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Are you a musician?

Poll ended at Thu Feb 13, 2025 4:36 pm

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Sadan
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Postby Sadan » Mon Aug 24, 2026 12:52 am

Might Delete Later wrote:Everyone that listens to rap seems to say this, so lemme ask yall rap fans:

Is rap really dead?

No. It might be somewhat losing it's grip on being the biggest genre. But there's always innovative stuff coming out
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A m e n r i a
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Postby A m e n r i a » Mon Aug 24, 2026 1:00 am

Sadan wrote:
Might Delete Later wrote:Everyone that listens to rap seems to say this, so lemme ask yall rap fans:

Is rap really dead?

No. It might be somewhat losing it's grip on being the biggest genre. But there's always innovative stuff coming out


I still write and translate raps, although it might be a while before I rap on cam again.
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Cole Whyte-Gurney
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Postby Cole Whyte-Gurney » Mon Aug 24, 2026 1:47 am

Produced a bit of rather dated and generic EDM as an exercise on using filters and overall structure. Still quite pleased for about three hours of messing about.

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Cerespasia
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Postby Cerespasia » Mon Aug 24, 2026 8:35 am

Anyone here listen to Chernikovskaya Hata? Songs like Belaya Noch', Nochnoe Randevu, Chio-Chio-San and the like?
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Might Delete Later
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Postby Might Delete Later » Tue Sep 01, 2026 4:55 am

Anyone here listen to Let God Sort Em Out? I revisited it and damn, it's one of the best of that year. Only skip is All Things Considered.

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Lusitanic
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Postby Lusitanic » Tue Sep 01, 2026 12:20 pm

Might Delete Later wrote:Anyone here listen to Let God Sort Em Out? I revisited it and damn, it's one of the best of that year. Only skip is All Things Considered.

A lot of my friends say it’s really great, but personally I don’t care for it.
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Republic of Jaliserra
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Postby Republic of Jaliserra » Tue Sep 01, 2026 4:37 pm

Anyone here listen to manifest? I would recommend listening to "Hileli" and "Toz Pembe".
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Cole Whyte-Gurney
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Postby Cole Whyte-Gurney » Wed Sep 02, 2026 8:39 am

People interested in making their own music might be interested that Reason are releasing some of their tools for free. Sadly it's VST3, I hate VST3

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Abserdia
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Postby Abserdia » Wed Sep 09, 2026 5:19 pm

I picked up guitar earlier this year and I've been enjoying it a lot. I've even been messing around with GarageBand and the FL Studio trial to help me learn, you know, basic theory and such, and playing with that and composing really tiny 2-voice pieces with the MIDI instruments has been a blast too.
Today I looked up a tab for a pretty simple and very short song that I like, and a tab did exist for it but it's not very good at all, so I figured "Hey, they've done most of the work, so I'll just fix up the weird jumps and missing notes and use this as a learning opportunity." I downloaded MuseScore and went to work.

Transcription is hard.
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Recommend me shoegaze and ambient music.

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Daritheon
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Postby Daritheon » Sat Sep 12, 2026 1:27 am

Abserdia wrote:I picked up guitar earlier this year and I've been enjoying it a lot. I've even been messing around with GarageBand and the FL Studio trial to help me learn, you know, basic theory and such, and playing with that and composing really tiny 2-voice pieces with the MIDI instruments has been a blast too.
Today I looked up a tab for a pretty simple and very short song that I like, and a tab did exist for it but it's not very good at all, so I figured "Hey, they've done most of the work, so I'll just fix up the weird jumps and missing notes and use this as a learning opportunity." I downloaded MuseScore and went to work.

Transcription is hard.

I actually just started learning guitar (classical) last week. My fingers hurt, my left wrist is anatomically wrong, barre chords are a government psyop, and I'm pretty sure my guitar is cursed. It's going great!
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Abserdia
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Postby Abserdia » Sat Sep 12, 2026 8:58 am

Daritheon wrote:
Abserdia wrote:I picked up guitar earlier this year and I've been enjoying it a lot. I've even been messing around with GarageBand and the FL Studio trial to help me learn, you know, basic theory and such, and playing with that and composing really tiny 2-voice pieces with the MIDI instruments has been a blast too.
Today I looked up a tab for a pretty simple and very short song that I like, and a tab did exist for it but it's not very good at all, so I figured "Hey, they've done most of the work, so I'll just fix up the weird jumps and missing notes and use this as a learning opportunity." I downloaded MuseScore and went to work.

Transcription is hard.

I actually just started learning guitar (classical) last week. My fingers hurt, my left wrist is anatomically wrong, barre chords are a government psyop, and I'm pretty sure my guitar is cursed. It's going great!

Stick with it, a lot of the things that are giving you trouble now will become much, much less intimidating very soon.

