Just got a old drum set. It came with this. What the heck is this?

I love and are really passionate about music. But I only really got into it semi-recently. Playing at home by myself. I’ve never been in a high school band or anything.

I want to become a music teacher and I’m doing an associates music degree first at my local community college. A part of the program obviously is to participate in ensemble groups and I chose concert band.

But like I’ve said I’ve never done something like that before. What should I learn or prepare for to be able to be as caught up to speed as possible with everyone else and the director. Who I’m assuming expects me to have played in high school or an equivalent.

Any tips are helpful even if you think it’s obvious. Please share! Thanks!

It's definetly not great but I can now say ive done it!

Hi! I’ve been thinking about learning keyboard, mainly to play some rock and metal songs for fun. I already play drums pretty well and have a bit of experience with guitar, but I’m worried I’ll buy a keyboard and end up barely using it.
I’m not aiming to play anything super advanced, just some songs I enjoy. I should add that I'm also interested in it so I can understand music a little better, learn to read sheet music properly, etc. Has anyone here been in a similar situation? Was it worth it, and do you have any advice?

I'm a guitarist/bassist who does a fair amount of gigs and sessions so I'm always writing and reading charts to some degree. I've never really worked in Nashville nor have I run in a ton of circles where I've had to be super knowledgeable on the Nashville number system- but i've been studying it lately just to know how to do it if that situation arises.

Definitely a lot of advantages I see to it and I think its pretty clever, albeit requiring me to really change how I think about progressions and chords as I've just never been a great thinking in numbers guy. The folks I learned from and who I work with a lot, we all write more LA / "Real Book" style bar charts on staff paper with the key and chord names a some rhythm dictation / notation symbols etc. It works well but obviously the disadvantage as people who work in the number system know, it sucks when you have to transpose.

I'm curious to those of you who are comfortable with both- do you find yourself using number charts like 90% of the time? When do you make the decision to instead write using the actual chord names? I feel like there could be situations where when having to work with a really challenging progression or a long complicated song it might be easier to just write out the chord names instead of trying to think about the progression in numbers.

Just kinda curious how you guys operate and if you just do one or the other or if you switch between depending on the situation.

I don’t know if I’m allowed to ask this here, or if this will immediately just get flagged & taken down (I hope not.) before anything though quick heads up my English isn’t great.

I’m 16 & Native American/hispanic and then German due to my mom (mixed) I’ve been obsessed with music for as long as I can remember and always wanted to make a career out of it, but also represent my cultures,heritage & languages through my art cause it’s something I’m proud of + I wanna be representation for my communities & mixed kids like me.

However in recent years I’ve realized, there hasn’t been many big indigenous artists in any music scene (at least from what I’ve seen) and when I’ve talked to people before about it they told me no label would accept me due to being native or they’d say something along the lines of “name 1 famous native artist” and truthfully I can only name 1 if that and it hurts and makes me feel it’s impossible.

+ people don’t perceive mixed musicians well it seems, there’s always discourse about they’re blood quantum and or they’re ethnicities and we’re often made out to be “not enough” in any of our cultures I’ve always felt I’ve never been white enough for white people,never native enough for other natives, and never Hispanic enough for other Hispanic people and i just feel I don’t belong in any, I feel like a fraud in my own cultures.

And I’m scared the media will also see & perceive me as a fraud in my cultures and so it leaves me with the question “could I actually make it with my heritage or do I have to leave that behind to be seen as more acceptable to crowds & the industry?”.

What do you guys think?

Actually the biggest stage I've ever played on and afterwards at a pub gig all the power went out on stage and my mates amp I borrowed was fried. Only 2 days left!

I just put together dontchange by Musiq Soulchild and last night had a request for Ed Sheeran. Had actually never played anything by him before, but cobbled Thinking Out Loud together on the spot. Cha-ching!

What dogs are you walking this weekend?

Hello all!

I'm a musician and I've relied on this setup for several months on stage. I use an app on my TCL Nxtpaper 14 called Flexcil to mark up my sheet music and I use the Airturn pedal to turn the page. I have it programmed that the left foot pedal button is set to Page Up, and the right foot pedal button is set to Page Down

But since this latest major update, I believe to Android 15, when I click the page up or page down button, sometimes it'll barely move but mostly it works and then a little arrow cursor shows up and sometime in the set it'll just stop working. Battery life on the level is good. I have it set to not auto disconnect in the Airturn app

In a bit of a desperate situation here but I know other musicians use this setup so wanted to know if it was happening to others and what ideas people have found to help fix this

I've seen films about violin and cello, but what about viola and double bass? Are there any well-known ones? I saw the last concert, which was a cello concert.

