Aspiring musician thread

>be me
>am an aspiring musician
>have already written several songs, created some choruses, and jotted down some song titles
>am also training my voice and working on the gituar
Are you also planning to make your own music, Yea Forums?

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My autism is too strong for me to do anything but play bass alone in my bedroom everyday

Seems that a surprisingly large amount of people do make their own music or at least are trying to. Go link your social media, soundcloud or something.

Already gave it a shot. I haven't written a song in years now.

Did you give up, what happened?

I joined a cover band.

I don't really have a social media account besides Youtube, but I'll think about it.
For now, I'll just show you some song titles:
>Familiar Ways
>A Thousand Lies
>Good Enough For Me
>Planet Earth

What type of genre? and what made you get into music

interesting go on

I'm guessing either rock, folk, pop, or a multi-genre mix of all of them.
I actually used to hate music as a child, but it kind of grew on me, and I grew to love it by the time I became an adult. My inspirations were Michael Jackson, Nirvana, and Yes, as well as Troop and LL Cool J.
Don't have much to go on about, but I've written four songs, partially written two, wrote the chrouses for nine songs, and wrote the titles for thirteen more songs.
All in all, I've written twenty-eight songs.

You're going to write some garbage, but that'll only make you better.

Don't stop. Ever.

This is a wholesome thread.

Thank you guys.

I make music. The problem is I end up making more shitpost that I submit to the Yea Forums albums than actually trying hard to do good music
And goddamn I'm slow at this, fighting technical problems more than actually making music

I’ve been songwriting for two years. Have written about thirty complete songs in that time and I just released my first album there on Thursday. Very much folk inspired and lyrically driven stuff.

The act of songwriting itself is the most rewarding for me, the excitement you feel when you feel you are onto something is not comparable to anything else. Playing your songs live can be extremely rewarding too when you have the right crowd, I cannot stress how important playing live is. I play open mics at least once a week. For my album launch gig I got a crowd of about thirty together at a small venue and they were hanging on my every word and I got some absolutely brilliant feedback, first time I have played to a crowd who already knew and liked my music so that was quite an experience.

Promoting your own music is the bit that I despise. Social media, shill threads, asking other people to do favours like share to their friends - it’s soul crushing and tedious. Via the internet it is not easy convincing someone to listen to a song for more than about twenty seconds before making their mind up that they like you or that you suck.

On the plus side some user just made a thread about my album, on the negative people will probably assume it’s me shilling it. Here’s the Spotify link if anyone is interested.

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I'm a beginner struggling to get into music. Tried for years with guitar. Trying again with Keyboard now.
Might be as simple as just not having the right instrument.
As a kid I loved singing and wanted to do lessons but I got humiliated in a talent show by a broken microphone and it put me off music for years.
Not that I was ever really great at it. I know I'm not very good at it now as an adult, so I sing when I'm alone in the house. Save peoples ear drums.

I wrote one song and I haven't done any more because I know I'm a hack who doesn't know music theory and I'm just playing around until I get something barely listenable. I have 10 tracks that are stuck halfway done and 1 that's actually complete that I've posted anywhere. I haven't actually opened FL in a year now. I don't want to make money, I just want a few people to listen to what I make and hopefully get something positive out of it. I'm trying to learn piano currently so that I have some practical foundation in music before I do anything else, but I'm a retard and hand independence is a bitch. 6 year olds can play Heart and Soul, but I can't get it down.

How do you guys come up with titles for instrumental songs? I wanna make some noise tracks, but the titles are the hardest part.

What does the track make you feel? What are you trying to convey with it?

If you feel nothing listening to it then it’s probably not good enough to share.

I feel you
I play guitar and sing in my band, have been songrwiting for years. Have quite a few songs I'm really proud of, too. There's literally no better feeling in the world when you can actually write down a song that you really like. I completely abhor online promoting, shilling and posting. All the bands that are trying to make it make the same posts akin to "You've been a great crowd, thanks for coming (insert random stage pics here)". It's all so tiresome. Being in a band is tiresome too, but hearing your tune come alive or some random stranger complimenting you after a show makes up for it. I guess.

Who else is in the "Only makes ironically bad content because of fear that they'll be bad at doing serious things" gang

I did this shit with poetry I posted online in my late teens and early twenties. It’s a waste of time man, just try hard and see where it will take you.

I've made albums and albums of stuff over the past 5 years I've been writing. I'm honestly really proud of my progression and how it went from awkward and barely listenable to awkward and somewhat listenable. I've always felt if I did anything great with my life it'd be making memorable music so that's really all I can pour myself into 100%. I have this wistful feeling listening to old music I thought was shit at the time, and now I think it's kinda genius and I don't want to realize that feeling at 60 years old. So I really need to try to succeed.

I played live for the first time recently and it was exhilarating. Now it's just up to buying a DI and in-ear monitors so I can play my heavily orchestrated stuff through laptop and not have to worry about a band.

