Popular Music with Attitude.

[Charagma]

Some people use phones and I hate to think how many lines that would have been on mine.
Guess I been on forums too long and know how others react to chunks of text and try to fix it so maybe someone will read it.

...... It's been fixed. Is it still too long?

 

[Charagma]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kIWeFu2E8Q


Love this one. She not just a great vocalist in my eyes but she has a flair for theatrics. Still think theatrics plays a huge role in music but that would be personal opinion.

 

[mjs warlord]

Sounds like you needed to rearrange the lounge room to avoid that argument
Considering my parents bought me a stereo when I turned 21, I never ran into that problem with my dad but volume was always restricted to a point. That stereo went in my room but the speakers were crap. I would mostly use headphones anyway...
Still do (I don't want to think how much all this in the photo cost me)

Might get speakers next year...

considering, if I am not spending money on my PC, I am spending it on music (listening) equipment, I can't imagine a life of silence... though some nights I wished I lived in one

Their would have been no chance of re-arranging the lounge .... to quote what my dad said ..... this is our house not yours.

He was over the top with a lot of things ..... my first games machine only had a pixel square that was supposed to be a tennis ball ..... i only got to use it once as he was convinced it would break the television.

 

[Colif]

Yes, sounds like you better off out of there.

 

[Alm]

I remember my Dad wouldn’t let me plug my minidisc player into the line in on the sound card as he thought the music waves might disrupt the pc’s files

 

[Zed Clampet]

This is actually a talk I can relate too, aka Lives journey.

Edit: It is long because I am fairly old so it is a few lines to read.

Spoiler: I started playing piano at around age 6 (maybe 7-ish)

Loved every moment of it the "black and whites" loved me and I loved it. Few years later due to finances I got stopped going to piano lessons. Was the end of my world at that point in my life but as a consolation my grandfather gave me a guitar for my 13th Birthday. Pianos are very expensive incase no one knows. But I hated the guitar. It mostly gathered a lot of dust, and I used to lay it down on the table and "play" on it like a piano.

Edit: That is what it is pretty much about but then.......

Spoiler

Through the years I learned a few major chords (On a guitar that was not tuned because I did not know of any better) but was all just down strumming. With my out of tune guitar and my down strumming I wrote my own songs. (LMAO imagine my surprise when nothing sounded right after I eventually got the guitar tuned). So around age 16 I was sitting on the porch (Was more like a sunroom, had windows all round) with my out of tune guitar working on a song and a guy walked past, heard the guitar and decided I am in serious need of a guitar tuning. He knocked on the door and we became very good friends. Him and his 3 brother with another friend of theirs had a band. So, he taught me the guitar (on hearing) and eventually asked me to join the band.

The band lasted for 7 years and was the best 7 years of my life. Even while doing my compulsory military service, I still during off times went with them on "Gigs" and shows. When the band split and my initial military service ended, I joined the UN under (permanent service), but by then music was in my blood. The knowledge and experience I gained from the band made me to buy recording equipment wherever I could find and it was a hobby mostly. I met a music producer (Wish I could give his name but not allowed too for obvious reasons) several years later and when I was not busy would be at his place and learn. My composing, arranging etc just grew bigger and I started getting interest from young and upcoming artists for back tracks. Not because I was a professional, I simply did it for the love of it and not because of the money. My prices were dirt cheap and was pretty much just to cover expenses and maybe being able to buy a beer or ten out of it.

Age started catching up with me and was not able to do everything required of me at the UN so I retired. Figured I have the knowledge and experience (Industrial electronics in AED's etc.) so I can just do whatever when I am back in my country. Did not work that way and realised that military background means pretty much nothing in the private sector. Everyone wants certificates. A referral letter from the UN (Geneva) meant nothing to them.

That said I went to a school play (On invitation) the one night and ended up speaking to the music teacher. That conversation is why I am where I am today. I simply create "RAW" tracks for people and what they do with it afterwards is their problem. I will take a melody or a set of chords and create a whole band around it for you and that is what most young and up comings want. I still do back tracks and arrangements and yes, I do still compose (for private use only) and I am mainly into theory as opposed to actually playing instruments, but my journey into music started the day I sat down in front of a piano for the first time.

