#you already know about the instrument

[teddybasmanov]

My mental health: hangs by a bloody thread. Me: why wouldn't I pick up a musical instrument and a new language?

#mental health #or lack thereof #you already know about the instrument #but the language is up to your imagination #I've decided that even if I don't stick to anything #even if it lasts a few weeks a week or a day #it still doesn't hurt - not like I'm spending anything on it but time and I'm spending that time anyway #so if I enjoy it it's worth it

[alexturner2005]

i cannot even explain the shock i was in last monday at red rocks when they started soundchecking BATPHONE and then stopped and immediately launched into HELLO YOU.....before i could even recover from batphone.....they really tried to kill me

#we were wide eyed hands over mouths jaws on the floor #freaking out as quietly as possible while we filmed #while confused red rocks employees looked on lmao #one of them was like 'do u girls know the line is over there?' #we do thank u we abandoned all our belongings in it when we bolted over here lmao #i can't believe it was already a week ago!!! 😭 #time flew wayyyy too fast #still mad at them for not playing hello you at the actual show #but i will cherish that soundcheck memory forever #also i should note that batphone was just the instrumental bit before the first verse #idk if anyone has mentioned that they soundchecked it at all #arctic monkeys #thinking about how we almost decided not to go early enough for soundcheck…

[theygender]

Fun tip for bards: apparently if you stand between Alfira and Volo at the tiefling party and start performing, they'll both perform with you and the entire camp will gather around to cheer you on

#baldur's gate 3 #i recommend playing something other than a lute since thats what alfira is already playing #and the instrument you play DOES change the way the song sounds. if youre both playing lutes they just blend together #(volo just whistles so dont worry about him) #they seem to only know bard dance and old time battles. and people dont seem to gather if you play the spiders lyre specifically #but still a fun little easter egg

[alternautxyz]

guys guyg uys the monkie kid soundtrack would have such a stranglehold of me if they actually released it i need the soundtrack out now

like the score is an essential part of so many of the most iconic parts of the show it adds so much emotion and gravity to the scenes

and i would honestly listen to it on its own on repeat is so good sounding with the melding of different genres of music

i know nothing about how music works but i’d really like to analyze all the the leitmotifs and sounds associated with all the characters and it would be a whole lot easier if they officially released it

anyways look at this please

tldr muisc goob pls giv eitt o us aaaaaaaaaaaaaa

#a show with a constantly fire soundtrack must be cherished ok #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lmk #also characters have multiple leitmotifs judging by the piano cover so i might have to look for that too #but i did notice motifis for flowerfruit mountain mk/swk mei tang pigsy/sandy nezha red son azure macaque lbd and the villains in general #and more #also idk why pigsy and sandy share a leitmotif like i get mk and swk but why didnt sandy get something #ok after rewatching the show again i THINK i might have heard sandy's motif but it isnt played enough for me to be sure and he shared pigsys #like three times already so idk #update again i was just stupid sandy doesn't share with pigsy i was just put off by pitiful creature's combining both motifs #listen sandy's motif is really short and leads from pigsy's really well #also sound cues and associated instruments for a lot of things like the ink curse subodi's training grounds all the characters etc etc #the soundtrack alone could be put under a microscope so you can understand the insanity i feel #lmk advertizing on my blog i know like zero of my followers know wtf im talking about so that better change soon #alttalks

[libbys-braincell-loss]

me when the person i like talks about their nerdy interests overexcessively for an hour straight and i have no interest in the subject matter when hes not talking to me but its absolutely adorable when he rambles about something he knows so much about

#like you go on my guy. #tell me all about sourdough bread (i dont know shit about sourdough bread) #tell me about double reeded instruments (i dont know music theory very well) #tell me why risk of rain 2 is the greatest game of the century (ive heard of risk of rain 2 until now) #tell me all about how you think hellfire is the best musical song to ever be made #(ive never seen hunchback of notre dame but i really wanna watch it with him) #also when he messages me back on discord when i get home with a follow up of the previous conversation #🥰🥰🥰💕💕💕 #TELL ME THAT NERDY SHIT MY GUY #also finding out he has seen the amazing digital circus and lackadaisy #💕💕💕💕💕💕💕 #why wont the universe let me kiss this guy already #sorry guys im gettin all twitterpated I JUST NEEDED TO RANT

