DJ, NO SKILL, GET TO THE CHOPPER, ÄÄÄHHAhAaAH!

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Originally posted by AndskiSpeed Is a DJ that can play instruments a musician?

yes.

one of them is Paul van Dyk.

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Anyone who can play chopsticks on the piano and knows how to work a Game Boy can be a DJ

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Originally posted by Beethoven LOL !! This is funny !!! it seem that you are totally agree with me. however, if DJ is NO SKILL, can every DJ voted to be number 1?

Wow, you're puking out hilarious posts.

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Originally posted by Beethoven yes. one of them is Paul van Dyk.

Hah. That's like saying if you can make an omelet, you must be a chef because no other than a chef can make one.

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Software is allowing people to think they are musicians. As long as you know your measures and the program, anyone can produce electronic music.

As for DJ's.....they can practically create original-sounding tracks (to some degree) by mixing loops/tracks. Basically, a DJ or a musician has as little or as much "skill" as they personally want to put into their hobby/career.

A piano player can play "Mary Had A Little Lamb" their whole life, or a DJ can be happy with spinning the same set, getting tracks to flow nicely in and out.(whoopdeedoo) OR that piano player can move on to mozart, and that DJ can move on to mixing live, getting 2cdjs and 4 vinyls going at the same time. Who's to say has more skill?
Each has their own levels of skill.

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Software is allowing people to think they are musicians. As long as you know your measures and the program, anyone can produce electronic music.

This is rubbish, if anyone could do it then everyone would. Just because software makes it easier doesn't mean that software makes it easy. Producing good music takes exceptional skill and a very good ear, otherwise you'll just produce banal sh1t and no-one will buy it. It's hard enough to sell good music these days.

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Originally posted by jahnlay This is rubbish, if anyone could do it then everyone would. Just because software makes it easier doesn't mean that software makes it easy. Producing good music takes exceptional skill and a very good ear, otherwise you'll just produce banal sh1t and no-one will buy it. It's hard enough to sell good music these days.

true.

as i said, most of people can run, but only a tiny few that can be a true champion.

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Anyone who can play chopsticks on the piano and knows how to work a Game Boy can be a DJ

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Originally posted by jahnlay This is rubbish, if anyone could do it then everyone would. Just because software makes it easier doesn't mean that software makes it easy. Producing good music takes exceptional skill and a very good ear, otherwise you'll just produce banal sh1t and no-one will buy it. It's hard enough to sell good music these days.

It depends on what you do with it.....obviously there are extremely difficult aspects associated with certain software programs, but there are also very basic ones that can make anyone sound like they know what they're doing.

Also rubbish, GIGO is an old saying in computers and it applies to music too, Garbage In = Garbage Out. There is no software that makes any one sound good, either the person is good and knows what they are doing, or it shows that they're average or bad.

Maybe you just haven't been in music long enough to tell the difference between a good and bad production?

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Originally posted by jahnlay Also rubbish, GIGO is an old saying in computers and it applies to music too, Garbage In = Garbage Out. There is no software that makes any one sound good, either the person is good and knows what they are doing, or it shows that they're average or bad. Maybe you just haven't been in music long enough to tell the difference between a good and bad production?

Take acid for example, extremely basic....you can choose from several loops, put them together and like I said, if you know your basic 4/4 you can throw together a song and it might not sound that bad. When it comes to other programs, yea RIGHT. You need to know the software very well in order to get anything that sounds half-way decent to come out of it.

I have been composing songs for 9 years and playing the piano for 18 years. I have been in music long enough to be able to distinguish good production from bad. I am simply talking about the amount of effort that different programs allow people to put into their productions.