Creation Of Generic Radio Music :( |
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Creation Of Generic Radio Music :( |
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Jun 12 2007, 05:43 AM |
Sad state of affairs. you play a tele? nice guitar. and they really have nice sustain. i have one. ipage played one in the early zeppelin era. |
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Jun 12 2007, 06:02 AM
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I would have to agree that just because you have a guitar hero it doesn't mean you will sound like them. I would consider Randy Rhoads to be my guitar hero, but the music I come up with, along with the band, is very different to anything Randy ever did. He is more the source of inspiration.
There certainly are some great bands of our generation, such as Muse and the chillis, but there has certainly been a decline of bands like those that came from the 60/70/80s. Music created from feeling and a love of music, rather than as a means to get rich or famous. -------------------- Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way http://www.myspace.com/cashnz |
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Jun 12 2007, 02:07 PM |
And yes, I totally agree with JVM's philosophy that limitation => creativity. When Arnold Schönberg decided to make all 12 tones in western music equal, he still enforced a new set of rules. As did his pupils - different sets of rules, but still rules. I also have to chime in for limitation being a useful tool (but a tool nonetheless). All of music theory is a limitation of course, or we would end up with a mishmash of random notes that pleased noone - music theory has evolved over the years to put in place a framework (set of limitations) that generally speaking produce pleasant results, althouth it is also true that we grow up with this framework and apply the reverse reasoning that anything in the framework must be pleasant by definition. However, I would advocate going further than that - try and build a tune around 4 or 5 notes only. Limit the lengths and timing of notes you use, or the number of chords. What that does is really focus your creativity, so that you are forced to work with what you have and really make it count. If you can make someone cry with only 5 notes, image what you could do with 10, or more. I would liken this to food (since we have so many food professionals on this site, second only to the computer guys!). A number of the great cuisines have come from very simple peasant cooking in which the cooks didn't have access to many or good quality ingredients, and were forced to make the simplest ingredients taste good - you can do the same by limiting your options and forcing yourself to excel within narrow limits. -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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Jun 12 2007, 09:26 PM |
The point of the first sentence of that paragraph was just to agree with JVM on limitation without expanding on it (I'm trying to make my posts short ). The point of the following sentences was mainly that even when breaking traditional tonality completely, the extremely insightful musician (that Schönberg was) still knew that art is nothing without limitation. I completely agree that we can - and should - go much further than those limits. Yes, I was sure you got that, I was expanding the point on your behalf, because it mirrored the exact point I was trying to make (Maybe you didn't write enough this time!). And as usual you came up with a great example to drive the point home. @Ryan, I get where you are coming from - and would reiterate Kanedas other point - theory (scales and everything else) is a set of guidelines. The genius is in breaking the rules and getting away with it. The risk is that you break the rules and don't. Be like Gershwin This post has been edited by Andrew Cockburn: Jun 12 2007, 09:27 PM -------------------- Check out my Instructor profile
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