[whiskeyswifty]

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#i swear i'm not being a pretentious asshole about it i genuinely enjoy it #but it's extremely funny to me today to see all these swifties listen to the national for the first time for the most part #and the resounding thought is oh! it's like folklore! #and i just heheheheheheheheheh i laugh! i chuckle! #cuz it's like..... everyone KNOWS that folklore is a lot of taylor just writing to instrumentals aaron already made and sent her #and she had little to do with the melody of half the album at least #but i don't think people actually reckoned with that information irl before now like folklore is yes a new direction for taylor #but it's par for the course for the national! they're QUITE LITERALLY reject tracks!! #i don't mean this to demean folklore nor to be reductive towards taylor i'm being totally serious i love watching #swifties slowly come to the realization and connect the dots like #oh...... this is the sound of the national.... THEY sound like that #folklore is mainly a national album with taylor writing and singing..... #and i'm like DING DING DING DING AND THATS WHY IT FUCKS SO SEVERELY #SAD BOY SUPREME MEETS SAD GIRL SUPREME AND THEIR ALBUM OBVIOUSLY IS INCREDIBLE #i try not to like indie-splain my pretentious indie music to the pop girlies or the kiddos so im just really thrilled that #taylor introduced a new group of people to the sound of the national but through slow drip and wrapped in taylorisms #and that they're getting a new audience of fans who aren't 40 year olds #cuz they're excellent but they're debilitatingly sad so you really do need to slowly wade in. you can't just dive into Boxer #you'll suffer so severely #i'm so happy for them and i'm happy for everyone discovering them and i hope you enjoy middle aged existential gloom!! #its a good time!!!!

[maybemoonbeams]

anyone wanna reblog this and tell me in the tags what your current hyperfixation(s) is\are becuase i

#am having a category 7 autism moment over pipe organs #i do not remember the last time i opened up the wikipedia page for something to read recreationally #i initially sought out the list of the biggest ones (because large)and had to step down to the main page first because theres all this ling #and i wanna know what everything does #the music itself has to be a pretty specific vibe for me to like it bc if theyre not played a certain way it gets really cacophonous for me #but the instruments themselves are fucking monsters and playing them seems less like performing on a instrument #and more like harmonizing with a great beast #you start it with a key?? #it takes all of your limbs and the thing is constantly breathing #the sound will continue for as long as you hold the note it will not dissipate??? #you can record things and play them back it will even remember stop settings it has memory?? #stops control how the pipes sound if youve ever heard of pulling out all the stops this is that #theyre like orchestras able to be played by a single person some of them even have voice sounds #the people who play these things are also their own type of beast #pipe organists are wild because god there's just so much #it scratches my loner badass complex so acutely #a lonely person shouldering an entire symphony contrasting against scores of people playing a single piece together as one #you could write an anime about this #did everyone else just already understand about these things or #blake.txt #good tags

[babytreepiig]

i am absolutely not normal about oc2path

(no this isn’t a fanfic, this is literally just me rambling about the game. i started this yesterday.)

#octopath traveler 2 #who knows what this’ll be #maybe a video essay #or maybe just an essay in general #who knows… #either way i’m procrastinating on the work i should be doing by writing this instead #already the longest section is me talking about the soundtrack JDKJFHD #i just like the silly sounds that come out the instruments #did you know that (at least for the tracks featuring the flute) you can hear the player taking breaths #that’s a bit of a weird detail but it kind of gives the tracks life yknow? #i think the songs i remember hearing it in at least are the hineoma (however you spell it) ones #i love this game so much #it literally took everything about the first game and then just did it better #braining rn

[genderqueer-karma]

guys can i talk about that fucking guy. clap if you think i should talk about that fucking guy.

(accidental ramble in the tags. oops. don’t read if you don’t want to read a crisis.)

