Hi Wikiloopers!
I've been hanging around wikiloops for almost a month now, and I thought I'd share some of my thoughts to see what anyone else might have to say about them...
-- I really like this place! Thank you to Dick and everyone else for putting this together. It's a great site filled with very talented musicians, and I'm extremely happy to have found it!
-- I love the format. As a guy who has a family and a job and a hundred of other life obligations, it's awesome to have a resource that allows me to interact with great musicians on my erratic schedule. I don't have to be here at a certain time -- whenever I'm open, there are hundreds of amazing drummers, bass players, keyboardists, guitarists, and others all waiting here for me to jam with. And I can take as little or as much time as I want to work on a track, with no pressure to have it done by a certain time. This is such a fabulous benefit to me.
-- There are SO MANY amazing jams here to listen to! This is both wonderful and concerning. It's awesome to have so many great things to jam with or to simply listen to and enjoy, but it's also impossible for me to hear them all. My first track uploaded was [url=http://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack.php?jamsession=10940]10940[/url] uploaded on Aug 30; my latest track uploaded was [url=http://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack.php?jamsession=11560]11560[/url] from yesterday Sep 22. That means a total of 620 tracks were added in the 24 days between my tracks -- an average of 25.8 tracks per day. At an average of, say, 3 minutes each, it would take 31 hours to listen to all those tracks. Or, if someone was listening every day during those last 24 days, they'd have to spend over an hour each and every day just to keep up. And that's not counting trying to hear the 10,939 tracks that were already on wikiloops before my first upload. I'm sorry, but I just can't hear them all. I wish I could...
-- Thumbs are awesome. Comments are even better. I really appreciate all the feedback and support that you wikiloopers have given me in the short time I've been here. I've tried to do the same. So far, I've received 105 thumbs on my 13 tracks, and have given 192 thumbs and written 169 comments on as many tracks as I could. I love the supportive nature of the wikiloopers and I also want to show that to as many other people as I can.
-- But how important ARE thumbs? I feel great when one track gets 18, but then feel bad when another track has only 3. Was that track really terrible? Maybe my playing completely sucks! I'm trying to remind myself that getting thumbs is not the reason I'm here. It's to get practice, have fun, share my work, and play with some incredible musicians who inspire and challenge me to improve. Growing a s a musician is the real goal. If something I upload gets lost in the deluge of other tracks and only receives a few thumbs, I have to learn to not take it too personally.
-- I wish the forum was a little more active. My "hi, I'm new here!" post from weeks ago has never gotten even a single reply. I see the real-time chat that takes place on the side of the page when I'm logged in, and it's great to see that interaction, but my schedule just doesn't allow me much time to stay and take part. One of the beautiful things about wikiloops is that real musicians can jam together without having to be in the same room or even being online at the same time. The forum would be a way to interact in that same way, but it seems to be pretty dead. That's too bad. Maybe my post will inspire a few others to post some of their own thoughts and kindle some of that interaction here, too?
Well, I guess that's it. The bottom line is that I just want to say thanks -- Thanks to Dick and everyone else for creating this place; thanks to all the musicians who have given their creative talents to fill it with such amazing playing; and thanks to everyone who's commented and thumbed my work and welcomed me aboard. I really appreciate it!
:)
I've been hanging around wikiloops for almost a month now, and I thought I'd share some of my thoughts to see what anyone else might have to say about them...
-- I really like this place! Thank you to Dick and everyone else for putting this together. It's a great site filled with very talented musicians, and I'm extremely happy to have found it!
-- I love the format. As a guy who has a family and a job and a hundred of other life obligations, it's awesome to have a resource that allows me to interact with great musicians on my erratic schedule. I don't have to be here at a certain time -- whenever I'm open, there are hundreds of amazing drummers, bass players, keyboardists, guitarists, and others all waiting here for me to jam with. And I can take as little or as much time as I want to work on a track, with no pressure to have it done by a certain time. This is such a fabulous benefit to me.
-- There are SO MANY amazing jams here to listen to! This is both wonderful and concerning. It's awesome to have so many great things to jam with or to simply listen to and enjoy, but it's also impossible for me to hear them all. My first track uploaded was [url=http://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack.php?jamsession=10940]10940[/url] uploaded on Aug 30; my latest track uploaded was [url=http://www.wikiloops.com/backingtrack.php?jamsession=11560]11560[/url] from yesterday Sep 22. That means a total of 620 tracks were added in the 24 days between my tracks -- an average of 25.8 tracks per day. At an average of, say, 3 minutes each, it would take 31 hours to listen to all those tracks. Or, if someone was listening every day during those last 24 days, they'd have to spend over an hour each and every day just to keep up. And that's not counting trying to hear the 10,939 tracks that were already on wikiloops before my first upload. I'm sorry, but I just can't hear them all. I wish I could...
-- Thumbs are awesome. Comments are even better. I really appreciate all the feedback and support that you wikiloopers have given me in the short time I've been here. I've tried to do the same. So far, I've received 105 thumbs on my 13 tracks, and have given 192 thumbs and written 169 comments on as many tracks as I could. I love the supportive nature of the wikiloopers and I also want to show that to as many other people as I can.
-- But how important ARE thumbs? I feel great when one track gets 18, but then feel bad when another track has only 3. Was that track really terrible? Maybe my playing completely sucks! I'm trying to remind myself that getting thumbs is not the reason I'm here. It's to get practice, have fun, share my work, and play with some incredible musicians who inspire and challenge me to improve. Growing a s a musician is the real goal. If something I upload gets lost in the deluge of other tracks and only receives a few thumbs, I have to learn to not take it too personally.
-- I wish the forum was a little more active. My "hi, I'm new here!" post from weeks ago has never gotten even a single reply. I see the real-time chat that takes place on the side of the page when I'm logged in, and it's great to see that interaction, but my schedule just doesn't allow me much time to stay and take part. One of the beautiful things about wikiloops is that real musicians can jam together without having to be in the same room or even being online at the same time. The forum would be a way to interact in that same way, but it seems to be pretty dead. That's too bad. Maybe my post will inspire a few others to post some of their own thoughts and kindle some of that interaction here, too?
Well, I guess that's it. The bottom line is that I just want to say thanks -- Thanks to Dick and everyone else for creating this place; thanks to all the musicians who have given their creative talents to fill it with such amazing playing; and thanks to everyone who's commented and thumbed my work and welcomed me aboard. I really appreciate it!
:)