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As a practicing musician, now is the easiest time to learn whatever you want. Sucks to try and make a living at music worse than any time in the 20th century.
by scarecrowbob 5y ago
As a practicing musician, now is the easiest time to learn whatever you want.
Sucks to try and make a living at music worse than any time in the 20th century. Technology killed that gig.
But learning? Better than ever.
I'll take 1000 slightly interested folks over 5 dudes who think they are SRV because they can play variations over everything Hendrix ever wrote.
- agumonkey 5y agoIt's not just the ability to learn. It's true internet facilitates and accelerate this by a wide margin. It's about grit and passion. Something in this whole field has shifted.
- scarecrowbob 5y agoI've played with a whole lot of musicians who learned to play in the 50s, 60s, 70s, etc. I think that if anything has changed, it's gotten better. Like, the Beatles on Sullivan was a turning point for most of the 70-year-olds I play with. They all quit their music lessons, got into a garage band, and started playing shitty 3-chord rock. That might setup a situation where "grit and passion" become, uh, marginally more important than the actual music. But making the posturing of the musician more important than the music isn't a big win for the general state of the art.