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(189 replies, posted in Site Help)

Wisefire wrote:
FrogCity wrote:

I'd please like to change mine from frogcity to FrogCity. Thank you!

As a starving musician I need the capital! ^__^

Yes, you can bribe me with hilarious jokes! Not that i wouldn't've helped you otherwise, but this way i get to enjoy awesome humour like this! Much appreciated! You're name now has more capitals than your country!

Thanks!! I am feeling doubled up!!!

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(189 replies, posted in Site Help)

I'd please like to change mine from frogcity to FrogCity. Thank you!

As a starving musician I need the capital! ^__^

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(2 replies, posted in Site Help)

I was searching if there's a way to do this. Excited to find this thread on it. Less excited to see I made this thread. Hahahahaha.

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(2 replies, posted in General Discussion)

There’s a point system

0: stealing a chord progression
1: stealing a melodic phrase + chord progression
2: using an auto chord progression tool
3: using an auto melody tool
3: using samples from splice
4: using loops from splice
4: using logic session drummer and session keyboardist
5: using a pre-made song template and modifying the instruments and tempo
6: using a daw demo song and modifying it slightly
7: going to nashville and asking them “give me something cool with lyrical theme of this”
8: going to ai and asking them “give me something cool with lyrical theme of this”
100: passing it off as something it isn’t, cheating others
1000: cheating yourself


Of course being facetious, and there’s lots of value going across the board here and lots of gray area. However please don’t pull a Giacomo level of cheating others and yourself, that’s not what this community is about. Personally I enjoy making things with logic’s chord progression tools, autodrummer, templates, ai etc. I’ve been called out on it numerous times “hey I can spot that logic drummer from a mile away” and certain people won’t listen to my stuff and that’s fine, that’s just the level I’m currently at and able to do in a week, it’s a shortcut that really lets me focus on the melody and harmony which is my focus area of growth.

Full ai, some ai, no ai, the key thing is did you make it and grow?


See the FAQ for the official answer

Can I Use Generative AI For My Submission?
Weeklybeats celebrates human creativity. Generative AI may be used as a tool for inspiration, ideation, or transformation but should not replace your creative process.

Submissions that consist solely of AI-generated output (for example, prompt-to-finished-track workflows) are not permitted.

I would love to hear other people's top resources that helped them grow! I'm sure weeklybeats of course may be the #1 answer for a lot of people, myself included

My list:
1. Weeklybeats (duh!). Why: lots of riffs prior, unfinished work all over the place, perfectionist paralysis and a lot of "I need to get better before I record for real" thinking when recording for real is the best way to get in-context feedback on improving at it. Put out two full albums thanks to WB2024 including higher quality material than I ever put out from 2007 to 2023.
2. Troy Stetina (guitar). Why: in-context learning. Every song comes with examples and exercises, well chosen, curated, and taught. I even have some of them in Chinese versions I liked them so much. Includes some ear training and songwriting emphasis too.
3. Chord Crush (ear). Why: Improved my songwriting abilities and depth of appreciation and understanding. I have not seen a better more in-context ear training course than this. I recently got to top 30 global on the leaderboard xD.
4. Mastering vibrato (voice). Why: I could never do a good vibrato except high in my range, like in Iron Maiden style pulled up chest with British vowels. I can now do a variety of types on nearly all the notes, styles, and volumes, really improving the expression and control.


Honorable mentions:
1. Troy Grady (guitar). Why: the picking technique genius who helped me understand how to break through the 120bm 16th notes barrier I was stuck at for years not understanding why no matter how perfectly I practiced at 115bpm, it just wouldn't seem to land at 120bpm+. Can now play a lot of picked riffs 140-160bpm which is where picking sounds "shreddy".
2. David Lucas Burge (ear). Why: Although not super practical, was the start of taking my decently developed ear from learning to play the N64 Zelda music that can guess and check to the next level. Although applying it consistently in the context of realtime music would take longer.
3. Kristofer Dahl (guitar). Why: Really excellent feel, variety of styles, ton of videos, fun community site with a lot of community content, challenges, etc.
4. My first guitar teacher. Why: Was very good for the few months he taught me, was a big Rhoads fan and definitely rubbed off on me, but since then I have occasionally tried to explore in person vocal and guitar teachers, and none of them really felt like a great use of time. Hard to find a good one, and the other online resources shared above have worked out better.

I did! I did RPM Feb 2025 and did most of the finishing work then. Check out Touch My Midas on all platforms. If you are offended by offensive content, I recommend starting with Graveyard at Midnight which starts without an intro and is the fastest way to potentially save your time if it’s not for you, literally 3 seconds in you’ll know you’re either very generous or the lyrics weren’t intelligible enough. That one was 90% written in 2010 or so, and it got done in wb2024! Thanks wb! ❤️ 🪦🧟

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(19 replies, posted in General Discussion)

The discord is coming alive! 4 days 18 hours

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(49 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Fwiw, I found RPM and will focus on that for the immediate future (in February). Might be looking for similar after.

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(49 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Oh wait what. I was wondering why i couldn’t find the submission button lmao.

Any other sites doing similar? I’m actually doing a 4w pace though (see my profile)

Edit: Request no longer needed, thanks!

Could I get an upload link for W31? I was traveling and missed the upload window.

Was on the road and unable to upload the finished product. Need a late upload link please. Thanks!

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(2 replies, posted in Site Help)

orangedrink wrote:

If you scroll down beyond a user's track description, to the right of the play button will appear an "add favourite" button.

Aha! Thanks!

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(2 replies, posted in Site Help)

I noticed in the search there’s a way to search for favorites. How do I add them to begin with? For now I just have my own links note saved off. Just curious if I missed something, but it’s not a big deal if it’s not a thing.

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(2 replies, posted in Site Help)

I couldn’t figured out how to search by two tags and’d at once. Is there a way? I tried a couple different ways, but it didn’t work to pull up songs I know have two tags. The tag search worked when each tag was searched individually. I was curious in 2024W14 and Metal

little-scale wrote:
frogcity wrote:

I'll need an upload link for this week please. Rough couple of weeks of getting pulled off schedule and missing the deadline in another scramble submission.

Sure thing! https://weeklybeats.com/music/upload?ha … iKlQHzdA==

Amazing thank you