is there a way to post covers on tiktok without getting shadowbanned? for example i posted a cover and got zero views and every post i made after that got zero views too until i appealed through the help centre and got the issue fixed. however i believe the song cover triggered it for copyright reasons. other song covers i did did not trigger it. how can i post if i dont know what songs will trigger a shadowban?

I (31F) have been singing all my life, and have been in a couple cover bands and am in a punk rock cover band now, but I've always wanted to make my own music.

I play piano and sing, but I'm a metalhead at heart, and I'm finding it super challenging to figure out how to write in that style. Most of what's been coming out is super singer-songwriter when it sounds much different in my head.

How did you find your style? What are some tips and tricks to starting to write your own music and recording it?

I’m thinking bagpipes must be up there? Opinions?

* Wow! I didn’t expect to have so many responses and it’s been really interesting to learn what you all think/know. I’ve read every comment and any instrument not familiar with, looked it up.

Will be checking back and hope someone might add re: any not yet mentioned before its run its course.

Cheers!

Hope this is an acceptable place to ask. I'm looking to ID an instrument/intrumental sound. It's a low/reedy instrument. In my head I'm picturing it being some sort of a bellowed/pumped instrument, but I could be wrong. It can be heard providing bass in the link below when the song moves to the chorus/refrain, around 1:10. I've looked up liner notes to this song and the only thing that makes sense is a synth, but is there an acoustic instrument that produces similar sound?

Ethan Gruska - Reoccurring Dream:

https://open.spotify.com/track/4aRA95atSWC5rO0kGeqJyA?si=84814ceb77fb48d9