GuitarDrummer
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If you can handle something heart-breaking, then this video is about how to make a hit song in one minute. Where I come from, this isn't a song. It's a start, or a framework. Within the context of the "music business," this "music" has not much to do with music or musicianship, and has everything to do with being energetic, and it requires the "artist" to be popular with large groups of people.
This is intertwined with our cultural deification of youth. It wasn't like this when I was young. I liked Black Sabbath, and gave not one thought to the fact that they were old, ugly, and weren't trying to get me to like them as people.
The popularity of the artist is more important than what they make. Kind of like being famous for nothing, which is a strange beast unto itself.
I did go to a venue where I used to see rock bands take the stage. These five kids go up, and not one of them has a guitar. No drum set, either. They all had laptops and were "DJs." Why they needed five, I have no idea.
There's an allure to the path of least resistance. One can sweat and spend years painfully learning how to play an instrument, OR they can get instant gratification and acceptable results by learning how to program something. I remember being in a cold music room at university, as a Percussion Arts major, and dragging a bow across the strings of a double bass. It was painful for quite some time.
Most of what I've written about revolves around what is popular. I suspect that the art of playing a guitar, drums, and other instruments, is still floating about in the under-current, obscured by what is popular with kids who have too much expendable cash. Maybe the art of playing an instrument will make a resurgence in the future.
I'm no expert, and only know what I've experienced. And now... Here's a talented kid, playing his PRS. It sounds hopeful.
This is intertwined with our cultural deification of youth. It wasn't like this when I was young. I liked Black Sabbath, and gave not one thought to the fact that they were old, ugly, and weren't trying to get me to like them as people.
The popularity of the artist is more important than what they make. Kind of like being famous for nothing, which is a strange beast unto itself.
I did go to a venue where I used to see rock bands take the stage. These five kids go up, and not one of them has a guitar. No drum set, either. They all had laptops and were "DJs." Why they needed five, I have no idea.
There's an allure to the path of least resistance. One can sweat and spend years painfully learning how to play an instrument, OR they can get instant gratification and acceptable results by learning how to program something. I remember being in a cold music room at university, as a Percussion Arts major, and dragging a bow across the strings of a double bass. It was painful for quite some time.
Most of what I've written about revolves around what is popular. I suspect that the art of playing a guitar, drums, and other instruments, is still floating about in the under-current, obscured by what is popular with kids who have too much expendable cash. Maybe the art of playing an instrument will make a resurgence in the future.
I'm no expert, and only know what I've experienced. And now... Here's a talented kid, playing his PRS. It sounds hopeful.