INDIE MUSIC FEEDBACK
The Music Community for Everyone
OUR SUBREDDIT
A give and take feedback system
IMF is a community for all artists, all genres. It is an interactive music subreddit, that has a 5 comment requirement before posting. This increases the chances of real people listening to your music by a ratio of 5!
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Discord events
Live Community Review
Artists submit tracks, and we all listen and comment live via the IMF twitch stream.
Songwriting Blitz
You have 24 hours to make a track based on the current theme. Get moving!
Past events
Interviews
Every Saturday at 12pm ET, our friend @TrexJones hosts his Stay Creative Podcast where he picks a member from IMF to interview!
Life’s Everyday Soundtrack
In life’s everyday soundtrack Soran Leif hosts an event where several producers have 2 weeks to create a track with 3 provided stem files.
Open mic
Open mic is an event hosted by IMF every Saturday where participants get together and watch each other perform live.
New Music Friday
Participants can each share 1 song that was released in the past year that is not their own. They can share music from IMF or just their favorite band that put out a new single/album.
Retro Rewind
Retro Rewind is an event where each week a random year is selected, such as 1985, 1995, and so on. Participants can submit their favorite track from that year to be featured during the event.
Community Discord Games
Genre Spin: This is a game where participants will all be challenged to make a song from a randomly selected genre. Everyone that wants to play will “spin the wheel” of genres by typing c#genrespin. There are over 200 genres within the database.(edited)
Sample Flip: For this game, everyone has the option to join with 1 sample that they would like to have flipped. Participants will all roll the dice. Whoever rolls the lowest number will have their sample selected to be flipped. Rules: You can do anything, add anything, but you have to use the full sample.(edited)
Random Melody Challenge: For this game, every participant will roll a “musicians dice” that will produce a random key, number of notes, and a corresponding melody that they must incorporate into a song.(edited)
Chopped: For this game, 3 different samples must be incorporated into 1 song. Participants will all roll the dice, and the 3 lowest numbers will each get to pick 1 sample. Rules: You can do anything, add anything, but you have to fully use all 3 samples.
Genre Mash: For this game, participants will be challenged to combine 2 separate genres into one song.
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Tempo Switch: For this game, participants will be challenged to write a song that changes the tempo at least 3 times.
Time Travel: For this game, participants will be challenged to write a song that changes the time signature at least 3 times.
Mood Swing: For this game, participants will be assigned a random mood or feeling and must create a song based on it.
Is Mayonnaise an Instrument?: For this game, a curated selection of mayonnaise audio recordings will be provided and players will be challenged to to use these recordings as the primary basis for a new song.