My fingers actually haven't bothered me much. Not in terms of pain, anyway, and I was using a steel string with way too high action.
I think it's because I spent the early weeks very conscious of how little pressure is needed to fret, and I sometimes even took my thumb off the back of the neck to drill that into my head. My arms do most of the work to fret.
Practicing barre chords can hurt my fingertips (and the skin of my index), but that's a skill issue on my part and is usually a sign of tension.

I'd really like to try a nylon string sometime.
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Slembana
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Postby Slembana » Sat Sep 12, 2026 4:02 pm

On this day 30 years ago, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Amaru Shakur, died, 6 days after being shot in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.
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Postby Australian rePublic » Sat Sep 12, 2026 4:12 pm

Slembana wrote:On this day 30 years ago, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Amaru Shakur, died, 6 days after being shot in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.

May he rest in peace
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Might Delete Later
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Postby Might Delete Later » Sat Sep 12, 2026 4:50 pm

Slembana wrote:On this day 30 years ago, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Amaru Shakur, died, 6 days after being shot in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.

Wasn't Keefe D just tried for his murder a few weeks ago?

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Revived Unclear
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Postby Revived Unclear » Sat Sep 12, 2026 4:51 pm

I don't have a opinion on it myself, but I've been seeing Slipknot's new song get quite a bit of hate. They have genuinely been going down the shitter for awhile now, especially when they fired Sid recently
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Slembana
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Postby Slembana » Sat Sep 12, 2026 4:58 pm

Might Delete Later wrote:
Slembana wrote:On this day 30 years ago, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Amaru Shakur, died, 6 days after being shot in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.

Wasn't Keefe D just tried for his murder a few weeks ago?

He was indeed.
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Armeriea
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Postby Armeriea » Sat Sep 12, 2026 6:55 pm

Revived Unclear wrote:I don't have a opinion on it myself, but I've been seeing Slipknot's new song get quite a bit of hate. They have genuinely been going down the shitter for awhile now, especially when they fired Sid recently

Did they give a reason why they fired him? I’m not a huge Slipknot fan so I’m not following this.
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Lusitanic
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Postby Lusitanic » Sun Sep 13, 2026 11:37 am

Slembana wrote:On this day 30 years ago, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Amaru Shakur, died, 6 days after being shot in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.

The greatest rapper of all time passed away 6 years ago after being neglected by nhs personnel.
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Postby Slembana » Sun Sep 13, 2026 11:41 am

Lusitanic wrote:
Slembana wrote:On this day 30 years ago, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Amaru Shakur, died, 6 days after being shot in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.

The greatest rapper of all time passed away 6 years ago after being neglected by nhs personnel.

MF DOOM? Yeah, that guy was awesome. Wouldn’t call him the greatest, though.
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Natkr
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Postby Natkr » Sun Sep 13, 2026 11:48 am

Lusitanic wrote:
Slembana wrote:On this day 30 years ago, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Amaru Shakur, died, 6 days after being shot in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.

The greatest rapper of all time passed away 6 years ago after being neglected by nhs personnel.


RIP Doom.
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Postby Yorsa II » Mon Sep 14, 2026 4:00 am

Lusitanic wrote:
Slembana wrote:On this day 30 years ago, the greatest rapper of all time, Tupac Amaru Shakur, died, 6 days after being shot in Las Vegas. He was only 25 years old.

The greatest rapper of all time passed away 6 years ago after being neglected by nhs personnel.

remember

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MF DOOM

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Postby Republic of Jaliserra » Mon Sep 14, 2026 6:38 am

Yorsa II wrote:
Lusitanic wrote:The greatest rapper of all time passed away 6 years ago after being neglected by nhs personnel.

remember

ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MAN NAME

MF DOOM

if were talkin rap/hip, I enjoy Kool Keith (and his many albums), Quasimodo, Andre Nickatina, Deltron, Tommy Wright III, Outkast, and Halcali

I lowkey kinda like Outkast and Halcali. I feel like I'm starting to like Indian (somewhat) and Turkish (girl group) pop
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Postby Chess Socialism » Mon Sep 14, 2026 8:22 am

Green Day is in serious competition for my favorite band at this point.
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Postby Lusitanic » Mon Sep 14, 2026 11:19 am

Slembana wrote:
Lusitanic wrote:The greatest rapper of all time passed away 6 years ago after being neglected by nhs personnel.

MF DOOM? Yeah, that guy was awesome. Wouldn’t call him the greatest, though.

Other than popularity and nostalgia DOOM bears pac in every category.
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Postby A m e n r i a » Tue Sep 15, 2026 5:08 am

Chess Socialism wrote:Green Day is in serious competition for my favorite band at this point.


Their music is good. Also they're quite based for a group of Americans.
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