The Musician's Gig Room Chat V1 - Songwriting and Sound Design for all! - Creationism Corner

I've played guitar casually for years, taught myself some stuff and got to an intermediate sort of level. Always played just as a hobby but recently felt like it would be fun to actually play with people. Thing is, I'm not really sure I'm good enough to play with a band, ideally I'd have some friends who play to just mess about with but I don't really know anyone who plays anything. Any advice on finding people at a similar level to play with just for fun/to learn? I'm 22, in the UK, and not in a major city which makes it hard.

The UK's ratio of musicians to non-musicians is unusually high - just look at how many really famous bands come from Britain. Saying all that, it can be rather difficult to find musicians, although there are websites where you can search for it.

There's nothing recent for which I've not provided some feedback, and I provided some feedback without adding one of my tracks on this page, as I actually really enjoy hearing other people's stuff. For this reason, I hope you understand me adding something here sans feedback, although I don't even know why I am worrying about this as it seems pretty obvious that this is okay. I actually thought I had posted this before, but I realised that I hadn't when I was scrolling through the last few pages listening to various uploads by you guys. It's an instrumental piece, and it's partly improvised, but I think it turned out rather well and I think people who are a fan of film soundtracks might enjoy it. Creative title, as always! ;) https://soundcloud.com/mikehawkbiscuit/blahblah

you're really good on the keys. this song makes me sad in a good way?

It shows, the mixing is quite good. I do like it once it starts to get into the main body of the track but the intro melody sounds quite strange, it's very chaotic and doesn't seem to be leading anywhere. It sounds really nice even though it was recorded on your phone. Sometimes bad quality recordings can actually give a certain bit of charm. You've got a nice sounding voice too. I really like this a lot. I'm a sucker for this kind of atmospheric stuff. The first half reminded me a bit of carbon based lifeforms. After hearing your last track and this one I really like your stuff man. Subbed. I actually think I prefer this one over the other but it's because I love instrumental piano pieces. I was surprised I liked it so much considering the lack of a lot of bass and the hard panning but it actually sounds great. I think it could use some panning to the left to balance it out but other than that it's awesome. ___________________________________ K so I think I haven't posted since newpunch became a thing, anyway here is some track I've been working on. It started out as some melodic minimal thing but after putting in that bass I changed it up completely. https://soundcloud.com/athloneshots/huh

There's something weird happening with your link. Perhaps it was renamed or something? I can't play it and when I go to Soundcloud it says it may have been removed. It was nice to see somebody provide so much feedback for everybody so I didn't really want to not listen, but alas, I cannot! Let me know when it's sorted.

Yeah sorry sorted it now.

I like the vibe of the bass. Makes for a good ambient kind of sound.. it did feel pretty simple and 'minimalist' in it's own way. I really enjoyed the rhythm and vibe of the track overall but would have liked to hear some more progression/change throughout as I feel it would have done well to really capture my attention more so and get me more hooked into the track. It's been a while since i've listened to one of your tracks, I still have one of your old tracks in my liked soundcloud tracks. I like this, very moody, good to hear you're still making music dude I haven't posted on newpunch yet so. I used to do my rounds here AGES ago probably under the nickname inzal. I'm still doing the music thing but it's been ages since i've shared anything or finished anything. I'm gonna try and get more involved here again because i'm tryna get back into music a bit more but it's been hard to find the time and space for it.. just doing what I can with a notebook for now. Here's my last 'finished' bit of music from way back when. I've been playing around with stuff heaps in between but haven't finished a project since. https://soundcloud.com/dejafuoz/montreal Here's more of what i'm working on nowadays. This track is far from finished, I really want to rework my drop and rebuild the drums completely in ableton... I'm writing the project up in fl and want to export everything to mix/master in ableton when it's ready to go https://soundcloud.com/dejafuoz/placeholder

Hey yall! Long time lurker, haven't posted since the last collab album. Finally getting to the point where I feel like my work is worth showing off, so thought I'd start participating. I'm constantly blown away by the variety of different styles in this thread, always makes me think like "man, how can I make something like that?" since it's so far from what I've grown used to. Love that bass! How do you get that kind of rattling, broken engine sound that it transforms into? Sounds really cool. I like how it sounds like it's building up to a crescendo at 0:40 then keeps going to squeeze out a little more with that rattling sound; kind of subverts your expectations of where it's gonna go. As you said it could use some more melodic variation in the second half to set it apart from the first. Don't really like 1:03 to 1:06 where it's only wubs, felt kinda empty compared to the rest of the first half. Other than that it's pretty solid. Sounds badass and a little sinister. Here's my newest track. Right now I'm working on mixing classical instruments like guitar and violin with synths in a way that feels natural. Trying to emulate Justice's style a bit with this one. Relatively close to final, but I recognize there's still some pacing/repetitiveness issues that need dealing with, especially in the opening. If you get bored feel free to skip to the 50 second mark. https://soundcloud.com/seanmcfarlane115/wayfarer

It's cool. Very self-reflective in how it's laid out, in my eyes. I Would be cool if you could develop the descending arpeggio that starts towards the end, actually. Perhaps some new voices or samples could be an interesting addition?

I really dig the sound you've got going here but I feel this track needs to be a little more "full". Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems you're missing some lower freq and maybe even low mids. I'd suggest finding some more bassy stuff to fill the mix up a little.