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Any of you make music as a hobby?
Hello everyone. Was just wondering who here in the forums produces their own music whether by playing instruments or using software and jams to it when driving in their FRS/BRZ and what kind of music do you make? I don't know how to play instruments except for when I was younger I used to play "congas". Everything I use is synthesized. I tend to make chill music in dubstep and trance mostly.
Ya'll can check out my songs here if interested: http://www.newgrounds.com/joemamabeach/audio - All my tracks are here http://www.youtube.com/user/JoeMamaBeach/ - handful of my tracks are here My latest track is called TranZtion. |
Sounds really awesome! You sir, are one amazing dude.
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Gonna resurrect this thread and drop this here:
Trying to get myself back into my music this year, started 2016 with a live House/UK Garage mixtape that some of you may enjoy: Soundcloud - Mixtape001 Dropbox Direct Download - Mixtape001 My (rather inactive) Twitter is https://twitter.com/Kodename47 but hopefully we'll see more posts going up this year. |
I play guitar and collect guitars. I love vintage ones.
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Here's my band:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGk9XLtEpeQ"]Mammal Sauce - YouTube[/ame] |
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Ive been playing drums since I was 13, sooo going on 12 years now
I sold my kit a year or so ago, I moved out of my parents and they wanted the room back, im actually in the market for an electric drum set so I can play it in my apartment without making the neighbors go crazy! I took some audio classes back in the day, I had my entire basement wired up for recording... Friends and I would hit record and just jam for hours.. the good old days |
I started playing the keyboard when I was 16 and got into music production when I got a little older. I experimented with several beat making programs and started to develop a huge love for production.
As I got into my twenties I became more invested with working and family oriented stuff. One day I was deleting some files off said computer and accidentally wiped out my hard drive. Just like that 5 years of beloved data had been destroyed. If only I had backed it up. It sure was a wonderful hobby though. It worked wonders for stress. I'll still jump on the chair and start playing every once in a while. |
Hoping you guys could help me out, I've just used the mix to enter a competition so if you could pop on Soundcloud and give it a like, listen and repost it then I'll love you all! All stats on there are helpful so even listening for a short time shows up a play ;)
https://soundcloud.com/kodename47/mixtape-001 |
I play guitar, bass, and keys. Also into mixing & production. Really into prog rock/metal, jazz fusion, and ambient electronic music.
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If you just put them in the recycling bin and then emptied the recycling bin, or did a shift + del, in both cases the data is most likely still on the drive and recoverable.
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hehehe I'd love to have the income to waste on all my hobbies. Unfortunately I had to make some choices and the house and car primed over my guitar obsessions. Used to own a std strat, Gibson Les Paul Traditional (in Iced tea, it was beautiful and played like a dream), and a es-135. Had to sell them all but just bought another guitar since I just couldn't stand not owning at least one. Picked it up on Sunday, MIM Fender classic players 60's Baja Telecaster, nothing too special but it feels great and is surprisingly well made. |
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I did when I was in university.... but I sucked at it lol
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I would take a pic of my guitar collection but I have no clue how to do that. Seems like every pic I try is either too big or not the right kind. IE see my avatar, its all blury
