The musicians are almost extinct

[IamEvil]

Originally Posted by meisenhower

Are seriously going to stick with that statement?

Yes

I guess all of those years of playing scales, learning theory and composition were all a waste then?

YOUR music may require you to have a deep understanding of these things , my music doesn't. How come you cannot understand that we both do different things and because of it our priorities are very different.

Try and sit in with a jazz trio as a pianist and you'll quickly see where those 8 hours a day of practicing scales and learning theory can come in pretty handy. I don't need to sequence anything, as there aren't any technical passages that I can't play live.

In modern day sequencing , why would I need to play anything live ? If I can't play something perfect then I slow the sequencer tempo down and overdub and fix notes later. It will get me the exact same end result.

Why don't you sit down and try and write some trance or techno, you will quickly see that those 8 hours a day of practicing scales were wasted.

I guess that by that ill conceived logic, if you can sequence a Herbie Hancock solo, then that makes you as good as Herbie Hancock? Not by a long shot.

I'm not disputing that people have talents for playing music. I'm disputing the fact that this thread is stating that poeple who can't play live are talentless or any less a musician.
The end result is what matters and not how you go about getting it down.

Say for eg. we both wrote the exact same song and by sheer coincidence made an exact duplicate audio cd from recording it, are you saying that you are the musician because you played it live and I wouldn't be - even through the end result is exactly the same ? Do you think anyone listening to the CD would actually care either way ?

It is exactly this kind of attitude that is making "musicians" extinct.

get over yourself, theres more music around today than there ever has been.