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.
$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.
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).
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:
<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/AKAI-LPK25-LPK-25-Mini-Keyboard-MIDI-Controller-USB-NEW/230611882252?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b18a110c#ht_6586wt_905">http://cgi.ebay.com/AKAI-LPK25-LPK-25 -Mini-Keyboard-MIDI-Controller-USB-NE W/230611882252?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&
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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.