Peavey Patriot US - 1983 Hondo Electric - Probably 80s Austin Acoustic guessing its 1970s Washburn Acoustic its a few years old Fender Strat MIM An old Harmony Im rebuilding the bridge and saddle And I just got a new Ibanez RG You'll like the MIM Fender, won't play as well as a traditional standard but it plays pretty damn good and it has sweet classic Fender tones. My next will most likely be a standard Stratocaster |
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I played bass in a band with a group of school friends. Our biggest claim to fame was opening for Wednesday, (before they changed their name to Wenzday) who’s drummer, Randy Begg was a cousin of our drummer. In fact we played in place of them a couple of times when they had double booked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday_(band) Marriage, kids, jobs and life in general meant the only time I saw my guitars was when I took them out of the closet. And that was usually only due to a move. One July day back in 2004 while listening to a local radio station I heard an ad for an upcoming event, the Canadian Guitar Festival. It sounded like something I’d be interested in so I ordered a weekend pass and have only missed one year since. (I even entered the competition 3 or 4 times.) http://www.canadianguitarfestival.com/ With the kids grown up I found myself pulling out the guitars and trying to relearn all I had forgotten. I became very active in the Finger Style community and even joined the Harp Guitar Society. That lasted for over a dozen years. However, in the last three years arthritis pain, pinched nerves and a general lack of interest (mental state) has left a thick coat of dust on my guitars. I doubt I’ll ever play another note. A friend used one of my tunes for a test drone video. https://youtu.be/s0yUfpTsYCo http://www.harpguitars.net/hgg/hgg7/...warburton1.jpg |
Tried to. Bought a drum kit when I was 17 or so and my mom burst into tears when she saw it. Then 3 neighbours complained simultaneously about noise so I had to sell it and bought an electronic drum kit. The downstairs neighbour still complained about the pedal and I gave up and got rid of it and that was that. A brief stint with a guitar followed a similar fate
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In my youth I played the guitar, violin, clarinet, and trumpet. Can't play any of them now. Still have the clarinet, which was my Dads. A real one made from African black wood and German sterling silver. I had it restored a few years back.
A couple years ago I bought harmonica sets for me and my youngest son. He plays his daily and is getting pretty good. Me, not so much. |
Necro, but...
One of my degrees is in Recording Engineering, and I played in a band in the 80's. I don't do it professionally now, as the road of life had some turns in it. I do still compose at home, as well as design album covers. Home Studio late 90's: VS880 based with iMac (233mHz, 128 MB Ram) https://i.imgur.com/ulsDBNp.jpg Current setup: Studio One based, running on an i7 8770K (5.1gHz, 32G Ram) https://i.imgur.com/9A8cC2g.jpg The current pic is a couple of years old, thats the old i7 920 PC, which ran ProTools. Both keyboard trays retract out of the way when not in use. I hand built both the desks. |
I used to. Did not do anything after I married. Played some piano, guitar. Was in the school band, trying to play trumpet. It was really fun. Its such a noisy thing..
But I've always loved playing this: https://www.peramezat.com/peramezat/...G?m=1485620706 and annoying everybody around :) Actually I still do it, but my kids are now better on the annoying process than me. |
I'm a professional violinist and jazz pianist. Was driving home from a gig a few days ago with a good friend who is THE first-call lead trumpeter in the area...a phenomenal player and person. He studied w/ the late great Ray Crisara, and was one of his favorite students. Ray was THE studio player in NY, but got so disgusted by the increasing reliance on technology rather than musicianship in the studios that he split and left to teach in Texas. My friend and I were discussing the state of music today, and he quoted Ray as having said, "Anything you hear on a recording today never happened."
