Music bros report in

Music is a gamble user. It seems that nowadays it's not just about originality but also you have to be socially influential. All of these big artists are outgoing extroverted people that know how to market their music and make things happen. They don't have the burden of being mentally ill to the point of being completely reclusive and dormant. I don't have enough motivation in me to do all of that which is why I haven't gotten far with it. Good luck.

Yeah you're right. I don't want to be 'big' and besides it just wouldn't be possible with the type of music I make, but a few thousand plays each time I put out a new song would be nice.

What you say is true even for the lower level of music though. It's only the ones who are supremely social and popular and confident in themselves who get a following because the market is totally oversaturated with reasonably good music. Well produced music is too easy to come by and people just don't even notice it anymore, the only people who get support at the lower levels are people who others want to support for social reasons.

Which is why music needs to change and that's why I'm trying to do what I am doing. I don't care anymore if anybody laughs at my idea or if nobody pays attention, I am still committed to it and I know it's been difficult and exhausting. Fame is not that great.

I think the horse has bolted to be honest, I don't see any big change coming other than things trending in the same direction as they already are.

The music industry has been ruined by "financial concerns" since the 80s, things are more democratized lately but no one seemed to predict that the paradox of choice would actually stagnate things further. People used to rely on radio and MTV to find what they liked, within which you had maybe 100 options at any given time which you can choose your favourites from. Now people have to rely solely on what is trending, which can only be a small few artists at a time. So you get odd examples like Billie Eilish and Lil Pump racking up views into the billions because of their meme potential, then the levels of exposure drop exponentially for the next most prominent artists. A microcosm of this occurs within every genre and subgenre too.

I don't know the answer to this but I'm not expecting millions of faggot kids raised on snapchat and tiktok to suddenly realize the artistic potential of underground music any time soon.

Well duh, you are right about what you said and none of that is new to me. I don't expect these little zoomies to appreciate experimental music let alone the old classical music tradition. I still feel driven and compelled to do what I am doing even if that only means my aunt or some random dude from one of my music theory classes cares. I can't relate to those artists anyways. I see myself as totally different from someone like Billie Eilish.

I make math rock but I dont have a drummer, so I've just got a couple albums written on guitar

Just make it with midi drums bruh it's easy as fuck

Well then faggots are either of you going to post what you've made? Play us something so we can judge you

I agree that music has ironically become less variant. The large share of the market is still run by the same big corporations even though there's more music options out there. They would rather focus on pushing marketable artists to as wide an audience than risk with unknown musical styles. There's no reason they couldn't up the game, maybe they know people will realise that there's a lot of artists out there and they won't be able to hypnotise people

Here's one I made

vocaroo.com/30mVdufDThT

Actually it seems like the mainstream side of the industry is becoming more homogenized in recent years. I was watching a thing about top of the pops from the 90s and there was rock, techno, eurobeat and various other genres as well as typical pop music. The biggest difference between then and now is that they were actual representatives of the genre like the Prodigy and Nirvana, rather than a manufactured facsimile of it working within the strict pop music framework.

I think part of the reason is that people with more refined musical tastes have just retreated to their own subcultures because it is so much easier now. You don't need to hope that an artists makes it big so the one record store in your town will actually stock them, you can just go straight to Spotify and play their entire discography with no effort. So the people who are heavily invested in music have a diminishing influence on the mainstream because they don't need to have anything to do with it anymore.

i'm a rapper/writer/poet, i started really writing a year ago. I have a blue yeti, and a ~400$ laptop with FL Studio. (barebones life)

this is really nice i want to use it

My gear is:

Various guitars
Presonus studio 2/4 (small interface)
Presonus E8 monitors and 10 inch sub
Alesis 24 key midi keyboard
Pretty decent gaming laptop with SSD, i7, 32gb ram
Reaper
A whole bunch of pirated software

i've been making music for 7 years under dozens of different names. i started playing guitar in middle school before becoming a noise musician in high school. after i was kicked out of the noise scene i was in i started making beats. after graduating i was rejected from music school because i don't play a "real instrument" now i just make whatever i want and be angry and resentful. i have two guitars and an amp but i only use my computer for music now because i hate guitar. i don't know how many songs i've made but my estimate is around 2000. here's one of them vocaroo.com/hTswVJnii7Y

started producing two years ago and still suck fuck me mates

>i was kicked out of the noise scene i was in
What the fuck does this mean. Explain yourself.

Post your stuff we will tell you if you suck

That is pretty cool. Biggest criticism is it doesn't have enough variety, I got a little bored of it because it starts strong then stays strong then drops away then just goes back to the same thing. Good sound though.

here's something more dynamic voca.ro/aPu1IZbw8yX

Yeah I like that one.

how do you get into producing? there seems to be a high barrier to entry, any tips or recommendations?

>Can easily download software for free which will run on almost any computer from the last 10 years and learn to use it to a professional level from youtube tutorials alone
>High barrier to entry
Nigga

Download a DAW, figure out vaguely what kind of music you want to make then look up 'how to make X' tutorials on youtube. You've still got a lot of work to do from there but it's a start.

shit you're right, it's just unnerving being lost, i'm going to go deeper in the forest rather than standing put.

Here you go.

View on Vocaroo >>

I'm the guy that was talking about wanting to experiment in music. I just whipped up this piano recording a second ago.

Yeah you just gotta get into it and start doing shit man. There's a lot to learn to do things to a really high level but there's also a lot of resources available so you just gotta start.

voca.ro/Uya0DGmm9G5

Sorry. I'm very tech challenged. Hope this works.

Haha fuckin retard. Sounds good though. Do you have a midi keyboard?