Crow, I don't doubt that the medium is capable of producing great works. But the composers you mention are hardly non-readers: Stockhausen was traine...
Seems to me there is no reason an "electronic" composer, presumably a non-reader, couldn't create a major work with the complexity, subtlety and sheer...
well, noteboat, you picked out a relatively specific subset of musicians. That's what we're all doing... ...but when it comes down to my reality... ...
So maybe someone doesn't know which note they are playing at a specific moment...... I actually can still do that and I know the know how of which not...
Lets just say though that some delta blues man didn't know how to read write, or even know what "Ab" meant - just because he didn't know that he could...
Lets not forget speedy passages in classical music which I'm sure ALL of the people objecting to shredding here accept. We "accept" stuff in context....
A jazz saxophonist plays a flurry of notes and its called bebop (sometimes even art)A guitarist plays a flurry of notes and its called showing off (so...
What a great find! Got pics?
Sorry, let me try this again....SOUND and FEEL are all that really matter musically. As Frank Zappa said, if you pick up the instrument and it says, ...
Could be any one of a bunch; but don't buy on looks, buy on sound and feel. This is not an answer to the question and besides , if I'm buying a guitar...
"Work" is a loaded word. For me, "work" in a musical sense means we have stuff we have to do, as a group, at some kind of basic level of competence, ...
You got a private message, Do, you witty rascal.
Little, ancient, 5-watt fake Champs are absolutely killer. There are tons of them out there by all kinds of companies. Nothing to 'em -- three tubes...
Just to make this more interesting... let's separate "rhythm" from "time." Just because you can keep 16th notes going at a consistent pace doesn't ma...
(I have the flu and mixed meds with Rum) You, sir or ma'am, are my kind of guy. :D The value of knowing a few things about music other than just ho...