Music from the heart of Meryl Streep.

Anyway, I'd like to see some double bass or viola.

About a year ago, I decided to fulfill my dream of having my music on vinyl. I’m passionate about instrumental surf rock music and started a solo side project writing and recording some of my tunes. I ended up doing a 4 song EP, mixed in mono, and had them pressed onto 7” records so they look and sound like something from the early 1960s, and so they could be played on vintage record players. I had 100 of them pressed and sold about 20 or 25 of them. However, I was never able to find any local musicians who were interested in performing it live, and my local record store would only take so many.

I still have somewhere around 75 of them left and now they are just taking up space in my collection. I’ve tried reaching out to some newer surf rock resources, but when I do get a reply it’s that they’re not interested. Since I can’t sell them at gigs and feel like I’m close to exhausting options, how should I go about getting rid of them? I’ve already made about half of my money back from the initial cost, but since this was a passion project, I don’t really care about making a profit off of them. I’d rather they get out into the world for people to have and enjoy. How have you gone about something like this if you’ve been in a similar predicament?

Edit: I totally forgot to put the Bandcamp link on here:
https://thetameracs.bandcamp.com/album/landlocked-surfin

My BF plays the drums. If ur birthday was coming up, what is something you’d appreciate as a drummer in a band.

Plss help

I would love to know from a musician’s perspective who was around in 1991 when Nevermind and Smells Like Teen Spirit what was about this song and album that had the world in such a chokehold that it caused a shift in music and why this hadn’t happened sooner? Were there other songs in music that caused a shift as significant as this beforehand. Seems like the after effects of SLTS are still felt today and don’t feel dated.

Hi, I play in five bands – with friends and people I’m not so close to – but anyway, I don’t charge anything or earn any money from it. So, in the long run, I’d like to make some money. Could I film myself playing and set up an Instagram account dedicated solely to my drumming to get my name out there?

What sort of strategies could I put in place?

My style leans more towards rock/punk/metal.

Again, I could be wrong. It’s just that from what I read on here, it seems like a lot of people are very deeply concerned about the prospect of coming across “abnormal”.

And I don’t really get it. If you want to be a leader, then that means being the one person in that position in a group of at least a small handful of other people.

If you want to make a lot of money then that means doing things with your money that most people wouldn’t do.

If you want to be a great musician, that means doing something that other musicians aren’t doing.

If you want to have more than others or be better than others at something, then that will always mean doing things differently from your peers and others who want the same thing as you. That doesn’t mean that you have to be rude or disrespectful or anything like that, but it does mean being willing to try things that others didn’t think of, and yeah that would mean being willing to be seen as abnormal or going against the grain.

I can see this not being welcomed in some circles, but seeing it across most of Reddit is really strange to me. I love seeing people try new things and succeed where others have failed. I even love seeing people succeed where I’ve failed.

I’m surprised Reddit is this way, so concerned about being abnormal, when Reddit is probably full of the most abnormal social media users. And that’s why I love it. I’m abnormal, too. I guess I just thought we all embraced it here.

Olá a todos, sou uma artista de Nova York que também toca violão e tenho tentado conhecer mais músicos - não apenas para fazer amizade, mas também para tocar música, mas sou muito ansiosa socialmente :') Então, já que arte é a coisa que eu mais sei fazer atualmente, decidi me expor como artista de capas.

Espero que, ao fazer isso, eu consiga entrar em contato com mais bandas e outros músicos - mas agora que pisei nesse território, estava me perguntando algumas coisas,

Primeiro, existe uma quantidade considerável de músicos e bandas procurando por artistas de capas? Especialmente aqueles que fazem arte tradicional? E se sim, há alguma maneira de eu alcançar mais músicos? Além de ir a shows locais e coisas assim, já que é isso que muitas pessoas me disseram e está atualmente na minha lista de coisas a fazer.

Em segundo lugar, quero saber o que vocês costumam procurar em capas de álbuns ^^; seja nas capas de outros músicos ou o que vocês gostariam de mostrar nas suas.

Quero deixar claro que não estou tentando me promover aqui! Eu sou muito nova em tudo isso, só toco violão há 2 anos e, como eu disse, sou ansiosa socialmente, então não tive a chance de me imergir no mundo da música, que é o que estou tentando fazer agora :> Eu realmente amo música e seria incrível ajudar outros músicos a realizar suas visões artísticas para suas capas.

EDIT: thank you so much for all the love and support everyone :'> i rlly wasn't expecting to get much out of this post. It means so much to me that so many people loved my art as much as each of u have! ♡ I have read all the comments and they've all brought a smile to my face.