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| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
Its a matter of apples and oranges.
He thinks he's right because he places a higher value on maunal skill, suck as pickng and fret use. Guitar playing is tough, but most contemporary guitar plays memorize chords and strum. A few others might show off their fretting while playing weak music. A unique few have skills with both, and come to be known as the generation's greatest. Point out that your friend is listening to no one who is doing anything new. Theyre all ripping off someone else in an attempt to get rich.
Meanwhile, the same thing is going on in trance music: People pumping out assembly line tunes to become rich, while a population gobbles it all up hoping to be counter culture (counter-culture has always been "cool", but as American cultures chews things up faster and faster, it is becoming increasingly harder to be counter to anything, or to be a part of something culture hasn't spit out). Some trance artists create ingenious beats and melodies. Other trance creators make incredible sounds and provide memorable moments with their engineering. There are also a select few who can do both, outside of any musical context, and these become our generation's landmarks. This is due to your higher value on the ability to organize: A trance producer must compose a song for every instrument, while perfecting (or in many cases, tweaking) sounds for use. This doesnt take much manual skill, but is arguably more thought provoking.
Either way, it's making music, and if the music fits your mood or the general atmosphere, what's the problem? |
(This is not a response against you, rather simply my thoughts along the same line.)
Yes, playing a guitar (well) requires more "manual" talent and technique than producing a trance song, but look at it this way... Producing trance is more of a thinking man's "game." When you produce trance, you are not just exercising your hands with certain techniques, playing certain things. You are deciding how to shape this up, how to shape that out, rough this end up, or add an effect here, or create this sound here.
Whereas the guitar player doesn't actually process his music masterfully to be heard through a media format (CD, for example), the trance producer usually does so, to some extent. Sure, a guitar player must play masterfully live, but that is more performance and showing off things that sound and look cool on demand, instead of a step-by-step thinking process. They both require certain skill, so you cannot say that producing trance takes less skill simply because it is done more at the producer's leisure. As others who don't appreciate EDM say it is a bunch of random computer sounds, those who produce trance know it is actually a very creative thinking process. You can make a "trance song" in some sequencer easily; it just won't sound that good. Indeed, anyone can make a crappy trance song. Then in the same vein, anyone can make a crappy rock song. And many do. (which is not an insult against skilled guitarists)
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