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Here's a demo of an indie rock/pop punk song I've been working on. The drums are just place-filler synth drums for now. Would really like to hear if my voice is acceptable, or if it's too grating. Thanks.

2nd Spotlight - I Wrote This Song When I Was In High School (Pop Punk) We gave this song its name because of how completely Simple Plan/Allister/generic high school pop punk it was. Critique appreciated :)

How's the learning curve to move up from GarageBand to Logic? I have mastered mixing in GB and want to know how easy it will be to graduate to big kid mixing. If anyone could recommend something similar to logic that they have had a good experience with, that would be great too. I'm lookin...

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I find jazz repetitive in the first place. At this particular gig, there's no problem with playing the same songs twice. But if this were a different situation and genre, that definitely wouldn't be OK. For example, at a graduation party for my school, a...

sorta-bump I just wanted to say, Mellow, that this was extremely well-written and a joy to read. In fact, this has inspired me to take a similar direction with my college essay that I am currently writing. Thank you for your unintentional inspiration. I may not be famous, but I'm a...

Awesome, you guys sound great. I am also in a pop punk band in CA, so if you ever come by Sacramento, hit me up :)

is the other band in the same area as you? are they on itunes? If the answer is no to both of these questions, then I don't think it matters.

Here's a picture of the hole just so everyone knows what I'm talking about. As you might have guessed, I've never adjusted the truss rod before, and I'm inexperienced at making adjustments to the bass in general.

Sorry if this question has been asked before (I dont think it has) but I tried adjusting my truss rod recently and wasn't able to do it. I stuck the Allen wrench in the hole by the top of the neck of my bass (Fender P bass), but when I turned the Allen wrench, nothing changed. I tried several...

sounds like you made the right decision, if you weren't playing very much before. And who knows, maybe you can bring some metal influence to this band; metal and grunge are not too far apart ;)

Thanks for the assessment. The way I see it, the benfits of this are that 1) it would be fun and interesting, 2) I would be making music that I normally would never make (I don't think I would ever consider joining a hardcore band for realz), and 3) these guys have all their mixing and editing...

True. He did ask me to write some of the lyrics. But he also showed me the other singer (it's a hardcore singer, which I don't like too much, but I'm open to anything), so it's not like he's keeping everything to himself. I need to figure out a way to make sure there's no funny business, though

So after posting a sample of my vocals on a vocal forum for critique, I received an email from someone in Russia asking me to be in their band. I told him this wouldn't work, because I live in California. But then he said he wanted it to be an "online band," where we send each other the...

liked! here's our new page, if anyone's interested https://www.facebook.com/2ndSpotlight (we only have 3 videos so far, but we're about to post way more) :P

I too am in a pop punk band in high school. We only just now finalized our lineup. We have been through 3 drummers, 2 bassists, and two guitarists. There has been pretty much no drama because we decided going in that our friendships were more important than some silly little music act. I...