quoted 4 lines Someone mentioned 'guitar troubadors' who parley 5 or 6 guitar chords> 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.
Hell, not even five. A lot of good music involves 3 or even 2 chords, no
more. Esp. IDM/techno/dance music, where it's usually modal anyway; house
music is usually just one chord and a bass line with somebody crooning
through a rack of FX. Yea house music.
Paul Simon (the Bjork of folk) has been known to break out a little
jazziness here or there, but most of his best tunes are very simple
tablature-wise.
Also, it does take a bit more talent to play guitar well as opposed to just
putting your fingers on the right frets at the right time, as Jeff said.
Personally I think the whole question of practice and talent has been made
irrelevant in recent decades. Popstars tend towards the no-talent
tons-of-practice look-good-for-the-camera side whilst many of our favorite
artists tend towards the opposite: fuck practice, fuck the camera, we're
talented. Does anybody else smell high school?
There's DJs who cut it up and DJs who play one song after another-
personally I was and am still daunted by the task of smoothly mixing Spring
Heel Jack with Kid606 with the Jedi Knights with Like A Tim with Mr. Scruff
with µ-ziq. So I stick/stuck to the latter. Probably why I never landed a
regular paying gig(or maybe it was just the Like A Tim).
Tom
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