Sorry, traded it in for this guy. Will bring it over next time we have a beer and a bud.

Was subbed to it before we got kicked off lemm.ee. But yeah I should rejoin and give it a post.

Not really sure, but I’ll probably join what I find.

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. 😂

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%.

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

It's posting that really gets the ball rolling. Spread out over days/weeks helps a lot.

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.

No, its not punk. I'd call it more like Sad Bastard Music. https://bentnotbrokenmusic.bandcamp.com/album/homemade I also have a bunch of random stuff, early versions of songs from the EP, and covers, on soundcloud. https://soundcloud.com/bent-not-broken/tracks

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

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's all in the mind

Nice to meet you too! Writing lyrics is one of the biggest blocks between me and putting together complete songs of my own, which is a little galling because I have been paid many times for non-lyric creative writing. I just need to practice more until I can do it (or find someone who has lyrics but doesn't know what to put under them, I suppose)

I dabble in the rest to pull together recordings of what's in my head

This is exactly how it happened for me, yeah! I had ideas and I wanted to actually hear them, and the rest sprang from there

I'm not a particularly heavy fediverse user, but I am subscribed to !guitars@lemmy.world. No matter how much I enjoy trying out different aspects of musicianship and putting them together, there is no doubt that my first love is guitars

I wonder if a more general community for music creation would be a better approach? Seeing as we're a relatively small number of people here it's maybe more useful to specialise the community less just for the sake of gathering more of us together? I don't know a damn thing about running or promoting communities though

I recorded and released a couple of EPs with a band once, but they were only released physically. I have also recorded a couple of metal versions of tracks from the Outer Wilds soundtrack. They're a bit rough because they were very much the process of me actively learning how to do these things, but I'm still pretty pleased with them

I am trying to record some proper music of my own, but sadly my health nosedived and I've struggled to be productive on much at all. Still, the effort continues! However long it takes me, it will be done one day

I'm learning in person, but thanks for the suggestions :)

For someone that's keen on classical I would suggest going a very different direction for electric. Low gain, humbucker pickups, neck pickup, flatwound strings, plenty of mids in the mix, and only a gentle amount of reverb for that super-rich soft jazzy tone. A guitar with a bigsby tailpiece is great for applying subtle vibrato to whole chords too, which is not easily achieved on a classical

Lol to telling someone who's playing acoustic that a clean tone is boring

I'm about as far away from Melbourne as possible, on Earth, in fact! Best of luck finding some trumpets, though.

Mostly American stuff, the way I like to play solo is with fingerpicking chord melodies. I'll usually try to find a way to play the tune with my open chords and then mix in some other voicings to spice it up.

When playing early dance music I prefer to strum diads though; I'm usually in the middle or low register in a dance pit, filling out the sound for the melody instruments like vielle or citole.

None that I know of. I'd love to see it though!