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Focusing on promoting the music itself rather than the performer is a great approach. Using narrative music videos adds an artistic and storytelling dimension to your work.
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Paul Simon's music, especially classics like "Cool River," "Obvious Child," "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes," and "You Can Call Me Al," has a magical way of connecting with people. It's fantastic that you got to enjoy the concert so close to the stage, feeling the power of the music firsthand.
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It's like the rhythm and beat of the industry, constantly evolving and shaping the sounds we love.
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On 1/23/2024 at 1:57 AM, starise said:
I think of my music as one long music experiment
The violin? I still have them around but haven't played in awhile. It almost seemed to me that something or someone was seeing to it I would never want to play one. I was told I played ok in the sessions, but ok in a session isn't really that good. Never realized I should have started out a 3 years old. I had this sequence that would repeat itself for 7-8 years. I went to the teacher made noises and came home. I am pretty convinced it is a woman's instrument mainly. I know you'll probably disagree with me on that.
Every musician's journey is unique, and starting at 3 or later doesn't diminish the joy and fulfillment playing can bring. As for it being a "woman's instrument," I respectfully disagree. The violin is wonderfully versatile, transcending gender.
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On 1/12/2019 at 2:16 AM, Driftwood said:
My grandparents gave us this odd portable keyboard. It had these accordion like buttons for chords along with 3 octaves in keys. It had these song books that you could follow along that had numbers for the keys to play along with the button chords.
I remember playing "Beautiful Dreamer" and thought, this just isnt cutting it.🤣
So I would start making up my own songs. Yep, at age 6 or 7, I was unofficially writing my own songs. I would further plunk around on church pianos after sunday school and it wasnt your traditional obnoxious finger nails on the chalk board type ramblings. I was figuring out chords and really doing chord blends.
Granted I would tinker every once in awhile trying to play a cover song like "Imagine" or Paul McCartney's"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five" from the "Band On The Run" album. But yeah, it was original stuff I was coming up with.
So, the songwriting seeds had been planted early, but didnt come full circle until I got my first guitar just after high school. At that point it just seemed natural to want to write my own songs. I just didnt have an inherent need to be in a cover band or did I care to learn cover songs other than to see how they were constructed.
So it was kind of a "You know, I can do that too." feeling about writing songs.😏
What a fantastic journey into the world of music! It's amazing how your early experiences with that odd portable keyboard, complete with accordion-like buttons and numbered song books, sparked your creativity at such a young age. The fact that you were already composing your own songs unofficially at 6 or 7 is truly impressive.
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On 1/19/2024 at 8:31 AM, domingo de la torre said:
A thank you to Bridget Murphy for the advice.. I took it, and a big 'Hello' to 'john' and 'Peggy' for their warm welcomes.
Regards.. Dan
You're most welcome Dan.
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There's no point in buying the cheapest violin on the shelf if you would outgrow it super quick, its better to get a loaner, before getting your first mid range violin.
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On 6/17/2019 at 9:12 AM, domingo de la torre said:
Hi all,
Novice at this and the PC. I'm a seventy-four year old man originally from NY. I've been disabled for almost twenty years, but manage to still get out and about once in a while. I was raised in a musically inclined family as the first grandchild.. Mom had ten brothers and sisters. No professional artists amongst my Aunts and Uncles, but several amongst the cousins. I always loved music. As a pre-teen I was taught some, by Aunts and Uncles, to play the harmonica and accordion by ear, and as a teenager I played some digital keyboards and acoustic guitar.. I mastered none. BUT I've always loved singing and writing songs throughout my life.. many of the earlier songs I have forgotten, many I have written down (somewhere), and a dozen or so I copyrighted. My voice is gone now, but I still pick the guitar up every so often and enjoy trying to sing.
I have three, maybe four songs that I think are marketable. I am sure they are of different genres. Which? I don't know except for one which is definitely Country Western and one I believe suitable with Christmas related scene as soundtrack or possibly theatrical song. The titles are 'My Three Little Girls', 'Her Friend, The Friend', 'Desolation', and 'I Recall'. Anyway, I would appreciate any and all criticism, suggestions, and help. I have been polishing these lyrics for several years and have learned one thing.. they can always stand 'more' polishing. AND, as a realist, in today's World, my work may be passe.. lol
Being brand new here, I realize I must first qualify before Posting. I'm a bit slow, but I'll get there.. Dan
If you're open to it, sharing your lyrics here could be a great way to gather feedback and insights from a community of music lovers. Feel free to let me know if you'd like assistance with anything specific regarding your songs or if there's any information you're looking for.
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On 10/6/2018 at 3:17 AM, starise said:
I mostly get my rhythms from a stringed instrument and transfer that to real drums. My tracks are not rhythmically complicated though.
I have a shaker and an Irish drum in my studio and sometimes that's all I use.
With an instrumental I just play until something speaks to me. If it does, then I develop it further, or I might like it raw just as it is. I haven't made any "productions" in awhile, meaning larger than life kinds of things designed to dazzle an audience. Those take a lot more time which I haven't had.
