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.
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’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 would happily contribute to this, lmk if we decide on a specific community to all join in on, I think it would be cool if it was musician’s interests in general. Like I’m an audio engineer as well as a guitarist so it would fun to have a space to have deep conversations about both, as well as other musical niches people have an interest in.
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
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.
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
I’m a musician and that doesnt play much any more. I actually found something from the good old days of reddit when cleaning my parents house… A CD… That was sent to me by a stranger from reddit as a music swap. I think the idea is awesome and as much as I love the ability to listen to everything streaming, sitting down and listening to that CD invoked amazing memories I forgot about, and I even found a few bangers I didn’t vibe with all those years ago. Long story short, I wanna do music swaps with people and not just playlists, actual physical music. Don’t know if anyone will read this or how I would even physically send someone music now, but if you’re interested post or DM me and we can figure something out!
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.
They’re only ‘not active’ because no one has subbed yet. That’s what this post is about. I don’t know what the critical mass number is but even a community that reaches 10 is something. The more you sub to, the more instances it gets posted to. The more people see it, comment and sub.
Just( who ever is reading this) take 5 mins and start subbing to your interests. Instead of waiting for the community to assemble itself.
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 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’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.
Tell me more. Is your ep also punk?
No, its not punk. I’d call it more like Sad Bastard Music. https://bentnotbrokenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/homemade I also have a bunch of random stuff, early versions of songs from the EP, and covers, on soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/bent-not-broken/tracks
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.
*waves hello to fellow music nerds*
Anyway, here’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ on a harpsichord
Bro. Where’s the link!
It’s all in the mind
Your right. I can hear it now.
That’s too bad. I would love more synth stuff here.
You can see the remains here: https://sh.itjust.works/c/synthesizers@lemm.ee I made my new account a moderator of the community before lemm.ee went down, but I actually am not familiar enough with Lemmy to know what that means. There’s no owner anymore?
It no longer exists as the instance that was hosting the community has shut down. It now only exists in archive form on instances that federated with it prior to shutting down like the one you linked. No new posts or comments can be made however. (technically you can but it won’t federate out for anyone to see).
Hmm. I suppose the “solution” is to just start it again on another instance and link to that version for archived material. Thanks!
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.
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
- Posting
- Discussing
- Voting
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
My guitarist has been a jazz player for 20 years. It’s fantastic. My band is working on funk originals. And I can say make that chord sadder and he can get it in more ways than just changing to minor. I can say hey, make my vocal land as the 7th to a chord and he can just find it. like damn. I have enough theory to get creative but it takes me ages to work it out. But it’s all at the tip of his fingers. Amazing.
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.
I get cha. No offence taken.
Cant speak to that specific software, but Linux has tons of FOSS music software. There are several right on Flat Hub even.
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
I think finding an electric guitar tone you like is half the battle.
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.
Lol to telling someone who’s playing acoustic that a clean tone is boring
I said “if.”
And there’s a big difference between electric guitar with clean tone, and an unamplified acoustic.
