Ask Lemmy

Answer to title: 2, maybe 3.

I play guitar, piano and bass? recently got one and started building basic competency skills.

I've been playing for like 15 years, terrible still but that's what makes it fun for me.

I'm interested in recording things but just get too overwhelmed with thinking about using midi drums or synths, the fun part for me is playing over things not necessarily mixing and mastering them. It is something I'm overall interested in.

I play the guitar, but mostly I just learn tricky songs and I try to play them. I would happily read about music though.

Bedroom guitarist/producer here. Love improvising on guitar, and composing songs which can be considered instrumental metal: Unimperfect

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 musician with dreams of opening a donations based label and covering a different genre every album. Currently releasing a mixtape where each song is a different genre.

Most recent release was on July 4th to protest all the horseshit going on in America: https://youtu.be/RsS5mFz-WgA

Also have a video explaining my dream a bit more here: https://youtu.be/1SROCLSPY9U

I started a synthesizer community on lemm.ee when I came to Lemmy after the API fiasco a couple years ago. It was a little active. When lemm.ee died, I just let it go.

I used to play saxophone, clarinet and flute for years, but then I moved to Australia and I didn't bring any of them with me. They're expensive here, too, so I can't bring myself to buy another..

Though now I have an Irish low whistle, I haven't had a chance to really get in to it because of changing jobs, moving houses, etc etc. The lack of buttons is challenging.

I admit, though, I have a longing to just get back in to a community band again just to be surrounded by music again.

Uh, I know how to use BeepBox (nice for making music for my games) and I just started learning to use Strudel, does that count? I have a piano (keyboard) but I don't really release music I just make it sometimes when I'm bored. I guess that counts as amateur musician

Check out the jazz community and for goodness sake, post

*waves hello to fellow music nerds*

Anyway, here's 'Smoke on the Water' on a harpsichord

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

I still drum, so I'm at least someone who hangs out with musicians. I haven't played with others in like a decade though.

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.

So long as you don't mean professional musician, I guess I count. I'm a decent guitarist and a reasonably competent bassist (the skills are transferrable, but they are not the same if you want to do anything interesting on bass) who does a bit of blues, rock, and metal. I've done a little bit of music production, essentially just enough to put together recordings with programmed drums at home and have them not be completely awful. I'm also working, very slowly, on learning piano and would like to learn violin, but life has gotten in the way lately and made that difficult

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'm learning to play the piano!

You can count me in, both for stats and trying to join more music focused communities!

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.

!musicproduction@sh.itjust.works

I sing and play folk music on the guitar and early music on lute and recorder (my favorite size is the tenor).

Just waiting for orchestra to start back up in the fall