I would argue for a sort of Turing-Machine Equivalence between learning
an actual instrument, learning to make music on a computer, and DJ'ing.
The basic skills involved can be acquired with a few months concentrated
practice. Actually achieving mastery -- and more important, figuring out
how to communicate and interact in a satisfying way with an audience
through the indirect medium of performance -- is something 95% of people
fail to do.
Someone mentioned 'guitar troubadors' who parley 5 or 6 guitar chords
into careers -- I suspect that someone who brings nothing else to the
table except C G Em Am D will be ignored. At the same time if someone
has something significant to communicate, 5 chords can be plenty.
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Matthew Ross Davis wrote:
quoted 6 lines All I have to say to this is that it isn't a big deal to learn how> All I have to say to this is that it isn't a big deal to learn how
> to play the guitar. Discuss.
>
> Kent williams(kent@avalon.net)@Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 03:01:54PM -0500:
> > On one level it isn't a big deal to learn how to mix records
>
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