#yo it's d :) #you already know who that fucking guy is unless you’re new here and that’s none of you so . #i need to start asking my friends if i can talk about that guy but it’s hard honestly #he literally takes up 50 to 80 per cent of my mind on a daily basis #even when i’m not thinking about him i’m thinking of him #i’ll see something blue and be like ‘wow! yk who really likes the color blue?’ and suddenly my brain is flooded with thoughts of Him #don’t get me wrong i love him but i realize that other people don’t care about him as much as i do so i’m trying to dial it back #still. it’s hard. #especially knowing that other people know how to contain themselves and i’m just sitting here raw out in the open like this #to be honest idk how i managed to survive school because since september i’ve kinda been living in mana hell(/heaven. depending on the day) #some people say they have addictive personalities and honestly i think that’s me #my brain is addicted to him! i literally study this man’s face and mannerisms and can tell you exactly how he smiles when his expression #is otherwise neutral. i can relay unnecessary amounts of his band history to you and have watched WAY too many interviews and videos #and the worst part? i literally told myself ‘hey! you can’t get like this again’* because the last time was really bad! it was destructive! #*(about a person.) i literally cannot function sometimes for just thinking about this guy. #i rarely listen to music besides his anymore and can literally tell you characteristic features of his composing! it’s kind of embarrassing! #like i’m a music nerd but i’m not THAT big of a music nerd. i usually can’t tell you things like that. most i can do is tell you #instrumentation. but whenever i listen to something he *mightve* composed i can automatically confirm or deny. #that’s not normal !!!!!!!! #having over *2000* pictures of a person you’ve never met in your phone is not normal! #but despite me being in the goddamn TRENCHES. i love him so so so much. #he genuinely makes me so happy. seeing images/videos of him from any time period makes me go ‘!!!’ because i think he’s the coolest! #and he’s so inspiring. he’s part of the reason i took up drawing again and regained some passion for music. #thus ends my tale of woe.

[andragoras-in-vanity]

lmao the two things i hate the most are men who think theyre funny, and men who pick up a mic and think they can call themselves musicians.

somehow i managed to snag not only those two things but also 'so fucking boring but thinks he could keep up with me enough to fuck me' all in one dumbass guy!! i fucking hate tinder, man.

#if you sing but cant play an instrument that says a lot about you as a person and none of it is good #youre fucking lazy and you have no substance #vocalists who dont even have shit to stand for politically are even worse #such a fucking waste of space #anyway i got pissed off because this idiot fundamentally misunderstood the plot of dragon age 2 #after trying to make a joke about my name being anders #like buddy not only are you stupid and have already told me all i need to know about your lack of political alignment youre boring as fuck! #and you could never keep up with me #i hate tinderrrrr im fucking sixk of that beinf my only option for meeting guys #the guys on there are NOT quality men #especially around here #but anyway fuck that dumbass and i kinda wanna block him

[icewindandboringhorror]

............ ultimate somng

#i'll go a few months without hearing this and then for some reason I do again and I go insane #especially the very opening first section ....hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh #I like the orchestral version too but the piano one just has a different vibe in some ways #again I'm not really a big music person (in terms of listening to/being a fan of stuff. I like to make music and experiment with instruments #but like I've never been in a band fandom or or been to concert or cared about anything in a pop culture type way) I just have like #a list of some hyper specific songs with specific tones that I listen to like 400x in a row until I get tired of them and then #choose to listen to somehting else 400x in a row until I enetually circle back to one of the ones I already listened to 400x in a row #I rarely ever put music on in the backgroudn while doing things or treat it as an activity it's more of like.. a fixation or something #I go through 'music phases' where I just feel like listening to music as an ativity for a little while and then dont again for a few months #and when I do it's like the same songs 400x in a row again but gyhbhj #or sometimes cycles through a few songs or something but all on repeat #NONE of which are ever like related to each other in any way but are jus what my brain wants to hear 4998898 times for some reason #my most recent music phase rotation was - 'moses fantasy' by paganini. 'luxury' azaleia banks. the fucking charles darwin natural selection #song from horrible histories. rock the casbah??? (idk why for a few days i just wanted to hear it ghhj). the succession opening theme. #'Ludacrismas' even though it's the middle of summer. and 'I just wanna dance with you' - starpoint..lol.. ALSO for a period of #like 2 days I was mentally preoccupied with that meme edited version of that genghis khan song that instead makes it say 'mingus kingus #' or 'i get a little bit dingus bingus' or whatever hbjhbhj.. If you don't know some of those go look them up. then put them all #in a youtube playlist and put it on repeat 6000x. this will give you a tiny snapshot into one aspect of my current mental landscape. #Really want to do a kazoo cover of Moses Fantasy. literally imagine how annoying that would sound on a loud abrasive kazoo #and ALSO how probably annoying parts of it would be to try to do ghhbjb.. the super high pitched violin but desperately squeaked #through the raspy cadence of a dollar store kazoo.... this is my design #okay im listening to it again HGHBHJ the fast parts.... just *frantic squabbling into a kazoo that's not even accurate* #ANYWAY.. I don't talk about music often because like most things I am also not capable of consuming music in a Normal Way and am defintely #not a cool trendsetter or someone with GoodOpinions to share. one of my favorite songs is something I heard in a commercial when I was #7 years old and nothing has ever topped it so.. ghbjhb.. .I am dictated not by popular media or trends but by an obscure series of algorithm #s performed by tiny squirrels that live in my brain who randomly pick and choose songs to suddenly resurfance into my conscious #'Remember that thing you heard a snippet of in school music class when you were 6? find it NOW on youtube. listen 500 times. now' #'then also literally don't listen to music again for 3 entire months until the next 4 day period where you listen to one thing on repeat' #ANYWAY ANYWAY.. obsessed with this ravel song again. also still in the grips of the charles darwin one unfortunately ghbhjbhj #brain is just a mix of *dreamlike ethereal piano* NA TU RAAAL SE LEC TIOOONNN *twinkling piano again* hGGMM... yeaaAA