Trying, but I've got literally nobody to play with. feels fucking bad man

You need to get out to open mic nights. In just over the space of a year I found someone to record and produce my album entirely for free as a hobby, we are really good friends now. I also found an excellent violinist and a fellow folk singer to accompany me on my album launch night for next to nothing (pic related). You'll meet a lot of douchebags too but there are diamonds in the rough.

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About shilling - Facebook is the shittiest platform that is a necessary evil. I’ve got about 230 fans on there, I remember when I had 80 they would all see everything I posted. The more fans you get and the longer your page exists the less people see your content.

I’m lucky to get 90 views for a post, anything on top and I would have to pay to advertise to my followers.

Yeah, I guess I'll have to go out more. Any tips for "headhunting" musicians?

If you are at an open mic and someone’s music impresses you have a chat with them, give them some honest feedback. If they seem sound and also like your stuff suggest getting together for a jam.

Same as you, production is my strong point right now, but have been working on vocals and other general musicianship for a little while. Writing is generally something i have some natural proficiency with but my song writing could still use some work. Really i just need to pick a artistic direction and stick with it

Good idea, user.

>Are you also planning to make your own music, Yea Forums?
Yea I wanna be the best type of musician - a rapper.

Those names sound pretty generic man
>All in all, I've written twenty-eight songs.
>I've written four songs
???

I don’t know why people get caught up in song titles (at least for things with lyrics). I always just pick a phrase or line from the song.

I have some cool shoegaze material I'm working on but it's taking forever to complete bc I work and go to school and on top of that I'm really fucking bad at promoting my music online.

>I always just pick a phrase or line from the song
People just name songs after a thing from the chorus

Some people find it helpful to have a good title and build from there.

Fair enough, I have written a song that way before to be fair.

I do see quite a lot of people performing at open mics complete songs that they have been singing for months, saying “this song is untitled” - that is retarded.

chords are always the things that get me. i obsess over having this perfect chord sequence, cause i always start with the chords, but my music all ends up sounding the same cause i end up relying on the same major to minor chord changes. help me out bros how do i write something more inspired?

Learn more folk, blues and rock and roll songs. You’ll quickly see how much can be achieved with just three chords. For me the chords are pretty much only there to complement my singing, listening to someone just strumming or fingerpicking chords on a guitar for more than twenty seconds gets boring.

People who have seen some success online, what would you say is the best way to go about promoting yourself online and establishing a presence with social media?

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I’ve been watching someone lately who almost doubled his Facebook following from about 800 to 1500 in the space of a month. Basically by posting a shit tonne to invite your friends, he made a video by coincidence using my music page showing how to invite friends to like (I ended up getting about a hundred new followers from that), he also recommends other local artists a lot. His posts are more Instagram style than Facebook, uses a lot of filtered photos and hash tags like #unsignedartist etc. It probably helps that he is quite attractive too.

I really was delighted when I got those extra hundred followers but it quickly transpired that it doesn’t matter for shit when these people haven’t seen you live, maybe three or four of them regularly like my posts? You’re better with organic likes from gigs rather than a bunch of people who just accept invitations to anything. It now means people who actually like my music aren’t seeing my posts as regularly now as Facebook wants you to pay for people to see your stuff when you get to a certain threshold. Probably about twenty of the new fans are from fucking Thailand, they’re hardly going to give a shit about a singer-songwriter in Edinburgh.

In short social media is a con, don’t fixate on it, especially if you end up with 1500 fans but only a small fraction of those actually give a flying fuck about your music. See Threatin for someone who went as far as paying for tens of thousands of bots, it didn’t fool anyone into going to his gigs!

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I’ve been making my own music for 10 years, get off 4chin and go practice

just come up with some poetic sounding imagery that comes to mind at the moment
also if you are recording drone/slowcore tracks you can use the hour at night you recorded it but THAT IS MY SCHTICK AND YOU CANT STEAL IT FAGGOTS

>aspiring
I hate that word. If you make or play music, even as just a hobby, you are a musician. Full stop.
Using the word "aspiring" carries certain implications, mostly that you're hoping for some sort of reward to come from it: probably fame.

Bang your forehead against the keyboard and immediately hit ctrl-s.
The song title must come directly from the brain. Literally, directly from the brain onto the keyboard.

I know you are correct but I find the word a bit pretentious unless you make a living out of it. I usually say “a keen musician” or “amateur singer-songwriter”. Deep down yeah I think my songs are fucking good but I don’t want to look like a smug prick.

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I realised that making music fun anything other than fun is pointless

Check my harmonies: youtu.be/lrjcKdUBU3M

I usually just say, "I'm a musician."

So, I'm really confident in my instrumental writing abilities and I really enjoy writing long pieces. However just as big a part of me wants to make pop music and get big off of that, but I'm totally tone-deaf and trash at singing. Like perhaps I'd make it in an emo or post-punk noise band but not contemporary pop-wise. Regardless I still try and it takes a lot of work and editing to make approach palatable, but I like my aesthetic and lyrics.

Question is, how big a niche is there for super dense, j-pop, ghibli sounding noise/dream pop instrumentals?

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there's no right or wrong way. if you actually believe in what you're making you should shill the hell out of it. music is almost the opposite of a meritocracy

hey anthony