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Instruments • Re: Software Hoarding

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If people ask what instrument I play, I will say something like, "I started playing the piano as a kid and took lessons all the way through college. But I have more fun 'dinking around' with synthesizers. Computers can make even a marginal keyboard player like myself sound decent."
I cut to the chase and just say "computer".
At no point do I announce, I'm a Musician!" (with a capital 'M'), or worse, "I'm an Artist" (which is embarrassingly pretentious). But I do think "musician" better describes me as someone who plays an instrument, has a reasonable understanding of music, and who writes his own songs. "Musician" is just shorthand for "trained player who understands music and who writes and arranges his own music."[/quote]
Much easier to say "I'm in a band", at which point it ceases to be about me and becomes about the music.
I'm a pretentious wanker. Go fk yourself.
There, I fixed that for ya.
A musician is simply one who musics. Paul McCartney is definitely more than just a guy who plays bass in a band.
It's not about that. It's not up to you to decide how good you are. John Lennon knew how good McCartney was and I'm sure that's enough for him.
[/quote]He sings, plays piano, plays guitar, plays drums. All of it effortlessly. And he’s written few songs, too.[/quote]
Too narrow. There are plenty of brilliant musicians who never write anything. Think players in an orchestra. Conversely, I write songs and I'm not a musician's arsehole. You guys want to think you're so clever, you're so special, but you're not. You could see it in the thread about whether you're born with talent of if you can acquire it.

Any f**king idiot can write a song, it's not hard and it doesn't require any talent or much skill. Any f**king idiot can bang away at a keyboard or strum a guitar, it doesn't make you special. Any f**king idiot can sing as well as most Top 10 artists with the same level of training and opportunity. It's not the right way to look at it. Your work should speak for itself and for you. You do the best you can and if you're happy with it, how is that not enough?
I'm not disciplined enough to bounce everything down to audio, and it's not a locked in part of my workflow. So, I think I need to keep hold of the FX and instruments I've used in tracks that I might want to later revisit for whatever reason.
The other side of that coin is that if you do want to revisit a song, having it all bounced down to stems isn't going to be much use, so why do it?

Statistics: Posted by BONES — Tue Apr 01, 2025 1:08 pm



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