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Originally Posted by AndyEdwardsMusic.com
Well, after musch consulatation across various forums I have my definition now...
http://andyedwardsmusic.blogspot.com/
Now imagine a course where you study across these six criteria. I hope that would produce a good musician that will be able to function in the coming decades.
It's interesting how this discussion has developed and ended in an argument which is basically between creating functional musicians (drummers who can hold a groove and play for Britney) and drummers who play music that shows off how clever or cool they are. (the anti MTV brigade)
This is my contentious view on this.
Rock (or pop music, in other words all the music encapsulated in the non classical revolution in music that began with the birth of rock n roll, everything from MTV music to math rock with everything in between) is an era that is about to end.
This music is no longer relevant and surplus to what culture wants. There has been no REALLY relevant music (say like Dylan, Beatles, Nirvana etc) for many years. No music has emerged that has affected culture.
Most music is made now either to make money or impress. Creative music is now made outside of the commercial process. That process has had a BIG knock from the digital revolution and from the current economic climate.
Music will change as it did 50 years ago.
It will become something new. The pioneers of rock were school ofcourse in what went before. This will happen again I propose.
Hopefully the skills I suggest will still be useful to this new era of music making.
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Andy, you're absolutely right when you say that there hasn't been any relevant rock music in the past 15 years; however, arguably, the 80's were an example of an era where Rock music was made to make money and impress: See Hair/Glam metal. Marketing of bands was at an all time high and thanks to those years we got the grunge movement of the 90s. As you say again, all the creative music was really being made outside the commercial process (except for say Toto who was able to be creative and progressive while still crafting pop singles).
Maybe we should be expecting some sort of movement in Rock, something that is the result of glorified commercialization, globalization etc. You're right, music will change, but this doesn't mean that Rock music is dead as a genre; it just means that Rock music is bound to change again. Hopefully, for the better.