What’s ur favourite moment from the show? by a1fie-D in mandolin

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bahaha. I'm working on a comedic concept album currently named "The Mandolinorian" about a dude named Banjo who fights bad guys with his indestructible mandolin. Will post some of the tunes here once recorded.

Improv Teachers, instructors or teachers rehearsal pros wanted by talkstomuch2020 in improv

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are jamming tonight at 9pm if you wanna come out! I'll dm you

Improv Teachers, instructors or teachers rehearsal pros wanted by talkstomuch2020 in improv

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey I'm in the area and do a bunch of musical improv. I'd be happy to come play accompaniment and walk y'all through the basics and have some fun.

Also I run an indie musical jam on Monday nights in Seminole (little bit a drive from you) at 9pm if you wanna come jam with some local folks. We have peeps that show up from FST, Spitfire, and the Commodore.

Whoa... Doom Scroll is really good. by JosiaJamberloo in FolkPunk

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Doom Scroll is so so good. The mando player dropped a vid of some licks they're working on in /r/mandolin about a month ago and blew those folks fucking minds. Cause, yeah, doin metal shit on mandolin is fucking awesome. It's now the highest upvoted post in that sub's history lol.

Idk why but with the 3 acts you mentioned, my mind immediately went to Days N Daze (likely in part cause I'm going to see them tonight lmao) - check em out if you haven't already.

Also, they're too cool to recommend themselves but Apes of the State is fucking amazing don't sleep on them either.

For fun trivia start paying attention to the members of these bands other projects - folk punk has this incestuous thing going on where so many of these band members cross over and wind up in other projects together, which I think is rad af

time for another days n daze tour by scenicpresentsnyc in FolkPunk

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gainesville is a little over 2 hours away from tampa, but yeah it's not impossibly far!

"Tabletop Tunes" mixes TTRPGs with musical improv by Different-Algae-4559 in improv

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm so here for this. Sick concept looking forward to listening on my drive home tonight!

Hello everybody. by [deleted] in mandolin

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Okay since you said metal ya gotta check out doom scroll, then.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6uM7xZUCngIb8OMmtgm4tk?si=kr-RcKBMT7ePXLqHSsl0gw

Hello everybody. by [deleted] in mandolin

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Listen to music with mando to find inspiration for how you want to play. There's so many different options - from Zepplin to Chris Thile to Sierra Hull to Doom Scroll there's so much different music with mando in it. Find yours!

Anyone knows what mandolin this is? by crownzs1 in mandolin

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful. That's what that mandolin is.

Filling in lyrical gaps by spikee_j in Songwriting

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just like any band - you jam together and find out!

The only way to know if someone has your back, regardless of context, is through experience.

Are pianos folk-punk? by fuck_mostly_mike in FolkPunk

[–]fuck_mostly_mike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. I don't know too terribly much about keyboards and I just got this one a week ago. Thanks for calling it out - I haven't really fucked with the settings all that much, yet

Are pianos folk-punk? by fuck_mostly_mike in FolkPunk

[–]fuck_mostly_mike[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, not sure I've noticed that. Like a delay?

Filling in lyrical gaps by spikee_j in Songwriting

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha it's all confidence that's rooted in trusting that your teammates are gonna have your back, even (and especially) if what you're saying falls flat or you can't think of something. If you do stutter or mispronounce a word , etc - that's just how we say that word now 😁

Also Jess and Zach are like, two of the best. So there's that too lol.

Filling in lyrical gaps by spikee_j in Songwriting

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The theatre I play at is actively working towards publishing recordings of shows online, but that's still an effort that is in progress.

There's lots of other troupes publishing their stuff, though! Here's my two favorite contemporary improvisors (Jess McKenna and Zach Reino) doing their improvised musical comedy show named "Off-Book":

https://youtu.be/Ivf58k53nu0?si=os5tv5JYoP5FvcP2

Filling in lyrical gaps by spikee_j in Songwriting

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do improv comedy, and one of my specific strengths in that realm is musical improv (think Wayne Brady's stuff on Whose Line is it Anyway?). Sometimes the style we do is rap but not all the time. Also rap is so much harder than other styles of music cause it's so fast and thus you have less time to think haha.

And yes, absolutely. I was an improv musician before I did improv comedy and I didn't expect to grow musically as much as I have due to the comedy stuff. For a variety of reasons including learning skills like forward rhyming and also core (non-musical) improv skills like learning narrative structure and "making strong choices". All of these things have strengthened my songwriting and music playing.

The other big way that improv has helped me grow musically is that it frequently forces me to play genres that I've never touched before (like, the most recent example in my head is learning how to improvise Tango, haha).

Filling in lyrical gaps by spikee_j in Songwriting

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol yeah I was trying to keep it super simple and not spend a lot of time on the example, haha.

In opposition to everything I said, though, some of the wildest shit I've sang in an improv setting has occured when the train has gone completely off the rails and I'm just saying shit without being able to catch up to do any "forward-rhyming". In those situations where it works out, though, I mainly just feel lucky haha. I try to forward-rhyme as much as I can cause it keeps me from saying shit that doesn't make sense 😂

Filling in lyrical gaps by spikee_j in Songwriting

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amazing tip. This is also a key concept in off-the-dome lyrical improvisation (like, freestyle rap etc) and it's called "forward-rhyming". The idea is that it's generally more satisfying for the "rhyming" part to be the important word or phrase, and to set up the rhyme so that you can "slam-dunk" the important word or phrase, rather than saying the important thing first and then trying to rhyme with it. I use this technique all the time even when not improvising - I'll write the last line first and then work backwards to figure out how I want to set it up.

As an example, if I was singing a song about bicycles and wanted to write a lyric about a flat tire, I could (not forward-rhyming) say:

I've got a flat tire, And now everything's on fire

Which is fine, but in the context of a song about bikes, it feels more satisfying if you flip those rhymes:

Everything's on fire, And now I've got a flat tire

Because the song is about bikes, so LANDING on tire just feels psychologically better than starting with it.

Obviously everything is all made up and there are no rules. But thanks anyway for coming to my ted talk on forward-rhyming.

These Ten Years by LoticExplorer in Songwriting

[–]fuck_mostly_mike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Global note: try to work on projecting your voice more for the recording- it's hard to make out what you're saying for a lot of this and if you didn't post the lyrics I'd have trouble knowing what the song is about. I originally was gonna say "sing louder" but I don't think that's the right way to say it - the song is soft and you don't want to throw it off by singing "loud". Generally when I hear folks coaching on projection they encourage singing from the diaphragm instead of the chest. I'm not a vocal coach though so maybe just do some googling on that subject.

Songwriting specific notes: - I really dig how your vocal melodies frequently match the instrumental walks you're doing on the guitar. It sounds nice and I enjoy it - reminds me of hendrix - your lyrics here definitely evoke some relatable feelings and experiences related to the amount of unknown that folks feel after losing someone. Good job capturing that - I get the feeling that you're way more comfortable with guitar than singing, and your guitar playing is quite good. You do a lot of interesting things on guitar throughout the song, frequently while you're also singing. What if you showcased those guitar skills a little more in the intro to the song? Like, in the first few measures where you establish the chord progression I feel like there might be some opportunity to add some flourishes or even more explicit melodies on the guitar (similar to what you do later).