I find it difficult to critique lyrics without the benefit of music. Certain words can be a lot more jarring in print than hearing them with music. If...
Writing is certainly influenced by cultural norms, mores, your upbringing, beliefs, etc. English is my second language, but I still consider it MY l...
I just went through all of metalworks posts and I think he has been pretty darn civilized. Yeah, I did to. Metalwerk, I think your're a good critici...
These quotes are not respectful:"Buy a dictionary, and see a psychiatrist.""try looking up some words in a dictionary , it may help you with your limi...
Well, I believe we shall respect each other. The way some of you guys criticized this song is simply disrespectful. Read your posts again and tell me ...
Ok, then I know which book I'll choose. I'm not exactly a beginner, I've even written some music, but I can't sight read. This will be an exciting jou...
It's funny - people used to think that 'real' composers were the ones who could sit out in a meadow and write a symphony with nothing but pen and pape...
It's fairly safe to say, though, that 1. reading notes wasn't considered important before large-ensemble pieces, and that 2. the large ensemble pieces...
Noteboat, you seem to know a lot more about music history than I do. Though, even after I have read what you write, I still think the fact that the cl...
Your insinuation is crass, tasteless, and demonstrably wrong. I don't know what you think I've insinuated. I see two possibilites1. If you think I'v...
I didn't say you needed those things to "win." I said you needed them to excel. I used the analogy of a sport because that is an arena where people en...
So... if you're a solo artist, nobody cares if you read or not. If you're in ensembles in highly improvisational settings (jazz, blues, etc.), maybe n...
Tab with stems attached is better than tab with no stems, but that doesn't mean it indicates duration as precisely as standard notation. You definit...
Kingpatzer, I'll dig deeper into this, because it's definitely interesting. But I think, as brothertupelo says, you can figure that out (what chord it...
They could be F#, D, A, B. They could be Gb, Ebb, Bbb, Cb. You simply have no idea. They could be something else entirely. You have no idea without st...