On Sun, 30 Jan, 2005 at 10:39AM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus: > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 06:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jan, 2005 at 10:36AM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus: > > > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 08:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Fri, 28 Jan, 2005 at 05:09PM -0600, Jan Depner spake thus:
<SNIP!> > > Actually, one of the reasons that I really enjoy this list is that I > get my eyes opened occasionally. This is a good thing (TM) ;-) > > Don't worry about speed with an instrument - it's way overrated. > Less is definitely more in that department. I didn't start playing > guitar until I was 20 which I thought was very late. After 30 years I > think I'm finally beginning to get the hang of it ;-) I wish I > understood trackers, sequencers, MIDI, soft synths... I was thinking > the other day that the next big musical genius may well not be able to > play any instrument - that the music may just be in his/her head. > Without those kind of tools we would miss out on that. When I was > really young I was a flute playing jazz snob (if it didn't have a > million key changes I wasn't impressed). Maybe you should try cheesetracker. I find trackers to be a very intuitive interface, but maybe that's because I come from a computer science background. > Now I like the Ramones :-) Hehe. It's funny. My favourites are people like Bread, Simon and Garfunkel, Sam Cook and for more recent music, Snow Patrol, Portishead and The Flaming Lips. The music I make, however, is more like BT, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada or Wagon Christ. I don't think that there's a difference in the quality of the two groups, but the latter doesn't require me to actually play an instrument. At least not in real time - I do tend to record midi events at half tempo, because I just can't play what I want at the speed that I want. > For a while I felt the same way about making music without being able to > play an instrument. So, sorry for my immediate, knee jerk reaction to > pitch correctors. > Jan > > > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
