u/Slow-Flounder-3267

Genine question.

Are people just sitting down and trying to write a song in 5-10 minutes and then throwing their hands up and saying, "I can't come up with anything, I guess I have to generate everything with a vague prompt with AI?"

Folks, every time you sit down and decide you want to write music, you're not going to necessarily produce something that will become a song.

Patience and persistence in creating a beautiful piece of art that you're satisfied with takes time.

I used the “Promote” feature with small budgets of $5-$15 per video and targeting different countries just to experiment.

I used videos of my original songs, which to be honest are just lo fi folk songs without mass appeal, and titles like “Emotional Nostalgic Song | Song title | Artist name” and some photography of landscapes and the song title in the thumbnail itself

But honestly, I don’t know what to make of it. A certain small subset of viewers according to studio analytics actually sat through my songs, but I never really get any comments and likes are pretty few and far in between.

I guess I expect an occasional comment like “cool song” but nothing.

It’s a really strange change in behavior because between 2006-19 or so I could post (non music) videos of like workouts, me speaking other languages etc and I’d always get comments. My assumption was that music is more interesting.

Well, you live and learn.

Hey all, and I mean no disrespect I see a lot of people posting stuff about electronic, ambient etc. but that's not really my cup of tea especially with no vocals.

Anyone here make more guitar, piano and general instrument that includes singing? Let me know I wanna hear your stuff. Thanks!

At some point an EP was released with a few rare st anger songs live. I cannot find it anywhere. Does anyone know? Can it be bought on live Metallica?

All this talk about artificial fake sounding nonsense motivated me to start a new concept, a live album of me playing with no mixing whatsoever, just the raw .WAV files. Pulled straight from the recorder and uploaded.

Here it is, so far on Bandcamp:

🎧 https://zanealexander1.bandcamp.com/album/as-petals-drift-live-field-recordings

https://preview.redd.it/263ky43x2t0h1.jpg?width=1401&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07e570cc5ac0f47220f1f258a7168e3d4f9823e9

I'll be adding more as I go on, I have something like 25 original songs I've recorded studio versions of and a few more done or close to done that I might just debut live.

I encourage you all to do the *same* thing. Get yourself a field recorder- I use the Zoom H1 Essentials, put it a good distance in front of you (you can play around), and just play sing, and show people. Say "This is me."

If you've done something like this or just want to share recordings in this style of yourself, go ahead and post it I'd love to hear.

Recently I got back into writing my own music. One of the things I've gotten into doing is seeing what other independent artists are doing.

Deception

So getting on Facebook, I joined some songwriter and musician groups. I'll often see people posting a song and saying "I just wrote this song with my friend on guest vocals"- with this being an explanation for all of their songs having different vocalists- because they were AI generated.

So I'll find myself clicking on their bandcamp, youtube, or spotify or whatever, and digging it. And then I start looking for things like credits- who played what. And then I realize, I've been duped, the whole thing was AI generated.

Delusion

A lot of people think that, because they write the lyrics, or they "describe" what they prompt, it is somehow "their" music and "them" doing it. And they'll go on rants and defend it.

It's gotten to the point where unless I turn on a song and it has imperfections in audio engineering, vocals, or clearly human played instruments, or the person has clips of themselves playing.

In both cases, I can't seem to figure out what motivates people. Part of me wonders if people are trying to make a profit off of misleading streams.

At some point I'm just wondering- wouldn't it just make more sense to buy a $100 guitar and learn?

Well, that's it from me. Stay real my fellow musicians.

I attended recently, the staff and attendees were very nice and friendly. Talented people did some great music and even some poetry. Staff member who did sound was great too. I’ll definitely be going back. If anyone is an artist who plays there post here

Greetings! I’m an early 30’s guy from the U.S. and longtime polyglot. English is my native language and I’ve learned a few languages to high fluency or at least a conversational level such as French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

I’m intermediate to absolute beginner in Italian, Swedish, German, Turkish, Persian, Romanian, Tagalog, Arabic, etc. I can also explain to you concepts and correct you with the languages I know well.

I’m a programmer and interested in music (listening and writing), cooking, Gaming, etc.

I’d like to exchange with people around my age or older so we are at similar places in life.

Please message me letting me know what your message is about and a little bit about yourself. I won’t respond to “hi” type messages or general low effort messages or people with blank or creepy profile activity.

I’d like to exchange with people around my age (so say 29+) or older so we are at similar places in life. Thanks!