Nadia Purge 🎵Apr 9, 2023

Well... it might be a quiet day today.. but I'd like to get into the #DIYMusicChat

The topic today is about #mentors and #MusicMentorship

Personally, music affinity was found early; a topic I shared with my older brother - but we didn't have time with each other to explore that growing up because of the age difference.

I had some access to music at school and a bad piano teacher experience.. mentorship came to me in my late 30's.

Did you find music guidance outside of your family?

Yes
100%
No
0%
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Show threadNadia Purge 🎵Apr 9, 2023

Throughout life, I was surrounded by #musicians but always too scared to ask for their help or time. And I didn't have any #instruments to ask them to teach me to play.

I had to approach #music from MIDI, accessed in a video game.

My #mentors were sometimes.. kids who had music education, or strangers online

Until I enrolled in a community college program, I had no access to #MusicTraining since elementary school

When did you find your musical mentors?

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childhood
66.7%
adulthood
0%
still looking
33.3%
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It is a bit tough to describe how my #MusicMentors helped me because there were so many of them

But for you, #DIYMusicChat, I'll try

When I first got started TRYING to learn #music, a friend and neighbor gave me a pirated copy of Acid Music and I got really far with some stock loops before I gave up.. I didn't know what to do beyond that and it felt like I was going in circles with development so I quit

I was SO ALONE

It took more than 10 years after that for me to start again

Apr 9, 2023 at 5:20pmWeb
Show threadNadia Purge 🎵Apr 9, 2023

When I started making music again, it was because friends in a video game made lots of their own #MIDImusic and it was cool, but I had better DLC and could make it sound more "real" with better instruments

I experimented back and forth and some of my pals helped me learn what to do with the piano roll and transcribing things.. how to get better sound out of the MIDI samples, how to make notes longer, or fade in/out, vary the velocity, etc.

Without that help, I would've quit

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