Yeah cassettes never went away when it comes to punk. It’s a cheap way to distribute your music in physical form as well, which is a big part of why it’s so present in punk and indie music.
Yeah I wouldn’t even agree with the depth, it’s not like all the braindead yet-another-american-high-school-dramas with no substance ever went anywhere, no plot, no nothing, just the same regurgitated melodrama and idiocy dressed for yet another generation. Even shows that would be actually great apparently need to have some bullshit drama and gratuitous sex in it for absolutely no reason at all.
Exactly, tons of things have been born from, as Bob Ross would say, “happy little accidents”. I always highly encourage everyone to learn to, at least sometimes, embrace the mistakes and accidents that happen. Random accidents and chance are great spearheads for innovation and inspiration and can make something unique.
So he just wanted to traumatize his kids - for fun!
…but I think that’s a good point. Once the work is out of the artists hands it lives a life of it’s own. It’s a pet peeve of mine when people start bickering and bitching “well no the song/book/movie means this and not that, dumbass, we have the artist on record saying so” like it means anything. I mean sure, it means something, but in the context of personal interpretation it’s pretty much meaningless unless it matters to the interpreter. There are so many layers to it and interpretations and how we experience any kind of works is subjective.
On October 25, 2019, I woke up, hungover again, after grabbing just a few hours of restless, pass out sleep, and called in sick to work, again. I lay there, wallowing in self-hatred and depression, my head pounding and my stomach queasy, and I was just desperate not to have to live like this. I opened up the note app on my...
Just have to ask, did you feel shitty more often than not?
Like I don’t get hungover 99,9% of the time. I just don’t want to exist for the day and most of the time, no matter how much I drink, I don’t feel like shit the next day. Then again I’m drinking every day for years now. I never got hungover like anyone I know even when I didn’t. I feel like if I got hungover I wouldn’t, but I don’t. I drink so I can kind of, skip the day, kill myself for just one more day without dying. I wish I could find the motivation to not drink, but I really don’t see a reason to exist.
I’ve had a couple of days this year that I didn’t drink and I feel like all of my creativity, all the music and art just comes bursting out, but I’m just so tired of this life. Not this life. Like, I woke up choking on my own vomit a year ago, and even that wasn’t enough for me to stop, not all the incredible creativity just flowing through me. I don’t want to stop. I want the world and the life around me to stop. I feel like I’m living in hell and I really don’t want to face it. I’d just rather exit stage left. How do you find the motivation? I really don’t see how things could ever change. I’m just kind of wondering if it’s the, like, feeling shitty after that helps people stop drinking or are you people just built different.
Sorry if this is too triggering, it can be deleted if needed.
Ok I’m definitely profound. This just made me smile and “Always look on the bright side of life” started playing in my head and my shitty morning turned into a better one. THANKS OPANON.
I’m imagining toddlers growing up to hate their parents’ music taste, because they already fucking hated it when they played it to them when they were a fetus in utero.
The dad hyped up “fuck yeah I’m gonna teach this kid to love Slayer because I’m playing it to him now when they’re in there!”. And then they hate it like “THIS IS WHAT THAT SHIT WAS, I HATED IT ALL THE FUCKING TIME, FUCK YOU!”
Like there was for a while the whole “Play Mozart/Beethoven to your kid in the womb and they’ll be smarter” and shit - there’s no way everyone universally likes classical music. I know several older people who don’t enjoy music at all, which just seems bizarre.
It’s not like every kids gonna pop out and be like “That Mozart’s Requiem was some shit, man! Play it again!”.
Yeah well dumb people will try dumb ways to magically make their dumb kids smart. Wicked smaht. We played them Mozart 24/7 so they’d be smaht and look at him. So smaht. And the kid grows up to be an insomniac serial killer who grew dissecting any animals they got their hands on.
If she ever expresses an interest, maybe even without, buy a guitar and learn with her. Like you’re teaching, but you’re actually learning with her. Bonding x1000. You can both sing or take turns if it’s too difficult to play and sing from the get-go.
She’s a beauty, better looking than my first one. Just one point no one has raised before (maybe it’s headstock confusing me) - if you’re left handed, you might want to tape some of those knobs (and especially the wire, with extra padding) in place, or you’re gonna keep hitting them and the jack - you can definitely use the switch-handedness to do such cool volume/tone sweeps, but if you notice you’re constantly hitting the knobs unintentionally, lots of people tape them.
Also like some commented to an extent, you don’t need an amp, especially if you have a smartphone or a basic computer - you can test out a lot more options and figure out what kind of a sound you like if you get whatever type of stuff you need to get to connect your guitar to a computer. Tons of professionals don’t even use amps and instead use virtual amp models. You can do so much if you can just connect your guitar to a computer or smart phone.
