I would like to get accurate feedback from you guys on my music

[Lyunoh Kang]

I've experimented with many musical and artistic endeavors over the years: composing, arranging, sound design, video editing, mixing, mastering, beatmaking, vocals, and dance.

Am I skilled and talented enough to continue pursuing a career in music and the arts?

Sound quality won't be what you're expecting. Am I good enough to busk at tourist attractions? In other words, I might not be a great musician, but could I be a good one?

Is it okay for me to continue my music career? I've been doing it for nine years now.

https://voca.ro/1TaLb50BhTxh < - Hans Zimmer's Flight remake

https://voca.ro/16tlRDDmETWj < - Tech house composition

https://voca.ro/16FaZmCAPEr1 < - Electric guitar improvisation

https://voca.ro/1iewvepkjPFT < - Boom bap type beat composition

https://voca.ro/14NyunV7UmFZ < - bailey zimmerman's religiously cover Electriguitar cover

[OneWorld]

I've experimented with many musical and artistic endeavors over the years: composing, arranging, sound design, video editing, mixing, mastering, beatmaking, vocals, and dance.

Am I skilled and talented enough to continue pursuing a career in music and the arts?

Sound quality won't be what you're expecting. Am I good enough to busk at tourist attractions? In other words, I might not be a great musician, but could I be a good one?

Is it okay for me to continue my music career? I've been doing it for nine years now.

https://voca.ro/1TaLb50BhTxh < - Hans Zimmer's Flight remake

https://voca.ro/16tlRDDmETWj < - Tech house composition

https://voca.ro/16FaZmCAPEr1 < - Electric guitar improvisation

https://voca.ro/1iewvepkjPFT < - Boom bap type beat composition

https://voca.ro/14NyunV7UmFZ < - bailey zimmerman's religiously cover Electriguitar cover

There's quite a variety there but for what it's worth.....

https://voca.ro/1TaLb50BhTxh < - Hans Zimmer's Flight remake
( was confused as to what was what)

https://voca.ro/16tlRDDmETWj < - Tech house composition
(More listenable to me at least)

https://voca.ro/16FaZmCAPEr1 < - Electric guitar improvisation
(How many electric guitar improvisations have you listened to and whom has inspired you? Might be an idea to focus in on a particular style and replicate that, even a solo needs structure and especially 'feeling')

https://voca.ro/1iewvepkjPFT < - Boom bap type beat composition
This has promise, out of all the examples you've added here, I'd say this is what appeals more to me, I'll give it a

https://voca.ro/14NyunV7UmFZ < - bailey zimmerman's religiously cover Electriguitar cover
(Quite good too. Is it you singing?)

[Lyunoh Kang]

Bailey Zimmerman doesn't sing, only plays guitar. I'm considering quitting music if it doesn't work out. Will continuing to make music be enough to make a living?

[OneWorld]

Bailey Zimmerman doesn't sing, only plays guitar. I'm considering quitting music if it doesn't work out. Will continuing to make music be enough to make a living?

Only you can answer that question

[Sam Spoons]

Give us more information please* for starters how did you create the tracks? The 'guitar improv' track is massively at odds with the others and, without wanting to be super critical, I'd say your lead guitar chops need some work before you can consider yourself an accomplished lead guitar player. The others sound so much more polished

* Spidey senses pricking here...

[RichardT]

Are some of these generated by AI?

You've also used what I think is copyrighted dialogue on the first track. You may not be aware, but that's a serious issue and you should take that track down straight away.

In relation to your guitar playing, I think the best thing you could do is study some basic scales and arpeggios. I would start by learning the blues and major pentatonic scales in some common keys (E,A,D,G,C,F) and constructing solos out of those.

[James Perrett]

The ones that I've listened to sound very confused. Almost like a bunch of random tracks added together.

[Sam Spoons]

Bailey Zimmerman doesn't sing, only plays guitar. I'm considering quitting music if it doesn't work out. Will continuing to make music be enough to make a living?

Wiki says "Bailey Lynn Zimmerman (born January 27, 2000) is an American country singer."

Are we being visited by another AI?

[OneWorld]

Bailey Zimmerman doesn't sing, only plays guitar. I'm considering quitting music if it doesn't work out. Will continuing to make music be enough to make a living?

Wiki says "Bailey Lynn Zimmerman (born January 27, 2000) is an American country singer."

Are we being visited by another AI?

