Anyone here make/record music? If so, how do you get good at it? Specifically the recording part (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Hohsia@hexbear.net to c/music@hexbear.net

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I bought a usb interface so I could hook up a guitar and synth and record directly into my pc because I have hundreds of little snippets I’d like to try to do something with, and holy shit recording is hard

Not sure if this is just the diy nature of it all but yeah it’s actually pretty disconcerting because I have some friends who do it no problem 🫠 maybe it’s just another thing that will take practice to get good

Anyone have tips? I was thinking of maybe starting with a cover of something

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[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

Start with a cover, do a ton of takes. Don't be afraid to edit, but try to get a decent take of at least each section. Learn to splice your good takes together. If you don't have a backing track to play along with (midi versions of songs usually work great for this if googling " guitar backing track" doesn't work), then make sure you're recording to a metronome set to the same BPM as the song.