I already do it, I broke a wrist in my early 20s so had to stop but it seems to working well enough now, I've been progressing well with my technical exercises the last couple of weeks and am going to push onwards to virtuoso mastery.
But I still suck at mixing / producing, I can't make my ideas sound as gold as they are in my head.
I'm trying to figure out if I can even get funding for a second degree in Music but I don't think so as it isn't a STEM subject.
You make opensource songs, right?
Well then, you can create a github page, it's basically free web hosting for life, for static pages, perfect for a portfolio
Example https://jrleszcz.github.io/
Another example https://thetobias1.github.io/Toby-Hendricks-Music-Portfolio/
It's going to be a domain name like that "mySuperArtistName.github.io
And you can setup the page the way you want, it's a blank space for you, pretty much like a normal website except there's no php/dynamic stuffs server side, and no database
But for a portfolio it's perfect, and it costs nothing, it's for eternity, at least as long as microsoft who owns github now dies... And the domain is safe, it's github, it's reassuring people can go there without being scared to death by russian hacker, what else? You can then add the url link on business cards you make and you give them to people you meet
I mean, it's cool to not have to worry every years to renew a given domain name, or pay for webhosting every months. Even if you die it's still there lol
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Now regarding production tools... Of course you have paid pro solutions.. You have to pirate shits... And you have descent opensource programs, such as LMMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMMS
>LMMS (formerly Linux MultiMedia Studio) is a digital audio workstation application program. When LMMS is executed on a computer with appropriate hardware, it allows music to be produced by arranging samples, synthesizing sounds, playing on a MIDI keyboard, and combining the features of trackers and sequencers. It supports the Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API (LADSPA) and Virtual Studio Technology (VST) plug-ins (on Win32, Win64,or Wine32).[5] It is free software, written in Qt and released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).
It features a sharing platform https://lmms.io/
You have ardour also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardour_(software)
>Ardour is a hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application that runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD and Microsoft Windows. Its primary author is Paul Davis, who is also responsible for the JACK Audio Connection Kit. Ardour is intended to be digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use.[citation needed] Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version two or any later version), Ardour is free software.[1] Ardour major version 5.0, with improvements including support for a new tabbed interface, Lua scripting, VCAs, plugin pin management and many other new features, was released in August 2016.
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Personally I'm a fan of milkytracker, but... That's not exactly what you want, it's to make chiptunes
Thanks for the info! I was literally using YouTube for my portfolio so far.
I tried getting back into it last November as the timeline on my YouTube videos but wrist problem came back. This time I'm mainly doing technical exercises at least up to Hanon 31/60 as those are the ones you use to make all the fingers evenly mobile and dexterous and this seems to be fixing my wrist now plus push ups and gyroscope. I don't think I'll be able to get any thing new or some high end piano pieces learnt by this year's deadline for the open source funding grant in June 2020 so I'll have to submit what I did last year and explain that I broke a wrist when I was 23 and all about that, plus of I can overcome it I might want to apply for a music degree in 2021 but that's if I can get a second degree funded.
I have some ancient demos of high difficulty Joplin pieces learnt and am also !earning a couple more as I plod through my technical exercises right now, but I need to focus mainly on wrist Physiotherapy if I want to be able to resume doing this and at least become a teacher working from home.
I could even try the governments business start up grant,p for teaching from my home - you can get an interest free loan of up to £25,000 plus £66 per week for 3 months the then £33 for 3 more months for free, and I need a better piano now with springier keys for single note trill pieces but currently have no money. I would explain that's what I would be using the grant on as well as paying to furnish my living room which is still empty.
Also my main PC is broke right now until my motherboard gets back from Asus repairing the socket so I can't inporve any recordings or continue with trying new ones.
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