I wish I could play, but musical school is only free here for very young children, and no way I am affording a paid one now…
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Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 months agoThen bandcamp and SoundCloud for you lol. But encourage your friends and neighbors to play music, too. And bring your instruments to their houses and have them bring theirs for yours. And you never gave to play in public or record anything. Just get together and be bad together. Its what our ancestors did. They weren’t good. They just did it to enjoy themselves. And our modern culture factories have taken that away from us in a time when we should have more free time than ever because we’re more productive than ever
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Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Start with a drum. Bang out a rhythm. Be unbothered by being a bit off offbeat
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 months ago
First - instruments are unaffordable as well, a school would at least lend one to you. Second - you won’t be taught good technique like that. I don’t even know notes!
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
For sure. You gotta save up for them. I’m recommending nabbing something second hand and originally crappy. Whatever the drum equivalent of an Eart guitar is. And then, because its a drum, you don’t have to worry about notes. Just bang something out. And don’t worry about technique. I’ve watched enough professional musicians use bad technique through the years to say with confidence to not let that stop you. I realized earlier I’m basically advocating rewilding music. Cannot emphasize enough that I really mean it when I say I recommend embracing being bad. Don’t self edit. And if all this is too much, write clumsy poetry. Just make some art at home. Draw with sidewalk chalk on your streets. Sing badly while you go for a walk. Whistle, poorly. Whatever it is for you. But a really radical thing we can do as a form of protest is to make our own local media apparatuses
IAmNotACat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Haha for sure. I agree with all that. I’m a professional musician and play with random locals in pubs and friends all the time. I would say there is quite a healthy culture for that in Ireland.
I was mainly interested in software (that isn’t Spotify) that would allow me to explore more musics.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I’m always on the hunt too. Its frustrating. Spotify consistently doesn’t let me know about new releases I’d be interested in, and just boils everything to the most business friendly songs. Bandcamp has served me the best at being like “here’s the weird shit”