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What was responsible for you deciding to learn a musical instrument? Did your parent/guardian enroll you in music lessons or did you decide on your own?
How old were you? And, if you chose to learn on your own, what inspired you to want to learn?
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Perhaps the greatest rock band of all time weighs in on Ozzy, Autotune, reverb, and other important topics. A must watch from the rock GOATs.
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For anyone who is going on the road to tour with a band, this is a must-watch for lots of useful tips.
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I used to run a Facebook Group called “Kindness” years ago. I suppose I was very motivated to do that when my kids were young and I wanted to impress upon them the imporrtance of kindness and caring for others. I would post inspiring stories and quotes about people doing acts of kindness in the group. While I stopped posting in it, I thought this…Read More
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So, I was compiling lists of the best free audio production videos for the NEW Audio Production FORUM, using videos that I’ve saved in playlists over the years. Please join in these lists and add your own recommendations — and in my feed on YouTube was a video that seemed like it knew me. It was titled, “How to Mix Your Sh*tty Vocals.” I cracked…Read More
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I love Ben Folds Five — his stuff without them is nice, but man, these three guys are great together, a perfect fit.
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What have you actually learned from your influences?
We can all list the artists we’ve been influenced by, but I think it’s more interesting to list the things you’ve actually taken from them.
For example, I would say that I’ve learned how to do bends from Jimmy Page.
Melody from David Gilmour.
I don’t play bass that much, but most of what I…Read More
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This is such a great question. But it’s one that takes time to respond to. (I did respond earlier, but somehow, it was deleted).
I have so many influences that taught me various things. For songwriters, I’ve learned from everyone that’s moved me. Because I grew up with a musician and music teacher mother, and my mother’s education was classic…Read More
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This just appeared in my YouTube feed and I really like it! AI did a damn good job with this, but slipped up with the background vocals.
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Another one.
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LOL!!!
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My daughter — who is in HS and sings in the school choir — and has an appreciation for much of the rock music I love, except for Zeppelin, sadly — had a very negative reaction to me playing this AI song for her yesterday. She responded, “I’d rather hear real human beings cover the song in that style than AI. No thanks.” I still had her…Read More
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The guys over at Production Expert made a post about the demise of software subscriptions. I think it’s a little hopeful. But if we keep the discussion focused the DAW-related software industry, it’s pretty clear that most of the Millennials and older buyers LOATHE subscriptions. I’m careful to make a clear distinction between what I’d like to…Read More
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The only sub I have ATM is EW Composer Cloud that was $88 a couple months ago (1 year). I already own a few of theirs and it gives me chance to spend a year with everything I don’t have. I think the “fairest” option for DAW licensing (as a user) is the Bitwig / Studio One model. Pay for a year of updates and everything stays working as is…Read More
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Anybody else got AYAIC’s M3 product? It’s a pretty impressive tool for the mix stage of a project.
If the author’s science is correct (all based on the concept of universal laws of level planes) it makes a mix rather quick and more accurate compared to this amateur’s mixing skills.
I took a project where I had applied all the EQ, compression…Read More
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Your pick for the song with the worst lyrics ever written
Share as many songs as you like. Quote the lyrics, and, even better, include a link to the song on YouTube so that we can hear it for ourselves.
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One of my son’s college roommates is studying etymology, and for some reason, this song came to mind and I told him, if he wants to amuse his classmates, play it before a class. Michael Jackson wrote this and sang background vocals for his sister. You need to see all of the lyrics for this one, but here’s just some of it:
“But when the centipede…Read More
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My vote (tongue in cheek) is Mah Na Mah Na. Really the BEST lyrics because I had the whole song memorized since I heard it for the first time in 1969. It still worms around up there and spills into my consciousness every once in a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc760ioVf0A
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This version was on a playlist I made for my kids when they were little. Don’t tell me you haven’t sung along with it!
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I have multiple submissions for worst song lyrics. One of the Hall of Shame worthy lyrics is certainly Meatloaf’s Anything for Love:
“Will you cater to every fantasy I got?
Will you hose me down with holy water, if I get too hot?”Not to be outdone is Justin Beiber’s song Yummy:
“Yeah, you got that yummy-yum/that yummy-yum, that…Read More
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I have no idea who it is or song name,but I was flippin through the radio one day and all I heard was “hey batter batter batter hey batter batter”, so annoying, supposed to country.
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Kesha, Timber:
It’s goin’ down, I’m yellin’, “Timber”
You better move, you better dance
Let’s make a night you won’t remember
I’ll be the one you won’t forgetthe verses aren’t much better
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I am a big Robbie Robertson fan and I finally got around to watching the doc about The Band. Sharing in case anyone interested. The doc is good. A lot of stuff I already knew from before. Some stuff I didn’t. I didn’t know Dylan lived in pink house with them for 6 months and thats when they made basement tapes for instance.
I am also a Band fan,…Read More
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Robertson was huge to me in my working musician days. I was a devout Christian– that’s why I turned down Veruca Salt. Roberson, like Bruce Cockburn, seemed very authentic artists who didn’t exploit their faith for marketing purposes, but were legitimately talented artists that were great storytellers.
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Man, what a tough day. I have way too much going on today and tomorrow and spent this morning troubleshooting the site. Everything should now be working fine. I believe I located the plugin / script that was causing the problem (which brought the site down).
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As I bought tickets for my son and I to see a Chicago Cubs game before he goes back to college and there’s now a 100 percent chance of thunderstorms, I started singing this song. I had to play the video so my son would know it.
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Good darn question. In no particular order:
Paul McCartney
John Lennon
Freddie Mercury
Roger Daltrey
Paul Rogers
Except for the first two, this list will change in one hour.
In the FWIW category I saw a chart once comparing Freddie Mercury’s highest sung note (not a scream, but a sung note) and Paul McCartney’s. Both covered FOUR FULL…Read More -
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Freddie Mercury
Paul Rodgers
Robert Plant
Steve Wash
Steve PerryThere are a lot more I would include, but they aren’t so well known or didn’t have much output, such as Jeff Buckley.
HONORABLE MENTIONS – not all technically great, but these singers have tremendous character in their voices.
Chris Cornell
Ann WIlson
Steven Tyler
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I’m not really a rock guy so my picks would probably the standard icons. However, there is this one guy in the deathcore genre (you know, just screams and grunts, no clean ‘allowed’), Will Ramos from the band Lorna Shore. The things he does with his voice are out of this world.
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He had a great voice. I was just talking about his voice the other day when I was out with my family and a Boston song came on. Of course, Tom Scholz guitar and organ playing was also excellent. Foreplay/Longtime was a staple of my childhood and everything about that was perfect, IMO.
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Freddy Mercury
Brad Delp
Steve Perry
Robert Plant
Ian Anderson (prior to voice issues, circa 1970 and before)
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13 years old. Christmas 1970 I received a $30 Tiesco electric guitar that I asked for. I took lessons for about three months and just kept playing. Started giving lessons myself a few years later. Memorable year because that Christmas morning Jupiter, Venus and Mars were all near each other (in conjunction) in the pre-dawn sky. My Dad’s love of…Read More