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Creative Arts and Media => Music => Topic started by: Switch on July 02, 2010, 05:38:54 AM
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So here I am thinking to myself, there's a few sites on ye olde interweb that cater to musicians spaced few and far between, no? Why not make some tunes for the forum? There's got to be more than a handful of players on this forum!
Report back if you're interested! :)
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i play...
i'm a saxophonist around the cambridge area, playing soprano and alto. i have my own chamber jazz ensemble which are in the process of recording, i play in umerous other ensembles knocking around cambridge and hopefuly i'm going to be playing either second or first alto in the cambridge university jazz orchestra next year. they fly everywhere and play man! it'll be a proper joy blowing with them.
i'm also a composer... almost exclusively algorithmic compositions through code. i havve composed and recorded a new piece which will be uploaded to my site anytime soon. www.joshdown.co.uk
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I'm a wannabe if that counts. Well, as it stands. :p
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The only furry musician I know about online is Tundra Fox, he has pawesome techno music! You can find him on furaffinity.
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Yeah, He's a close friend of mine.
I'm a trance artist!
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4081044
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I play the marimba (a Xylophone's big brother), I pretty damn good if I do say so myself. I was In band for 7 years, and still am involved in an independent music program. I love Music :D
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a Marimba, huh? That's quite the instrument, you know... I bet you can pull off some sweet solos!
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a Marimba, huh? That's quite the instrument, you know... I bet you can pull off some sweet solos!
This is my favorite solo I can play right now Gitano
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABurNH599Qk
BE AMAZED!!!!
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Cool video! is that you playing?
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Cool video! is that you playing?
No actually, I play it better :P I haven't posted a vid, but I think I might do it soon. (Feel like I'm just braggin now)
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Haha, nobody strokes their ego like a musician ^_^ (I would know lawl)
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I wouldn't really call myself a musician or anything, but I do some remixes and the occasional original piece over at furaffinity: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/hokaze/
It's been a long time since I've played any instruments though but I used to play the descant recorder for about 4 years or so, I played Viola for a year (I was terrible), I took a short course on Taiko Drumming when this group came to my school to teach it in weekly sessions and we all performed in the city centre for our last session. I've been to a few concerts to play with the recorder and in secondary school I've done some very basic keyboard stuff in the compulsory music lessons you take for the first 3 years (once a week).
But yeah, all that was quite a while ago now and I was never really that good at music. I got stage fright when at concerts with the recorder and would mess up a lot, I just plain sucked with the Viola and never got the chance to continue it and although Taiko drumming with several others is awesome and really enjoyable, we only ever learned one piece (which I can still remember how to play). I've never studied music theory or anything either so...yeah...I suck >.<
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d'you ever play vibes felixfox? check out gary burton, he's the shiz. you're playing there though sounds pretty nice and co-ordinated.
and flames... i'l check your FA one day. learning an instrument will help with remixes and stuff, even if you never play the instrument live. if you still have your viola, give it a go again! just learn to play some simple-as melodies... you'll be amazed how much it helps.
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d'you ever play vibes felixfox? check out gary burton, he's the shiz. you're playing there though sounds pretty nice and co-ordinated.
and flames... i'l check your FA one day. learning an instrument will help with remixes and stuff, even if you never play the instrument live. if you still have your viola, give it a go again! just learn to play some simple-as melodies... you'll be amazed how much it helps.
I've played vibes, xylo, marimba, and a lot of other instruments in the world of percussion as a matter of fact!
I've heard of Burton, I'm assuming he's the one who invented the Burton grip? Jazzy guy, he's really good.
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i wouldn't know about the burton grip... i would imagine it's a style of playing? ... the gary burton album i've always been taught is 'the' album is "Like Minds"... has Pat Metheny and Chick Corea...
he did some cool, much less jazz based stuff with eberhard weber too.
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That's right. A quick google search shows it as a way to hold two mallets in one hand (so four in all) while playing vibes/marimba.
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was gary burton really the first person to do that? i could swear i've watched vids of milt jackson in the 40s and 50s doing it. i'd have thought it'd date back centuries.
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There are multiple ways to old 2 mallets in each hand, the most common is the Stevens grip, the one I use mostly. A bit more advanced, but much easier to control once each mallet. The Burton grip is good for vibes because you can get a lot of power out of each stroke, It was made for cords. They both have pros and cons.
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i have been told! man i wish there were specific names for different styles of saxophone embouchure. i don't think it's possible to directly copy someone because everyone's mouth is set out differently... plus you can't actually see what they're doing on the inside
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and flames... i'l check your FA one day. learning an instrument will help with remixes and stuff, even if you never play the instrument live. if you still have your viola, give it a go again! just learn to play some simple-as melodies... you'll be amazed how much it helps.
