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.
I play classical style guitar. I joined a community here, but I was the only post.
I agree that it’s rough out there finding communities with common interests.
I play the Penny Whistle!
!guitars@lemmy.world has like 2 posts a week, I am sure people would gladly see it going to 3 posts a week
Answer to title: 2, maybe 3.
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?
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
my comment had both ends of the spectrum, you choose the cutoff, which would be somewhere between these two points
Not professional, and I haven’t played in years, but I did play trumpet in band for about a decade!
I make music and have released them on streaming platforms. I’m subscribed to most of the music, music production, and music genre communities in the fediverse.
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.
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)!
how did you get into that?
I’ve been singing for quite a while. Also gotten to do some cool things like singing Requiems and stuff. I mainly do volunteer but would love to get paid someday.
*waves hello to fellow music nerds*
Anyway, here’s ‘Smoke on the Water’ on a harpsichord
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.
Admittedly I could be putting more work into it, but !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works is slowly gaining traction.
Man, I wish.
I can’t sing. I can’t play any instrument. I have no sense of timing (I can’t always even clap along in time). If I ever do end up being part of a band it’s going to be as their manager since I’m now too old to be a roadie. But I wish I could, I dunno, play guitar enough to jam or be a part of an totally average local band.
I played the Kazoo for several years but I could never tune it properly.
Long time musician here!
Back in Reddit days I did prawl through music-making related communities, but found that discussion tended to stick to pretty trivial spheres. Figured that general music maker communities don’t work. You want jazz drumming / pure data / microtonal techniques level specialised communities to keep it interesting. Otherwise it’s just ‘recommend a beginner-friendly daw’ over and over.
I have submitted to knives and scuba communities here even though they’re small. Fortunately, I still get responses. So I urge you guys to post in your empty communities or create your own