My very first lesson EVER (Burned into memory) and that was where to find "Middle C". I am definitely not the best in the market but Most artists (especially when starting) simply cannot afford huge companies to get them on their feet. I do explain to every client I am not the best and they accept it as such. Honestly, I do not even own any musical instruments anymore because I have any instrument imaginable on my computer.

Edit: Hope it works on every one's devices now.

Kind of funny, but I was the opposite. My mother loved piano and started me in piano lessons at age 6. It was okay, but what I really wanted to play was either guitar or drums, so I never really got very good at the piano. Finally picked up guitar as a teen, but have never played drums. I played saxophone in the school band. I would not consider myself good at any instrument, which is a shame, but I had so many things that I tried to do as a child that I never practiced any instrument long enough to become truly good at them. I had my daughter focus on guitar, and she has become pretty good at it.

I had an uncle (died about 15 years ago) who was truly musically gifted and had a long career in music. He was basically a prodigy, which is an amazing thing to witness. As a child, it took him about a week, without any lessons at all, to learn the organ. He could hear a song on the radio and just walk up to an organ or piano and start playing it at a high level.

He didn't have what others would consider high aspirations. What he liked was having an audience, and he spent basically his entire life earning money playing in bars.

 

[Charagma]

Kind of funny, but I was the opposite. My mother loved piano and started me in piano lessons at age 6. It was okay, but what I really wanted to play was either guitar or drums, so I never really got very good at the piano. Finally picked up guitar as a teen, but have never played drums. I played saxophone in the school band. I would not consider myself good at any instrument, which is a shame, but I had so many things that I tried to do as a child that I never practiced any instrument long enough to become truly good at them. I had my daughter focus on guitar, and she has become pretty good at it.

I had an uncle (died about 15 years ago) who was truly musically gifted and had a long career in music. He was basically a prodigy, which is an amazing thing to witness. As a child, it took him about a week, without any lessons at all, to learn the organ. He could hear a song on the radio and just walk up to an organ or piano and start playing it at a high level.

He didn't have what others would consider high aspirations. What he liked was having an audience, and he spent basically his entire life earning money playing in bars.

I think all of us have that "one" inspirational artist. Whether Bach, Sono, Freddy, does not matter. Being any form of artist (Sculpting, painting, musician, etc) you latch onto another artist that just simply amaze you and it becomes your inspiration and also in many cases your motivation.

Spoiler: To conform to posting by-laws

Many years ago, I was introduced to the artist I am now going to share with you. His technique is amazing. Something that really amaze me (still to today) is him using a Capo to split his Fretboard onto different Octaves. Unfortunately, one of the many artists I know that deserved more than what he got. When you told me the story of you uncle I immediately thought of this artist because he is in that kind of world where he could have gone so far but life just did not go that route with him.

One of my favorite pieces by this specific artist and yes that is a 12 string with a Capo that splits his octaves and pretty much gives him 2 instruments on one fretboard.

View: https://youtu.be/dFJLmacFXAE?si=2xEZzXkkPKsH9urA

 

[Frindis]

@Charagma This is one of my favorites, Annie Lennox./Vampire Hunter D.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPZM8fq_kE

 

[Charagma]

@Charagma This is one of my favorites, Annie Lennox./Vampire Hunter D.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPZM8fq_kE

Yes, I must agree. Annie is amazing.

I had a friend (Actually do not know where he disappeared to now that I think of it), that made these Anime music videos. Saw some amazing ones. I personally just never went into Anime.

Spoiler: Complying to Forum "By laws"

Made you look (LMAO)

Think only Anime (If called that) that I liked was Final fantasy. The one where they search for the little tree (life) on another planet. About the only one I enjoyed. The rest not really my kind of thing.

 

[Charagma]

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Falone

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/alone?si=453d44b14e35417b893ebe0bdc7c571e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

 

[Colif]

I had their T shirts in the 1980's

Speaking of the 1980's

 

[Charagma]

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fanother-day

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/another-day?si=323b9aad8d514c12a2e493daeb727ac3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing


Finally, got this one is done. Started off with just random chords and then it snowballed.