Thanks. Unfortunately I never owned my viola so to speak, as it was one from school and I had to give it up when I moved from from my primary school to my secondary school just under 5 years ago. During the weekly music lessons we all took during the first few years of secondary school I did occasionally bring in some simplified video game music sheets and I'd try playing a few tunes if the lesson involved keyboards and whatever task we were doing allowed me to make use of the music I had.
I do occasionally use my laptop as a primitive keyboard, using my keys to replicate those of a piano and try playing randomly in real time but I don't do this very often.
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and flames... i'l check your FA one day. learning an instrument will help with remixes and stuff, even if you never play the instrument live. if you still have your viola, give it a go again! just learn to play some simple-as melodies... you'll be amazed how much it helps.
Thanks. Unfortunately I never owned my viola so to speak, as it was one from school and I had to give it up when I moved from from my primary school to my secondary school just under 5 years ago. During the weekly music lessons we all took during the first few years of secondary school I did occasionally bring in some simplified video game music sheets and I'd try playing a few tunes if the lesson involved keyboards and whatever task we were doing allowed me to make use of the music I had.
I do occasionally use my laptop as a primitive keyboard, using my keys to replicate those of a piano and try playing randomly in real time but I don't do this very often.
playing the laptop keys was how i started out as a musician! only having one octave irritates me now, but at uni i have several grand pianos to choose from to compose on. if you still go to school now you could sneak into the music rooms when you've not got anything better to do and just muddle your way through stuff. of course, only if you haven't got anything better to do XD
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playing the laptop keys was how i started out as a musician! only having one octave irritates me now, but at uni i have several grand pianos to choose from to compose on. if you still go to school now you could sneak into the music rooms when you've not got anything better to do and just muddle your way through stuff. of course, only if you haven't got anything better to do XD
Eh, I've actually got two octaves as far as I can tell with the software I use and default keybindings. I'm not in school at the moment and as when I go back I'll be in 6th form/college I probably won't have much free time, plus I can't exactly just go into the music rooms >.<
Thanks anyway though.
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how does two octaves work? ... hmmm... i suppose you have 4 rows including the numbers... am i right in that respect? the software i use only supports one row
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how does two octaves work? ... hmmm... i suppose you have 4 rows including the numbers... am i right in that respect? the software i use only supports one row
Yup, all the letters plus the number keys. I don't really play the laptop like that in real time though, especially as it's not one of the reasons why I use the software I do, seeing as I mostly use it to remix and compose using various editors rather than in real-time. I use LMMS by the way, the Linux MultiMedia Studio, which is open-source and free for Windows, OS X (may require more steps to install) and Linux.
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i've really gone off using DAW software to do my electronic stuff... i'm dead into aleatoric and algorithmic stuff, and so i use supercollider... freeware programming software with an in-build synth. when i do recording sessions and tings though, you can't code that kinda thing, so i use the university's pro-tools suits. i love pro-tools, i would buy it if i thought i'd ever actually use it. i use audacity to record my playing when i do so at home.
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Audacity is a really nice program, though I wish the interface had real-time DSP.
Can't even begin to think about Pro-tools/Logic yet. No point in getting top-notch software when my only mic is my laptop :( One day...
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i love audacity... it's nowhere near what i'd call "decent software" but it's free and does it's job... plus it reads 32 bit float which my music software records in (for some stupid reason, logic can only ready up to 24 bit audio).
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I've been known to dabble on the electronic side of things.
Couple samples of my work:
http://www.tunerooms.com/musician/LoneWolf
I have quite a few open projects. Writer's block stinks. :P
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I play a few instruments.
Bass Clarinet, Clarinet, Keyboard/Piano (nearly the same, am I right?), I can play one song on bells (Koi No Mikuru Densetsu), and I'm looking into playing Trumpet. Or Bassoon.
I compose some music, but I can never get it just right.
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I'm a music junkie...
Not necessarily a musician though.
I played piano for years when I was younger, and I really miss it. I just moved, so once I get settled into my new place I'm thinking of finding a cheap studio piano and putting it in my living room. (Though I'd rather have a real good electric piano, money is a problem lol!) I dabbled in guitar and drums. I want to learn bass. I am really into electronic music, though, and am currently working on projects in FLStudio. I'm not great by any means, but I'm getting better with time and practice. It's kind of one of my favorite things ever to do! Before I moved, I had a recording studio at my house because my friend is a producer and rented out my upstairs, so I've been lucky enough to learn from him. Sadly, now, I am all on my own. Sounds like self-teaching from here on in. I LOVE running Traktor, though, and mixing other peoples music. Especially at huge parties. DJ Laicey, at your service. :P
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I love music. So much, that if it was possible..I would make love to every amazing song that ever existed. And I would make it all about them.
Musician? I guess. I play violin, guitar, piano. Man, I'm so glad we support the finer side of life here :P