I'm in a weird position with music.
I have the ability for it, but I don't really have the passion.
I was on and off bass guitar for many years, on my best days I was practically working it as a job, and on my worst days I wondered why I was doing it at all if I didn't have a drive for it.
I also have depression, and my mom (who would love to see me become a serious musician) feels that if I didn't have depression, I'd have passion for playing.
I'm not sure how I feel about that, since I'm passionate about other things. I can get pretty wrapped up in different video games or films that I enjoy. I'm a tokusatsu nerd, if anyone knows what that is. But music...just don't have the drive for it.
On a 15 minute drive the other day, I had the radio off because I was thinking of some random metal song I hadn't heard in years.
During the drive, I switched to another song, a theme to a TV show I've been watching.
Then a song from a video game I enjoy popped in, linking into the theme song. Just, click, mash-up. The vocals from the video game song were sitting on top of the instrumental TV theme. It sounded like it fit perfectly, I dunno if it's the same key or whatever, but it sounded right.
Then a third song came in, which I had somehow automatically transposed to the correct key. The chords of the third song were now underlining the first and second.
I had no idea what to make of it.
Even though I don't have the passion, I uh... I dunno. I have no beliefs, so I don't think I'm 'meant' for anything. I used to, and so I used to force myself to do music because I thought it was my "purpose." Now I'm less inclined to believe that.
But with that said, I did a mental mash-up of three random songs without even trying to.
My main question is, is there a free program (or at least an affordable one) that I can use to actually create the mash-up I came up with? I was trying to do it in Audacity but I could not get the first and second to match up (the second goes much faster than the first so I couldn't figure out how to link their BPMs, plus the second started sounding worse and worse as I slowed it down)
My second question is, should I even bother? If I don't have the passion, is there any point to doing this? On the one hand, it feels weird to be doing something if I don't feel motivated to do it. On the other hand, it almost feels like I'm doing something wrong by not using this ability that I have that a lot of people don't. (god I hope I don't sound like an asshole by saying that, I just can't figure out how else to phrase it, I'm sorry)
Dunno what to make of myself.
If I had a good program though, at least I could mess around and see what I could create. Audacity has been my main program since high school because I use it to edit stuff when I need to, but I figure there's probably something better out there for mash-ups.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for readin :D
Submitted January 02, 2020 at 11:16PM by kaizokukaiju https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/ej8jo2/need_to_talk_about_making_mashups_of_songs_as/?utm_source=ifttt