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Poster: | midnight sun | Date: | Oct 23, 2009 2:52am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Tell rises to the challenge... |
This post was modified by midnight sun on 2009-10-23 09:52:55
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Oct 23, 2009 5:16am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Tell rises to the challenge... |
Interesting stuff...I can see the above notion in a pure technical sense, but I suppose the "commonality" of human experience is what also impressed me at DEAD shows. EG, the band I have talked about, HS DEAD cover band, they were actually quite good, went with me to every DEAD show, virtually, and we talked endlessly about it...I cannot sing, do not know notes, etc., but we had fundamentally the same appreciation of Phil's bass and his playing, etc., etc., etc. Other kids were child prodigies, playing cello every day of their lives, able to pick out things I never could, but we still liked the same songs...same riffs, etc.
Not sure how that fits in with the singularity aspect he touches on...
Cool stuff either way.
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Poster: | midnight sun | Date: | Oct 23, 2009 11:17am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Tell rises to the challenge... |
gonna have to think about that one for another year or so :)
with music, the pitfall seems to lie in believing that the technical aspect of the process is paramount when judging, or for that matter, creating the content, even more so for composition students because harmonic studies appear to be quite mathematical when examining note, scale and chord relationships (not to mention fretboard patterns, the nemesis of the guitarist)
imagine it would be similar to trying to judge (or create) poetry by the frequency and order of the letters chosen with little regard to the effect of the words, or judging fine art by only examining the brush strokes up close w/o stepping back to take in the view
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Oct 23, 2009 12:17pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Tell rises to the challenge... |