[unproduciblesmackdown]

a great time juxtaposing "helen" by joe iconis with "centerfold" by the j. geils band

#if you've listened to dad rock '70s-median'd stations you've probably heard it. charting single. the: ((my) angel is the) centerfold one #it's juxtaposable in good ways and interesting ways lol there's plenty enough to Compare & to Contrast re: either song #actually i'm already like holding myself off from starting to go on about specifics lol #a situation i have a lot of thoughts; i Was writing them out the other night but it turned into the lengthily typed & posted thoughts about #metastory in pentiment & iphigenia crash land falls instead lol.... #so feel free to just partake of the exercise yourself #had a great time revisiting both songs even knowing them both already / hearing them multiple times #enhanced appreciation or delighted like ''oh right [this element] yay'' #centerfold? more charming than i remembered actually lol like oh nice yeah that one line does a lot #and i'm always hyped abt the [i don't even know the instrument or term for the musical part] like synth whatever line in the verse to #chorus transition. there's a lot of ''nice im liking that'' elements such that this Isn't just ''helen is like if centerfold didn't suck'' #meanwhile it's an enriching time to be thinking more abt all the elements & effects in helen too #you Know i'm revisiting my slipped into pocket will roland performance lol. no antoinette perries season now i gave it to him obv #only category that exists is [youtube recordings of live cabaret i have saved on my laptop of will roland performing helen] #and guess what tonys? it's nongendered. #joe iconis

[seilon]

I have 15 years of piano experience, several years experience playing keyboard in an ensemble / comping, vocal training/experience, and have picked up guitar recently (about 5 months ago ish). i have the credentials now how the fuck do i join a band

#kibumblabs #i imagine you need friends and that’s probably my issue #i just have. no friends #I’m still beating myself up a bit for ghosting a friend of mine who admittedly I couldn’t do much with right now anyway cause I live 400 #miles away– but partly because he would have been my best possible shot at starting a band as he’s a very experienced and talented guitarist #and bassist and so on (the kinda guy who knows some amount of like every instrument) to the point where we’d talk about music theory #sometimes just. because. and I know is taste is good too #and I can not believe I never had the balls to be like hey. like. you wanna play together at some point #god I am mentally banging my head against a wall #anyway so now I’m here and I have no friends and no connections and my school doesn’t even have music classes/clubs/etc at all #so. fuck me dude #sigh #maybe I should focus on retraining my voice first anyway cause it’s been thoroughly fucked up by testosterone and I’ve been set back. a lot. #i really need to work on that either with a teacher or with online resources or something cause it’s been eating me alive lately it bothers #me so much. and when I see myself playing with a band i really wanted to be a singer specifically despite my piano experience (tho I know of #course I can do both) and now I definitely don’t feel confident enough in my voice to be a lead so. I’d have to. work on that a lot first #hehdhsgshhddhdhdj torture #one thing that gives me some hope is that I am in probably the best location to find Something music-wise. i mean I’m right next to #fucking LA so I mean. yeah. had an Uber driver the other day talk about how he moved all the way from Poland to SoCal to try and find work #doing music cause it was his passion and all that and at some point he asked me if I did anything live and of course I said no (I’d already #mentioned the instruments I play and whatnot) and when I said it was cause I didn’t know anyone he was like aahhh that’s no excuse! you can #find something! you live in Orange County! you just gotta keep looking and go to more places people like that get together #and I haven’t stopped thinking about that #thank you polish red hot chili peppers enthusiast u are an inspiration