Making music, to me, meant decades of hours of daily practice and a lifetime of commitment and dedication. My choice, and I'm not suggesting the level of commitment need be that high in order to enjoy making music as a hobby. The fact that it's my profession doesn't mean that I'm not an amateur....one who does something for the love of it. I can't call it a hobby because it's more important than that to me, but I'd certainly continue doing it if it wasn't also my profession. "Making music," to me, means learning how to play a specific instrument to a certain degree of proficiency, at least well enough to for you and others to enjoy and be moved by the sounds you produce. Sitting at a computer combining loops and samples, cutting, pasting, shifting, autocorrecting timing and pitch.....that's programming, not making or playing music. It doesn't make you a musician any more than microwaving a TV dinner makes you a chef...of any caliber. There's a reason guitar, bass, and drums are pretty much the only things mentioned by the general populace anymore, other than singing, samples, and DAWS (Oh, My!)...they're the easiest instruments to learn to quickly get to the point where you CAN make sounds similar to the folks or bands you're trying to cover, or play for yourself or friends without making them cringe. That and, except for the proliferation of synthetic sounds these days,, those instruments are about the only thing anyone ever hears anymore in 99% of popular music. Ask a kid if they'd like to pkay cello or trombone...they won't even know what those are anymore. There are WONDERFUL, amazing, extremely skilled and musical guitarists, bassists, and drummers out there... I'm not putting those instruments down or belittling the dedication it takes to truly master them. Only saying that the beginning stages aren't as long and painful as most instruments. Yeah, it's a soapbox of mine. Yes, I'm a musical snob. Yes, I DO think that there is an art to creating involving soundscapes through computer programming, and an art to making poor musicians and terrible players and singers sound good in a studio, and that those programmers and engineers are artists too... they're just not musicians, nor are they making music. They are manipulating sound. To me, and to many others, that is an important distinction. Even among great professional instrumental musicians, however, there are folks who don't share my view and who embrace and rely on technology a great deal. I recognize that my thoughts are opinion and not shared by everyone. However you approach your music, or whatever music means to you, it's still way better than watching TV. Do your best work, and listen to your Muse, |
Yes I do...the throttle is my instrument and the exhaust note is my music...
:lol: anyone? Lol I was in the school band in middle school and that's about as far as my music career went. The baritone wasn't going to get me laid in high school so I tried a guitar. Learned two Nirvana acoustic songs and then gave up lol I go to WAY too many rock shows and I have to say I appreciate every one of them so much because it does not look easy. Drummers have to be like the fittest musicians |
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I can understand the position you take. It is frustrating when you see people who have put in little effort being applauded over those who have spent years perfecting a craft. I'll hear some beautiful electronic work and often wonder if it's someone just snapping together a piece like using Legos or were they really involved with every texture. I won't argue that what I do is music, but I will contend that it is an art, and I have put a significant amount of time (~40 years), effort, and finances into developing my craft. I develop my sounds and textures without the use of sample libraries, just like I avoid using stock photos on my cover designs. Nothing wrong with doing so, I just feel a better sense of ownership when I brought something into the world from scratch. For me, there is little interest in sticking to the conventions of composition and using the same textures and sources that have been well-visited over the last few hundred years. In my opinion, music/sound/recording should be a living art; growing, changing, and improving what the masters before us discovered and themselves refined. Both views can exist simultaneously without one needing to be ranked or validated versus the other. The violin was likely considered a bridge too far in some long-ago era, as were pianos. Certainly jazz had it's early detractors, many who questioned it's validity as a form of music. But every musician relies on technology, from someone like me who is fully embracing the new frontiers in digital, to those who prefer traditional analog work and use things designed a hundred years ago. It shouldn't matter if the tech is a year old or 100. Use and learn your tools well. |
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My preference is to sit at a good grand piano with an acoustic bassist and a sensitive drummer, with quiet interested people listening... no analog/digital nothing, just musicians and those who appreciate live music sharing music together played on instruments painstakingly crafted by folks who love those instruments. In other words... all the things that make music a HUMAN experience, and as devoid of unnatural technology as possible. Obviously, those times are extremely rare, but every once in a while a gig will come along in a club, or small concert in a library, or some other intimate setting when we can play free of amplification, sound systems, sound reinforcement personnel, click tracks, midi tracks, video feeds, pickups, mics, backing tracks, and other stuff that just sucks the soul from my playing (and most of my colleagues), or at absolute best just creates another layer between the player and the audience. It's a different thing. The stuff I like to play isn't a visual show... it has almost nothing in common with what most folks view as a "concert" these days. A "concert" has become something at least as much about the visual/entertainment value and an over-the-top multi-sensory experience, rather than something where a musician shares music with a group of listeners. In any case, I don't disagree with anything you wrote, and I DO very much respect your skills and dedication to something you love. Cheers. |
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