AngelCityOutlaw

I think with Sixto it's just running into a classic problem with being any kind of artist. Once you're in the know about something with music and you're good at it, it becomes harder and harder to really impress yourself. Like, I doubt a guitar player like Michael Romeo is really blown away by pentatonic guitar solos at this point, but he'd probably still agree that they sound good. That's a problem I've run into. I'll come up with a guitar riff and something that could work for like, an intro to a song, but then it's not sounding like the best thing ever and so I give up. Then, after I've deleted the file and think about it I'm like..."Well, it did sound good and sounding good is more or less the goal with music." So yeah, I guess the rule is that even if it isn't the most amazing thing you've heard in your entire life, but it does sound good, keep it anyway.

I write almost everything with my guitar and notate it as I go. Usually start with a melody, then try a million different ways I could harmonize it until I find one I like and keep going from there.

"Melody first" and "study classical music"

The whole "producing" part with mixing and stuff. No good at it and don't even like doing it. Other than that, sometimes actually finishing songs is the hardest part. I have so many unfinished songs it's insane.

You gotta be shitting me, Disney. Star Wars 1313 was like, the only Star Wars game that looked like it would be good.

Happy Birthday!

I said "Good Ol April First" way back and it got deleted. Wtf man.

Just playing around today and came up with some possibly usable melodies and rhythms. Don't know why, but the song evokes "Cyber Punk" sort of imagery to me. https://soundcloud.com/angelcityoutlaw/metal-demo I don't pretend to know what I'm doing when it comes to mixing and all that, but feedback of any kind is appreciated!

How do you even say that word?

Girl turned down a date with me because this game came out today. Shit, it must be good.

Well, nothing was worse than this one time when I was coming home from this coffee shop. I was listening to music and thought "that last song was a little loud, I'll just turn it down before it switches to the next CD." So the song ends and I turn the volume "down". I'm just about to take a sip of this delicious hot chocolate I ordered from the coffee shop when all of a sudden Dee Snider is screaming "I WANNA ROCK" at 140 decibels. I burnt myself, nearly shit a kidney and almost rolled the car.

No, if you just keep turning it counter-clockwise it will eventually begin to bounce back and forth between getting quieter and louder until you reach a satisfying volume. You might blow out your ear drums before it starts to actually drop in volume though.

My car stereo is interesting. If I turn the volume knob clockwise, it gets louder. If I turn the knob counter-clockwise...it gets louder.

The lesson from this article is that if the music thing doesn't work out Start an ostrich farm.

Saw this on Cracked.com this morning and it reminded me of this thread. http://www.cracked.com/article_20317_the-7-most-wtf-post-fame-careers-famous-musicians.html No freakin' way!

Well, by "accident" I mean the story he always tells about how some producer or whatever happened to be the first customer that walked into a music store he got a job at and offered him a job testing games or something similar to that and he then persuaded the company to give him a shot at music. Sure, you can make the point that his decision to move to California and apply at the store played a significant part in all that, but he ultimately didn't choose who walked through the door. Yeah, he very well could have made it as a musician regardless (since he's Steven Tyler's cousin), so it stands to reason that fate certainly played a part in him becoming a famous video game composer. Hence my point of these things not being 100% in your control. I'm not trying to be such a bitter sounding jackass or a naysayer, I'm just saying people tend to be way too optimistic about music careers.

Tommy Tallarico's start happened by what was basically a freak accident. If that never happened, his career probably would've taken a very different path. The point I'm trying to make here is that it's totally possible to make money with writing, performing etc. with music (hell, even I've done that) but making the same amount or more than what a person with a full-time job definitely does have some determinism involved and isn't 100% in your control. The same is true of actors, magicians and writers. EDIT: And I'm willing to bet an undisclosed sum of money that Gene Simmons has made more money on all the useless "KISS" merchandise that's been sold over the years than actual music.

I disagree. Piracy was rampant in those decades too. It's just that the internet allows it on an even larger scale. Making decent money on recordings has only ever been feasible if you're already a fairly well known musician or people licence a lot of your music. I know a guy who runs a hair salon and used to be in hair metal bands in the 80s (lol I know right?) and as he explained "Back in the day, it was easier to get gigs but hard to get recordings done. Today, it's basically the exact opposite." For the most part, that seems to be true. As for what I'm doing to increase my chances of writing music as a pro one day...well, education wise I'm studying Marketing in the fall so that I could not only learn to promote my music better, but also hopefully get a job in the music or video game industry. So that could potentially help and it sure as shit doesn't hurt to have a full time job in an industry you enjoy. We can all agree with that I'd hope.

Monster Inspirations. They cost me like $350...

Nice............

What I meant by that was that it's one of the worst jobs unless you're employed by some academic institution. Basically, a school.

If there is one thing I've learned about this whole thing it's this: In this day and age, you can do all of the things "professional" musicians do without actually "making a living" doing music. There has never been a time in history when musicians of any specialty made a good living doing what they do. It's just an unfortunate truth. Teaching is also one of the worst possible jobs in music unless you're a college/university professor.

Indeed. I personally hope we get to see Croft Manor again. Oh yeah, and without giving away too much to those who haven't played through it yet, I totally lost my shit when the dual pistols actually made an appearance.

Oh.... So I did....