/music/ - Music

>>10902
Sorry for wordswordswords btw, hope it isn't too much.
As promised, the mandolin video. It showcases the oval hole quite well in my opinion. Let me know what you think about it.

>>10902
>I'd advise you to be careful with cheap instruments.
Instructions unclear. I buy cheap instruments to just try them out. Either the most entry level or used. I bought a guitar this way and I'm glad I bought a cheap Cort instead of a good guitar since I don't regret the purchase now.
>In general, if you want to choose, you have to ask yourself which one's sound you like best. From what I've read, it seems to be the kalimba, but that is something you have to think about yourself.
I indeed want a kalimba. Additionally, I thought about composing music on my laptop. I remember some music theory but I'm not sure if I can do it. I really got inspired by some obscure game's OST to make my own music since I've searched far and wide and didn't find anything that sounds exactly like that OST.
>I honestly don't know how to talk about the ukulele without coming off like a bitter asshole because in my opinion, it's instrument equivalent of that "Live Laugh Love" succubus in high school who's a manipulative piece of shit to everyone, but she larps about "spreading positivity" and shit like that. It may be because people have ruined the instrument by only playing the same chords on it (and that Youtube apology video from last year iirc), bit I digress.
What do you enjoy/enjoyed about the ukulele? I'm curious since I can't think of positives and I know that there must be some. Not every instrument has to be "serious" per se, I know the banjo isn't considered one and I still like it for what it's worth.
Oh my god, no, not the apology video. It's an embarrassment for us ukulele players.
And I know it's a stupid instrument with a bad rep, but honestly, it's what you make of it. Uke is easy and I just enjoy strumming the strings and playing easy tunes when I want to kill time. There is nothing much to that.
>Also, what music do you like? That's a bit late to ask, but it could help you get something you might actually use and enjoy. If I seem like I shill the mandolin too much, it's because it seems to be a good choice for you.
I enjoy electronic music, actually. Either synth (but not modern synthwave, think The Siberiad) or ambient music. Maybe I should try a simple synthetizer? Hmm…
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>>10904
Okay, I downloaded some software and put on tutorials on music theory and I'm running into a very wizardly roadblock: I suck at it, so I don't even want to try.
You know, that shit when you are not immediately good and you throw your hands into the air and scream: guess I'm a talentless hack! It's over!
But I'll keep going. I'm not a bad music profucer. I'm just a newbie music producer. Heck, I don't even produce music, I'm not even a producer at this point, I'm somebody who dabbles into music on their weekend.
I'll keep trying even if it's just smashing random chords on a keyboard until it sounds right.
I'll do it, believe it!

>>10905
>put on tutorials on music theory
Don't castrate yourself prematurely with theory and "what technically sounds good according to the book". Just imagine a nice tune in your head and try to recreate it with the software, or place random notes down and keep playing it back until it sounds nice to you. If you can enjoy music and decide for yourself as a listener what sounds good and what doesn't, then you already have a subconscious sense for "theory".

>>10906
It helped me a bit though. I don't really think in "music" right now, so I have hard time coming up with a good melody. But when I look at DAW, somehow visually it clicks. It seems that I process music visually for a lack of a better term. When I play with a keyboard, I imagine how the melody looks in my piano roll and it all falls in place.

idk how to pla yinstrument

I am classically naive but I do have a story that might be vaguely interesting to some.
In 2014 I was watching an early youtuber/streamer guy play hearthstone and he had a sea shanty on his pause playlist. I looked it up, and found an album of shanties by the conductor Robert Shaw which ended up with me discovering the majority of classical music (and irish folk) I have basic familiarity with, including Philip Glass (not the first time i heard him since there was a bit of Koyaanisqatsi on GTA 4s radio). In the summer of 2017 i listened to Itaipu, which also coincided with my interest in similarly repetitive krautrock and berlin school genres in december of the same year, but it was not until 2021-23, that i heard most of his major works (my most listened to composer by number of works).

Funny how a single short sailor song from a playlist with novelty music, after 9 years lead me to 2 hour long droning operas.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kNth0YVA5NrDKw_2uGbzRSNtEA6OJbO44

>>10101
lo, apparently I was gaslit by multiple listenings. I pitch-shifted it two years ago and it sounded like garbage. I think he was just a second-rate Max Reger (who in turn is a second-rate Bruckner) who realized he could permute certain musical elements and blend them with chaotic nonsense to convey a sense of profundity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0mvRf7dvO0

Anyone got anything similar to this or Claire De Lune

12 of the same notes for midnight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yZEkjrD5Qc

Exceptional track that doesn't really get attention, from 2:00 onwards especially.

I liked a lot of it

>>10512
Gonna have to check it out. Ill admit I only know this group for the Lain anime song.

didn't know hillary clinton had a band

>>10649



same, m8


I forgot i can type bôa on my smarty in a jiffy!

>>10512
Be right back; going buy a copy first.

Don't know if this is my fave all things considered given ska punk is a lil upbeat. But I highly relate to the lyrics and it always comes to mind in this context.

I like to play it when I go to mountain

this whole album really. paradoxically it's my go-to depression album but it's also the kind of album where if it's speaking to you, that's a major red flag and a sign you're not okay. Manson wrote it at his absolute lowest point of self-destruction and self-loathing, ideas that he flirted with earlier in his career in the 90s but didn't truly experience/live out until this point. he's described it as being (paraphrasing) "so low that when I look up all I see is shit, that's how low I am" – one of the songs even has the line "I have to look up, just to see Hell". it's one of the least popular albums of his discography and part of that is that most people who listen to it aren't in the same state of mind and can't really understand what he's talking about or trying to convey through the music. that's also a fair criticism to levy because most artists are capable of translating their emotions/feelings like this in a more universal way to where even if you didn't go through the same thing they did you could still feel the same thing. over the years listening to it i think Manson was just so low (and the periods i was so low i could finally not just hear but understand what he was talking about) and trying to capture that specific feeling he didn't care if people got it or not. it probably would have been more critically received if he had done that, but he was creating art, not so much a product, he was trying to convey how he felt, he didn't care how well the album charted or what music critics thought of it.

>My pain is not ashamed to repeat itself…

Worms Feasting on Filth

John Maus' whole discography is great

favorite Christmassy shit for this time of year, along with Ockeghem's "Missa Prolatonium"

Sure not slowing down with this knock-dead Louis Armstrong recording

Ain't misbehaving, saving all of my love for (You).

Rolling on a river

let's start with the GOAT