Getting Started (AKA What is the best...?) • Re: What do you consider to be a musician?

I was one back in the 70s & 80's... Things are different now with many dumbed-down genres & simplistic lullabies with way too much FX, looping & loud drums which I guess is the instrument anyone can play. Many buy ableton or cubase thinking that they can now identify as a musician if they can pluck out a few octave hits & apply FX with automation... Doesn't cut it. There is a flow to it & starting out at 90 MPH in a tune at high volume leaves you nowhere to go. Music must be 'musical' thus the essence of the 'Muse' this can be in a positive or negative way but it must be in there... Selling it has nothing to do with it nowadays as anyone can throw together a construction kit then sell it online... If one has to use construction kits or buy MIDI chord packs then probably a different hobby would be more appropriate...

Most desktop dabblers nowadays can't even pick out a simple however popular tune & figure out the progression without resorting to some plugin or standalone which are commonly inaccurate...

Best way to test your music for actual 'Muse' is to take all FX OFF... ALL of them then listen or have someone else listen & see if it retains 'Muse' in standalone fashion. If it does then you are good to go but if it sounds real playskool then go back, do it right... Forget all FX until you do it right. If this cannot be achieved then throw everything on the shelf & listen to what others are doing that is actually good (getting harder to find)...

Statistics: Posted by eLawnMust — Fri Apr 12, 2024 4:18 pm

---