July 15, 201213 yr What's up, composers of the interwebz? My name's Darkmetroidomega (DMO), though if you prefer formalities, you can refer to me by my middle name, Vance. I'm 18 and live in Illinois, and for the longest time I can remember I've been an avid fan of fine arts and just about anything to do with the entertainment industry. Around the time I was 10 I began formal snare drum lessons with an instructor who I no longer work under. From that experience I was inducted into music performance as a rudimentary percussionist with a knack for being a quick study. My memorization skills were rather well-honed for my age, but this was a hilariously ironic byproduct of my old instructor's atrocious music arrangement skills. I was forced to learn by ear due to his ineptitude and propensity for blurring many of the notes together (and occassionally forgetting some notes altogether), but this gave me an early lesson on how to pick up rhythyms and match pitch. Following those early years I became more involved with music in high school, though I would be considered distant from the heart of it all because I was an incredibly lazy student. One bit of advice; being a quick study falls on its face when you don't study. Someone who learns twice as fast as another will fall behind when you do the math: (+1) x (+1) = +1, whilst (+2) x 0 = 0. By this logic you might have guessed that I didn't live up to what I could have been. At a point, when I was being trained by a lifetime professional percussionist, I started becoming despondent about the whole thing. There was a looming prospect that I had no chance of catching up to anyone, and that my future as a music performer was little more than a misconception. It never wrought enough havoc to tear me from performing entirely, but it brought me to my paradigm shift that came in the middle of my senior year; I wanted to do this for fun. To make something enjoyable. To enjoy myself and hopefully bring others to enjoy themselves. Well, well, enough of that story. It's been a good first half of the summer so far, despite the arid temperatures of the US that are making the MW look more like Arizona. I've only done 2 compositions from high school; one was a final for Intro to Music Theory, and the other was a project for Music Appreciation. Both went over rather well. I noticed I had spent a good number of hours on both of those projects, and yet had managed to enjoy them substantially. The moment of dawning comprehension never seemed to come, but theretofore I've been making more music and enjoying every second of it. The biggest issue I have is that I don't have any formal theory training and work with a number of limitations that tend to come to light rather nastily. Skip here if you don't want an egregiously long-winded intro I'm a very new composer, and I'd like to spread my stuff out as best as I can. I've worked thus far primarily on video game scores, though at some point or another I'd like to try my hand at cinematic compositions. The things I have at my disposal are as follows: Sibelius 7.0 (which I never use anymore) Cubase 5 Roland Fantom-G8: Workstation Keyboard I use free soundfonts for Cubase 5 (sonatina symphonic orchestra, etc.), but hopefully I will be able to purchase things such as EWQL soundfonts in the future. I'd love to have the Voices of Passion set--the limitations of free choir soundfonts can really drag a guy down. I haven't gotten more memory for the Fantom-G8, either, so that means I have a measly 32 MB to work with when sampling. I can only make things on it to a cap of about 2 minutes, 30 seconds, and that's only if I don't make phrases drastically different. Forgive some of the similar phrasing that goes on when it seems inappropriate. My stuff is generally uploaded to YouTube posthaste, but I'm hoping to have it all around soon. :) Here's the latest thing I uploaded: http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-FZJKK8Zsnk I hope to speak with some of you guys soon! I love new chances to hear good music and budding composers!
July 15, 201213 yr Heh, funny story you have... But feel welcome to YC. You'll find quite a few nice chances at growing as a musician (that is, if you're also able to endure the weird sense of "humor" of some members). Feel free to get acquainted with our works and to leave comments on them (so that you'll get better known and receive in turn our feedback). Enjoy your stay...
July 15, 201213 yr Author Heh, funny story you have... But feel welcome to YC. You'll find quite a few nice chances at growing as a musician (that is, if you're also able to endure the weird sense of "humor" of some members). Feel free to get acquainted with our works and to leave comments on them (so that you'll get better known and receive in turn our feedback). Enjoy your stay... I certainly will!I'm not too worried about unorthodox humor given the number of forums I've been a part of and the number of extremely perplexing subjects I've seen. What I'm more worried about is actually the initial posting; crossing the first threshold, if you will. I always enjoy listening to others' work, but I'm not exactly well-versed in most of the areas that they're dabbling (or professionally working) in. This just makes it awkward when I want to leave a constructive comment on a subject matter that I have no experience with... which entails a lot. That's one of my reasons for being here; hopefully I'll learn what seems to be commonplace and even grassroots amongst the members of YC. I'm sure this'll be an enjoyable time, even if, much to my own chagrin, I leave a few stupid comments.
July 15, 201213 yr Author Good. Some will tear your work apart. Others will herald it. True to every aspect of life, of course. Never be discouraged; you learn from failure far more than you do from success.
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