based. my local library offers LinkedIn Learning courses (formerly Lynda.com) and that's what I used to learn most of the fundamentals and a few books.
/prod/ - music production
a mentor that's well-connected
What reason would someone like that have to mentor an up and coming artist?
Unless he's trying to fuck or he's personally invested in you (e.g. you're signed to his label or you're already relatives/friends or something), I don't think there's a high chance that he's going to do it out of the goodness of his heart.
But I don't know anything about this sort of relationship, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
If you don't care about the connection part, you can learn from what successful producers have posted online in their streams and whatnot. The Sol State YouTube channel has clips from famous producers showing their projects and whatnot.
Can you be sexist at me please?
I’m objectively the best musician here but I find it validating to be written off for silly things like that.
I haven’t read your posts in depth and obviously I’m taking the piss a bit but if you want a “connection” or some type of relationship that helps you grow, your best bet is to actively seek somebody out who’s either established or underground, suck their dick a bit etc, but *convince them* that youre good enough to be a potential future collaborator- they have to benefit from taking you under your wing somehow.
Otherwise, why would anybody bother..?
Honestly this sort of thing has crossed my mind: forming a small group of well matched equally capable/driven artists… running a weekly meeting where we workshop and genuinely talk about their wip, their trajectory and such in voice chats…
Meeting people for that kind of stuff is too difficult. The skill filter alone kills everybody
I want to find passionate people in the same way
then go to your local scene, talk to some musicians, see if theres anyone who wants to collab, if anyone hosts workshops or something similar, I dont understand how many times I have to tell you this other than you dont want to, you just want a music career to magically land in your lap.
These people exist and are accessible to anybody with money.
If money isnt an issue, buy a producer, rent studio time, or produce them yourself. make some songs, release them, see how you fare. Hell you might even be as good as you say you are and make it big.
How so? I'm just genuinely asking to get more context on your answer.
There isnt, other than you thinking you can somehow outsmart the market.
Like I said, it just sounds to me like you just wants to be "discovered" without even putting your foot outside the door and I'm telling you that only happens if you're really good and people online starts noticing your shit or if you're lucky or if someone wants to fuck you.
What? Are you offended? You a woman?
You're simply answering a question I'm not asking. I just wanted to know if there is any semi-exclusive community like Scrawl then I asked for your background with music. I never asked about breaking into the industry or anything pertaining the industry. When I say "network" I just mean with other like-minded artists.
You're simply answering a question I'm not asking
because they are simply stupid questions
I just wanted to know if there is any semi-exclusive community like Scrawl
If there was one, do you think we would be hanging out here? And if there was exclusive communities like that, they dont like to make themselves known because they dont want every 19 year old with a pirated daw and a guitar swamping their boards with shit.
They do exist, but usually for super specific genres that isnt very mainstream or make alot of money.
Again, your questions are stupid.
then I asked for your background with music.
I've made money making music, people have paid me to make music for them, people have paid me to use my music in their projects. Any further than that I wont bother to elaborate because you're just looking for a chink in the armor.
When I say "network" I just mean with other like-minded artists.
I hear you say that and I keep saying, seek out other musicians in your area, but it sounds more to me now that you just want a bunch of cheerleaders and people to do all the heavy lifting for you.
The closest thing nowadays is probably just Discord.
The problem is that it's super fragmented across a trillion different servers, but there are some that are popular enough and have skilled enough producers in them.
Servers about nerdy technical genres that are hard to make will probably teach you the most stuff that isn't the basics that everyone knows, but none of those guys is ever going to be successful due to the inaccessible nature of those genres (from a listening standpoint).
But you can obviously still apply those skills to more mainstream genres.