Me, who edits comments over and over until I believe they convey my message correctly.
You, who didn't even double check that your fingers were on the home row, but submitted the comment, regardless.
Me, who edits comments over and over until I believe they convey my message correctly.
You, who didn't even double check that your fingers were on the home row, but submitted the comment, regardless.
"what if nobody wants to listen to it??"
Does not matter bro. Create. Be free
When I did webcomics I was worried nobody would think they were funny or had some reservations about public opinions.
Then I watched some documentary on comic artists, including Calvin & Hobbe’s Bill Watterson, and he said something like “I just make something I think is funny, and if my wife also thinks it’s funny that’s a bonus, and everyone else can think whatever they want to think, but I’m happy with it, and that’s all I really cared about.”
And that was enough for me to get into it.
Make it for you first. Everyone else is a bonus.
For real, there's dickbags pushing a button so AI can shit out songs that no one but themselves will listen to, patting themselves on the back as artists. Let's never be afraid to put our art out there, spread it, play it live. People need to know what human creativity feels like.
Edit: This may have been more about AI than I wanted it to be.
Me, surrounded by music gear.

I have thousands worth of random modular, sequencers, groove boxes, software synths... It's endless. I sold a ton the last few years. I own 5 guitars for "different purposes". I have a Tracker Mini on the way tomorrow.
I've never produced a single thing I'd want to share with anyone. But I have fun making bleep bloops and that's what I remember when I start to feel bad about it. I just wanna live in a musical spaceship and that's ok until it's not, so let's just make cool sounds and not worry about it. 🤷♂️
I am you but replace Tracker Mini with Dirtywave M8.
Yeah, I'm kinda feeling personally attacked by this
Your music gear: "Stop! You're surrounded! Put your hands in the air like you just don't care!"
In my personal experience...nobody wants to listen to it😞
But it's ok! I am my biggest fan😋
I make an "I will listen to your song" post in my group every now and then. Or you can just post it in the group. It's mostly just me posting there. Could use more people :)
Checked out your posts from 7 months ago, and imma be listening to the whole playlist tomorrow at work. Just to prove a point (and because it honestly ain't bad from the first few mins I've heard)
I average 6 listeners a month on streaming platforms lol. But hey, that’s better than 0. And I do it for the love of music first and foremost.
could you share a link?
Thanks for the interest! Here's my music, with genre tags since I do multiple genres: https://linktr.ee/secondstagenavigator
Could be worse!
I've got 14 million listens over four years on Distrokid, and that just about covered the cost of four years with Distrokid. On their most minimal plan.
Good thing I am also in it for the music.
I know right? I have around 60k total streams in 5 years, and I earned around $300 so far. I use a free distributor (who takes a 15%) cut though. I figured I'm not earning much anyway, so I don't really mind them getting a cut if I get unlimited uploads without a fee.
The economics of streaming are fucked up. Major labels get 80–88% of standard recording streams and physical sales.
What genre?
I only make sleepy tunes anyways. My kid is my adience and he loves it. That's enough for me
I made released an album last year, spent the previous year working on it. Probably about 100 listens so far, across all the tracks, but it's fine 🥲 I've been using it like a demo, taking some of the songs to my new band, so they can hear what I had in my head!
https://jimmyhalliday.bandcamp.com/
Or if Bandcamp's not your bag, I also put them on YouTube, just look up "Jimmy Halliday"!
No foolin', that was great. My girlfriend liked it too!
Fuck yes! That's going straight into the playlist!
Hell yeah! Thanks, dude! Same!
warm and fuzzies ACTIVATED
I listened to that when you posted it up in c/punk!! I love it!
Hell man that's so good music! I hope you keep it up!!!!
Thanks! I'm absolutely keeping it up, I'm in an actual band now!
I just need one more guitar pedal and the world will be ready.
whats that? no i dont know how to play yet
I had a former coworker who started on a proper Martin. Made me sick. Money definitely doesn't buy talent.
There's a famous actor guy who got into pottery and even though his stuff is meh all of a sudden he's an ceramic expert and is mass producing his designs. Kinda pisses me off that those of us who are not already famous have to work 20xs harder to get out stuff out in the world and he just gets a pass because he's an actor.
If you can afford it, properly setup good quality instruments (particularly guitars) are much easier to play.
How many pedals do you play shows with?
Depends how many power sockets are available.
Just get a power supply, problem solved.
Set up a giant hamster wheel connected to a battery with a meter. Ask for a few volunteers to come on stage to run it. Tell them they have about 7 seconds between stopping the wheel and the battery running out, so that's how fast transitions need to happen for the show to keep playing.
I've never listened to a podcast like that. It sounds like low effort reality TV style content.
Others are not you
Me either but I do get ads for them plugged into the podcast I do listen to. I guess I appreciate those idiots paying for the content I do listen to, all it costs me is hitting skip 30s 4-5 times.
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