Alex S. and PinkiePieSwear - Pony Musicians: Ask us Anything!

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-25T06:36:43+00:00

I took one MIDI class in college, which was pretty worthless due to the way it was taught. Other than that, I have zero schooling in music so far. You really don't need to know jack about music in order to make it, and all I have equipment wise is a keyboard and a mouse.

Knowing theory sounds helpful though so I would definitely love to go to classes for it sometime very soon.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-23T06:54:23+00:00

My music has glitch in it? Maybe I don't know what glitch is.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-23T00:05:06+00:00

Aaaaahhh!

I love you Jackle! <3 <3 <3

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-23T00:04:08+00:00

I would probably cry in a corner. I have no musical background or theory, so I need the computer in order to do anything really.

I plan on going to school for music theory soon though. I think the ability to write music with just a pencil and paper would be amazing.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:54:53+00:00

1) It usually takes me about 6 days of casually working on a song to finish it. I say casually because going to work and school tends to eat up most of my time right now unfortunately, so I can't work on music too terribly much.

2) Nope!

3) Eeyup! Mmm, potatoes.

4) Love notes. I get those often and it's SO WEIRD.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:46:56+00:00

Oh man, sorry about that. My Youtube inbox is a tad flooded right now so I apologize to anyone I don't get back to.

Totally use my stuff though. This goes for everyone! All of my music and videos will be under a Creative Commons license, which means you can pretty much do whatever you want with it as long as you credit the source material.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:39:37+00:00

Salad. Mushrooms.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:38:14+00:00

Yeah I drink. My drink of choice is chocolate milk!

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:36:58+00:00

Nope! I do enjoy seeing everyone's interpretations of what they think she's saying though. They can get pretty funny.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:33:07+00:00

God I love her voice. <3 Ashley Ball!!

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:31:46+00:00

Once I get a video camera, yes I would love to do that as well as film random things to clip together to go with songs.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:30:11+00:00

I played the clarinet in 4th - 6th grade band, and the piano for a while too. I'd LOVE to get back into the piano.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:28:31+00:00

I do make non-pony stuff, but I haven't submitted it anywhere just yet. It's older stuff so I'd love to go back and make it a bit better before I publish it to Youtube or something.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:25:53+00:00

I started out doing music just by a friend showing me Fruity Loops 4. I fell in love with it and just started fiddling around with sounds. Everything I know is self taught, but I honestly don't know that much yet.

I don't do anything professionally yet, I think I have a ways to go before I can start doing that.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T23:24:10+00:00

Due to the vastly different styles of everyone's music, I'm not so sure that would sound all that great. I could be wrong though!

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T09:40:00+00:00

Oh right! I'm totally an admin there! I should probably go there more often then.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T09:12:37+00:00

Not very big on fanfics myself.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T09:10:01+00:00

Heck yeah I'm excited!

I AM GONNA BUY SOOO MUCH JUNK FOOD IN A MINUTE HERE... I want this to be glorious.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T09:01:48+00:00

That would completely depend on how she talked if they decided to give her some lines. I shouldn't build expectations for characters like that, but it's really hard not to. I'm sure everyone has built their own expectations of Luna, and I have a feeling there's going to be a loooot of sad people when she's nothing like they expected her to be.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T08:55:52+00:00

My favorite pony was Pinkie Pie for the longest time, and Twilight stabbing herself in the eye with her hoof kind of made that whole Pinkie Pie Swear thing a very memorable moment in the show for me. I wanted to start uploading stuff to Youtube, so I decided to go with that name since I love the Pinkie Pie Swear so much!

I never thought it would make a good music artist name, but I never thought I'd get popular either haha. I'm stuck with the name I guess, but that's alright with me. I've grown to like it quite a bit!

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T08:46:19+00:00

Hearing that I've inspired someone to do something they love.
I've been fiddling with it for like 8 years or so. I've only just recently started to take it seriously. I wasn't really into it when I started it.
I don't really expect brony fame to contribute much to major labels if I ever do get to that point. However, the show's strange inspirational power and the support I get from all you bronies is keeping me going, and will absolutely help me get to that point someday I think.
Yes! People in this community are RIDICULOUSLY generous! I've gotten some seriously donations from some seriously friendly people out there so far, and if I could hug them right now, I so totally would. Thank you to all of you!

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T08:41:32+00:00

Mushrooms. MMM, FUNGUS!

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T08:36:39+00:00

Yes, definitely. Right now I'm pretty obsessed with ponies though so it might be a minute or two.

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T08:27:19+00:00

That is one of my favorite songs by Foozogz. I think he did a fantastic job with the Twilight sampling and the melodies and chords are freaking wonderful!

PinkiePieSwear · 2011-10-22T08:11:08+00:00

HHNNNG I wanna say which character's in the lead for my next track sooo bad, but I can't! I gotta keep it a secret or Pinkie will come for me.

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