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.

    • expatriado@lemmy.world
      8·
      16 days ago

      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?

      • Carnelian@lemmy.world
        7·
        16 days ago

        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

        • expatriado@lemmy.world
          3·
          16 days ago

          my comment had both ends of the spectrum, you choose the cutoff, which would be somewhere between these two points

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    6·
    16 days ago

    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.

  • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    16 days ago

    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)!

      • TheRealKuni@piefed.socialEnglish
        01·
        15 days ago

        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. 😂

      • Krudler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        If I had to choose an order of importance, just my opinion

        1. Posting
        2. Discussing
        3. 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

        • phonics@lemmy.worldOP
          1·
          15 days ago

          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.

        • trashcan@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          15 days ago

          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).

          • Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            14 days ago

            Hmm. I suppose the “solution” is to just start it again on another instance and link to that version for archived material. Thanks!

    • phonics@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      16 days ago

      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.

  • ScottThePoolBoy@lemmy.world
    4·
    16 days ago

    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.

  • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
    4·
    16 days ago

    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.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    4·
    16 days ago

    *waves hello to fellow music nerds*

    Anyway, here’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ on a harpsichord