What did you do or started doing maybe gratitude journal , exercise or something read a book that uplifted you and healed your emotional wounds
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i set up an electric drumset in the basement. been playing every day now
been doing a half hour of yoga a week. feeling way better.
adopted a cat years ago. she keeps me company.
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3 years ago I got a keyboard and did 3 months of a piano app.
Then I got a DAW and started making terrible music
Then I got a eukelele and a few weeks later I got a guitar
Then I played on and off for a year and got an electric guitar.
I made up some bad songs, but that wasn’t the point; I really enjoyed it.
Then I finally got some tabla drums and started learning that at home and can knock out some funky beats after a few months of playing for 20 minutes a day.
I make my create my own music and produce it on soundcloud now as a hobbyist.
I enjoy writing my own poetry and putting a song together.
I started at age 50 having had no experience or music teaching behind me.
Music has changed my life as it fills my time and lets my creative juices flow.
Never too late or too old to start in my humble opinion.
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I want to get an E kit so I can learn how to programme drums on Ableton
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Ooh, i wanna try that. I wrote a song with my Australian friend once. But i’ve forgotten the lyrics and chords.
What changed mynlife for the better?
Working out snd following eckhart tolle’s teachings
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You don’t need an e drum kit to program drums in a DAW.
Simply place drum notes in the piano roll.
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which? the piano, the eukelele, the guitar or the tabla drums?
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The piano and making songs
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I used to play ukelele too. Loved it
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But I have no idea of the relationship between the different drums in order to make the patterns that I admire from artists I like.
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I always check out FB marketplace to find some excellent local deals.
You can probably pick up a used keyboard/piano ever so cheaply.
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Trial and error amigo!
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I told my mum that i wanted a keyboard, and she sqid shes got one i can have. One day i would love to be able to play some Ludovico Einaudi compositions, i’m aware that it would take many many years to get that good..
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Yes it would, but don’t be disheartened.
The trick is to keep in mind how it makes you feel playing and enjoy the process.
Have you listened to my latest songs on the music production thread?
I compose using a midi synth with piano at first. It doesn’t take long to make a ditty, much shorter in time than you think it would. @dnasaur0214
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Thanks, can’t wait to try playing the keyboard!
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Oh, no i havn’t, i will check them out sometime!
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Getting clean and sober in AA in 1990 changed my life in many profound ways. Soon after quitting crack I got a job that I stayed at for three years, I enrolled in college and took two classes at a time for the next 5 years.
I made a friend who was clean and sober too and we hung out and did a lot of different fun things. I started socializing more and hung out with my family and their friends and went fun places and did all kinds of neat stuff including water skiing for the first time, camping, jet skiing for the first time, going to comedy clubs and barbecues and birthday parties.
I won back the trust of my family, when I was doing drugs they had learned to not trust me or depend on me but once I got clean I was over their houses all the time and I drove them to the airport and picked them back up on their many trips, I did yard work at all their houses. Yeah, my life just blossomed once I got clean and I worked the 12 steps of AA and lived by its principles and practiced rigorous honesty. Yeah, I was a good person there for awhile.
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Lol I guess there is no way around it but I also think it might be useful for me to supplement that with some background knowledge of different drum patterns too.
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Getting older. The older I get the more perspective I get. The more stories I see. The more lessons I learn. Life experiences. Testing my limits. Knowing what I’m made of. Understanding that unconditional love is for children. A parents love. Not finding my worth in things. Just trying to find happiness in small, simple attainable things. Waking up wondering what will I figure out today. Being curious and seeing where it takes me. Being kind. Growing every year. Good things
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One thing I’ve done is I’ve started writing to my future wife every morning. Hoping that she’ll read what I wrote when we get together whoever she is.
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