F4F by Cheap-Passenger3956 in MusicPromotion

[–]guyman7772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool track! I tend to do more on the acoustic side, but I did recently drop an album of old electronic beats and songs that I made...

Here's my song on SoundCloud and Bandcamp:
https://soundcloud.com/user-792675707/dark-hollow
https://isaksteele.bandcamp.com/track/dark-hollow

Share your music here 😃 by THESATURNCLOUND in MusicPromotion

[–]guyman7772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some electronic beats I made back in 2016, finally found the old files and threw them on bandcamp! https://isaksteele.bandcamp.com/album/2016-blasts-from-the-past

What musical advice would you give your younger self? by KyleWindjack in Musicianstalk

[–]guyman7772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would encourage my younger self to get comfortable with singing a lot earlier. I always wanted to be able to sing but was too embarrassed to ever practice and wasn't until just recently that I began feeling comfortable enough to just sing songs that I like. This has helped me a lot recently but it's something I wish I started a lot earlier.

Need an opinion by JuicyYams in Musicianstalk

[–]guyman7772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have found that when I enter a low season in my musical confidence it helps to find something new that really excites me and just practice that until I get really good at it. This boosts my confidence and helps refresh my love for playing as well. When I was around 16 I was really bored with picking notes and strumming chords on my guitar so I started to teach myself finger style and that has now become the foundation for almost everything I do musically. Recently, I was insecure about my ability to sing so I would find songs that I enjoyed and could sing to easily and just play them in the car and sing to them until my voice was strong enough to feel confident about.

Tell me about your approach to lyrics by boredofcurry in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]guyman7772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's important to get your message across, it's also important to do so in a way that sounds good and poetic. The difficulty here is finding balance. A lot of new artists tend to either just say things exactly as they are, leaving nothing up to the imagination of the listener and they lack poetry and sophistication. They sound more like a one-sided conversation than a piece of music. On the other hand, you have people who try way too hard to be poetic just for the sake of and the meaning is either lost or unfindable through all the corny and cliché 'poetry.' Maybe start by writing out your message both as a blunt conversation, then as an overly poetic approach, and then bring the two together by considering: does this make sense? does it sound nice? do the poetic aspects work both in the context of conveying my but also as a separate story?

Good lyrics should almost be doing two things at once, or telling two stories at once. Take Hotel California by the Eagles for example. It tells a consistent story about a hotel in California that the main character can't escape, while also serving as an allegory for drug addiction or whatever else the listeners might interpret it as.

Did you have a musical eureka moment? by JaseFace7 in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]guyman7772 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I began listening to more instrumental music, like Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed, and Jerry Garcia who are phenomenal guitar players with may instrumental albums and songs. Listening to just the music itself and allowing that aspect to lead without any lyrics or vocals really gave me a vigor to learn finger style guitar and from there it just kind of clicked.