LMAO also started as a Ballad and just side-tracked form there to what it is.

It is the first finished track I did with the new Cubase. Dorico is giving me headaches. I am not getting all the VST's and unable to directly export from Dorico to Cubase (Must export to Midi (with losses) and then import). What for I do not know cause would have figured they would have a direct import for it. It is the same company after all. Will push it through I am probably just missing something somewhere.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I'VE DONE IT! I've discovered the holy grail of terrible music. If there is anyone here who can listen to this song in its entirety, you will be god-like in my eyes.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19j01NPpRT4

 

[Charagma]

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fanother-day

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/another-day?si=323b9aad8d514c12a2e493daeb727ac3&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing


Finally, got this one is done. Started off with just random chords and then it snowballed.

LMAO also started as a Ballad and just side-tracked form there to what it is.

It is the first finished track I did with the new Cubase. Dorico is giving me headaches. I am not getting all the VST's and unable to directly export from Dorico to Cubase (Must export to Midi (with losses) and then import). What for I do not know cause would have figured they would have a direct import for it. It is the same company after all. Will push it through I am probably just missing something somewhere.

Well, this is an odd one........Someone on sound cloud loved this one (Or think this one) so much and enquired if I am signed to a label. Who knows maybe I get signed to a label sometime soon............we see what the future holds......

 

[Charagma]

I'VE DONE IT! I've discovered the holy grail of terrible music. If there is anyone here who can listen to this song in its entirety, you will be god-like in my eyes.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19j01NPpRT4

I am no great composer or musician, but ummmmm. let me break it down from a musician point of view.

When you do a Riff AI search you get 4 or 5 notes derived from chord. That is not your melody but the part an instrument must play. They kind of mixed it up and are singing the riff.

Sounds as if the guitar is 1/2 down tuned. Which is great and a lot of musicians do it. Problem is if I wrote my song in say D/G/E chords, I am actually now playing them in Flat not major which means my instruments playing with me must play a D flat instead of the D major I am playing etc since they are still on Std. Tuning.

Must give them where is due. They got the song split into verses and chorus. They also have some form of bridge and when at a huge stage party where most are drunk and do not really care what is playing, it will actually be a very good "pre_show" just to build up for the main artist.

LMAO not my kind of thing though, so I personally would give it a miss. If they had just 1 violin in it I might (Big maybe) listen to it a second time.

 

[Charagma]

https://forums.pcgamer.com/media/sound-cloud.3146/full

Had a look at my insights on Sound Cloud. South Africa is obvious since I have students and friends here. LMAO I know who the top one is and then China.

Thank you if you listened and liked.

Edit: Thank you for the Support Zed. Actually, means a lot to both me and the kids. Never thought it would motivate the kids this much, but my Sound Cloud venture is the start of class almost every day. 15 minutes just going through what is happening on Sound Cloud before actually getting them to relax and start learning something.

 

[Charagma]

TYPICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just bought Atlantis about two or three weeks ago and look, there is a new update. *Don't you feel like cryyyyyyyying*

View: https://youtu.be/0Noeglb4iOw

 

[Colif]

How I feel today

also, good clip and album still sounds amazing today

 

[Charagma]

https://soundcloud.com/charagma%2Fmemories

View: https://soundcloud.com/charagma/memories?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&si=20fc12885c3f4a97bb201c2170ddc226


Some Nostalgia. Watch your bass settings.

 

[Zuruchon]

https://forums.pcgamer.com/media/sound-cloud.3146/full

Had a look at my insights on Sound Cloud. South Africa is obvious since I have students and friends here. LMAO I know who the top one is and then China.

Thank you if you listened and liked.

"Alone" and "I swear" are my best. I played your music during break in my office, and some of my colleagues appreciated it. Keep up the good work.

 

[Charagma]

"Alone" and "I swear" are my best. I played your music during break in my office, and some of my colleagues appreciated it. Keep up the good work.

Thank you, Keep your eyes open for "Billy bob and his truck"

Little sideline thing I am working on and it is starting to take shape. Got to the Chorus last night.

LMAO thank you Zed.