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I know basic music theory and have a shitty voice. where do i go from here?

>>577025
Pay egirls to feature you on her Tik tok it's the only way

>>577025
Depends. Do you know how to play any instruments?

I wrote this song last year after watching an anime, I was pissed at the hypocrisy:

Pretty Poison

Sticky sweet,
I wanted to believe…
It just felt so real to me.

Sickeningly sweet,
Hard to believe…
Your words are filled with poison to this day.

Drink the bottle,
Drink the bottle;
Killing hope and innocence.

Drink the bottle,
Drink the bottle;
How can you erase something so pure?

Sticky sweet,
I wanted to believe…
You were human after all.

Sickeningly sweet,
Rotting your teeth…
Thought your love was true.
(Well, is it?!)

Oh sweet poison,
Why did you deceive me?
I wanted to believe…
Your love was real.

Drink again,
Drink the bottle;
Your words make me ill.

>>577850
what anime?
Your lyrics sound a bit like onision wrote them tbh

>>577870
Anon she did nothing to deserve that

>>577879
anon wasn’t wrong though kek

>>577870
It was an anime I watched since childhood. When I was a kid watching it for the first time; I thought the character changed and was really kind, hence the words “I wanted to believe”. I was taken aback with his narcissistic personality, ambitions and carelessness for others in order to reach those goals when the second season rolled around. It made me really sad at the time so I wrote the song in the mind of an 11-year old. When I read the manga a few years later, I was unfazed about it anymore.

Also ew, how dare you compare my songs to that degenerate piece of shit’s music? If I knew how to send recordings here of me singing it, it would never be classified as an “Onision song” otherwise.

>>578154
Idk about the sound of your music, but the lyrics really feel like onion wrote them. When I read them I instantly thought of Black Ink lmfao

This song is about Jesus and my first (amateur) recorded composition.

Run


When all is lost,
Who do you run to?

When life’s a fail,
Who do you run to?

(I want to run)
(You keep calling my name)

Why can’t I run?
I feel your presence near me
(You keep calling my name)
I want to leave,
I feel your strength within me
(I’m calling your name)

(I’m calling your name)
(I’m calling your name)
Don’t ever leave me…
(You keep calling my name)
(You keep calling my name
I feel you near me
(You keep calling my name)
I hear your voice in my head

(I’m calling your name)
(I’m calling your name)
(I’m calling your name)
Who do you run to?

Is it still rap if I rhyme in my songs?

>>578500
…yes

>>578500
What? Of course not.

How do you put yourself out there? Like, just soundcloud? Maybe try posting on reddit?

>>578396
this lowkey sucks. "when life's a fail" kek

I wrote a song about my golden child sister

>>586857
>I wish was treated so well
Meant “I wished I was treated so well”

My favorite DAW is Logic Pro X. Sucks that it's only available on Mac. Fruity Loops is a close second, but I hate how the piano roll doesnt lock notes to the tempo, but locks notes to a previously placed note.

This is a really dumb question but is there a way to make music if you're not super savvy with apps like Fruit Loops?
I'd love to make some simple gaming music for fun but I have no idea where to start.

I use Live and just got a hardware synth, the ELZ_1. Trying to make eletro/chiptune style music lately

>>586913
FL Studio is pretty beginner friendly. I'd just watch a few beginner tutorials and go from there.

If you're curious as to what proper composition looks like, try downloading some royalty free .FLP files or MIDIs. The Touhou MIDIs for example are all royalty free if you wanna play around and are about as classic gaming music as you can get.

https://gamebanana.com/projects/35179

So I’ve got a Minilab mk2 synth and been fucking around in Ableton but ultimately I have no talent and don’t know what I’m doing. My goal is to make music like the vid linked. How does one even go about starting to do that as a complete beginner?

