Re:Don't Give Up on the Guitar, Fender Is Begging You
by derefr on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @03:53PM
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> most people learning probably just want to be able to play a half-decent melody on a midi controller and lay a sick beat on it
Heck, I'd go further: for a lot of people, all they really want to do is to be able to "peck" notes out well-enough—and have enough understanding of theory—to compose music in some sort of software.
Personally—and this applies to quite a few people I've talked to, as well—I don't give a one whit about my ability to play live, any more than a novelist cares about being able to improvise stories live. I want to build songs on a canvas, laying down one melodic brush-stroke at a time. It's only what happens when I hit "play" that matters.
I've never ran into any type of music-teaching paradigm that has even vaguely addressed my needs as a student.
Heck, I'd go further: for a lot of people, all they really want to do is to be able to "peck" notes out well-enough—and have enough understanding of theory—to compose music in some sort of software.
Personally—and this applies to quite a few people I've talked to, as well—I don't give a one whit about my ability to play live, any more than a novelist cares about being able to improvise stories live. I want to build songs on a canvas, laying down one melodic brush-stroke at a time. It's only what happens when I hit "play" that matters.
I've never ran into any type of music-teaching paradigm that has even vaguely addressed my needs as a student.