SethItari 24 Posted June 11, 2016 Hello everyone, My name, or at least the one I go by, is Seth. I'm a student and musician from Ontario, Canada. I love all sorts of Japanese music, but particularly J-Rock hence my interest in joining this community to hopefully stay current and discuss the music I love with other fans. While I study computer science in school, with a minor in Japanese, my dream is to become a musician or composer, particularly, as unrealistic a dream as that may be for a Canadian, in the realm of J-Rock / J-Pop. I play sing, play guitar, drums, Saxophone, and a bit of violin which I may or may not have picked up as a result of my infatuation with TK's use of strings in tracks like Unravel. Though I am more familiar with what I would consider "mainstream" J-Rock, I do enjoy Visual Kei bands such as The GazettE, DIV and MEJIBRAY. I get the impression a lot of you are particularly Visual Kei savvy, which is fine as I'd love to improve my knowledge of the genre, though I like that all the same I do see a lot of variety around the site and hope that you'll accept my musical openness. (I'll try not to profess my love for Nishino Kana and FLOWER as openly to stay on topic with the rock music. Can't make any promises for Eir Aoi and LiSA though. They rock hard enough for me.) 10 violetchain, NekoMAMA, BrenGun and 7 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Delkmiroph 1649 Posted June 11, 2016 Hey hey Welcome to our heaven Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hiroki 5521 Posted June 11, 2016 welcome to MH! i like DIV as well hope you enjoy your time here~ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jun_ 383 Posted June 11, 2016 Welcome to MH, Seth DIV and TK are awesome people I hope you'll enjoy being here~ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chi 2624 Posted June 11, 2016 Welcome to the forums, Seth! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
violetchain 912 Posted June 11, 2016 Yay, cool to see another person from Ontario. I'm a pretty "mainstream" J-rock fan myself, and I've never had a problem finding things to talk about here, so I'm sure you'll have lots of fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NekoMAMA 190 Posted June 11, 2016 Hello and welcome!^^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
orange~ 387 Posted June 11, 2016 it's as far-fetched to dream about place in jrock/jpop as you think. I know there is at least one finnish person composing music for some j-pop labels. being an artisti shouldn't be impossible either. anyways, welcome to MH seth!! ^^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SethItari 24 Posted June 12, 2016 Thanks for the warm welcomes everyone! Looking forward to discovering new music here and conversing about great Japanese music. 7 hours ago, orange~ said: it's as far-fetched to dream about place in jrock/jpop as you think. I know there is at least one finnish person composing music for some j-pop labels. being an artisti shouldn't be impossible either. Well I'm hard at work improving my Japanese and my portfolio so that's the dream. Hoping I can work in Japan after I'm done school so I can be closer to that goal. On 6/10/2016 at 10:42 PM, violetchain said: Yay, cool to see another person from Ontario. That's awesome. I gotta ask, you wouldn't happen to be a drummer too would you? Please say yes. Also noticed you do song translations from your signature. I'll pay close attention to these! Seems like a good way to discover new music. On 6/10/2016 at 9:45 PM, Jun_ said: DIV and TK are awesome people They are indeed! Though the way that's worded makes me wonder if you've met them before? I'd be quite jealous. Not really sure why since I actually know very little about him on a personal level, but I really look up to TK. I guess as a musician. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
orange~ 387 Posted June 12, 2016 (edited) wow f*** me and my typos D: I was meant to say: "it's NOT as fat fetched..." what the hell, I sound like a real ass back there XD sorry about that really. Edited June 12, 2016 by orange~ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SethItari 24 Posted June 12, 2016 6 hours ago, orange~ said: "it's NOT as fat fetched..." No worries, I knew what you meant. Though I'll admit when I read the first few words I immediately thought the same thing: "Lies, I know a Swedish person and a Canadian" (from my hometown actually). But don't worry, it was easy to tell what you mean by the context of your message. 1 orange~ reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
violetchain 912 Posted June 12, 2016 12 hours ago, SethItari said: That's awesome. I gotta ask, you wouldn't happen to be a drummer too would you? Please say yes. Also noticed you do song translations from your signature. I'll pay close attention to these! Seems like a good way to discover new music. Sadly, no, I have basically no musical talent or rhythm. I am a painter, if that helps at all? XD I'll warn you that my Japanese is really bad - I do translations mainly to learn new vocab. I only really started posting them online because I wanted to gauge how I'm doing. I figure it's more productive than just keeping them to myself since someone who actually speaks Japanese might tell me what I'm doing wrong if they see me butchering songs by their favourite artist. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SethItari 24 Posted June 12, 2016 1 minute ago, violetchain said: Sadly, no, I have basically no musical talent or rhythm. I am a painter, if that helps at all? XD It might actually. Might commission you for album art if I need something your style, not that I know what that is. Always love to meet artists for that reason. 2 minutes ago, violetchain said: 'll warn you that my Japanese is really bad - I do translations mainly to learn new vocab. Same here, you're probably better than me, haha. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
emmny 4139 Posted June 12, 2016 woohoo im from ontario too, welcome and enjoy your time here! 1 SethItari reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
orange~ 387 Posted June 12, 2016 4 hours ago, SethItari said: No worries, I knew what you meant. Though I'll admit when I read the first few words I immediately thought the same thing: "Lies, I know a Swedish person and a Canadian" (from my hometown actually). But don't worry, it was easy to tell what you mean by the context of your message. yea I figured you could tell from the context, but still had to make sure ^^ what kind of music do you play? or compose? It would be interesting hearing how you use your j-rock influence. I'm a guitarist myself and take some cues from VK, but in the end it's very different I guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SethItari 24 Posted June 12, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, orange~ said: what kind of music do you play? or compose? It would be interesting hearing how you use your j-rock influence. I'm a guitarist myself and take some cues from VK, but in the end it's very different I guess. I want to say I compose all sorts (my next planned release has some pop in it actually, as I've been working on improving my sound production / synthesizers knowledge) but mostly rock music. If you're interested in hearing my work, I'm giving away my music free right now, the link is pinned on my twitter. It's perhaps less apparent on the demos for my band, but in my solo work, at least so far, I think I've pulled a bit more from my influences in J-Rock. I am a lot heavier on Japanese lyrics in my solo stuff too so it kinda helps bring it out, I think. Awesome to hear you're a guitarist. Do you have anything recorded? If you have the setup for it we should jam on something sometime. Edited June 12, 2016 by SethItari Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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