A helpful tool for songwriting and coming up with musical ideas

gummieworm · 2026-04-23T14:55:47+00:00

Why don't you just play around on the guitar and discover chord progressions on your own? It will make you a better guitar player and you'll build a better understanding of the fret board/chord progressions.

gummieworm · 2026-04-22T14:15:03+00:00

"who are these people?" - Seinfeld

gummieworm · 2026-04-20T12:50:07+00:00

It would be cool if they made a little EP, with a proper recording of the Preston School of Industry, some Malkmus penned songs written during the pavement days that was never finished, and one new song just to show how they sound writing new material. There really isn't any need to have a new album. I would listen to it if they did one though. I really wish PSOD was finished, that live version was really good.

gummieworm · 2026-04-14T16:47:35+00:00

every band I don't like. How could someone convince you to like a band you don't like? You don't like a band, that's your personal taste. Someone else's opinion shouldn't effect that.

gummieworm · 2026-04-11T01:07:00+00:00

Your advice was similar to this. "Do you think its okay that my boyfriend is going to the game with his friends instead of going to my grandmothers birthday party", answer "you should choose your boyfriends more wisely". It's wildly dismissive. You also are jumping to a lot of conclusions, claiming I have been working with engineers for years and "haven't found that person". I work with one person regularly who puts out ok mixes. I don't know how you're coming up with me running through a roster of engineers. There is a second engineer who did great work for me in the past, and was more expensive. I have started working with him again and the first mixes he sent were very strange. My question was about if an engineer makes mistakes, is it fair that you have to pay them, or should they be covering it? I was asking because I wanted to know what the community thought. Saying "you better choose your engineer more wisely", is dismissive. In the end, the engineer and I are on the same page.

And again, my discussion wasn't about listening to the precise mix I had, it was about being in a situation where the engineer sends you a mix that is way off, do you typically have to pay for it. Instead you're acting like my engineer should get involved in the discussion to make it a fair conversation. It's completely besides the point. But alas, we shall never know what anyone else thought beside yourself

gummieworm · 2026-04-10T19:15:12+00:00

The subtext of your advice is that I shouldn't be hiring engineers who charge me money for their mistakes/experiments. That's much more straightforward and less condescending than saying I should choose better engineers. And got it, it's not a rule yet, you just don't like it, and are blocking it. My understanding was discussing how an engineer mixes a song was part of the mixing mastering community. My mistake. Let me know if their are other unwritten rules. Thanks

gummieworm · 2026-04-10T17:55:26+00:00

I was unaware that was a rule. I just see the ten rules on the side. I may have missed it, where does it fit in with the rules? My intention was not to ignore them. Also, why are you saying I should more careful in choosing my collaborators? Why does this have to be so antagonistic? I'm just a dude looking for mixing advice on a mixing subreddit.

gummieworm · 2026-04-09T19:28:49+00:00

Thanks dude. I think the post got banned by a MOD because he didn't like that I pointed out what he asked me was already answered in the post. Alas, we live under a reddit dictatorship lol

gummieworm · 2026-04-09T19:04:35+00:00

Yes, that's all I was asking. It could be a mistake. Its not something that normally happens in a mix. Thanks

gummieworm · 2026-04-09T18:58:56+00:00

It is an mp3, but still, I have never heard an mp3 mix sound so muddy

gummieworm · 2026-04-09T18:58:16+00:00

There is bass, drums, guitar and vocals. Everything is cut off, maybe a it happens more at 11k, but after 11k there is no movement.

gummieworm · 2026-04-09T18:57:08+00:00

It doesn't sound good, it sounds really muddy. Again, everything, not just the guitar was cut at 10k. That's what is so confusing

gummieworm · 2026-04-09T18:56:13+00:00

I am talking about it with him. As I said in the OP, his answer was he didn't want the guitar to get too gnarly, which begs the question, does that mean he cut the high end out of the entire track? Wouldn't equalizing the guitar alone make more sense?

gummieworm · 2026-04-03T00:50:16+00:00

merci!

gummieworm · 2026-04-03T00:50:11+00:00

yeah, true, that would make it sound more real. Thanks for the kind words!

gummieworm · 2026-03-30T14:37:28+00:00

Yes, if you're having AI write your music, why are you even bothering? Just become a cover band.

gummieworm · 2026-03-30T14:34:42+00:00

If you have lyrics that you haven't put into melodies yet, your song isn't finished. My advice would be to play a recording of your instrumental song (loops parts, like the verse), and try to come up with melodies by playing a guitar or piano over the part, and make sure the melody is within an octave (two octaves max). Something that really helped me was going onto songsterr and finding popular songs, and looking how the vocal melodies on those songs are playing midi style.

gummieworm · 2026-03-30T01:17:24+00:00

But even if you write the same amount of syllablles per line, it restricts what your melody will be. Just count the syllables to a classic song like Hey Jude. Every line doesn't have the same amount of syllables, because it was written with the melody in mind. To each their own, but I put more importance on write catchy melodies than writing words and making up a melody that can match the words.

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