Depending of course what you’re doing and and what you’re aiming for, it’s perfectly fine. I’ve learned most from improvisation - if it sounds right, it’s right, you really shouldn’t be too rigid and analytical and technical. Again depends on what you’re playing, but too many starting players of any instrument focus too much on “playing right”. “Playing right” doesn’t mean in any way limiting your creativity and imagination (unless you’re aiming to be an orchestra player).
If you’re playing classical music or black metal or something then sure, it’ll do you good to learn where the scales are etc., but if you really feel like “adventuring”/“exploring”/improvisation is more your thing, go for it. There is nothing there that might hinder your ‘long term’ learning or progress, everything, every concept and thing you can learn from focusing on more “technical”/analytical stuff is there to be learned from anything you can listen to, just by listening. It might be easier for someone to learn from musical theory (and it is a great format to share and learn ideas), but that’s simply not the case for everyone. Just play. Don’t be a gearhead, it’ll do wonders for your sound and playing.
No problem. Like, they literally have these tests (the name escapes my mind right now) in conservatories etc where you just, play and let loose, just improvise, not like a solo, just, play some shit along with the piece. I never really got good at reading music, but I understand all/most of the concepts transmitted and I always felt like I was dragging my feet trying to force myself to think more technically and analytically. Ever since I stopped I’ve written more songs and music much more amazing than I ever did before. Like I even go to lengths to avoid it and tune my string instruments into all these weird fucked up tunings so I don’t even learn to rely on muscle memory, because it will happen - so I’ll just find the sounds that are right.
Sure you can make songs at an amazing pace and sound like the fucking Beatles if you follow the circle of fifths and stuff, but the soul of it is somewhere completely else in my opinion. You can hear it, you feel it when it’s right. Follow that intuition and fuck the rest. There’s a threshold in music theory up to which, if you learn (and you absolutely don’t have to) can help you - basic concepts: what are intervals, scales and the very basics of how chords are formed, but really you play with your ears.
If you think about some of the most amazing musicians, they started with shitty broken down instruments. Like with blues, people literally started with just a goddamn wire strung up on a piece of wood with two nails and they’d become some of the most amazing players in the world. Or players literally growing up playing with a guitar that has just a couple of strings and when they got good enough their teacher gave them a guitar with all six. You don’t need all that bullshit to play and be great or let alone enjoy yourself and the music you make. All you need is a fucking string nailed to a board and creativity. Let it fly. Follow that intuition.
Sorry for these walls of text I’m not on mobile.
e: I’m sorry I can’t give you a link right now, but I highly recommend looking up people, kids, literally kids from like Africa, there’s plenty on Youtube, that are playing on instruments they literally whittled from shitty pieces of wood with like, knives or something that play these shitty instruments they made, better than anyone you know. Instruments that absolutely “sound like crap” with probably fingers filled with splinters when people who have had great instruments for all their life couldn’t carry a tune to save their life, because you can find a good sound and tone and touch from even the worst instruments. And don’t let it be disheartening, let it be a testament to the raw power of creativity and imagination, because that’s what it is. Creativity manifesting itself in it’s purest form!
Ah I think the head stock (that’s where the tuners are) is just flipped for aesthetic reasons and it just made it look like it’s a lefty :D I think it’s a cool look either way.
Amps are great and especially if you’re located someplace you can get used stuff cheap go for it! Even if you get an amp I highly recommend looking into amp models as well. “Starter” amps get you well on your way, but with amp models you can try out different sounds, tones and you don’t need to shell out money to buy pedals from the get-go just to see if this or that effect is something you actually want or need, tons of free options even. Like I said - tons of professionals, even people you might not suspect, play and record a lot of stuff on virtual amps and effects, especially in the studio.
It really is amazing how good amp models and effects have become over the past 20 years. So many pedals are fully digital these days it’s mind blowing how great the sound is. You don’t need to go too many decades back in time when people went to amazing lengths to get a good reverb (physical string and plate reverbs) etc, and sure analog stuff has its’ own sound but even great amps these days are made fully digital. Look into something like an iRig or similar for a cheap (also on-the-go) option to connect your guitar to your phone or computer (sorry actually I think the Rocksmith adapter might do the trick already). Nothing wrong with going both ways. Just be prepared to have any living space full of gear from now on. GAS/Gear Acquisition Syndrome is real and you’re going to fight yourself over whichever gear you’re gonna want - in which digital stuff will help.
e: Also to add, Rocksmith is an amazing place to start and I wish I’d had it when I started.
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On October 25, 2019, I woke up, hungover again, after grabbing just a few hours of restless, pass out sleep, and called in sick to work, again. I lay there, wallowing in self-hatred and depression, my head pounding and my stomach queasy, and I was just desperate not to have to live like this. I opened up the note app on my...
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