I have had both experiences and for the most part have been positive.... Just curious to hear some stories

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One of my favourite groove metal bands, I love them more than slayer because of the obvious reason, Dave Lombardo did so much more in Grip Inc.

Epic one, melodic as hell. The soft melodic break is so damn heavenly, gives the feel of the album. Dave is a beast on drums throughout.

Great in every aspect, especially the vocals. Gus Chambers is one of my favourite thrash metal / groove metal vocalist. The bass is great, simple at the same time, follows the guitars throughout the song.

No challenge on this one, an easy one. It is good one to get warmed up. Figured out the tabs by ears after isolating the bass track.

Original Bassist - Jason Viebrooks Genre - Groove Metal From the album 'Nemesis'

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Hello everyone

I have two speakers connected to my mixer. One speaker has an XLR input, for the other one (JBL Party Box 100) I am using an XLR to Jack cable. I use this setup for vocals with karaoke tracks from spotify.

While the more expensive speaker works perfectly my Party Box automatically reduces the volume of the music when the singer sings. Can I stop this behaviour? I‘ve tried both vocal and guitar inputs on my partybox. On my mixer I am using the main xlr outputs. I don‘t even understand how the box can distinguish between music and vocals.

Thanks for help!

I recently took two years off of making music and only started releasing again around March time. I was 19 when covid hit and couldn’t keep going with my band at the time so I made a quick stage name and started releasing the songs I’d make in my bedroom. Long story short, I had a lot of problems at the time but that didn’t stop me making several cringe inducing music videos that while we’re made in irony. Just come across as bizarre and creepy. I’d pull all these exaggerated looks that I knew I was doing but it didn’t have the desired effect at all lol.

I stripped it all in 2023 and removed everything, I never got an audience that big but I have had people message me on my now defunct accounts wondering where my songs went. Basically abandoned ship to be honest. Last night I managed to find most of the masters as they’re either on my old pc or lost forever thanks to last year’s computer shitting itself. I’m starting to wonder if I should put them all back on Spotify as one album just to see it off. I know you can pay distrokid to keep the songs up forever if you pay. What do you think? I have another project now but maybe even if there’s no listeners (which there won’t be) it would be a nice send off lmk.

I have experience in digital art and photography and will make your a cover for no charge, I just want to get my work out there. Please comment or DM if interested 🙏

6 months now that my gf got me on her OF and wow we're earning so much we could afford our $2500 a month rent plus the car insurance and groceries. Im telling you guys dont sell yourself short. Dont even have to show face. Just cock

I recorded and posted my first song on YouTube and have been promoting it through instagram, I personally think it’s an amazing song and had it engineered professionally for a great price and it has about 50 plays in like 2 days on YouTube. I’m trying to make it way bigger though and get it to more people . Any suggestions ?

Also plan on dropping a lot more since the recording process was very fun in the studio and tweaking it and what not

First Hello everyone :)

so to make my question more clear, i am not talking about Instrument or birds bones, nither drums and tools, please lets even go more back in time, when sounds and tones were started to come up, cuse my brain farted and started to belive that musical tone come before words, is this true ?, did it come before speaking ? did we mock some birds and the sounds they made ?

sorry if this sounds stupid. my band consists of me (guitar) and my friend (drums). we usually play in his basement but he gets distracted a lot so we end up playing video games instead of playing. i want to hire a studio once per month so we can practise in a more professional environment. the thing is though, we dont plan on performing or anything like that. we just play for fun and for practise. whenever i hear of people practicing in studios, its because they are rehearsing for a performance. can we still use a studio?

edit: ik a studio near me that lets bands rehearse, i just want to know whether we have to be a 'real' band to hire it. like one that plays live.

We can connect t threw zoom meeting gs I want to learn how to do hiphop drums and punk or some rhythm on drums for lessons

Hey.

I guess this is a rant. I ordered two powered monitors for our rehearsal space (which I’m also completely remodeling). They came in today and BOTH of them were faulty. Now I have to box these up and try to send them back and fight to get a refund and the whole situation has me really deflated.

And then that got me thinking about the thousands and thousands of dollars I’ve thrown at gear over the years. And relative to the money I’ve earned as a musician I am most assuredly under water.

Music is not a hobby for members of the lower classes such as myself.

Guitars, amps, pedals, strings, straps, cases, picks, cables, learning materials, lessons, drums, stands, cymbals, hardware, thrones, mics, mixers, pa speakers, power amps, crossovers, keyboards, tablets, etc, etc.

It’s literally thousands and thousands of dollars to start or be in a band.