That's what I reckoned too but one must give people the benefit of the doubt and if this is robot music, I don't think we're in danger of being upstaged and forced to hang up our plectrums just yet

[Sam Spoons]

Yes, agreed on both counts. The lead guitar improv sounds very human though...

[Lyunoh Kang]

Not AI

[Drew Stephenson]

Am I skilled and talented enough to continue pursuing a career in music and the arts?

It really doesn't matter how skilled you are. It's how effectively you can market yourself and establish an audience.
This applies whether you're doing it yourself or trying to attract the interest of a label.

Is it okay for me to continue my music career? I've been doing it for nine years now.

Only you can answer that but statistically I would never advise anyone to take it up as a career, no matter how talented or skillful. The actual odds of success are tiny.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but be realistic about your chances of success.

[RichardT]

I agree with Drew. I would develop a career in another field and treat music as a pleasure.

If your music really takes off, you can go with it at some point in the future.

[OneWorld]

I agree with Drew. I would develop a career in another field and treat music as a pleasure.

If your music really takes off, you can go with it at some point in the future.

"I would develop a career in another field and treat music as a pleasure.

If your music really takes off, you can go with it at some point in the future."

Yep, and let us know your secret when you make the big time

[Watchmaker]

I've said it before and I'll say it again...trying to make art and trying to make money are almost entirely mutually exclusive endeavors. If you want to make money, any field other than art, including garbage collection, is a better option. If you want to make art, consider the material sacrifices required to satisfy the muses. Not a popular topic in our secular dead world, but spirituality, or at least some recognition that the universe is greater than than you, is necessary. It takes massive commitment to become a virtuoso and/or to gain the insight necessary to become truly "great" at any endeavor...even garbage collection.

FWIW, I didn't listen to your tracks because they are in no way relevant to the questions you ask.

Finally, every single person whom I've ever met who plays music is, at some point, haunted by these questions. I suspect that even if you throw your arms up in frustration and swear you'll never play again, at some point, you will.

My advice is keep it up and don't let the bastards wear you down. You are not a commodity.

[Exalted Wombat]

You've been doing it for 9 years?

How much ARE you making from music? Enough to give up the day job? If so, go for it!

[Sam Spoons]

Not AI

Okay, so tell us how much of what you posted is composed, played and recorded by you personally, and how you achieved those recordings. I'm not trying to be difficult or to shoot you down in flames but the guitar improv track does not indicate guitar chops sufficient to support a professional career. Maybe you are a keyboard player and composed, played and recorded the other tracks*? They do indicate skills but we can't answer your question without you answering ours.

So, the most likely way to earn a living from playing music is by playing live, mostly in theatres, orchestras or function and tribute bands. Mostly this requires good reading skills and the ability to play a wide range of styles. Sadly the opportunities to make money from original music are limited and are getting more limited.

* If so why would you post that lead guitar track when it is clearly not up to scratch?

[OneWorld]

I suppose there always busking

[Lyunoh Kang]

Okay.

https://voca.ro/1TaLb50BhTxh < - I remade Hans Zimmer's Flight. Arrangement?

https://voca.ro/1iewvepkjPFT < - I used a boom bap type beat loop sample and recorded only the drums myself.

https://voca.ro/14NyunV7UmFZ < - Bailey Zimmerman's religiously. Please listen to the guitar sound only. I played the guitar myself.

I selected 3 songs from 174 practice tracks as samples.

[Arpangel]

Bailey Zimmerman doesn't sing, only plays guitar. I'm considering quitting music if it doesn't work out. Will continuing to make music be enough to make a living?

Wiki says "Bailey Lynn Zimmerman (born January 27, 2000) is an American country singer."

Are we being visited by another AI?

Bailey Zimmerman? I was thinking more along the lines of Derek Bailey and Hans Zimmerman!


AI? Of course it is.

[Sam Spoons]

So you have played guitar and drums over commercial tracks and remixed the Hans Z track from (what?)? What other instrument(s) do you play and what are your hopes when it comes to making money from using these skills? The question you asked could be reduced to "should I give up?" in reply I'd ask "give up what?" How are you making money from your music career now?

WRT Busking post a couple of popular songs performed live and entirely solo by you on acoustic guitar and vocal. Busking is more about the performance and engaging with the audience than your guitar/vocal chops but they do have to be at least adequate.

[Arpangel]

I’ve listened to some, seems like a lot of cliches randomly stuck together, of wildly varying abilities.
Why so many different styles? whoever this is needs to concentrate and focus on a more defined path.

[Dumble]

Am I skilled and talented enough to continue pursuing a career in music and the arts?

Negative.