I’ll rant for a minute but I want to remind you guys that probably 90% of you are music fiends. Nobody comes on this stupid board. You should make music and do it if you actually care about it. I’m about 8 years in. Sure I have basically nothing left but music but it’s better than having anything else. I had no confidence but I decided to drop out of college when I didn’t know much about music at all really. I should have started when I first got obsessed. I had one person encourage me though, and it was enough and probably you spend your time on here just like I did going through too many albums for no other reason than I had nothing better to make myself. You should just pick up something and do something totally on your own. Yeah learn some things about music. But honestly it’s fun just putting pieces together and even if it sucks at the beginning it probably won’t eventually. That’s not even the point. People, anybody who is left on this shit, I think you should do it sooner than later because honestly I realized everything else was just a waste and built on insecurity. For the love of god if you care about this shit, go make something better and more creative than the dogshit out there. I realize this is very reddit, but I felt like ranting. Maybe the corona is kicking in or some shit
I’ll rant for a minute but I want to remind you guys that probably 90% of you are music fiends...
You know what, i appreciate this post because it obviously comes from a very earnest place, thanks user.
I guess in my case, there are a couple of things holding me back from really investing myself completely in making music. One is that i'm starting at a late age, and i have absolutely zero experience with making music, haven't even laid hands on an instrument in my entire, so it's a very daunting challenge and i kind of feel like i missed the boat. Secondly, i have immense anxiety when it comes to spending a large amount of time with something because by then i'd start thinking about everything else i could be doing instead. I get terrified from thoughts that i'm spending too much on music instead of trying to give back to my local area, or trying to be a good person and help my entourage with their daily lives, or sacrificing a possibly useful job opportunity just for the self-serving sake of music. So i took the loser route, accepted that i'm a talentless hack, and keep pondering everyday on whether or not i should kill myself0
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>One is that i'm starting at a late age, and i have absolutely zero experience with making music, haven't even laid hands on an instrument in my entire, so it's a very daunting challenge and i kind of feel like i missed the boat.
This. Never listened to music consciously in my life until I was 17. Fell in love and couldn't stop listening to new music after that. Worried that I was too old at that age to learn an instrument. Didn't bother.
Now I'm 24. And now I realize I really am too old to learn now. Wish I just took the dive and started on guitar or piano 7 years ago like I wanted to. The boat has sailed for me now. Realizing I love music so much, but I can never make my own, is hell. I wish that my parents had actually bothered to introduce me to music as a kid, forced me into piano lessons or some shit.
we can only blame ourselves for our mistakes, we made a conscious choice and now we have to live with it. that's the harshest truth about laziness.
truthfully, you still can learn music and be good at it to certain extent, but you're not gonna be a master. it's a matter of expectations really.
I just think that it’s not about age. I was 21.. I really don’t think people care about age that much. How old is fuckin Bruno Mars? It’s not the 1960s
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your brain gets slower as you age, that's the biggest problem, your ability to process new information becomes weaker and weaker as you go along, as well as the issues of time
The time I can agree with but it’s about fun. You really don’t lose that much as you age. Creativity doesn’t work like that. A lot of fantastic albums have been written by people older than you.
Just fucking do it guys. You’re dead before you know it and as long as you live you have to choose something, choosing wrong is better than not choosing at all
Fuck listen to this guy. Excuses are literally what kept me from starting when I was 14 or some shit
Oh, you're the guy who keeps whining about being too old in your opinion to start playing guitar.
yes people older than me and with a heck of a lot more experience than me too
almost every single artist that i love and read about has been making music ever since high school at the very least, and it makes me depressed like a sack of shit
life of the talentless
That’s absolute shit and you know it. Van Gogh was like 26 when he started drawing
>Van Gogh was like 26 when he started drawing
Idk I feel like physical art is different. Like with music it really is insane how there are just NO good examples of true late bloomers. There isn't anyone you can point to and say "well they didn't even touch an instrument or write any music until 21+, but then they went on to be successful in music". Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. It just feels like every single time I love an artist or a band, I look them up and see "they wrote their first song at age 10", "they started learning guitar at 8-12", "they produced their first beats while in high school". Like there are no idols for late bloomers.
first of all, van gogh is a once in a billion talent and a true eccentric as well, so this comparison is completely wrong
second of all, before he started painting he studied the shit out of the art form and was close to some truly creative souls, so he didn't start from scratch
And you’ve listened to music for how long now?
Don't you have something more reasonable to be depressed over?
I mean what is your big hold up man? That you won’t like it or something??
This guy whines about not having started guitar at a young age, but won't even try to learn. He's a lost cause. Just give up, because he has.
There's two of us in this thread, the more depressive posts are some another user, not me
That's a good point, I do sometimes have "ideas for songs" come into my head, melodies and "riffs" and shit, or piano melodies, but obviously I have no method to then translate those ideas into real music. Or maybe I'm just a delusional retard with an ego big enough he thinks he's making "ideas for songs" despite being a total talentless musiclet. Idk.
about 8 years
i am pretty fuckin depressed about a lot of shit in my life and truthfully i don't even know what it is that i should make an effort towards, aimless and confused little shit that i have become
yes that's right, i'm terrified of spending a lot of time on it and coming to the realization that i cannot surpass mediocrity and that it would be my limit, and then i'd beat myself up to death for making music instead of something else i might have been better at
No you aren’t a complete egotistical fools. Obviously you’ve rationalized everything around doing it. I did the same thing.. saying shit like oh those guys on stage are special.. no, not really.. they like music..
Dude nobody who has gotten into music has ever regretted it.. however it seems like you seriously regret not making music. So you just start. Let it fucking suck at the beginning. You should just look at it like getting better
>and then i'd beat myself up to death for making music instead of something else i might have been better at
I'm not too worried about that myself. I feel like I would rather be "someone who is mediocre at music" than "someone who can't play or write any music at all".
Still I can't bring myself to start. Cause I'm scared I'll be too much of a fucking brainlet to comprehend how to play an instrument. Scared of falling at the first hurdle.
i know this sounds immature, but i'm scared of the idea of closing some doors in my life, making big choices and specifically making sacrifices.
maybe my vision of art is completely twisted (it probably is) but as much as i really adore it, in the end it's basically a way to suck your own dick, jerk off your ego. some people are gonna be aroused by it, sure, but it isn't really helping in a way that truly matters, you're not building hospitals or providing food to the weak. in a political context for example, music is just another form of protest, it doesn't really do much for a particular cause. that's what scares me i suppose.
sorry if this offended anyone.
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You're probably overthinking this. What could you possibly lose by playing a guitar instead of posting on Yas Forums or playing video games?
Ok save it
you are correct, i have a vicious tendency to overthink things. i don't post on Yas Forums very much and i don't play video games anymore. i mostly listen to music obsessively. occasionally i do some labor work, make some dumbass videos, try to not fail in uni, and dwelling on the past. not that much better eh ?
i don't know how to divide my time honestly, what if instead of learning the guitar i was learning how to fix my car ? or learning how to do some work around the house ? or even just learn how to be a proper man and take care of my family in case any tragedy happened. this is what keeps me awake and frightened.
does anyone actually know any good sites & boards besides this one?
I really don’t care about making music, I just use it for it’s emotional response it gives me
I just wish I knew how to create the sound I am going for. I don't really know much about the creation of music
depends on what it is that you're looking for