kildare
12.16.23 | Great stuff. It's good to hear Carol of the Bells artfully mangled now that it's been ruined from being overplayed in a million fucking commercials. What's your instrument? |
pizzamachine
12.16.23 | Oh my |
loulou
12.16.23 | Thanks ! I play 7 strings guitar. Carol of the Bells is a great song, it's just overplayed everywhere. |
kildare
12.16.23 | Yeah, Carol of the Bells and songs like Master of Puppets fall on my list of "very favorite songs that were ruined by commercialization." I hope someday Carol disappears from commercials so I can maybe hear it the way I did when I fell in love with it. It's a magical song
You guys are good. I'm impressed with jazz players. I was classically trained, and jazz rhythms are hard to "get" for me. Keep play'n! |
loulou
12.16.23 | Thanks !
Walter Benjamin talks about that in he Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Art loses his aura with reproduction and commercialization.
Classical players impress me very much. So much dedication to the technique and to the perfection. |
kildare
12.16.23 | Unfortunately I don't think I've been able to play "perfectly" since I was about 14, if I ever did. I love the genre but I think too much emphasis in music lessons is put on solo classical songs rather than performance in a band with more modern music. Beethoven and them were famed for their improvisation, but a lot of classically trained people like me become committed to sheet music, and become inflexible. Improvisation isn't usually taught to people who take lessons. I wouldn't change studying piano, but I regret not playing in a band, big time. Had I switched from piano to guitar and took up Metal instead of giving up music completely at around age 15 it might've been a totally different life. But it goes on. My ears still work so I can always listen! |
loulou
12.16.23 | I think classical music is a great school. I listen to a lot of classical stuff (mostly german composers). It's really beautiful when it's well played. But I like too much to improvise and I get tired quickly to play the same things over again and again, so jazz is the natural genre for me. To me Metal is really much in the same vein than classical music. It's a style that mostly aim perfection and the songs doesn't change from show to show. I really like to hear it but I can't play that. I need to play the same songs in a different ways each night. I need surprise.
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kildare
12.16.23 | "I need to play the same songs in a different way" -- does that make it hard to decide what to put on an album? |
loulou
12.16.23 | Yeah ! Really ! There's never an ultimate version of the song. There's always beautiful moments and mistakes in each takes. You have to chose the best version overall. Sometimes what you play is shit but the rest of the band is in the zone so you have to live with your mistakes. But, to me, it's a small cost to pay for the beauty that improvisation can creates. |
kildare
12.16.23 | "so you have to live with your mistakes" -- sounds like the study of jazz is more applicable to life than classical |
loulou
12.17.23 | Haha ! Really ! I have learned and I am still learning a lot through jazz. |