Hi! I'm Sam. I found Steemit when someone made a comic about one of my songs, now I'm intrigued!
How did I find Steemit? Interesting story...
I'm Sam, I live in Dallas, Texas. I write and record music under the name Grand Commander. I've had a small bit of success with my song "I Hope You Die in a Fire". Occasionally I do a Google search to see if anyone has mentioned the song. Last night I found a wonderful super awesome post by @suesa-random. She drew a comic that illustrates the lyrics to the song, and completely captured the vibe! My jaw hit the floor when I saw it.
Naturally I wanted to reply and voice how much I appreciate the artwork, and express how heartwarming it feels to find artwork inspired by a song I've written. Cool, time to sign up for this new social network I've never heard of so I can leave a reply and then...
What the f?! Cryptocurrency?! Blockchain?
I thought I would sign up 1-2-3, post a comment, be on my way. However, I quickly learned Steemit is completely different than anything I've come across. Some new kind of economic/blog ecosystem where creators and curators can get paid for posting valuable content? Being so new, it's all hard to grasp. Blockchain, cryptocurrency, these are things I knew existed but never really paid attention to... until now. That being said...I'm into it.
So, I figure the best way to learn is to make a post and hopefully interact with real people. I left a reply on @suesa-random's artwork post, I'm making this hello Steemit world post, and we'll see what happens from there.
Passions/interests/what I can offer to the community
- Music! - I play bass and guitar and sing, I'm fluent in music theory, and I love to teach and discuss all aspects of music. Main styles are funk/rock/prog/metal, recent years been getting more into indie/singer songwriter stuff, some electronic, some hip hop. Favorite artists... MANOWAR, Parliament Funkadelic, Yes, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Busta Rhymes, Tom Waits, Laura Marling. Currently listening to The Knife/Fever Ray.
- Recording - I write/engineer/record/mix all Grand Commander songs in my home studio. I'm passionate about recording, analog gear, acoustic environments for microphone use (hello podcasters!), DAWs, plugins.
- Super Nintendo Synthesizer - I turned a SNES controller into a synth using a Teensy 3.5 for Grand Commander shows. Now that it works, I'm taking steps to turn it into a product. Learning Javascript and React in hopes of making a cross platform app to create user accounts, control the controller, and share and save presets. Very early in this programming journey.
- NES - I still have my OG NES from 1987, I love old NES games, I play Contra/Tetris/Dr Mario at expert levels, and loooove talking about old NES games.
To wrap it up...
Sometimes FB and IG feel... I don't know... disembodied. There is so much noise, it can be hard to cut through it all and have meaningful interactions. Steemit feels like it could be different. First step is understanding what the hell it all means, but really really the first step is just meeting some people here and having some conversations. Looking forward to meeting all of you!
I really did NOT expect you to find that comic, and I certainly didn't think you'd sign up for Steem just to leave a comment!
I'm very happy to see you here and hope that you'll find a great community here on Steem.
As you're making music, I can recommend DSound, which is an interface to the Steem blockchain that looks a bit like SoundCloud.
If you need help with anything, either find me in the #general channel on steem.chat, or message me on Discord (Suesa#4095).
Good to have you here :)
It is really important to me to interact with anyone who expresses interest in my music. As soon as I saw your post I started looking for a way to contact you and express positive vibes for your artwork. Every time I look at your comic I catch new details, there is more there than meets the eye at first, it is quite wonderful. I made a video for the song, not sure if you've come across it, you can check it here if you want.
I'll check the links! Thank you for the warm welcome, I was so happy when I saw that you responded. :)
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Thank you so much for your interest!
understood, I'll look into it :)
What a way to find Steem! Love it!!
I see Freebornangel has already mentioned tribes. I think there are a few you'll fit in with. As a music creator creativecoin.xyz (just use the #creativecoin tag) should be a good fit as well. I don't want to throw too much info at you at once, but I'll leave it here for when you're ready.
I hope you enjoy it here and stick around. We have a hardfork coming up in a few more days, so don't be too surprised when it goes offline for a day (or more, depending how smoothly it goes). It's very different here to the usual social media and can take a bit of getting used to. We're all still feeling our way and the developers still trying to figure out the best ways forward. Patience is sometimes needed. ;D
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yeah crazy way to find Steem for sure, lol :) :) Creative coin, cool, I will check that out. Thank you for the warm welcome and good advice!! :)
Also, most Steemians hang out in Discord. Here's a couple links if you want to join.
https://discord.gg/YWm5STr
https://discord.gg/a75Cfak
https://discord.gg/9Umf3UY
Welcome to Steemit! (Although, most of us who have been here a while just refer to it as Steem).
