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Blasphemy! Heresy! No, seriously, this is just f'ing stupid.
Storm Rider:
--- Quote from: KimJongSick ---Hey, it worked for Led Zeppelin...
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Or in Page's case, heroin.
Patrick:
Hey, gotta do *something* to stay thin, I guess. I love my drug-free fast metabolism. Oh yes I do.
Inlander:
--- Quote from: I Am Not Amused ---My opinion is that the writer of the music is the 'musician' and those who simply play music written by others are 'performers.' Mozart was a musician, the orchestras who play his music are performers - good performers, sure, but not 'musicians' in my eyes. If this orchestra was to play music they wrote, then they would be both - like most bands are.
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I'm curious - do you play an instrument yourself? Or do you play classical music? Because playing somebody else's music involved a very large amount more than just repeating what's written on the page. There are numerous decisions - musical decisions - which go into how you play it: will you decide to emphasise a particular mood within the music by using rubato, for instance? Will you use the sustain pedal if you're on the piano? Will you play with vibrato if you're playing on a violin or on a wind-instrument? What kind of tone do you want to use? Do you actually want to follow the composer's instructions regarding tempo and dynamics, or do you think the music would sound better if played differently? There's a reason why classical music snobs rhapsodise about one person's playing, and ignore another's. You could programme a robot to read a classical score; it takes a musician to interpret it.
Patrick:
Inlander has just blitzkrieged this thread. I don't imagine anybody could've put it better.
Edit: That being said, YOU BASTARD! Took the words out of my mouth. ;)
Storm Rider:
Or, if you're Jason Becker, will you abuse the whammy bar or just play everything really really really fast?
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