>>591957
- The minilab looks neat, if it's not already working out of the box, try to find how to activate and control the volume/effect loop/pan of each different tracks of your project
- Find sample packs for the classical drum machines (707, 808)
- First try to lay out a very basic 4/4 loop, then expand and add variations once you have the basic sound and rhythmic feel.
- Find some VSTs for the synthesizers, or again just a sample pack, then build a basic chords progression. The synth in this track aren't too complex, it should be ok to reproduce for a beginner
- Look into sidechain gates (or maybe tremolo with high depth?) for those "cutoff" rhythmic effects
- Look into the first videos tutorial of the channel "you suck at producing" if you're really new to Ableton and have a hard time understanding the general workflow with Ableton

I keep making songs with singing parts that are too cutesy. It doesn't help that my lyrics are very literal. How to avoid?

>>591957
god bless you anon, you've brought back an ancient memory for me. i used to listen to this album in highschool while doing homework. totally forgot it existed until i saw that album pic

>>599397
Same, reminds me of discovering vaporwave for the first time in 2013 and listening to Eccojams Vol. 1 and Floral Shoppe on repeat.

Anybody know how much it would cost approximately to get a power board cleaned up and fixed? I recently bought a Korg M1R and it arrived with 5 capacitors blown, which is making all the sounds glitch the fuck out like it's on constant overdrive. Factory resetting only restored names. I checked online and getting a separate power board is about $70, dunno what would be cheaper, cleaning and soldering in new capacitors or just fully replacing it? I don't know how to soldier for shit so I'm most likely gonna have someone else do it for me lol

>>572851
sauce for op image?

>>600228
Carole and Tuesday

Oooh neat, we have a music production thread.

I'm currently suffering. I've never had this many tracks in a song before. And somehow I managed to master it properly.

I'm still endlessly seething over missing out on the Kontakt 6/native instruments sale on december. Do they usually have any other ones in the year or only around christmas?

Also, does anyone know more websites for good deals besides pluginboutique?

Is it even possible to meet musicians and jam with them online? I've recently started learning a new instrument but I have no clue where to find people to make music with because everything is closed irl.

>>745212
wanna know this too. i suck at the bass guitar but still want to collab haha

>>745212
>>745496

I recommend any of the following:
>Bandmix
>Kompoz (.com I think)

On the first one you can find musicians with like-minded taste and organise virtual jam sessions (outside of the website though). On the second you can post your track and people will propose added layers as needed (eg if you want to add bass to a track but you suck at it or you don't have the skills). On both sites I met (IRL and virtually) people with whom I could both work on music tracks and add stuff to their work, jam with (pleeeeeeenty of sessions thanks to both sites) and generally discuss a lot of stuff (in my case I play the drums so discussed gear, practice tips and websites to look out for etc).

The last one I could recommend is just go on your favorite band's website message board if it's active enough and find fans who play music directly from there. I had a lot of success finding amateur musicians way back when I started which allowed me to play with people at the same level as me. Advantage is we loved the same bands so knew the same songs and could learn to play together on something we were all very familiar with. We progressed all together and after roughly 3 years each learning our own instrument, we even put out a few covers of the band we liked on youtube (each recording in our own place because we were from different countries and then one of us doing some mastering of the final output - ahead of the covid curve somehow).

It's definitely possible to find people willing to rehearse and practice virtually, it's a lot more work than doing it IRL (which frankly was equally challenging anyway). There definitely might be better places than those 3 options (haven't looked at anything lately but with covid, I hope people got creative in the music solution department). Hopefully other anons have more ideas.
Sorry for the long post, hope that helps!

Sorry for the samefagging, just wanted to add I made a quick search and found that :
https://jamkazam.com/

Haven't tried it yet so can't vouch for how good it truly is but will report back when tested if anyone's interested

>>745613
>>745605
thank you queen

>>745605
>>745613
Thank you!

Acoustic fag here, I want to put my songs online but I only have a basic grasp of FL studio and no mixing/mastering experience at all.

Is it better to put out simple demos and look for a producer to collab with, or teach myself how to produce?

I really want my songwriting to be a side income for me within the next year, and I know it's more profitable to do it all myself. But if I'm not talented/passionate about production is it worth the slog?

>>745605
This sounds promising.
I'd like to sing on someone's track or collab with someone since I write poetry/lyrics. I know I have an objectively good voice but I'm shy about approaching people to work with.