Totally forgot this was a thing.

And I was just about to complain about the level of commitment it'd take to plan that, but Roboctopopop's idea ain't half bad

I tend to comment on things that fit into my own personal tastes. don't take offense if I haven't commented on your track, it's just not my "thing". but it's cool that you wrote this into a thread, I think it was at least somewhat on a lot of people's minds? since it is a fairly large community I think there will be people tending to "group up".

as you touched upon in this post, there are a lot of people without comments... maybe just comment on those and start your own commenting group? I dunno this thing is gonna evolve like crazy methinks. and I am going to do my damnedest to listen to all these tracks. someone might do something I love one week then do a track that I am not very partial to another week. I am totally fine with this being the case for my tracks as well. the best part is that it is really interesting, I never know what is going to pop out of the music player!

I like the random idea, and another thing which would be nice is the ability to have separate playlists for each week... as well as the main one with everything in it (which could benefit especially from a shuffle button)

That may be true, but when you have a scenario where a person is not receiving any feedback of any kind, that is basically saying either A: Their song was terrible or B: No one in the community appreciates their genre of choice. To me that feels really isolating (especially if the person is legitimately trying). I think that as musicians, we should be able to learn and draw from multiple genres in order to enhance our own preferences and styles. We also should be able to give useful feedback on any style of music, even if its as simple as telling the artist how it made them feel or mixing tips, or something. We are a community after all and staying in clicks will only hinder that level of interaction and possibility of improving/feeling motivated to improve. Also, no great musicians have ever stuck to what they were familiar with alone.

Now I do realize that this is quite a big community and that not everyone has all of the free time in the world, but like you've said, the main point of this is to release 52 tracks, build up an awesome library, and improve as an musician. That can't happen if people are motivated to only create music that they feel will appeal to the majority and/or are too afraid to do something out of their comfort zone. I personally joined to experiment and see if I could commit to this. I can already say that I've gotten far better and far more familiar with my software and my ability simply by doing this every week, listening to others, and giving feedback.

On an unrelated note, I didn't expect my first post to be something like this, lol. I'm sorry if it sounds harsh/whiny, but I felt like it needed to be said.

Last edited by GDD (January 25, 2012 1:53 am)

I don't think that many people know of me around here so I'm guessing that the reason I've been getting 10+ comments every week was because I listened to and commented on almost everything that didn't already have a comment on the first week. Perhaps it's a matter of "give a little, get a little"?

I plan on going through and doing this again for week 4, but I have to confess that I start with songs that have interesting titles first. So yeah, if you want guaranteed feedback from me next week give your track a pretentious and wanky name

Pyronetiks: I definitely agree, and didn't mean to indicate otherwise. Conversely, I also agree with Lazerbeat, in that it's a personal challenge. I suppose it's much like any community, the more input the more output? Heh.

Haha, this.