Yes I am a newbie

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DrCobweb said:
Very few people who have the kind of personality that takes joy in music, or any creative art, are likely to find any real joy in studying business, and getting an MBA will almost certainly suck every ounce of life out of them by the time they're through. Planning one's life around "something to fall back on" is essentially a guarantee that one will indeed fall back.

It's very unlikely that any given person will become hugely rich and successful as a musician, or as a producer, or in any other profession related to music. However, it is just as unlikely that a person who yearns only to be in music is going to become hugely rich and successful sitting in an office grunting over paperwork with an MBA hanging on his wall. The difference is, it's possible to make a decent living (without being hugely rich and successful) and be very, very happy in the music business, if music is truly your passion; however, it's virtually impossible to be truly happy stuck in a mind-numbing job you hate, watching your life dribble away in regrets and daydreams about what might have been if you'd stayed with music.
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Au contraire - I work in middle management in finance and I like my job of building transactional websites a shitload as it allows me to use parts of my brain that music doesn't. Nothing I like better, apart from music, than fucking around with Excel spreadsheets and working on complicated logical flows..... That people only have, and only can have, one serious interest in life is really narrow thinking... you should read the "have something to fall back on" advice as, perhaps, "have more than one arrow in your quiver"....

Do it on your own terms is the answer. There are millions of ways... What was the question? :laughings:
 
Armistice said:
Au contraire - I work in middle management in finance and I like my job of building transactional websites a shitload as it allows me to use parts of my brain that music doesn't. Nothing I like better, apart from music, than fucking around with Excel spreadsheets and working on complicated logical flows..... That people only have, and only can have, one serious interest in life is really narrow thinking... you should read the "have something to fall back on" advice as, perhaps, "have more than one arrow in your quiver"....

Do it on your own terms is the answer. There are millions of ways... What was the question? :laughings:
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Yeah I run a company and have been doing database development for over 10 years. I also paint and make music. And now I play music more than just about anything. A lot of people that work in studios find it to be just another job because they are forced to give the customer what they want even though it goes against their artistic sensibilities... I was asking about the viability of opening a recording studio and basically to make it work you have to do a lot of work that is not actually fun - so there will always be some kind of compromise.

Unless your a rock star...
 
arcadeko said:
Yeah I run a company and have been doing database development for over 10 years. I also paint and make music. And now I play music more than just about anything. A lot of people that work in studios find it to be just another job because they are forced to give the customer what they want even though it goes against their artistic sensibilities... I was asking about the viability of opening a recording studio and basically to make it work you have to do a lot of work that is not actually fun - so there will always be some kind of compromise.

Unless your a rock star...
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So that explains your avatar ..... Is that a self portrait?
 
moresound said:
So that explains your avatar ..... Is that a self portrait?
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yeah lol - I made a video of me painting it for a techno song I made when I first got my Ensoniq ASR-10 - its a pretty goofy song - but then again most of my songs are pretty goofy...

the video might be kind of boring but I always wanted to do a time lapse video of a painting so I did...

 
arcadeko said:
yeah lol - I made a video of me painting it for a techno song I made when I first got my Ensoniq ASR-10 - its a pretty goofy song - but then again most of my songs are pretty goofy...

the video might be kind of boring but I always wanted to do a time lapse video of a painting so I did...

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I enjoyed that very much. Thanks for sharing man.
 
cool - glad you guys liked it - it was a fun project cause I was able to do 3 things I really enjoy - paint, record music, and work on video :)

Thats about 8 hours of real-time compressed into 3 minutes
 
I like how this thread started off about Jordon and ended up with me wanting to commission arcadeko for a piece of art.
 
You are the fastest painter I've ever seen!

You make that Bob Ross guy look like he was on reds!
 
chrisharris said:
I like how this thread started off about Jordon and ended up with me wanting to commission arcadeko for a piece of art.
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I've noticed this about the majority of the Newbie forum.
A newbie will come into the community ask a single question, the rest of us answer the question then go off on tangents only to find out about each other a little more in depth.

Then the funny thing is the newbie comes back (sometimes - if they can stand the heat of the kitchen) to find their post 2 or 3 pages long trying to figure it out ..... I can't wait for Famous DAVE to show up again.
 
arcadeko said:
yeah lol - I made a video of me painting it for a techno song I made when I first got my Ensoniq ASR-10 - its a pretty goofy song - but then again most of my songs are pretty goofy...

the video might be kind of boring but I always wanted to do a time lapse video of a painting so I did...

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Man, that was absolutely fantastic ! Pretty groovy song, too.
God bless America !
 
Haha I'm here. Just quietly watching my thread take off :)

Thanks for all the advice and help everyone. I really appreciate it.
 
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