Thinking outside the box.

[cosmicdolphin]

Also if you want to improve your craft and stay relevant ( or become relevant ) then listening to all types of current music and bringing some of those other genres into what you do can really help.

https://youtu.be/pGQpl9DSCe4

[SubRivers]

Imagine the power to scroll music back to the good old halcyon days
Imagine the arguments over that remote control going on all over the world now!

[Zaychi]

And more importantly, what did their parents say about it?

[cosmicdolphin]

And more importantly, what did their parents say about it?

That music was better before the flute when all we had was a stick and something to beat out a rhythm, this modern stuff has no groove

[charlie2]

Good traditional western music will never die.

Go get an advanced degree in music composition and theory and use a rap/hip hop song as your dissertion.

See how far you'll get. LOL

[AlanHall]

Good traditional western music will never die.

Go get an advanced degree in music composition and theory and use a rap/hip hop song as your dissertion.

See how far you'll get. LOL

I'll bet you were really popular with your ethnomusicology professors

[charlie2]

Just facing facts.

We're not going to hear this music fifty years from now. It's just fluff and fashion.

When I hear a rap.hiphop song I'm not even hearing real instruments anymore. Theres a beauty to real drums and rim shots


And then you hear the person singing and playing with the autotune . ???

Its gonna go the way of the doo doo.

And I'm happy I lit this fire of discussion! Keep your minds open. And question EVERYTHING

[AlanHall]

You are describing ALL pop music, from ALL periods in time. Well, since Shumann. His parlor works are considered high art. But who listens to that any more? By the time Mahler was writing songs, western art music was completely divorced from popular culture. His songs were played in concert halls, not living rooms.

You focus on one style of music. But what you say is globally true. Modern 'serious' composers haven't written songs since... well, I know John Cage wrote some