I am officially pushing my metal projects down the priority list. My orchestral/electronic stuff is what's getting all of the attention... I've had a remix played in a strip club in Oklahoma, I've had 2 piano pieces in flash games, I have numerous people asking me to create stuff for them should they want to make a flash game/toon, my electronic stuff is being featured in the underrated audio collab... Metal at this point is looking like a dead end road.
I love writing metal... but obviously my strength for creating more universally enjoyable music lies in my Orchestral/electronic music. I've yet to have anyone want to use any of my metal in any kind of project. The only thing I have uploaded that got any kind of attention in regards to metal was a cover.
Fortunately... I love writing orchestral/electronic stuff just as much as I do metal... And I don't need to worry about finding people to make a band with to play live with that stuff either.
Guess I'll be spending my money on a new MIDI Keyboard instead of a new 6-string guitar.
I'll still write metal... but I think from here on out, I'm going to be putting a lot more effort into my other stuff... The dream of a touring musician is an extremely difficult dream to make come true... some would call it borderline impossible with the current state of the music industry... especially if you play metal. Soundtrack work on the other hand is well paying, a hell of a lot more reliable, and gets your music out to a hell of a lot more people than playing live shows as a band does.
jarrydn
Dude please don't sell out.
Obviously you want to do metal more man. Why don't you just try turning your metal tunes into something that more people might want to hear? Metalstep is getting hugely fucking popular man, and it's still a fresh thing to do at the moment.
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/bratkilladubstep/bratkilla-brothers-clip">http://soundcloud.com/bratkilladubste p/bratkilla-brothers-clip</a>
Now tell me THAT shit ain't fucking cool.
Buy that fucking guitar dude. Don't be a pussy. If you want a midi keyboard, get yourself one of those fucking little ass Akai keyboards:
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$54 to your door man! You don't need 61 keys if you can't fucking play the piano. Are you going to take the actual time to learn? Fuck that, you can learn chords on 25 keys. You can do lead on 25 keys. You can't do both on 25 keys, but that doesn't matter because you couldn't do it on a full size keyboard anyway! I love my little keyboard, and I never find that I miss the keys. As a guitar player (quite like yourself), I can't play lead and rhythm at the same time. I'm used to playing both parts separately, and I FUCKING LOVE that!
Seriously, you can vibe on your chords with some pads. Choose a different preset and do your leads. Load up a phat monophonic square bass and vibe away. You'd never try doing all at the same time.
As for classical/orchestral, I imagine that you'll still be wanting to enter your data chord by chord. You can't play a full ensemble by yourself, there's so many different instruments playing so many different things in an orchestra.
But fuck that shit anyway, doing "electronic" or "classical" music isn't original or groundbreaking...there are so many people doing it so much better than you, that trying to get to the top of the game is ultimately fruitless, because it eventually stops being cool and people move on to something else!
My advice is to take your dream and make it work for you. If you love metal, don't sell out, try and make it work. There are so many people that are into the more dark, hardened electronic/metal fusion, and it's a scene that is ripe for experimentation and growth.
Unless you wanna be a fucking flake and be forever chasing something that you're can't possibly obtain, buy that goddamn guitar.
Back-From-Purgatory
While I appreciate the thought behind this, I CAN play piano, and me switching to a type of metal that I don't usually do because it's more popular than what I already do would be classified more as "selling out" than me focusing on my electronic/orchestral stuff... I enjoy making electronic/Orchestral stuff... And it just happens to be more popular than the metal I enjoy making.
And my dream is more to share my music with the world than it is to do it in a certain genre or via live concerts.. I've never wanted to be a rich and famous stage musician. Sharing my music and having a decent sized fanbase is enough for me... if I can make a living off of it (Read: Living, not become rich), awesome.
It's not as if I'm not going to write metal anymore, it's just that I'm gonna devote more of my time to the stuff that gets more attention, which I also happen to love writing, sometimes a lot more than metal. And I'll probably still end up buying a new guitar, but only after I get a bigger MIDI Keyboard...
There are songs that I used to play on piano that I can't anymore because my MIDI Keyboard is only 3 octaves, and I need like 6 to play some of the stuff I was learning a while back (Old keyboard is trash).
But again, I appreciate the thought.