Re: Argument Help

Thank you very much for this, and all the responses I've gotten. There is a lot to think about. Mostly I told him we would just have to agree to disagree. Which I think just pissed him off cause his argument had no affect on my enjoyment of what I know to be great music, and a great and very complex musical genre. 


You all have been great friends, as always. Now back to Doctor Who! Oh how I world have loved to hear TD do the Doctor Who theme! 


Neal 

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From:"[email protected] [tadream]" <[email protected]>
Date:Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 6:13 AM
Subject:Re: [tadream] Argument Help

  

There are only 26 letters in the alphabet. On a computer keyboard, if one adds the numeric and special characters keys--some of which you don't use really often--you depend on less than 50 keys to write just about anything. By comparison, a piano has 88 keys.

Add to this those auto-correct and syntax checkers software, and there is no reason anyone could write a full length novel. And the fact is that many try to do it. So how come really good stories are so rare? How come some writers could be judged good enough for there to be a Nobel prize for literature?


Why?


Because it ain't easy.


Doing good music is equally challenging.


My definition of "artist" is someone who does something that is difficult while making it seems easy. You see a flood of untalented people trying for those "next teen idol", and some of them are just so pathetically bad, yet seemingly they must have though that whatever they were trying to do was easy, or else they would not have tried to humiliate themselves on prime time TV and display their complete lack of talent.


Remember 3 years ago, this story about the "restorer" who tried to fix an 80 years old fresco in a church in Spain?

(see the link)



Ecce Homo (Elías García Martínez) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Ecce Homo (Elías García Martínez) - Wikipedia, the fr... 

The Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) in the Sanctuary of Mercy church in Borja, Spain, is a fresco painted circa 1930 by the Spanish painter Elías García Martín...

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She must have though it is easy to pain, you just dab you brush in some paint, and then spread out on the canvas (in this case, on a church wall), then repeat. Right? It is the exact same process used by Da Vinci, Monet, Renoir, Picasso... right?


This is to show that appreciating art is not up everyone's alley.


But this is about music. So, why should good music take time? What about harmonica player? That should be easy and quick, you just put the think between your lips and blow. No knob turning or button pushing required, it is instantaneous. Yet, there are great harmonicists and there are really bad ones (fortunately, we are usually spared the later category, unless it happens to be your next door neighbor).


What? Is the argument about how much time it takes to *compose* the music?

Tangerine Dream spend six weeks recording Phaedra. They were spending 15 hours a day and producing about 6 minutes of music each time. Hardly "microwave" speed.


While it is true that some could make quick music, the talent is in knowing WHICH knob to turn and which key to press. And given that a false note can be recognized by anyone who have not even heard the tune before can attest, and that people who do not have the talent and have not invested the time to become musician can so easily play a false note, knowing which key to press is more important than the time it takes to press it.



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