It can be difficult to make real connections here too, largely becuase people only really focus on their particular interest groups.
But if you dig around you will find different ways of expressing yourself here; dsound.audio for music and podcasts, dtube for video uploads, etc.
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Oops I hit send too early!
Here's a list of tools that to you can use.
https://partiko.app/shaidon/useful-tools-for-steemians?referrer=shaidon
There's also an app called Partiko that you can use on your phone to do most of your Steem stuff.
https://partiko.app/referral/shaidon
If the links don't work change partiko.app to steemit.com
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I LOVE MANOWAR! WOW! I DON'T HEAR THAT TOO OFTEN! Hi I'm Francesca @prettynicevideo . I Love that Story metal. That's what I call It. Not quite Maiden but just as powerful in different areas. My fave songs would have to be the sappier ones. Brothers of metal, Spirit Horse of the Cherokee, Master of the Wind, Power of thy Sword. Such an under rated band I think. Their song evoke feeling, nostalgia. You're almost transported to the story. They have harder albums; some where they even sound a little like kiss I think But way cool.
Probably my favorite. especially where it opens up and the drums come in. LOVE THIS SONG! lolololol.
MANOWAR!! I got so happy when I saw this I couldn't believe it. Every once in a while you come across a Manowar fan, and what a glorious day it is. I looove Spirit Horse. My all time favorite Manowar is King off of Louder Than Hell. I love so many of their songs though, too many to name. Their ballads are sooooo good. My favorite Manowar ballad is probably The Fight For Freedom off Warriors of the World. I mean I love everything about Manowar. Also it is soooo rare to be able to discuss Manowar with anyone. Wayyyy cooool :) :)
Look what I found. Lolol. Today is a good day. Tool released new album and I found this guy. Probably all scratched up.
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OMG!!!! What a find!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) Yes I've been exploring the new Tool album myself...
Cool beans well I'll be following your journey! And I'll be sure to vist or revisit those songs. See if I knew them. I still have a CD .... Oh I can't find it now I'm sad. I have it somewhere it's the one with spirit horse and all that on their. For beans man nice to meet you
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Welcome to steemit @grandcommander.
Welcome the new steemians. Have a great day!
Hi Tuanis! I'll check out these links, thanks!!
Hi and welcome here! When I started on steemit, my biggest problem was to find interesting people to interact with. So, to help newcomers getting started I created a directory with other interesting and or talented steemians to follow or interact with. Feel free to check it out at https://www.steemiandir.com I am sure it will help you find like-minded people. Enjoy your stay here and do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!
Hi!! I will check it out. First question. On Instagram and FB, I've always followed the mantra... like all love. So I like and respond to every comment. I plan on continuing to responding to all comments, but what about "liking", which I guess in this case is upvoting. Is that something to shy away from?
ha, good question... but the answer could be veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy long....
In short, no, liking and upvoting are not the same. On facebook everything is "free" (hm) On steemit when you upvote someone, jou're giving away Steem (a cryptocurrency). So in fact, when upvoting you're giving money to someone.
But hold your horses… it's not that easy of course :-)
When you just start here you are limited in the number of votes you can give and in the so called "RC" RC is the bandwidht at is allocated to you. Every time you post something, or comment, or vote, you're using part of your bandwidh… In fact, I'm not even sure you have enough bandwidth left to answer my comment here :-)
Anyway, just check this free tool here: https://steemworld.org/@grandcommander It's a kind of dashboard for your account. The big number on the upper-left is your vote-weight and value…
In the middle you will also find your RC status. If you can't post or comment or vote, just check that number… it will probably be too low. Just wait a couple of hours until that value is high enough. (regenerating)
The longer you are here, the higher all those numbers will climb… and the higher your gain will be. At least, if enough members upvote your content :)
That's it for now… play a bit with what I explained you and don't hesitate to come back with other questions when all is a bit more clear!
PS: Good song my friend :-)
Hey thank you for the kind word on my song!!
This is all not really confusing... but a lot to take in. Thank you for taking the time to explain it. I'll check out those links, much appreciated!! :)
And it's only the beginning… there is a lot more to learn :-)
Pleasure all mine, always happy to help real content creators because… yep, there is a lot of spam too here...
There is a lot to learn!! Going to take my time and feel my way through it. Thanks for all the help!!
there is a learning curve. but there are also a lot of friendly people willing to help and sites to find out what you need to know. most discords have a help channel and mods who will answer questions or shoot you a link. also, amazingly, google will find answers if you ask the question correctly.
I'm digging day 1. :) I'll check out all the links and feel my way through it. Everyone has been cool so far :)
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Thanks, I'll check eSteem out. :)