Washingtonpost Article On Guitar |
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Jun 23 2017, 06:23 PM
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Jun 23 2017, 11:17 PM
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I thought this reaction to the article was really interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5N1L_wt58 --------------------  You say 'minor pentatonic ' like it's a bad thing |
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Jun 24 2017, 02:19 AM
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Yes, some companies are doing better than others, and sales are lower than they were before 2008. That's true of a lot of industries. But AFAIK electric guitar sales have been relatively stable since then. You can argue the guitar hero issue, but that's nonsense. That's simply realizing that the music industry has changed in the past 20 years. Really!!!???? Wow!
 But I don't think the sales issue is entirely accurate.
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Jun 24 2017, 06:22 AM
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The whole article is based on this misleading statement:
"In the past decade, electric guitar sales have plummeted, from about 1.5 million sold annually to just over 1 million." This makes it sound like sales are on a downward trend, but that's not true. In 2008 a worldwide recession battered the world's economy. Just like most industries, musical instruments sales slumped. Electric guitar sales fell from 1.5 million units in 2007 to 1 million in 2008. But since then, sales have been stable. In other words, in the past 9 nine years, sales have not declined. Everything that follows in the article, including the whole bit about guitar heroes, is searching for reasons to explain a downward trend that doesn't exist. -------------------- Cyber-industrial music and video animations:
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Jun 24 2017, 03:19 PM
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QUOTE (Mertay @ Jun 24 2017, 10:38 AM)  As you mentioned there aren't on top 40 radio stations, how does a kid grow the idea of guitar without parents infuence? The same way kids find music to listen to on these days. On YouTube or Spotify. It's just a lot more fractured than in the days of radio when it was fed to them via mass media, so it's easy to fall into the trap of assuming there aren't just as many kids out there listening to music and being inspired by it. As long as there are kids who want to rebel, there will be rock. And as long as there is rock, there will be guitar .It's the same thing as you see here on GMC and other guitar lesson sites. Many of the lessons feature guitarists from long ago. That doesn't mean there aren't just as many great guitarists worth following today, it's just that the music industry is fractured, so you see fewer big artists at the top, but more excellent artists in the lower sales tiers. I lament the loss of the the shared mass cultural experience of radio and MTV just like everybody else. When something like grunge came out and everybody was listening to the same songs, it was a wonderful feeling of belonging to a large and profound cultural movement. That kind of musical wave is gone forever, and so is the feeling of belonging to something big on the musical scene. But it's been replaced by something equally wonderful, where you can discover so much great music, and follow so many great guitarists. -------------------- Cyber-industrial music and video animations:
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