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.
Bedroom guitarist with too many pedals checking in
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.
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.
You probably don’t want to know about this then: https://www.ehx.com/products/tri-parallel-mixer/
Three parallel effects chains… Absolute overkill.
!guitars@lemmy.world has like 2 posts a week, I am sure people would gladly see it going to 3 posts a week
Damn, a boy can only dream. Imagine 2 posts with a comment each. I’ve subbed.
I’m a semi-professional choral singer! I very frequently sing on a volunteer basis in a symphony chorus with a professional orchestra. And also sing with a smaller 12-person choir, really tight harmonies and blending. It’s a lot of fun.
Sometimes I get paid, but that’s rare.
I’ve gotten to sing some pretty awesome stuff (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, video game concerts, Verdi’s Requiem, etc. etc. etc.) and gotten to meet some pretty cool people (including my wife)!
I’ve been singing for quite a while. Also gotten to do some cool things like singing Requiems and stuff. I mainly do volunteer but would love to get paid someday.
how did you get into that?
My sister was in a local youth chorus when I came home from college, and told me about the adult version. I found out when auditions were, tried out, got in, and have been loving it ever since!
I had sung in church choirs growing up, but now regret very much not singing during high school and college. A lot of my fellow choir people have great memories of singing in school choirs.
Turns out choirs are a great way to meet a significant other. Other than my wife and I, there are several married couples who met in this chorus (including a couple of married men)! As I tell guys looking to meet people: if you can carry a tune, have a vague understanding of music notation, and live near a medium or large city, you can probably find a volunteer choir. There are a lot of them, they always need people (especially tenors and basses), and are often full of very intelligent and interesting women, some of whom are probably single. 😂
Yay, another choral singer! My degrees are in music but I don’t play my childhood instrument anymore so instead I sing in a chorus. People think singers aren’t good musicians as a rule and that’s total garbage. We sing some really difficult stuff as a chorus and you have to know what your note sounds like before you sing it; you can’t rely on just knowing the fingering for your instrument. It’s so much fun but also a great mental challenge. I’m thankful to have it in my life as my intellectual musical outlet.
My degrees are in music
Sometimes I wish I had better training. I grew up on Suzuki violin, but I never really studied theory. I survive on talent rather than skill, and am very thankful for the skill of those around me!
People think singers aren’t good musicians as a rule and that’s total garbage.
It is wild to me the way some of the orchestral musicians treat the chorus. Most of them are friendly and complimentary, but some of them sure seem to think we’re beneath them. Could just be that they’re not very socially adept, I suppose.
We sing some really difficult stuff as a chorus and you have to know what your note sounds like before you sing it; you can’t rely on just knowing the fingering for your instrument.
And this can be so terrifying for some entrances!
It’s so much fun but also a great mental challenge. I’m thankful to have it in my life as my intellectual musical outlet.
I agree 100%.
Ey nice! What kind of music communities would you like to see on Lemmy?
Not really sure, but I’ll probably join what I find.
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.
Musician here. I’ll play almost anything with strings and drums. Youtube: @rx120d, @BlackRiverStudio astralpath.bandcamp.com
I’m a punk artist! I recently released an album, check it out: jimmyhalliday.bandcamp.com
Answer to title: 2, maybe 3.
i guess depends on the cutoff (gatekeeping if you will) for musician. Being able to play wonderwall? or full time job and pay rent and all bills from performing/writing?
Virtually zero musicians are making enough money from performing/writing to pay rent and bills. Average income last I checked was around 40k, and that includes the money you make from your second job lol
my comment had both ends of the spectrum, you choose the cutoff, which would be somewhere between these two points
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There’s dozens of us!
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.
!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.
Define “musician”. Basically I’m that guy who will play the first few bars of Für Elise on a piano, can’t read music, and doesn’t give any sign of knowing much more than that. This comment is a manifestation of that mindset, tbh.
Music theory interests me. I used to play a bit of keyboard and can strum a few chords on a ukulele, but I’m a billion light years away from being good enough to perform for people. Maybe I’d be OK in the background in place of a bass player, but you’d be better off with a prerecording or a computer standing in. Wrong sort of brain for practise, practise, practise.
But since you might like something interesting to look at, I have occasionally watched people like Heart of the Keys or There I Ruined It on YouTube, and dream that maybe, one day, I’d be able to do something like that.
HotK has done “1 minute, 10 minute, 1 hour” practise challenges with pieces she doesn’t know, something that actual musicians might like to try and then discuss, and TIRI is just plain musical silliness.
Also Jacob Collier is a freak of nature and I wish I had his superpowers.
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!
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.
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!
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.
I am. His channel, Paul in the Lab, and Music From Outer Space are where I tell people to start if they show an interest.
Your description of a “swimming pool of onboard effects” has reminded me of a project I did in university (for an engineering and product design degree). We were each given a laser pointer and a light sensor and told to make a musical instrument with it. After a chat with a music professor we decided to go for a somewhat loose interpretation of “instrument” and shone the laser through a bowl of water. The bowl itself was clear too, so the laser shone right through and we could pick up its position on the other side. We then mapped the x and y axes to pitch and volume so that splashing the water turned into a kind of random whalesong generator
Useful for actually making music? No, not really. It was a lot of fun though