That traditional instruments, steeped in rich Celtic heritage, add a distinctive flavor to any musical endeavors.
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On 9/23/2010 at 2:46 AM, Lazz said:
And at the more youthful and all-encompassing modern end of the European spectrum we have the irrepressible Uwe Steger
He not only cuts the classical accordion repertoire with huge aplomb and unconcealed emjoyment:
He also gets out there on the extremes of tekno-logical innovation and electrickery:
Amazing work with the button accordion. And the lighting too.
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On 1/10/2024 at 4:03 AM, starise said:
Just a tidbit about my coffee roasting. I had it down to a science using a bread maker and a heat gun. I had everything timed and monitored the temps all through the roast. I could tell exactly how long it would take after second crack. I was roasting Ehtiopian Yirgacheff which is my favorite, but I tried other beans. Espresso was too much of a hit for me so my espresso machine hasn't been used in awhile. I seen a nice chinese roaster on ebay and was poised to buy it to take my hobby to the next level. I bid on it fairly but the seller decided to take the ioption to sell to another local buyer. It would have been overkill for a home roaster so maybe it was a blessing in disguise. I made plans to gut a bread maker and put bearings in it so I could tilt it on a stand like the bigger roasters, but life happend and unfortunately I had to stall those plans. Now I have to make do with bought coffee. At least for the time being. I'm begining to get lazy just buying coffee 🙂
The one thing I liked about Komplete was the ability to search meta data on their controller. Although I never bought the controller and decided on an Arturia controller instead, I could still make use of the NI program made for that purpose. As luck would have it I found I wasn't very often in the NI universe so a dedicated controller would have been lost on me. The Arturia controllers work really well with their package. For electronic music I like UNIFY as it lets me combine a bunch of things and it wasn't very expensive.
But yeah, I would be lost without meta data search engines both in my DAW and in the other stuff. My process is probably different. If I envision a certain synth I'll just pull up something fast that seems to work well intending to maybe replace it later. That almost never happens. When it comes to drums I'm not a drummer, but I'ver managed to navigate those programs pretty well and get my mixes using mostly the drum programs and not in the DAW. Then once recorded I can pump it up with the tools in the DAW.
Reminds me of the funny pics I seen describing the different instruments. A violin was called a squeak board. It reminded me of the way I think when I'm looking for a sound. Like a lowish bellish sort of DX thingy, or a big assed bass drum. The last thing I did I used my own rock bass and that was fun to put a busy bass into a progish sort of thing and then add waves submarine to it. It was perfect for that. I could have gone to less trouble and grabbed MODO bass but there's no way keys could have produced that sound.
It's these musical experiments that bring out the essence of playing the violin and exploring unconventional sounds.
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On 1/8/2024 at 4:12 AM, MisterB said:
The only instrument I ever studied formally, was the trumpet. I have two of them here, and haven't played either one in 12 or 13 years, though I did play it for 30 years. I also have a couple of MIDI controller keyboards and an EWI (MIDI Wind Instrument).
I don't have good coordination skills, and although I can kind of hack around on the keyboard and EWI, I wouldn't perform either in public these days (I did a couple of concerts with the EWI years back, but they were free improv, so there wasn't really such thing as playing a mistake.
I'm definitely not a singer either, so I guess I wouldn't call myself a musician at all.
I use virtual band mates to get my creativity out there.
Kudos to you for trying to reaching out about your music passion. I'd love some of your works.
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On 1/20/2022 at 12:31 PM, senseimaster said:
Born in musician family, grandfather played accordion, father and brother playing drums and my uncles also playing accordion and owning a big studio.
I am 1980 and playing synths from childhood. Start DJing with 18 and started producing seriously 2005. For that time I have released 4 album and about 30 EPs
I established two labels, Precision and Musiclancer.
Thank you for sharing.
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On 1/8/2024 at 4:15 AM, MisterB said:
None. I bought a used electric once to learn on, but I couldn't get my fingers into those weird positions so I gave up pretty quickly. At the time I thought I had arthritis... turned out to actually be fibro myalgia, so technically there's not really a reason I couldn't play the guitar, other than my terrible coordination skills.
Getting a used instrument was a smart choice.
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Do you use AI to help you in composing music?
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On 11/6/2012 at 3:08 PM, Bashu said:
Hi all you songwriters and songwritingcritiquers and chameleons and people as well. Have you ever been approached by an old man on the street who told you his life story without much prompting from your side of the conversation? Then you'll know how I feel when I tell you that I like tea, because you probably like tea too. That reminds me; why do anarchists drink herbal tea?
The answer, like the answer to most questions, is simpler than you're thinking: it's because all proper tea is theft. I'm sure it seems to you like I've been rambling without any direction or goal, but it's all in fact led to this- me reaching behind your ear and pulling out a small hair. Is this yours?
Pleased to meet you! My name's Bashu, like, really, for real, and my game is playing accordion in unexpected places and doing song-a-day challenges. Does anybody like those?
