black always got me like that. Annoyed the shit out of me.

>>38550773
>>38550803
if you can play classical gas then you must not be too terrible anon.
>>38550825
Well thanks, clearly that song is still pretty rough so hopefully I'll get around to finishing it.

miscbumpoj

>>38550844
Being trying to learn Snow by rhcp for over a year now and I still can't fucking play it.

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>>38538188
https://soundcloud.com/studiohyperion/childhoods-end

I've been working on stuff that doesn't suck and that takes a while. If anyone likes neo-classical or electronic maybe you'll be interested in future projects.