[troonwolf]

Happy for him and he was definitely exploited but his actions were also instrumental in fuelling the antagonism and laws against trans people in the UK. I’d like to see him take responsibility for that and work towards correcting the misinformation he spread throughout his time as a TERF. Irreparable damage was done to trans rights in the UK and that doesn’t just go away.

You walk into the house, destroy all the furniture, leave, then you come back with “sorry my friends peer pressured me to destroy all the furniture :)” and then sit down in the wreckage not bothering to clean it up.

#ukpol #trans rights #toby pick #like ig what he's saying about only being 19 and most of the TE/RFs he spoke to being significantly older #and cheering him on when he misgendered or attacked people #but you still misgendered and attacked people #and I don't see any responsibility being taken for that #or the fact the undelying cause of all this was the shitty trans heathcare in the UK #BUT YOU ACTIVELY WORKED TOWARDS MAKING IT SHITTIER #and now it's probably the most shit it has ever been #and people like you encouraging sensationalist articles in The Sun and etc were instrumental to that #because they listened to YOU and not to ANYONE else #like if he genuinely wants to backtrack and build bridges and address the damage #he needs to start contacting a lot of fucking media other than PinkNews #no one in the wider public cares about PinkNews #you're preaching to the choir #we already know anti-trans people are manipulative fascists #but you went to the WHOLE WIDER PUBLIC #and convinced them trans healthcare bad #what are you gonna do to fix that my man

[marklikely]

anyway the moral of the story is that sure societal transphobia is like really bad and rapidly getting worse but what about the intracommunity oppression we as transmascs face from the cavetown industrial complex

#i just looked it up the cliks haven't made music in almost a decade we are living in the fucking dark ages #you guys wanna talk about transandrophobia? well this is it. the proliferation of cavetown is transandrophobia. #avpost #once im out of this apartment im gonna try to learn to play guitar who want to make a transmasc rock band with me #im not a good singer and i shouldnt play the drums but i can learn any other instrument. #i already know how to play the viola so we could do something with that. like how some bands have a violinist. #also its rock music you dont have to be a good singer but like also im shy . someone else will have to sing.

[bongsavior]

she's just gonna shut everyone out in response huh 😔

#r #kill me #just choke me and slaughter me with your bare hands already #also yes i was just talking about how i'm going to be pushing everyone away but please i still latch onto my favorite people #idk idk idk idk idk i'm slightly intoxicated rn 3 jai alai's deep tbf #dog wound healing but it's at the closing up painful itchy stage #jobless but going to probably work at michaels again #it's what i know #moving to new orleans in around 10 months #i can't wait but i have to prioritize finding myself rather than reaching for the incredible high of a relationship with someone #this can't be my life #this can't be the way things go #my psychiatrist told me thru teladoc which i get for free thru my insurance i can search for therapists too #so i'm gonna try that and hope to get dbt or cbt #for my bpd #gonna make a song out of those acronyms #i think i need life-altering mental help and i'll finally start to use and hone my skills such as Music (instruments singing and composing) #but yeah my 35 y/o Teladoc psychiatrist who supplies me meds told me after about 8 months in ''Hey if you've ever thought about therapy you #can do this to get therapists instead of psychiatrists and you can have both at one time'' #idk he's a busy man he probably didn't want to assume i didn't know :') #but yeah i'm excited to see if i can find an lgbtq therapist #i like how this post went from ''you're ignoring me everything is different and i'm suffering detaching from My Favorite Person'' #to ''therapy is mere inches away fellas and then i'm FREE i can be fearless and do what i've always been afraid to do'' #🤔 #that's a really good thing :') #personal #sorry #long post #so many tags