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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
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.
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
!musicproduction@sh.itjust.works feel free to post we could all use the engagement.
I make sounds but have trouble calling myself a musician.
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 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'd love to have a music theory comm. Like discussing some passages and analyzing things beyond the basics
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.
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.
I started a synthesizer community on lemm.ee when I came to Lemmy after the API fiasco a couple years ago. It was a little active. When lemm.ee died, I just let it go.
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
Not professional, and I haven't played in years, but I did play trumpet in band for about a decade!
So long as you don't mean professional musician, I guess I count. I'm a decent guitarist and a reasonably competent bassist (the skills are transferrable, but they are not the same if you want to do anything interesting on bass) who does a bit of blues, rock, and metal. I've done a little bit of music production, essentially just enough to put together recordings with programmed drums at home and have them not be completely awful. I'm also working, very slowly, on learning piano and would like to learn violin, but life has gotten in the way lately and made that difficult
Pro or no. I'm looking for people with the spark for music. It sounds like you are getting your feet wet as a generalist. Singing and lryicism is my main, but I dabble in the rest to pull together recordings of what's in my head. Nice to meet you. What communities would you like to see more active on Lemmy. And have you subbed to similar ones already?
*waves hello to fellow music nerds*
Anyway, here's 'Smoke on the Water' on a harpsichord
You can count me in, both for stats and trying to join more music focused communities!
I still drum, so I'm at least someone who hangs out with musicians. I haven't played with others in like a decade though.
I have submitted to knives and scuba communities here even though they're small. Fortunately, I still get responses. So I urge you guys to post in your empty communities or create your own
Man, I wish.
I can't sing. I can't play any instrument. I have no sense of timing (I can't always even clap along in time). If I ever do end up being part of a band it's going to be as their manager since I'm now too old to be a roadie. But I wish I could, I dunno, play guitar enough to jam or be a part of an totally average local band.
I make music and have released them on streaming platforms. I’m subscribed to most of the music, music production, and music genre communities in the fediverse.
I played the Kazoo for several years but I could never tune it properly.
I sing and play folk music on the guitar and early music on lute and recorder (my favorite size is the tenor).
What sort of folk music do you play? I love Scottish and Irish folk and primarily play guitar, but I've never really figured out how to properly incorporate it into that kind of music
@TotallyNotSpez@startrek.website thought you might be interested
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.
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.
Bedroom guitarist/producer here. Love improvising on guitar, and composing songs which can be considered instrumental metal: Unimperfect
Why talk about it when you could bee practicing or playing. most discussions feel like people who don't like it enough to practice and so theyeare not good and in turn are 'blind leading blind'
i play mandolin, at an okay. I dabble in many other things.
Because I'm in bed next to my sleeping wife and I wanna support the community and maybe reply to help someone on their musical journey.
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