Playing accordion in unexpected places sounds like a delightful adventure, and song-a-day challenges are a fantastic way to keep the creative juices flowing. Count me in as someone who appreciates those spontaneous musical moments.
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Quite a performance, thank you for sharing. I'll check out your youtube channel soon.
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I'll for this song played in German concertina.
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On 11/6/2023 at 11:29 AM, MikeRobinson said:
Simply remember that "there is no 'I' in 'AI.'" We have no idea how to make a computer "intelligent."
This marketing-driven term refers to a class of computer algorithms which are designed to be self-adaptive and self-tuning. They make heavy use of pattern-matching, and they seek to find useful patterns in [great masses of ...] data which might not be readily apparent to more-conventional approaches. And, in that limited respect, they are a very exciting development with great potential value.
But the "Achilles Heel" of computer programming is definitely true for these: "Garbage In = Garbage Out." The algorithms can produce nonsense and they can even be intentionally "gamed." The outputs produced are entirely dependent on the data that is fed in – but it is not always possible to determine what the ultimate effect of "the data" will actually be. (Every [gigantic ...] tranche of "data" is also very much "a mixed bag.") The models might produce something that is very useful, or they might produce something that is worthless.
(P.S.: "I'm a Geek.")
This one holds true, see AI is just as good as the data and model it is trained on.
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Let's just think about the effort musicians put in the art they produce.
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On 5/20/2008 at 2:06 AM, john said:
Hey
Well I learned quite a few instruments, but my perspective was different. I saw myself more as a composer and arranger and wanted to gain an insight into the capabilities and limitations of different types of instrument.
I can get a tune out of many instruments but I still have one main instrument, although closely followed by a couple of others.
I took the approach of serious investment of time in different instrument groups. Strings (guitar, bass guitar, violin, mandolin), keyboards (piano and organs/synths), vocals (lead, harmony, backing, choral), wind (bagpipes, bugle, didgeridoo), percussion (kit, bass, tenor and snare marching drums, bodhran and various hand drums). I have also tried various versions of instruments such as alto mandolin, lots of guitar types and string numbers (6, 8, 10 12) etc and dabbled in lots from autoharp to orchestral percussion, harmonica to recorders and penny whistles.
I would say i play one instrument really well (guitar) but I can play piano bass etc. too an ok standard. There are several instruments I put serious effort into (such as violin 8 years as primary instrument) but I am pretty out of practice with them. I know I could get beck to standard with most with a little concerted effort, but my main gain was in learning the instruments at the time. Being able to pick them up and dabble in most is sufficient for now.
I would still recommend that you keep one instrument as your main instrument, chose a secondary instrument and put your main effort into those. Then perhaps change your secondary instrument effort, keeping your main instrument going etc. and so on.
That doesn't mean don't dabble, but keep your dabbling under control and don't diffuse your efforts too much. jack of all trades and master of none is the fine line you will walk and it is best to be aware of that.
One last thing... try and maximise your transferrable skills and leverage your previous learning. Playing multiple instruments does give you a different perspective on instruments, one that musicians focused on one instrument can find harder to do. I find that keeps me being creative with the instruments I play.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
John
We all had that moment. I think sticking to a one category of instrument may make the journey a little easier.
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I am interested in your concertina song. Can you share it?
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Welcome to the world of Irish bouzouki! It's awesome that you're diving into Celtic music with this unique instrument. The weekly acoustic get-together sounds like a fantastic opportunity to introduce the "zouk" to the mix. While it's tuned differently, the GDAD tuning can indeed complement fiddles well, and you might find a sweet spot in the melodic flow.
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On 12/5/2014 at 2:31 AM, Darrell Wallace said:
PRS 24 Custom, PRS McCarty, 62 Gibson Les Paul Classic, Gibson Les Paul Studio, Fender Strat, G&L ASAT neck on Explorer body, Gibson SG, 1934 Gibson acoustic, Takemine Garth Brooks model acoustic, Taylor Grand Symphony acoustic, Martin D28, Martin backpacker, Gibson "Potatoe-bug" mandolin, Johnson electric mandolin, LC Kiesel lap-steel, National Dobro, Ibanez 4-string electric bass, Peavey 5-string active electric bass, Ibanez acoustic bass,...I think that about covers my guitars..unless I trade some keyboards, violins, saxophones, concertina, or drums for a few more...
The variety of instruments you play is impressive.
The violin? I still have them around but haven't played in awhile. It almost seemed to me that something or someone was seeing to it I would never want to play one. I was told I played ok in the sessions, but ok in a session isn't really that good. Never realized I should have started out a 3 years old. I had this sequence that would repeat itself for 7-8 years. I went to the teacher made noises and came home. I am pretty convinced it is a woman's instrument mainly. I know you'll probably disagree with me on that.
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Your musical journey is truly fascinating, especially your early start with the accordion—a challenging yet rewarding instrument. The transition to keyboards for local rock bands in your teens and your dedication to the acoustic guitar for the past two decades showcase a diverse musical palette.