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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
Music is a matter of taste.
Being a great player is not.
You specifically mentioned "great players". Well, they just don't exist in today's music. There are no groundbreaking guitarists, bassist, drummers or singers. For the most part, these guys can barely ****ing play their instruments or sing, AT ALL.
Pro Tools and programs like it give audio engineers and producers unprecedented means to alter recorded sound. Drummer can't play in time? Use Beat Detective. Drums were poorly recorded? Use Sound Replacer and choose from thousands of well recorded drum samples.
Can't play your guitar or bass? Shift them in time. Can't tune? Use Melodyne Editor to properly tune. Can't get a "proper" guitar or bass sound? Take a direct signal and re-amp into a great sounding rig.
Can't sing? Use Melodyne or Autotune to "magically" put singers in time and in proper pitch.
All of this has led to bands that can't play, but yet sell records (i.e. Jonas Brothers, et al).
And you're probably right: I don't have much respect for people making electronic music because all it takes is a computer and a few software programs to "create" music, even though the majority of that music uses loops, prerecorded beats and pre-programmed arpeggios.
Again, go ahead an name some "great players" from this past decade.
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We're getting off on a tangent, as you see "great musician" defined as virtuoso-type players. That's fine, but much different than the point I was trying to make. There are plenty of excellent bands out there. There may be very few individual people who were doing "groundbreaking" things with their particular instrument but, of course, there is a large gulf of difference between a virtuoso player and the Jonas Bros. One need only look to bands like Sigur Ros, Godspeed You! Black Emperor or maudlin of the Well to see that there were bands in the '00s that were redefining what sounds can come from rock instrumentation. One need only look to The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Sigh, Opeth, The White Stripes, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, Ulver or TV on the Radio to see the innovation and ability to marry different genres into fresh, organic music. And that's to say nothing of the tremendous creativity coming out of hip-hop and electronic-based music.
In that enormous pocket between Steve Vai and having all your shit over-processed in Pro Tools because you can't actually play there is so much great stuff to listen to. I can mail you CDs (store bought, non-burned, actual releases) if you're against a peek on YouTube.