Musicians' thread.

This is probably like 'how long is a piece of string' type of question but I will ask nonetheless.

How does one begin journey to becoming a musician as an adult ? Do you see any pitfalls in self-learning in the beginning ? Idea is to see if I can invest some consistent time before I spend money on lessons.

I bought a ultra basic keyboard (CTK 2200) years ago and now that my son goes to nearby church to get some keyboard lessons, it has kindled my interest.

I am thinking of doing some practical udemy courses which I got for free many years ago.

 
surface said:
This is probably like 'how long is a piece of string' type of question but I will ask nonetheless.

How does one begin journey to becoming a musician as an adult ? Do you see any pitfalls in self-learning in the beginning ? Idea is to see if I can invest some consistent time before I spend money on lessons.

I bought a ultra basic keyboard (CTK 2200) years ago and now that my son goes to nearby church to get some keyboard lessons, it has kindled my interest.

I am thinking of doing some practical udemy courses which I got for free many years ago.

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It's a wide field these days. Many producers who can't play any instruments and instrumentalists who knows nothing about audio engineering. Since some kid can win a grammy with only a laptop and software it's more of a question what you're interested in?

I reserve the term musician to a person who plays some form of instrument and can do it live. That's not something a simple course will teach you on its own and requires immense practise.
 
Moosedrool said:
It's a wide field these days. Many producers who can't play any instruments and instrumentalists who knows nothing about audio engineering. Since some kid can win a grammy with only a laptop and software it's more of a question what you're interested in?

I reserve the term musician to a person who plays some form of instrument and can do it live. That's not something a simple course will teach you on its own and requires immense practise.
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True, if one is really really interested, any method would work. I am more keen on personal experience on this thread. What did one try to learn musical instrument? Was it self-learning first or lessons from beginning? Was it music theory first or practice first or both together? What challenges one faced and so on.. I will try to put up my experience if I continue for more than 3 months in this direction. Thanks.
 
I am curious to hear about other guitarists'/hobby guitarist setups. Guitar(s)/amp/pedals/straps/instrument cables

For my electric setup, I have a Fender Squier classic vibes 60s plugged into the Zoom G1X Four, into an Orange 12w Crush. I have been playing around with the patches you can download online and that's about it. I am now finding the sound / tone to be overly digital sounding. Have had this setup for almost 3 years now. Before I just ran the guitar vanilla into the amp.

I am looking for a more natural tone/pedal(s) for my setup and want to start thinking about a pedal board. I have 0 knowledge about pedals and have basically just been reading up/looking up articles and topics such as "if you had to choose 3 x pedals and that's it which ones would you choose?" Would appreciate any 2cents of advice / on what to look out for and what to avoid.

Eventually, I want to buy an Epiphone SG :p
 
Ordered myself a Push 3 and prepping to start taking a stab at techno/psytrance production. Anyone else doing similar?
 
surface said:
True, if one is really really interested, any method would work. I am more keen on personal experience on this thread. What did one try to learn musical instrument? Was it self-learning first or lessons from beginning? Was it music theory first or practice first or both together? What challenges one faced and so on.. I will try to put up my experience if I continue for more than 3 months in this direction. Thanks.
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For me, it was self learning all the way. Got a guitar when I was 14, learnt "smoke on the water" and went from there. Self study of music theory came later after I spent a huge amount of time learning covers of my favorite songs (the practical/technical side of playing an instrument essentially).
 
Harmonic said:
Ordered myself a Push 3 and prepping to start taking a stab at techno/psytrance production. Anyone else doing similar?
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Nice. I've got a Live jamming template I use for mostly making psytrance kinda stuff on the fly using various midi controllers, synth and bass guitar. Haven't fired it up in a while but think it's time to dust it off and play a bit.
 
saor said:
Nice. I've got a Live jamming template I use for mostly making psytrance kinda stuff on the fly using various midi controllers, synth and bass guitar. Haven't fired it up in a while but think it's time to dust it off and play a bit.
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Enjoy! What do you use for kick/bass?
 
Harmonic said:
Enjoy! What do you use for kick/bass?
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If I'm not using a sample and messing with the envelope then I use Vital quite a bit. It's free, looks good & it's a great synth to start with and has some cool modulation possibilities. Quite a few psytrance tutorials for it (DAS GLITCH on yt has quite a few).
 
saor said:
If I'm not using a sample and messing with the envelope then I use Vital quite a bit. It's free, looks good & it's a great synth to start with and has some cool modulation possibilities. Quite a few psytrance tutorials for it (DAS GLITCH on yt has quite a few).
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I'm going to check that out, thanks! Been trying out kick 2 and serum so far. Serum makes complete sense and can get a decent bass sound out of it but with kick 2 I'm struggling hard.

I figured the kick/bass is the foundation of any track so putting all my time there at the moment
 
Harmonic said:
I'm going to check that out, thanks! Been trying out kick 2 and serum so far. Serum makes complete sense and can get a decent bass sound out of it but with kick 2 I'm struggling hard.

I figured the kick/bass is the foundation of any track so putting all my time there at the moment
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Personally I'd get a few kick sample packs and have fun making tracks rather than getting too bogged down synthing your own perfect kick, especially if just starting with the production stuff.
 
saor said:
Personally I'd get a few kick sample packs and have fun making tracks rather than getting too bogged down synthing your own perfect kick, especially if just starting with the production stuff.
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Yeah that's a good point. Being a complete noob, where's a good place to look? Probably more on the psytrance side than the techno side
 
Harmonic said:
Yeah that's a good point. Being a complete noob, where's a good place to look? Probably more on the psytrance side than the techno side
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/waiting for fresh psytrance beats to drop.
 
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