And even if you’re a great musician, you can end up sounding terrible if you have the wrong gear. It’s just crazy how much this stuff costs.

And don’t even get me started on the time and money I’ve spent remodeling and rewiring our practice space.

The opportunity cost alone has to be in the tens of thousands of dollars when you consider the number hours spent since my teenage years just practicing my instrument and rehearsing.

And the emotional cost of even trying to find folks on the same page as you? Forget it.

Don’t let anyone tell you differently: being any kind of musician is incredibly expensive, even if you suck.

IMHO - being able to commit oneself to music and the arts is a luxury reserved for the upper classes. It has been so since the time of Bach.

Ok. Rant over.

Thanks.

I am a session musician working with so many different artists from all around the world. In most cases, I opt to sell these people a buyout of the commercial rights, but sometimes, I negotiate a royalty split on the earnings of the song once its released. BUT Many of these songs end up being released on different distribution platforms and some of them require me to pay a yearly or monthly subscription. So I end up paying for a subscription to like 6 different distribution companies just to accept a royalty distribution deal from someone else's release... Is there any way around this??

I live in Canada and usually distribute my own work through DistroKid.

an hour ago i performed for the first time ever at my school’s open mic night, and right before the performance, i tuned my guitar, but once i got on stage it sounded horrible. i took a few seconds to tune it by ear and it got better but once i began playing the song certain parts were slightly out of tune. it wasn’t a horrible performance, i got some positive feedback after, but i can’t get over the fact that the guitar was out of tune, and i feel like i’m about to breakdown because i feel like an absolute failure. how do you cope with this feeling especially as a perfectionist?

Hi, currently I'm trying to make some metal music. I have my guitar hooked up to my daw and everything, however, my only issue is I don't have a drumset, and I don't know the fundamentals of drums. I'm left with no other option but to use a virtual drum kit and do it by scratch, as I don't know anyone that plays drums and would be willing to drum for me. Does anyone have any advice on how to make some good sounding metal drumming with DAW kits that don't sound bland and repetitive and how I can learn?

Looking for good docos about bands to watch. Particularly enjoying seeing bands with complex relationships... Something like The Fearless Freaks or LoudQuietLoud

I write, record and engineer my original music. My band gigs about 2-3 times a month. I also am a hired gun, about every other month or so 1 gig here and there on either drums or guitar. I also play solo or duo with a hand drummer about once or twice a month as well. And I also do live sound engineering which is not as steady might have a month go by where I’m doing that and other months where I have a few sound gigs.

I also have a 9-5 M-F day job in a corporate office. Helps keep the lights on while I’m out gigging and stuff. I feel like that takes time away from me being able to get more work doing music.

I figured if I could a steady flow of gigs doing all of those things I could survive and quit my day job if I charge right and get paid proper.

My question is… How do you all do it? How do you juggle your full time day job and try to be full time gigging working musician?

I want to quit work so bad and just hustle for gigs and work because I’ll have the time to and time to fit all those projects/work in a day & week. But with my 9-5 I feel like I can fit all that in, thus not able to really go full time ever.

Hey folks, I'd love to hear your perspectives on this:

So I work full time and care for two dependents. I got back into music more than a year ago and my life has turned around in such amazing ways, no longer endlessly tired and stressed and depressed. Every aspect of life has improved and I also have some ideas to take my music further.

However, we are not at all financially abundant, and very soon we will lose some government funding, and I'm not sure what to do to increase our family income. Getting a job somewhere would plug the hole quickest, but so far none of us has had any luck in this shit economy. I have some music-related side-hustles that could bring in some money, but would take a long time to build up to anything substantial.

I also worry that, if I do get hired somewhere part-time, I'd be left with barely any time for music. And without music, I fear I'd just go back to being a fucked up mess that could barely manage my day job, let alone juggling two jobs.

Maybe if I put all my effort into my music side-hustles, I could make something work, but it's very risky.

What do you guys think? Any advice or feedback of any kind would be greatly appreciated!

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I am a long time musician and song writer but I have been doing the youtube, tik tok, instagram, spofity and soundcloud grind for all of 2024 now and today noticed that I now have more songs up on spotify than monthly listeners (22 monthly listeners). I do know that some genres don't perform as well as others but I really think I am doing something wrong here. I do instrumental guitar forward music so I would usually release a song and do 1 to 3 play through videos on each platform to promote it. I have now switched to one longer full video and 3 - 4 shorts to promote each song. I am interested in knowing what you all have seen the most success with and if anyone would have any tips on how I can get music out there to the right people.